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Since you're new here, I'll spoon-feed you...

Homer is a dealer here on RWG. You can find his section here: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=170

You can reach vaccum via email at: vaclume@gmail.com

Good luck.

vaccum and Homer both offer "unbranded" or "sterilized" Panerai style watches, as well.

I don't see any of my customers face to face so I just wear whatever to work, but usually nothing to good. My family owns our business and I don't want anyone knowing how much money I make or don't make. When I meet with my customers then I usually wear a PAM or something nice. None of them even know what Panerai is so I guess it doesn't really matter too much.

I saw a fella in the Starbucks in Dublin, OH wearing a 111. One of the few times I've spotted a PAM "in the wild" in the midwest. I miss The Brazenhead!

Anywho......

...And the essential bedroom ettiquette, for partners/companions of watch enthusiasts, please follow the words of Patrick Bateman:

"Don't touch the watch!"...

A gold star for you thanks to the "American Psycho" reference! GREAT, GREAT movie. On an OT note, we're having a "Big Lebowski" party with some folks from the neighborhood this weekend. We're having a dinner and then watching the movie and drinking White Russians! Too fun.

I only have PAMs, so my choice process is a bit different from everyone elses. I pick it based on the strap. If I'm wearing black/gray pants, a watch with a black strap, if I'm wearing khaki or brown, a brown strap. My incoming 064 will be the jeans/t-shirt weekender. Of course, my dress code is business casual, so no worries about fitting beneath shirtsleeves, etc. I just unbutton the cuffs or roll them up a turn or two...

OK, an S4 Avant would be nice, too.

Can you tell I have a thing for wagons?

iceberg, no fair! You *live* in Germany...

Beautiful choices, both, Jay!

I love cars. I don't have any pics of my Subaru Legacy GT wagon but I'll tell ya what. A $600 ECU flash puts it at about 300hp and 300lb/ft at the flywheel and I *still* get 29mpg on the express way. Manual transmission, fun to drive and can still haul the new coffee table the wife just bought! Just about perfect, IMO.

I'd love a BMW 540 wagon, though. I wonder if they made any of those with a manual........?

$1500? Try pricing one of the Spring Drive Grand Seiko GMTs....

The best test is right here

Buy reps because you want more than one watch and want your money to go further ...or if you are like me you enjoy the "hobby" of searching and finding the ways to improve your watch closer to the gen. This is not to fool anybody - just for the enjoyment of trying to reach the end goal.

I could have bought 3 or 4 gens with the money I have in put into my collection ....but where is the "fun" in that?

I am not hung up on "status" , I have come across many people who believe a rep would degrade them in the eyes of their peers if ever caught out.

How sad ..." the watch maketh not the man"

Homages are cool without doubt ...but there's not a lot to aim for IMHO - as far as continual improvements and the fun of the hobby

Each to their own

This man speaks the truth!

Believe me, no one knows more about what the flaws are and how to spot them than the guys on the rep forums. The "Risti test" pales in comparison. Need I direct your attention to a post not that long ago featuring a BONE STOCK 026 from Davidsen that it took them hours to recognize as not gen?

Anything A-D series, I believe. Base dials would be OP I and Marinas would be OP II.

Sounds like a cleaning/servicing is in order...

The 000/005 movements don't have the PANERAI engraving but are CdG striped on the original 'square' ETA shaped bridges - similar to the preA but a different pattern.

They don't have Officine Panerai engraved on the bridges anywhere in blue font? I thought they did, with CdG decorated square bridges and no swan neck? I know they don't have the "PANERAIPANERAIPANERAI" grafitti engraving, but I thought they had the single "Officine Panerai" engraving in blue....

They were once upon a time, not sure if they still do. VirginiaWatchFan posted a pic a while back of the "inside" of his gen Zero. Let me see if I can dig that up...

The pic has been moved, evidently, but it was originally posted on 'Risti. If memory serves me, it is a no-swan-neck movement with something other than the grafitti decoration in the Zero and Fiver. I can't remember what the decoration of the bridges looked like, though.

This is what the OP I/II movements look like, for anyone interested. Pics courtesy of VirginiaWatchFan:

I'll see if I can dig up a 000/005 movement photo from 'Risti...

Yep, sadly this isn't a very good rep overall, but if you're looking for a Zero rep, this might be the best one currently available.

I'm not a fan of how she punches the holes. They seem too small (diameter) and too widely spaced for me.

Agreed on all points, Kruz.

That's not true, Kruz. The OP I movement behind my closed D series caseback has blued screws and the grafitti decoration on the "standard" square ETA bridge plates, just like the the PAM036. I actually like how it looks more than the CdG decorated movement with the Panerai shaped bridges in my 210.

Which OP movement are you going to use, Jay, OP I or OP X?

Absolutely. Don's are some of the best bang-for-the-buck straps out there, without question.

I'll admit that I opened the caseback on my 002D the day that I got it, just to satisfy my curiousity/worries.

There is something really cool about the squared bridges and grafitti decoration of the A-D series movements, IMO. They look really cool, I think!

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say black Europelli baseball strap with an aftermarket screw-in, PVD, Pre-V style buckle.

OK, what do I win if I'm right?

That sure looks like a DSN rep to me. If so, I doubt it's a gen pre-A strap on there. Plus the buckle appears to be screw-in, not sewn-in...

Where'd this pic come from?

I have read where people have "polished" the top of the cannon pin, is this the same as flatten?

What do you mean by better crown?

Thanks

Yep, the stock long ETA canon pins come with a very subtle point on the top. This needs to be flattened and then polished up.

The crown in your pic appears to be similar to the cown on the old, purple AR'd 036 and Angus' "Ultimate" 111/001. The outside edge is bevel cut, but the inside edge isn't. Also, the teeth are too big and there are too few of them. There are better crowns out there, IMO. They all have their flaws, but the only thing that crown has going for it is that it's thick...

Flatten the top of the cannon pin, install a better crown. That's about it, since there's nothing to be done about the shape of the 2...

That looks real to me. In the other shot you posted the crown looked a bit wonky, but I must be seeing things because it looks fine there.

Wow, you must have steady hands, my friend. Steadier than mine, at least! LOL