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SO amazing! I love this replication. One of the all time best for sure. Gen dial and insert makes an incredible franken. Insert is small but very important mod, imho. The gen pearl is very different from the rep.

Wearing my 4 years old SMP chrono. Amazing as ever.

Maradona = Elvis of football. I still liked his two Daytonas more.

Happy football Sunday to all! Wearing my Fish.

Wow... I've never seen that one before. Autavia is a classic!

If you like the blue dial, go for the blue dial. I doubt you'll ever meet anyone wearing Skyland blue in this lifetime. Live a little, worry less.

You're a true hardcore Freddy! Stunning examples what serious modding can achieve... I wish I had 1/100 of those skills.

This for me today.

Haven't changed in a few days.

@Brom: That's what I'm talking about! How do you like it so far?

Still wearing his Pepsi.

Amazing, congrats for the gen(s)! That red button is perfect for Bond movies. Just imagine the "explosive possibilities".

That was a terrible performance by Italy. The whole 1st half looked like they were all playing in tranqualizers. You can't go very far if you play well only 10 minutes in 3 games. Too bad it ended this way for Cannavaro and Buffon who had great careers. Di Natale, Pepe and Iauqinta were a total flops. And what was Criscito doing there, he was completely useless? They simply didn't have a playmaker. Why Lippi took Pirlo in so late? He was the only creative player in the whole team. I love Italians, my family is part Italian because my brother is married with an Italian... but I have always disliked their football team. So I can't say I'm very sorry... their 2006 championship was partly a gift from FIFA (the penalty disgrace against Australia) so even the Slovakian players' pitiful theatrics in the dying minutes didn't bother me... Italy had a taste of their own medicine. Good riddance.

I would love to get the credit for the watchbox, but the idea was blatantly stolen from a gen forum.

This "chameleon blue" today (again).

Just uploaded all watches in my current collection there. Great feature.

Any of the big boys, Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Italy can win. Like I said, there has never been a World Cup final played without at least one of these teams being there. People hype Spain a lot. And yes, they have a great team... but it's not the first time they have a great team. And honestly, who would you rather play against: Spain or Argentina/Germany/Brazil, or even Italy? The answer can be found from the World Cup history. It's not a coincidence... it's not only about the talent, it's also about the "culture of winning" that all these four big teams have. Spain has NEVER won even one medal... they one 4th place. And that was 60 years ago.

England vs. Germany in the second round. The winner of that match will most likely play against Argentina (I doubt Mexico has a chance against them). So it's going to be a tough road to final for both... Uruguay has been very solid... and they got extremely lucky. They play first Korea, and if they win they're going to play the winner of USA vs. Ghana. Not to say that any of these are crap teams, but historically Argentina and Germany are different class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_knockout_stage

@Freddy: That's a great PAN-am GMT. Was there a thread about the construction, I missed it?

WM9 is so amazingly good rep, it's unbelievable. New members of this community are totally spoiled because they can get watches like WM9. They never had to go through the ordeals with us old members with dozens of lousy Sub reps. The SEL execution might not be perfect but it's pretty much meaningless. Only the hardcores in this forum would notice them and they're pretty much the only thing that you can spot from the high res photos. I don't know why WM9 downgraded the SELs from v1 though, that makes no sense to me. v1 SELs are just amazing.

I'm with you Mike. Breitling blue dials are just amazing. I didn't like the bracelet at first... that gap between bracelet and lugs is well... different. But this model is slowly growing on me. I might even get the rep (black of course). The dw recess doesn't look bad at all when it's black on black. Which one you'd recommend... Roman or sticks version (accuracy wise)? Actually the Roman numerals version is pretty cool looking. The rep looks pretty good to my eye. Waddya say?

You certainly love the Explorer in all its incarnations. Actually I love the ExpI too... such a classic. I'm wearing my superb WM9 v2 today.

Thanks Gents. It's a real shame that they don't produce this old version any more. The new red version is very good rep but not quite as "perfect" as the original. This is my oldest surviving rep... many watches have come and gone, but this one... I will never part with it.