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E, let me know how it works out.... I'm watching ya

+1. One of the very best. My friend owns a V3 111 and on the wrist, good luck trying to tell it from the gen. I remember vaguely that there is a small tell on the crownguard or something.. is that true? Could be my mistake..

love the erm.. belt on the baby in your avatar.

or just join RWG where the smartest people in the reps business dwell

he ought to be banged by alpacas on steroids in a warehouse 77 times. alternatively, how about a ban?

E, I am sorry to hear about this. Perhaps you could approach member MD2020 for help? He is a watchsmith but currently could be on a break.

and saved yourself $1500 Welcome to RWG and we help each other as a community!

I was also very impressed with the pictures and stuff posted on swisstimes.sr, till I dug further using google and lo and behold, you could almost hear the shattering of my hopes. I am still learning, and do not possess the keen nose and senses of veteran members like fxrandy above. Always a sucker for sweetened and glazed stuff like that..

ah yes back to reality dug up a post on RWI regarding a watch someone bought from swisstimes.sr.. back to earth boys. (Especially for impulse-suckers like me). The pics were definitely of the gen watch, but the watch itself most probably is a piece of cheap chinese trash.. 01-14-2013, 08:07 PM "Hello, I am quite new to the board and this is my first post. I have been buying from puretime.co and am happy with it. However, like all or most of us, we want the best and closest to the genuine product. I made my first purchase on swisstime.sr which is apparantely the same as bestclones.to. I used swisstime.sr because of it's flexability. They claim all the best things such as 904 stainless steel, 30 day money back guaranteed etc. They made me wait two weeks then gave me a tracking number from China. When I questioned about it they said that the watch had nothing to do with China, and they just used China to ship the watch to Canada for customs ease purposes. I received my watch 3 weeks later and it is a bad replica. It's not even 1:1 like at puretime. I am trying to refund but they are refusing now, insisting me to exchange it with something else. CAUTION: These are not clones or anywhere near clones. Their watches are very very light and not worth $100."

To be honest the watch pics look awesome. But I do not know if we would pay $1500 and end up with an A7750 bumblebee...

very nice, Z, very nice.

jet

I bet before you shared, he would not have known it was a rep..

no patience, no reps... wait a little, its only been 2 days.

trusty one has no forged carbon parts.. its forged carbon finishing.. looks similar in pictures, different in real life.

B, thank you for sharing.. what does a polar fleece breaker look like?

age is a factor, the way we carry ourselves must be equally important. From what I know of you S, you are class A all the way. You are one of those that make your watch look expensive.

yes like what panerai153 mentioned, there ARE people wearing gens, that do not belong in the typical categories.. You must be a pilot.

mate, 23 is an age I am too old to remember.

Having dabbled in this rep watches hobby for some years now, I learnt a few things. I have owned and traded high end gens, mid end gens, frankens, factory reps, cheapies bought for a lark : a. A rep will always be a rep, even super frankens. b. Nobody would scrutinize your watch as much as you yourself do c. At the end of the day, very few folks, if any, give a damn I would agree with the more pedantic collectors here, details are important. Wear an AP ROO with seconds at 9, a badly made Rollie sub, or a quartz Hublot Big Bang for men, and chances are, you can get called out easily by those in the know. However, to me, it is a more a matter of good taste, that if you want to wear a replica, wear a good replica, or at least a reasonably believable one. We have many threads here that discuss detail accuracies and details, and they are good to read up on for any rep collector worth his noobmariner, or someone seeking to improve the authenticity factor of his rep. However, in real life, I would have to say that its us rep collectors that have most knowledge of the differences between a gen at a rep. The gen collectors, AD staff, and general folk all lose out in terms of the intimacy of this knowledge. Over these years, my experience in this hobby may be different from you guys, but what I learnt is this: Its the man that maketh the watch. If you come across as a man who could carry off an Hublot, for instance, then the assumption of someone seeing you with a rep Hublot on your wrist would be that: It is the real McCoy. Confession: I have inevitably and unintentionally passed off my reps as the gen, mostly when someone comes up to me and says "Nice watch, I saw one down at the XX store going for $XXXXX" or "I am saving up for that now" or "I can see you're into watches.. I own the AAA and BBB models" I am sure you come across stuff like that often. Unsolicited compliments or opinions that you do not bother to correct all the time, when you wear your rep. I want to say this: I want my reps to look believable, I want my reps to look like the gen. I would not pretend otherwise. But having limited monetary resources to invest in gens, I opt to go for reps to fulfill what my wallet depth would not allow me to do so. In fact, there is a brand which I have stopped buying the gen of, having seen how close the rep has come. To me, a watch is about the design, a statement, a matter of personal preference. I did not ever once need to justify why I am wearing a particular brand or model to anyone. Yes I get the occasional look (of envy, doubt or admiration I can hardly tell), but hey, its my business is it not? What I want to share is this: Yes, if you choose to wear a rep, wear a believable one for your own sake. Also, learn to carry yourself well to make the rep believable! That is a mod we must not forget. You would find it hard to believe that the ROO on the wrist of the mall cleaner is a gen, even if it is, wouldn't you? But give me a Noob factory standard ROO, no mods, and I think I would make it believable for at least 90% of the people I meet. Likewise for a tourbillon on the wrist of a 16 yr old, or a Panerai Flyback on the wrist of a destitute. I love my reps, and I love the mods you can do to them, but to me, the number one thing that makes a rep believable is the man wearing it. For information, when I was 22 years old, I bought my first Rolex Daytona, and my mates all would proclaim it was a fake, or it was stolen. At 32 years old, I wore a rep ROO and someone believed it to be gen, wanting to swap his watch (a gen black theme I remember), with mine (a rep navy, one of my first rep ROOs). Carry yourself well my friends. I may not be a watch modder like Zigmeister or MD2020, but I can tell you this advice would go a long way in how others perceive you, be it a gen or rep you're strapping.

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