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Thank you all for the compliments.

Wear it well SKcheng!

Happy 2008!

M.

It has been a great year as I have had the opportunity to meet a few of the wonderful members of RWG and see a number of beautiful reps and gens. May the New Year bring more of the same.

The feeling is mutual!!

BTW thanks for the compliments but it was me who profited the most with your teachings!

Both you and SKcheng are walking treasury chests concerning info and tech data.

Most important both of you have the joy to share... an exquisite characteristic nowadays.

Honored to meet you W!! Thank you for the warm welcome and I am surely looking forward to more of the same!

A big thanks goes for Arch also!

M.

PS- Did you check the Laco?

Me:

My second visit to NY this year and - among other things - the chance to meet an honorable member of the forum (Kruzer) and be again with a friend who being like family is also a kind of guardian angel(Skcheng) to me.

One of the highligts of the trip was in fact this meeting because after that s**t hitted the fan for me (again) and I had to suddendly return to Portugal, feverishly, my tonsils like tennis balls and unable to swallow and with my mind totally boggled. What a lousy year for me.

Kruzer:

A high spirited gentleman with an unbeatable sense of humour (like a Jerry Seinfeld on acids...)! I just hope my english would be better to savour his "gourmet" level of humour.

Besides that a warm sense of hosting making you feel welcome.

My dear friend I was impressed with the warm welcome and the nice time spent together.

Hope we can repeat this!

As for your collection I cannot say anything but IMPRESSIVE. Quite a cream of the crop collection. Even the Frank Muller looked nice after a The Zigmeister touch!

The only thing that missed among your collection was a vintage 6152 but we will surely take care of that...

Skcheng:

You know what I feel towards you (and family of course). I am honored for being your friend. In fact I feel blessed with your friendship.

As you all read before this has been the worst year of my life and Sherwin has always acted as a beam for my stability.

Even when problems emerged for the second time it was him who picked me up after a long drive on christmas eve and took me to his house where I felt - as usual - home.

Being the worst year ever its also a year where I made a good friend!

Reps:

We checked all the reps around including mine. I finally got a DRSD and I am still feeling used to it (As you all know I am not a hardcore Rlx fan).

Again, Kruzer has an amazing first line rep collection and a nice gen wich elevated our discussion to a phylosophical level...

A rep is a rep but in fact when you handle a gen near them... no big difference (at least aesthetically) besides the price!

As a conclusion I think watches (reps and gens) were only a good pretext to a meeting...

What comes to mind when I remember our meeting is the really wonderful time spent together.

Thank you dear friends!

all the best and a wonderful 2008 for all,

M.

Loved to meet you man!

The view outside those windows is to die for.

Ken

Thats why being a trained architect can make the whole difference on the designing process...

With a powerful view like that and the house plays total indiference towards it...

IMHO the "view" looks like some oil paintings hanged on the wall.

I bet he will end dissassembling the mvmt and sell it piece by piece...

Oh god what a sacrilege!

... or like "dismantling" the grandmother for organ profit!

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZwiegand4

no comments...

C

This thread means to me the true spirit of a forum.

I believe a forum should be a platform of exchanging experience, knowledge and skills.

RWG has reached maturity.

Keep going guys.

M.

I have a plexi for that model. Like the ones I use on my vintages.

PM if you need it.

best,

M.

Absolutely a step in the right direction. And if you listen to the more knowledgeable members here it will become a must-have watch. This is one I would love to own.

I reckon the same. A huge step Davidsen. Keep on rocking!!!!

Sorry but I only have advice for the dial marker... You will have to re-glue it!

Tourby:

What a beautiful creation my friend!!!

Congratulations. I can imagine myself wearing it...

BTW you started smoking american cigarettes?!?

best,

M.

Marco, I wish I could say that I still believe in Mark, but at this point . . . more than a year later . . . he still has the Cortebert pocket watch that I purchased from you, plus parts to assemble a 6152 (RXW case, davidsen crystals, dial, brevattato engraved back, etc.) and a PAM 036. Very sad, indeed.

Gil, more than sad I think that is theft...

I would not find it possible for him to act like that but human nature can be very deceiving (on some people at least).

Last time we communicated his response was that everybody had their stuff back and your situation was solved.

Some time ago it happened to me on this same forum that someone who offered me help on vintageizing a watch stole me a complete MM case set a corteb

I am not concerned about ME. I'm concerned about OTHERS who are still on the down low there.

Just a thought: I wonder if there is still people on the down low here because judging from this thread no one is complaining about being scammed.

On the other hand I agree that its very ugly to jump on a gen forum to do statements as he did. More than ugly I think its sad...

and because of that IMHO we should not spend our precious time around that.

I confess I am a bit shocked with all this...

Those look like Cali hands?? Or were they originally for something else??

Indeed they do!!! except that they are gen hands with 40 years of age...

The only difference from the ones used by panerai is the little tick on the middle of the minute hand.

Hmmm, I spy with my little eye something beginning with.......

6152-1 MM with

Please correct to Cortebert c.618 'heart' ....

Very interesting.

Hey Kruzer,

Will be much more interesting when installed on my grail...

Just to share a recent discovery...

... a small run of gen blued hands!

The only thing I find odd is the tick on the minute hand.

I also believe they will have to be adjusted to the wheels and pinions of the mvmts to use.

The pics are cr*ppy since I do not own a digital camera.

I may have some to spare in the future if anyone is interested.

I would advice to keep the see-through caseback since Davidsen's solid caseback is very - and I mean very - inaccurate.

You should also change the front plexi. I still have some left of the latest batch I produced so if you want one just PM me.

IMHO you could also try to age the dial and hands a bit...

If you want to work a bit on the case I advice Duraglit to break the mirror shine it has now.

The strap looks good!

best,

M.

Hey Kruz,

Nice pieces you got there. Congratulations!

I have the little heart for you. I will also take some of my vintages to meet yours.

best,

M.

Nice work.

Now the Corteb

But just in case, does anyone know a leg breaker in Gerona?

I can go there and "fix" both legs.

Will be a 7 hours drive but I believe it will be worth it. You want a bloody work or just concussion?

M.

IMHO it looks just great!

Far better than some praised "professional" work I have seen on RWI.

As for the letters leave them as they are now. They look like they should be.

If you insist to have them whiter rub a white wax crayon over the lettering. Since they are engraved the wax will fill the cavity and you can take off the excess on the outer surface with something like benzine.

best,

Marco