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Any other place to buy online than RCTritec?

Where can I buy Superluminova on line and pay by paypal... I know, I know... too many questions in one. Thanks in advance

It's a set of 6 files, swiss made. Branded VALLORBE. Description (in french): Limes aiguilles, WIT 13860. Price, about 45 USD. Bought in a watchmaker tools shop. It is very easy to remove the SS. You need to be very careful.

Thanks Manuel, and thanks everybody for you comments... I forgot pointing that what you see is before polishing, just after using an iron file. I will use the dremel tomorrow. @Pug... yours is pretty good to be first time. This is a comparation of gen and TTK's noobmariner CG's before modding.

Do you remember what I did with those CG's in my noob case? This: Now, I have filed a bit more and polished plus installed a MBW crown AND FITS PERFECT IN THE NOOB TUBE!!! Enjoy (I still need a lot of training):

Geuine 16233 case + genuine crystal + genuine crown + genuine bezel + ETA 2824 + Tudor hands + solid 14K gold? midlinks jubilee bracelet:

I'm with you. As I said before (and already discussed with scotty) professional watchmakers (understand "professional" as it is their unique profession and income) that never worked before with reps are reluctant to work on some type of mods... and many of them are use to replace a dial instead of repairing it.

Picky, picky, picky

Great member, great person... I'm proud of being his friend... see you soon mate!

His statement was: "swiss ETA come with winding rotor polished, while china copies are not polished". Also, I understand he has seen many ETA's in 40 years of experience. What I can't ensure is if he's referring to ETA's made in China (but legal item anyway) vs. ETA's produced at swiss or EU somewhere. I will ask him again being more precise.

Thanks for the advise... as I said, some watchmakers need a proof before attempting some mods some of you are use to do in reps (also in gens, of course). Many times I've got answers from professionals like "you'd better buy a new dial...". You know. I wrote long time a go (at RGW1) that we were not aware of the nice prices we have from watchmakers in this and other forums. Services from a professional watchmaker are much more expensive, and many times they don't want to make them because are too risky unless you do it often.

It was not my intention to start up such a type of fights... I'm always sad when I see we can not share info from one forum to the other not being rude (this is just a hobby). Your pics are great The Zigmeister as well as your job (and Flavor's also, BTW), but your pics don not show a lume on a enameled sticker, which was what I was looking for to convince my watchmaker it can be done. Understand that it is first difficult to convince a professional to work in reps, much more difficult to make them try with things they've never done.

Just checked and he did lume some PO's... and fantastic job! I have to tell this watchmaker that the lume stays in the sticker without any problem.

The Zigmeister, have you ever lumed a PO dial? I was trying to find a post of some one who already did it but had no luck. I know this watchmaker (he made some work for me in the past) and he explained to me that the sticks in the PO come enameled, so before to applying lume, enamel must be removed and then applied some how again. The risk is because needing to scratch first enamel, not because luming it.

The problem is that first we though there were two types of movements: swiss and Chinese. Then somehow appeared an "ETA Copy" 99% like the real deal. But the reality is that there are ETA movements, with ETA stamps, that are not real ETA (made in China with no swiss quality standards). And these movements are hard to notice unless you are a very expert watchmaker. Probably even dealers are fooled by manufacturers. Let's get used having these Chinese copies since ETA is restricting swiss movements for sale (BTW, with another price).

I agree... and IMHO, leather or rubber bands make the watch far awesome than using the steel one, which for me is a bit boring.

Good selection and taste sir... you won't regret buying this rep... best of the year! IMHO...

From leather back to rubber...

I remember the YM dial project Ubi (was Ubi?) was invlved in... did I miss the final or it got disolved in the past?

I thought I was the only one thinking that the noob dial is not so good as everybody say. For me, is not worth the effort/money you may invest replacing MBW dial (left in pics) by the noob one.

No way without proper tools. Please, don't ask for more tips or advise. Tools + skills + experience... are needed.

Always heard that Noob's dial is the cream of the cream of the rep dials... I made a comparison pic with both dials to facilitate discussion on the board post opinions please (pics are not the best but I guess they will do the trick)

This week I was at Z

But this is business gentelmen.... nothing else (I guess)

Navi... where did you find it? I want another for me!