Legend

I agree Legend, TeeJay you must not forget - I think you should have the words legendkiller and Archetypal tattooed on your butt, next to the soup.

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Mr Z, have I displayed my envy and covetting spirit yet?

I am camping here for two purposes

a. To whip your butt with a hickory switch periodically (haven't found the reason why yet so dont ask)

b. To see your assembled masterpiece, drool over it and kick myself for not being able to afford one

In that specific order. :D

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Haha Legendkiller, +100!!

and another +28,976

some people will never learn. I wonder why they even bother to seek advice?

TeeJay matey, when you get inducted into the Yakuza tattoo hall of fame, don't forget to thank us who helped you identify the correct character for "soup"!

has the mossad sent you his head on a silver platter yet? If so post a pic!

I am amazed at how some people try to pull a fast one.

Trusted dealer? I am beginning to agree with TeeJay on their credentials.

if your page scroll button is working, scroll down the main page a little.

Alternatively, do a simple search.

You'll find the list. Its really quite easy.

please post up new wrist pics after the service I am looking forward!

And yes, of course you are entitled to your opinion about how wonderful the watches offered on the site you mentioned are, how different, how special, how SWISS.

Enjoy your purchase, and enjoy especially the "swiss quality" watches!

They always say there's an idiot born every minute. I was merely trying to prevent one being born right now.

you had good advice from guys in the other thread you started asking about the same thing... and is apparently choosing to ignore it to pursue your "1:1 swiss replica"

Perhaps the best thing to do is to let you go purchase from them, pay the inflated prices, and learn that the only Swiss components in the watches are the names printed on the dials.

good luck, and you get no further help from me, newbie.

Thank you kindly, legend and GBOGH. Much appreciated.

And you are correct; the small subsidiary dial is in fact running seconds.

Watch is currently in the process of getting fresh oil and some other work done up north. From what I have heard thus far, it needed some attention!

Thank you for the clarification.. Actually this is the first vintage dress watch that I took a fancy to in a long while. From the pictures, I noticed the subdial hand was slightly off the center, to the left.. I assume that the movement has not been fitted yet?

I am looking forward to seeing this again when its up and running on your wrist. Truly a beauty.

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I would I'm totally serious, brother, purely in the interests of humor, of course You may not have known, but I have plans to have a traditional full bodysuit of Japanese tattooing done. I didn't have anything particular planned for my backside other than 'background water', but seeing that episode really made me chuckle, and I thought "Why not...?" Taking the episode as true, she just has a tattoo of a character on one buttock. That's like putting a postage stamp on a blank wall, and it would stand out a mile... I'm going to wind up with tattoos all over, so it will just blend in with the rest of the work, and it's not likely that many folks would ever see it anyway This would be what is referred to in horimono as kakushibori, which literally means 'hidden carving', and according to Wikipedia: "tattooing near the armpits, the inside of the thighs and other 'hidden' body areas. Also refers to the tattooing of hidden words, for example among the petals of flowers." I already have kanji tattooed on the insides of my thighs and near the armpits, but the idea of another 'hidden' tattoo, and with such a random meaning/significance (ie none at all ) appealed to my sense of humor

gosh you're serious! post a pic dude!

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Its a very beautiful vintage watch, congrats!

Just a little note, from a total PP noob: The subdial is a secondhand dial right?

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Thanks, amigo, and please my thanks (and additional congratulations) on to Cathy

Yup

Yup, of "soup", but for the following reason...

All the kanji I have thus far is 100% serious/accurately translated, and having seen this episode, I thought it would be quite funny to have an 'incorrect' tattoo thrown into the mix for the lols as reference to the joke (and all miss-translated Chinese and Japanese tattoos ) I was considering having the character meaning 'nothing' done, simply for the lols of if someone asked what it meant, I would have to say "Nothing...." and a rather cyclic discussion for a few moments But having then seen the episode, I thought that would be even more amusing

Fantastic, many thank

Would be a good chuckle

come on mate, say you aint serious about the tattoo . which nutcase would tattoo the character for "soup" on his buttock, or anywhere on his body for that matter?

You do realise T that you will go and get these symbols tattooed on you and then LK and Arch are going to fess up that the really say "At the end of the day this is an ugly boy"

Yes LK Cathy is Chinese in China

Ken

you gave the game away too soon Ken

Go to the main page then scroll down the trading zone

@legend

Thanks mate like you said, i also think i found a nice combo this time

its really perfect visually, and makes your watch stand out against the common deary looking rollies anywhere you go!

lovely.

Let me know when you get tired of this

Spot on Legend.

As we we know China is a vast country with 5000 years of tradition, tradition that is arguably lost on most of the young Chinese (you cant blame them) let alone the Laowi's (Old outsider's / foreigners). After two years living here, I am more confused than when I first stepped off the plane.

With around 292 traditional spoken dialects its no wonder the Chinese had to simplify and create what is known as the modern Mandarin (Including Pinyin which spells the characters using the alphabet, making the spoken mandarin possible to learn by other nations) and Simplified Han Chinese as around 2000 written characters (Traditional characters in total is a massive number, around 100,000).

This process of language refinement unified China helping make them the power house they have become, whilst making themselves globally accessible.

Smart really.

Oh yes mate, the dialects, the damned dialects

They form a huge part of the language culture in China, with each province, or towns within the same province speaking their own dialects.

But at the end of the day buddy, I came to the conclusion that Chinese must not be a difficult language to learn, since the 3 yr old kids there are speaking them? :D

legendkiller - which TDs currently have stock (that have no issues at all whatsoever)? the ones i deal with regularly dont have anything.

lol.. let me share my experience. My TD has the entire site removed and I am reduced to communicating via email with her to let her know which watch I want, and she'll email me back with how much it is, if its available. Nothing for me to browse or choose

Toro's customers seem to be enjoying the benefits of a fuller inventory? Likewise I see Andrew's customers being a relatively happy lot?

but in wich website can i find the best ones?

tomhorn and rickdangerous have given you honest and good replies. There are NO swiss replicas, only very good chinese ones. Also, there are extremely crappy chinese reps, so be careful. It is possible to find chinese replicas with ETA and Selita movements, but they are still being assembled in china, with chinese hands for labor and chinese eyes for first tier quality control.

There is no one best site to make your purchase. Ask different members, and you get different replies.

There are a lot of TDs available here, take your pick. Price wise, they are all very close. You might get different variants of the same watch from different sites, but they generally offer the same models sourced from the same factory.

Each shopping experience carries its own shipping and custom risk, which you will have to bear. Alternatively, you can try purchasing watches from members here under the trading section.