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Hard to see what you have there with such poor pics, but you might find this interesting.

Sunday beater

Very cute future WIS & Ziggy did a great job (love that dial), but I would double-check your crown.........it does not look gen to me.

Maybe we should send her an official invite to join RWG?

Great post & congrads on your 1st. Say what you will about Josh's pricing, but the guy offers good products with quick/professional service. Wear it well, mick.

It looks like a very nice franken. Is it worth the advertised price? Not to me. Especially, when the real thing can be purchased (from a reputable gen seller) for about the same price or a few thousand more. Now, at $2k-$4k...........or even $5k (since he has a gen 7835/357 bracelet fitted), probably. All that said, based on the A7750-powered 6239 I got from him (which I had to rebuild because it was such a mess), I would not expect that the watch you receive will look as good as the watch in his pics.

Looks like just the place to throw off the winter doldrums (even if you landed on what looked like a short street). I especially liked this pic

Daytona beater today (Saturday)

A beauty. Congratulations & have a great weekend breaking it in (not up).

Not my taste, but I can see why other people like them.

You will soon get your wish. 1 of the news tidbits to come out of Basel is that, over the next few years, Rolex intends to return to marketing the entire Tudor line internationally, instead of limiting distribution to certain markets. No word yet on specific dates or timelines, they just said 'over the next few years' (I think they are just hedging their bets against a longer-than-expected global recession).

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing, too. But then I remembered that it usually takes 2-3 years for a new watch design to go from drawing board to showroom. So the 'iced-out' watches we see today actually began as marketing ideas a few years ago when the economy was bubbling, flaunting wealth was accepted & money was loose. Also, Rolex has been making jeweled watches either to order or for limited market segments for decades. It is only in the past decade that they have been openly marketing these things to the general public. The change has been that, in recent years, more of the public have come to accept (& demand) such excess displays. However, as with all recent Democratic administrations - Henry Ford=bad, Robin Hood=good. The problem is that the hardest hit segment of the luxury watch industry has been the middle level, those watches in the $5,000-$20,000 market segment, which is Rolex's bread-&-butter. During the bubble years, that segment ballooned more than any other. But, come the crash, it is the segment that gets hit the hardest.

Yes & I have to admit that in all of my years of collecting watches, I was totally unaware of Rolex's reasoning (that they consider the crystal to be part of the 'design' of the watch). But now that I see where they are coming from, it makes perfect sense why their crystals rise above their watches' bezels & why they choose not to AR them. Kudos to Rolex for sticking to their principals.

No offense, but I would find something else to neurose over. Trying to align the crown is an exercise in sheer futility since its position varies with crown tightness, air temperature/pressure & the age/condition of the rubber gaskets. Even if you spent the time & effort to align it perfectly, I would wager that, 1-3 days from now, it will have shifted position on you & you will pull the rest of your hair out.

Is this your 1st Rolex rep or do you have others?

Taken from TZ thread posted by a reliable Mod Q - Will Rolex introduce AR coatings on the glass? A - No, except on the cyclops; if AR coating is used the glass essentially disappears, this is not something Rolex wish to do. In all Rolex watches the glass is an integral part of the design of the watch, which is why it sits above the bezel.

Only the 70's? Thanks Lani. It looks like I am not the only 1 with some scrumptious pics today. Well done everyone.

Here is a translation of (the salient points from) ingirum's post

I sense a perfect storm gathering that may quash or at least severely cripple the luxury watch industry as we know it today. The 1st squall formed when the Democrats took over the White House, with their cheap, populist watches (at least, in public - todays Dems always save their resplendent high end collections for private gatherings among their wealthy comrades) & neo-socialist values (& I say this as a registered (& embarrassed) Democrat myself). The 2nd squall is the ubiquitousness of cell phones, which do a better job of telling time than even the most advanced mechanical watch can ever hope to match. In tandem with the growing number of cell phones comes a decreasing number of (mainly older) people who own or wear a watch. The 3rd squall directly relates to the 1st, which has effectively hammered the final needed nail into the big watch fad coffin. This leaves most of the luxury watch brands in a serious pickle since nearly all have bet the farm on the continued popularity & rising sales of ever-larger & more technically spectacular watches. The 4th & final squall is the collapse of the global economy & the toll it has taken (& continues to take) upon the mid-level luxury watch makers, most especially Rolex. Altogether, I think this perfect storm may just reach the velocity to overcome & broach the financially weakened facades of the luxury watch industry. And as anyone who has ever riled a bees' nest knows, the reaction is an often maniacal release of drones (lawyers, in the case of watch companies) sent out to attack whatever & whoever they can sink their stingers into. Even if that sting results in their own demise. Whatever happens, I doubt it will be pretty.

Here come the lawyers.

It was indeed. I only wish I could have been in Liverpool & Hamburg in 1961-1962 to see them live when they were 'just a great little band'. I have friends who were fortunate enough to have been there & the Beatles really were 'more popular than Jesus' to those who caught their bug 'Object' is absolutely correct. Because, as a record, it sucks. I have been a Beatles & Lennon fan since late 1963 when I 1st heard 'She Loves You' blaring out of a neighbor's window. Of course, at that time, I had no idea who the Beatles were or who sang that song. All I knew was that I had never heard anything like it before. And the Beatles, individually & collectively, have rarely failed to produce similar emotions when they got down to the business of making serious music. But Lennon, when left alone with only Yoko & a tape recorder, has come up with some truly classic crap over the years. If you think the 'Wedding Album' is special, try 'Life With the Lions' (the album in the bottom left corner of the previous multi-album pic).

Lani - Great pic. If that beauty was sized for mortal wrists (watch head less than 40mm dia), I might have had to add an IWC to my wish list.