If you have never had a bracelet mounted to this case, I'd try some others first and make sure there's not something off with your lugs.
Your endlinks may have been modded/ sanded though. My 580 endlinks have always fit perfect on sub cases, rep or gen.
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He needs to pay LHOOQ back... among others, before many of us will buy from him.
I'm sure he knows this. It wouldn't be that hard for him. I'm surprised he is taking a back door approach to get back in.
That is a nice case set. The seller is known as Phong and is located in Arizona.
Here is his site, you might get a better deal if you contact and discuss there.
http://www.jewelryandwatch.com/
I have the dial. We started to build it awhile back but the dial is about 1mm too small for the josh case and haven't tried it with an MBW.
Jmb at some point is going to build some sort of mount for it. These dials come up from time to time 250-350$. The inserts go for similar prices and the only blue small pearl aftermarket I know of is carried by classic watch parts. I got lucky and got my insert for 165$ and used it on my blue flake. I think you can build this watch for 1000-1200$ is you seek out deals.