freddy333

Congrats on the new job. I hope it proves sufficiently lucrative to enable you to continue to feed your watch habit. If your shirt (or entire outfit) is black, I would wear something steel & monochrome. Nothing catches the eye better than understated simplicity. Alternately, if your co-workers are below 40 and hip, they will probably appreciate a Pan more than anything else.

Sometimes, with gloss dials, you can whiten them a bit using a light liquid detergent like Woolite and warm water. But this can also wipe out some of the text on the dial. Other than that, dabbing surface debris with Rodico putty (available from Ofrei.com and most watch parts houses) is about all you can use safely. Repainting is the only method I know of to improve a discolored or stained dial. In most cases, I think vintage dials look better with a bit of discoloration, so I would leave it as is. Anything you do is more than likely going to look 'artificial' (or worse).

I am not as familiar with the modern Rolex line, so you should verify my comments before proceeding. I think both contain obvious mistakes. But, of the 2, 1's dial does look better. I believe both have incorrect hands (hands should be similar to those used on Subs, with the Mercedes minute hand), but the first one has finer dial printing and the 'Swiss Made' is (properly) located below the minute markers at 6 while the 2nd has them above (which I believe is incorrect). On the other hand, the 2nd version has what I believe is the correct bracelet clasp (Oysterlock). Were it me (and my observations above are correct), I would either return both & get a more accurate ETA-powered version, or swap the bracelet from the 2nd to the 1st (I still think it has the wrong hands though).

Friday night wrists only. No relation to any other polls, trolls or demagogues.

Ending the work day in this And about to step out for the evening's festivities in this

Too busy looking at pictures (of watches).....

I vaguely recall.

Is the good doc privy to some tidbit of titillation that the rest of us mere mortals are missing? And remember, Dame V, that we males are, by habit & need, principally visual creatures (and a picture's worth a thousand words.....and a thousand pictures (even the ones with staples in them) are even better).

Local co-eds, sorry. I only wish I had a better angle on the watch. Now what was that about straps.....

As has been said a thousand times before, most Rolex owners know little or nothing about Rolex watches. While Rolex owners spend most of their time making the money required to buy them, we spend most of our time learning the myriad details that make (and best ways to copy) them. Avitt -- I hope the skies above look a bit bluer today.

I am not sure that a newbie could easily see the difference between 28k bph & 19.8 bph, but anyone can hear the difference. Though it is much more difficult to hear (or see) the difference between a Rolex 1570 (19.8 bph) and an ETA 2846 (21.6 bph) which is why the slower-beat ETA 2846 is better suited to these vintage Rolex reps.

Actually a pretty clever idea & probably good for expensive vintage Plexiglas crystals (think gen superdome here). But I prefer to leave mine au naturel, thank you.

Looks good, but is that a gen crystal? If it is, it looks like either the crystal is not in the correct rotational position on the case or the cyclops (date magnifier) was installed in the wrong position (slightly askew and off-center). Or maybe it is just the angles in the pictures?

Ofrei has them here for $70. The 2846 Day wheel is held onto the center pinion by a small circlip. Just use a small screwdriver to prise off the circlip and the Day ring can be lifted off. repaustria -- The 'swishing' sound of the ETA comes from the auto-winding module.....if you remove the module, the sound goes away & the movement sounds like a Rolex when manually wound. How are you removing the 'swishing' sound without removing the auto-winding module?

You must have to wear really baggy pants......

Best wishes to everyone in California & I hope you are safe, sound & out of the path of the fires.

Hey, does your watch have a camera in it? No.......and I did not have the heart to tell these 2 babes that I just wanted to use them as a scenic backdrop against which to snap a quick pic of my beater in DC (Key Bridge outside of Georgetown)

No.

I will be happy to hold your coat while you take care of business.

I think if the poster's intention is to clarify or reveal more details of a photograph, then it is a good thing. But if you are using a photo editor to change/modify or obfuscate details (to deceive), then it is criminal.

I am not a big Pan fan, but your 024 looks quite chic on that Capretto Grigio. The muted color produces a nice visual blending that reduces the watch's oversized footprint.

USPS tracking of foreign shipments INTO the US cannot usually be tracked until the day the package is delivered. It has to do with each country having its own tracking system & neither being able to communicate with the other's system.

Quality Control. The company that produces the cheap supermarket special has it, the rep factory does not.

When I began watch collecting many years ago, I acquired gens through auction houses in NYC & London and reps via mail order (this was the only way to purchase them prior to the web). Early on, I collected a number of antique gold watches (the gens) or any rep that either caught my eye or appeared to be 'cutting edge' in its design or functions/implementation. So to say that my collection, at that time, was eclectic would be like saying Britney Spears enjoys a beer now and then -- a bit of an understatement. Then, in early 2000, I discovered Timezone and, after perusing all of the existing brand forums, settled into the Rolex forums. At the time, the moderators & several of the more knowledgeable members' collecting habits seemed to be centered around an all-steel theme. One member, who had a quite outstanding collection of vintage Rolexes, posted two pictures that immediately changed the direction of my collection. The first was a (quite well attired) wrist shot of a rare steel DD with silver dial & bar markers. I had never liked the DD before because most of the DD's I have seen were either in yellow/rose gold (too obvious/gaudy) or fitted with gems (which, in my opinion, have no place on a well-dressed man's watch). But this one was just right. If a watch could have a personality, this one was Miles Davis -- quiet, cool sophistication. The other picture was a group shot of his vintage Rolex collection -- all steel, with everything from a mint DRSD to a handful of Newmans to Explorers to Air Kings. It was brilliant & stunning at the same time and made me reshift my thinking about watch collecting, which has remained steel-centric since that day.