By-Tor

Probably in Terminal 5

BT, I'm sorry to hear this, and understand your frustration, but you need to get a grip here and calm down.

I have had nothing but good experience using RM both International-Signed-For and Airsure. And that's shipping gens too, which incidentally do NOT cost

Looks like I'm not the only one frustrated with Airsure Read here

@prof: Yeah, I read about it... I also read how much they lose luggage there every day. Those figures are terrible. Dunno if this has anything to do with the delay though... but who knows...

According to Royal Mail postal wankers the shipment is in the Heathrow Airport... been there for 5 days now.

I can barely understand when the shipment is laying in the customs of the destination country, but if they can't even SHIP the f*cking watch in 7 days from the source country, that's really some "first class priority" for you.

I'm not literally worried, just pissed off. It's a gen, and it received an extra transit2insure for its full value.

Just pissed off... I have received packages from UK in less than 2 days from Precious Time here in Scandinavia. When you pay nearly 70-100 (or whatever) pounds for full insurances and special treatment you get three times slower and sloppier delivery. They advertise 2-3 days but when you call them they say that it can take up to 20 days... in the worst case scenario. That's what's bugging me.

F*cking wankers!

Royal Mail says thet Airsure, first class priority shipments from UK to another EU county takes 2-3 working days. Well, now my item has been sent last Friday, and the guy just called Royal Mail and he said that it's been sent to Heathrow 2/8 and it's still there... after 5 full working days.

Tracking gives the same information

We have received your item, posted on 01/08/08 and it is being processed for delivery abroad.

It's a valuable, fully insured packet so I'm not worried. I just wonder how f*cking difficult it is to put the damn package into the plane... to a destination country where there's probably 20 flights every day... from UK.

Royal Mail can suck my ****, I will never again use it for anything valuable. I'm not surprised they're losing their customers in a rapid rate. God save the Queen and Royal Mail!

Sorry guys, had to rant.

Beauties Lani... absolutely awesome!

That SMP Chrono especially... perhaps my all-time favorite rep! The double AR makes it...

The YM is quite accurate looking rep. Here's the gen.

The price is horrible but the watch isn't.

Got more pics?

@all:

You can post facts and discuss them, we don't censor anything... but no bashing of other forums (and their members). Otherwise this thread will be closed. I'm 100% positive that you all grown up men know where the line is.

We have our own way of running the forums, RG has different approach. If you don't like it, don't go there. It's that simple.

@its_urabus: I believe TTK has admin/moderator powers in his own section, so he might have deleted your posts himself. I'm not saying this IS the case, but it's possible.

Yachtie is such a cool watch.

Wear it well my friend!

Nice one!

I'm not sure if the gen has AR though... but it'll be a good addition either way.

If they replicate the new one, it will be the red Co-Axial version of course. Does the new gens have AR these days?

Either way, I'm happy with my old one. It's not bad at all... I'll source a new pearl for this eventually.

How about MBK blue Sub?

Sorry to hear that. When did the hour hand die & have you contacted the seller about repair/replacement?

Thanks Freddy.

Naah... it's not the seller's fault. The seller doesn't want to sell these movements, but I insisted him to find me one, and I knew the risks. Not his fault... buying watches with this movement is complete Russian Roulette.

The hour hand was not in sync since the beginning, and I thought it could be fixed with the "rolling over the dial" trick. Well it worked for a while, but then it just simply stopped moving at all. The gear probably worn out completely.

I still have my old ExpII which works great, but I won't touch the independent hour hand adjustment and keep my fingers crossed. This movement is simply dreadful... and I'm going to swap a wrong hand stack movement into my GMT eventually. No big deal, it's just a rep.

If I decide to get the ceramic version, I will definitely go for the WHS movement.

People would pay alot for a good CHS movement. why cant they rep one?

Probably because people are willing to buy these reps with POS movements for $400. They sold all of them like hotcakes. So why would they give a poop?

No biggie, but when you start a wrist check, please name it more conservatively. Otherwise it goes unnoticed and then someone starts a duplicate thread (as always)... and I have to merge them (as always).

I'm with my friend Step today, and wearing the magnificent ExpII right now.

White one is definitely better choice of the two. The red 1680 dial and the the SUBMARINER font screams fake. Anyone who knows what red Sub is, can detect it immediately... it looks absolutely nothing like the gen. White ones are much harder to spot.

Good choice!

Someone spotted him at gas station in Guangzhou, driving his Porche (sic)... he was going to his Yacht (sic).

Glad that was sorted so quickly. Thanks to all.

Just want to confirm one thing... The "Noobmariner" name refers ONLY to the black bezel 16610 rep?

Yes, the green one is called Noobmariner LV.

They're the exact same watch both... LV just has the maxi dial. It's just as good rep.

Just for the record Freddy:

My CHS GMT is dead. Well... it keeps running in COSC standards too, but the hour hand gear is worn out and the hour hand doesn't move.

Other than that, great rep... I love the correct hand stack. Too bad it can't perform the simplest of task... showing time.

PS: Just beware of other cheap Rolex reps... they're complete garbage. Also beware the "Perfect" versions, which are outright horrible.

Besides MBK, the only good Rolex reps come from one factory, and one factory alone, The same one that produces:

GMT IIc

GMT II

Explorer II (old version)

TT Sub

Daytona Seconds at '6

Yacht-Master

Explorer I

Super Sea Dweller

All are decent reps. Some require mods (like the 16710) but they all look fundamentally correct, SSD is the only exception with awful rehaut shape and (lack) of thickness. It doesn't matter how much it's hyped, it's the worst of the bunch, just imho.

Other factories produce these same models too, but they're awful. Just learn how to detect the Rolex reps from this factory. There's a review of each and every one of them in my section (except for the SSD and ExpI).

"Most authentic"?

You probably mean "most accurate", right?

Noobmariner 21J Asian takes the cake, hands down:

REVIEW

Noob factory Yacht-Master is the second:

REVIEW

These two are very good reps by ANY standards, and as Asian 21J versions they're bargains.

My eyes... that's a horrible rep!! Where do you guys dig up these monstrosities?

PS: That Electric Blue Seamaster is a beauty. Definitely my favorite of the SMP line (along with the Bond).

All the "Special Edition" models are a bit cheesy. Omega is doing way too many special edition models too.

But then again even Audemars Piguet makes them... at least Senna and Raikkonen are world champions and even Lewis Hamilton is a potential future World Champion, but AP has named a watch after Rubens Barrichello of all drivers... Michael Schumacher's little helper, who wasn't always even allowed to win races in Ferrari. I mean, how sad is THAT?