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I have only seen it on some vendors' versions of the Double Red Seadwellers. Or were they Subs????????

Parts buyers should also beware of wholesaleoutlet990 (Faisal Ali, in Sugarland, Texas). I have had similar problems with Ali on each of the 4 items I purchased from him (I only purchased the last 3 items because they were cheap, I was willing to risk the loss & there were no other options at the time). In each case, I preceded the purchase by asking 1 or 2 VERY simple/specific questions & Ali's answers were either knowingly misleading or incorrect. Example.......my question: 'Will the loops in your 'genuine' Rolex 585 end links properly fit the standard genuine 2mm diameter Rolex springbars without modification?'. Ali's answer: 'Yes, no problem.' The end links I received were clearly aftermarket & did not even come close to fitting the gen 2mm dia springbars. After blowing me off for weeks, I registered a complaint with Paypal & Ali retaliated by leaving me with the only bad feedback I have ever received. Mistakes happen, but honest sellers want to make them right. Dishonest sellers just bob & weave.

This is not really news anymore, but, yes. Current models are too costly & blinged-up to risk a blemish resulting from a dive into anything much deeper than the average martini glass. Meanwhile, by today's digital/atomic clock standards, vintage models are crude, proximate devices & most are being bought up by wealthy collectors or investors due to their increasing rarity & skyrocketing value.

No, you just had alot to learn.........like everyone else when we are just starting out.

A pin or sharp toothpick, lume (ofrei.com & most watch parts houses), a loupe & alot of the 3 Ps - patience, practice & practice. Use the Search feature to locate the numerous tutorials on how to apply lume. Tritium is no longer available.

Details please?

I am not positive about the case dimensions, but I think the Oyster Perpetual Date (15200) is 34mm with 19mm lugs, powered by a 3135 & fitted with a sapphire crystal.

That watch looks very familiar But great work on YOUR watch. That is the 2nd best lume work I have ever seen (Ziggy still reigns as The Luminescent Master). You got the surface texture just right.

There are 2 styles of tubes for 6mm Twinlock crowns -- old & new style The old style have splines that mate with the Rolex tube tool located around the inside end of the tube & the new style have the splines located around the inside of the outer end of the tube, which allows for a slightly thicker shaft on the crown. I suspect you have 1 of the old style tubes, but you need the new style. Luckily, you can get good generic tubes from Ofrei for $6.00/each.

Lends new meaning to being stuck between a rock & a hard place. It sounds like you have already laid out the cash for the expensive parts, so all you need is a case & hands. I recently bought a set of gen Daytona hands for under $300 & I think Ubi or someone recently mentioned they had an extra 16520 case they could make available for anyone building a Daytona. Seems so close to stay so far. Or did you have an all-gold (gen) case in mind? In that case........Waiter, check please.

Make of it what you will, but the heading of the 2nd page is 'Nothing's More Modern than a Classic Thin Watch', and it ends with 'a simple lesson: Don't be the guy with brand-new everything; you should always anchor your look with at least one piece that's timeless'.

Unfortunately, history does not support your premise. It took 25 years for the Daytona to catch on. The Milgauss has never lived up to expectations. After the initial, pre-sales to collectors (mostly TZ members), the highly touted LV appears to be withering on the vine. And the Turn-o-graphs are not exactly flying off AD's shelves. As long as Rolex sticks to the traditional Rolex marketing plan, they sell just about anything they make. When they deviate from that plan, they end up producing limited runs of watches that inevitably make collectors very happy (30 years later), but their bankers very unhappy (now). I am sure that Rolex will survive no matter which way the trend winds blow, but it is never profitable to hoist your sails into a wind that is blowing the wrong away.

Hopefully, with their 'leisure suits' & 'disco flares'.

Where was your boyfriend while you were fabbing the Austrian countryside?

As any of you who have been collecting reps for more than a few years probably know, experience is a 2-sided sword. That favorite rep you proudly wore 10 years ago (thinking that it looked like a digital copy of the gen when you bought it) became an embarrassingly laughable hunk of worthless metal as you read & gained more knowledge. Today, that previously coveted piece just gathers dust at the bottom of a rarely opened drawer or back of a closet. In my case, here is 1 of my 1st vintage Daytonas presented in all of its (almost accurate) glory next to 1 of my DWs (if you need a caption to tell which is which, you have alot of reading to do) Anyone else have before & after pics of 1 of your 'learning experiences' that you are not too embarrassed to show? ____________ Mods -- Although the examples included in my post happened to be Rolexes, this thread was not intended to be Rolex-specific (it is open to any & all brands). So why was this moved out of the General Discussion forum?

Well, I know 2 things -- 1. Never apologize for having knowledge, even if that knowledge is not popular 2. It takes a BIG man to handle a huge vagina Perhaps, not every woman, but certainly all of the good 1s (A smart friend modeling my Daytona beater -- she is a Ph.D) p.s. Have not seen you around much lately, Vic. Been busy collecting watches (or heterosexual men)?

What am I wearing today? It is a 'Mystery'

Over the years, I have accumulated a few books on the subject of style & dress from my father or as gifts. On the subject of watches, each says the same thing that GQ article said (small & understated is the proper way to go)

That is a real beauty, chrgod. And I think you hit on something there -- I have a feeling that in 5 years time, we will be referring to the mid 2000s as the 'era of the big watch" just as the mid 80s are often referred to as the era of the 'big shouldered power suit'. It is also worth noting that the styles & wardrobe advice offered in that GQ article have been around since the 1930s & never really go out of style. This is what is called 'classic style' & it is often identified with people like Cary Grant or Sean Connery. If you look at either of the films these guys made in their heydays, they would still look as stylish & smart today as they did when those films were made.

To be honest, I bought my first 2 Pan reps based on an article I read in GQ that was promoting the new big watch trend 5 or 6 years ago. But I ended up selling both a few months after receiving them (I always thought it looked like I had some type of techno-droid medical device or tool for the sight-impaired strapped to my wrist every time I saw myself in a mirror -- regardless of whether I was wearing a tie or a t). But, recently, I had begun to think of myself as an oddball since even traditionally conservative Rolex finally hitched their watch wagon to the big bang club. But now it looks like sanity is returning along with more sane & classic sized watches. A good thing in my book. But, then, that is 1 of the reasons I prefer vintage watches anyway, so I am already at the cutting edge of the next big fashion thing.

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Good work on that crown. I think Avitt had to do the same thing on 1 of his DWs. There are at least 5 or 6 variations of each of the Newman dials & some of them have really bad crowns. The best of them have crowns that are nearly exact copies of the gen crowns, while the worst I have ever seen is 1 of Phong's (jewelryandwatch.com) (I just copied this dial from his site today) Fortunately, most of the Newman dials I have gotten from DW have the better crowns (and, overall, are the best made dials). The 2 most obvious flaws on these dials are the incorrect font used for ROLEX (mainly the 'O', which lacks the variable thick-side/thin-top stroke which is missing on most of these aftermarket dials) & the incorrect font used on the subdial numbers (most obvious on the '3', which lacks the proper tail as on the gen) Yes, there is alot of case to case variability in the manufacturing tolerances. I think DW sources the cases from different factories. 1 of mine was a nightmare as well. Great family shot.

Another Newman taking shape & looking good. How much work was it to fit the V92 in the case? I think the only dimensional difference between the 2 movements is that the 92 is a hair thinner than the V72. There is 1 small fly in the ointment (if accuracy is the goal) -- you have the wrong pushers for a 6265 or any Daytona with an Oyster dial (or the wrong dial for a non-Oyster case/pushers). The 6265 s all came with screw-type pushers, but it is a relatively easy swap once you locate the correct pushers. Also, the Oyster 6265s came with either a Twinlock or Triplock crown, but both were 7mms, not the smaller 6mm that came on earlier Daytonas. I did not mean to criticize, but I thought it better to know than not.

TwoTone is probably right, but try pulling the crown out to the date-set position & running through all of the dates. Sometimes, the date wheel can become partially dislodged out of its track & the dates are then off-center in the date window. If that is the problem (rare, but it does happen), running the dates should either pop the date wheel completely out of its track or realign it. If it does the former, send it back. If it does the latter, case closed. A longshot, but I would give that a try before you go through the time & expense of shipping it back. You might get lucky.