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Beautiful watches all Got my Franken upo on with fresh gen insert

Thanks guys appreciate the advice Has anyone got any contact info for taka I've seen chiefs area somewhere, cheers

Lol I was cursing my insert the whole time when sanding it and thought the exact same thing about busting out the coarse paper

Who's the best to use for AR, havnt really looked into it much, is it take and chief who do AR ? Cheers guys @dluddy, my pearl really bugged me for ages as every time I looked at my watch it was obviouse it was incorrect , I just waited until this insert popped up on rg second hand. so glad I've fitted it I would deffinatly reccomended to everyone with upo

Hi Corelli cheers for the advice buddy, if I can find a gem crystal at a good price I'll deffinatly grab one but at the mo I'm not really up for spending another lump of cash on a gen crystal, hopefully one will come up

I had a similar problem when trying to fit gen insert to my tc sub, I tried and tried and the ......snap broke the gen insert straight through the triangle which holds the pearl, ended up buying a brand new insert and very slightly sanding around edge and now it pops in and out with a little tension

Looks great thanks rwg

Cheers cougar that's deffinatly what I need to do next, just had a 1675 build buy JJ so I'll,have to leave the upo for the moment,out of interest do you know what sort of cost it is to get the crystal ar'd

Jkay that strap looks great against the black case. Love it

Cheers Matt I totally agree, the misaligned pearl is IMHO the most obviouse give away on these reps

Great story cj thanks for sharing with us

Cheers demonslayer, I'm sooo glad I kept this now, i put it up for sale last month but decided to pull in off.this is deffinatly a keeper!

Hi all here's a couple of quick I phone shots of the insert and bezel back on the watch......it looks amazing Sorry for dirt and finger prints just after fitting a newer smoothed rep strap I had

+1 on Toshi straps, amazing quality at a pretty good price

Cheers guys got up and checked the insert and it seems pretty secure, hard to test really, I don't want to pull it to hard but it seems to be on there I'll take some pics later and post up the finished result.....looks amazing, there's something about having a centered pearl

Cheers mate if you get a gen give me a shout I'll happily fit it for you

Hi all well I got up this morning and thought I would attempt fitting a genuine insert on my franken upo, this being one of the last mods to this rep unless I can get a cheap genuine crystal to top it off. It already has gen dial,hands,crown and tube So I bought a genuine bezel and insert from a member on another forum and was planning on fitting both the bezel and the insert, but after searching heavily and messaging a few of the top modders and other members with so called gen bezels I found that they do not fit without heavy modding to the case or bezel due to difference in size and the clicker rail in a different place, both are imho a waste of money when you compare both gen and rep bezel side by side, there really isn't any difference in the look once fitted.Here's a picture to show you the difference between gen and rep..... Gen on left you can see the clicker rail is in a different place to the rep... And here's with inserts on to show they look the same apart from the obvious position of the pearl Onto the modding If you look at the underside of the gen insert you can see there is a raised line all the way round in the centre..... This has to be filed off to fit on the rep bezel, I have a second case to use as a tested whilst filing and checking.. This is what it started off as, you can see in the picture that it's raised due to the part that need filing.... This was about half way through the filing of the insert, you can see the line In the centre is starting to disappear.... In this picture below this is the technique I used by tilting the insert and keeping the file flat, this is the rep insert for demo purpose as I forgot to take a picture All you have to do is file until the centre line has gone and the insert fits as it should on bezel,also you need to sand very lightly around the whole insert as it is ever so slightly bigger that the rep, I used 2000 grit and went round literally a couple of times, again take your time and keep testing before you file/sand too much This is what it looked like, when you happy with the fitment you'll need to glue it on... I used a 2 part epoxy glue which I bought from a hardware shop ages ago called jb weld which is used to bond almost anything together, metal being the no.1 thing it's made for, I put a small amount round the insert on the inner part, I used a toothpick to apply it on.... Then put the insert on and lined up the lines with the points on the bezel ring and wiped off any excess glue. Hopefully it will stick as its drying as I type this Can't wait to pop it and and see it in its full glory Hope this helps anyone trying to fit a genuine insert on a upo 45mm Cheers Ry

Nice pictures mrandazzo love the reflection

Wearing my 3717 whilst modding my Franken upo fitting gen insert today

I looked at it a little while ago its an amazing rep, so much effort to detail

Pams are deffinatly an amazing rep watching this really makes me want to add a 111 to my collection

Ha ha ha that would be pretty cool... Duel wealding JJ corninos JJ is the king

Another couple of pics From JJ I am soooo excited now that it's on it's way to me Enjoy

Here's a teaser of mine zk I should be able to post it in your thread next week Work in progress picture