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He doesn't need to ship via UK. I am in the Netherlands.. Never a problem. Only Belgium and Germany are a exception if I remember correctly

Come to EU here the majority drives stick.. Yes We Can ! ;-)

I think you are correct. First gen, rest is rep. I am 100% certain. The 6 o'clock marker has a very different shape in pic 1 and 2

I can't pinpoint what is it.. I have a rep myself. And a friend of mine has te gen.. But this one.. I don't know what it is. Can't put a finger on it. HEV also tricky. Should be a little inside the case.. This one looks exactly flat with the case. But like I said the pictures are bad, very bad. So why does one put up bad pictures? Because he can't make a decent pic ( not one is!) or is he trying to hide something..maybe a real expert needs to share his opinion here. I am just a DSSD enthusiast, but I do not have enough knowledge to make a final judgement based on the crappy pics But there are 2 things here that make me think it's gen. 1. The bezelteeth.. They look perfect. 2. The sides of the bracelet also look perfect. They are not straight but slightly rounded on the edge where the polished meets the brushed finish

Insert is not correct I would say fake Edit: sorry didn't had a good look since the pics a very bad.. Insert looks ok but there's something about this one that I do not like..

just sent it to a watchsmith in the EU, he can fix it. daywheel is an easy fix. Chrono think so too. Domi does a full service for 150 and fix the datewheel too. maybe if you ask nice he will include the fixing of the chrono hands too!

shouldn't that be 50? 10 is not a lot. But that just my opinion. Thanks for taking action to make it harder for the scammers!!

payment is done! now waiting for QC and shipping. But shipping shouldn't take long since the watch is already in the UK!

Very nice! Wish I had the funds for it !

That self-winding perpetual-movement monstrosity strapped to your forearm is accurate across a hemisphere's worth of time zones. But no matter how extravagantly handcrafted or precisely engineered your Rolex is, it'll never be as accurate as a cheap digital gas station watch. Here's why. The earliest known pocket watch was devised by German locksmith Peter Henlein around 1505. These small, globe-shaped mechanical brass clocks, known as "taschenuhr," were worn as accessories and trinkets by the upper class, much as Chihuahuas are employed today. Besides acting as Plague-era bling, these wearable clocks marked the first use of spiral mainsprings, metal torsion ribbons that store the potential energy that drives a timepiece. The energy stores in a mainspring keep a watch ticking, but they're not limitless. Eventually, they get used up countering oscillation-impeding inertia and friction. And therein lies the problem. See, mechanical clocks rely on an oscillator—the watch's inner movement, or a grandfather clock's pendulum, say—to control the system's frequency, which is how the clock maintains accurate time. But friction robs this oscillator of a tiny bit of energy on every stroke. Minute by minute, that adds up; as the oscillations slow, the timepiece's can lose a few seconds of accuracy a day. A mainspring's purpose is to counterbalance that effect, continually adding stored energy to the system to keep things on track. Winding a clock, either with the watch crown or a key, adds to the mainspring's potential energy. And you need to do it every 40 hours or so to stay current. In addition, the mechanical watch's reliance on minute, delicate, fail-prone parts that are easily affected by temperature fluctuations and magnetism demands regular and often costly readjustments, making analog watches more expensive and less accurate than their digital successors. Then there's electronic movement, or crystal oscillation, which leverages a vibrating hunk of piezoelectric quartz to generate an electrical signal with a specific frequency, rather than rely on a series of gears and pendulums. Piezoelectric materials create electrical currents when stressed—in this case, the material is expanded and contracted. Conversely, the same piezoelectric material will vibrate when exposed to an outside current. The crystal's size and shape determine the frequency it produces—known as the resonant frequency—typically in the kilohertz to hundred megahertz range. Early devices relied on naturally occurring quartz; however, the use of synthetic quartz is nearly universal these days. High-stability frequency crystal oscillators—those suitable for clocks—were developed in 1928 by Warren Marrison of Bell Telephone Laboratories and have since become the most widely-used means of telling time in the world. Losing just one lost second every 30 years, quartz movement is orders of magnitude more accurate than mechanical designs. As such, more than two billion quartz oscillators are manufactured annually for use in personal timepieces, electronic circuits, and radio transceivers. While crystal oscillators are susceptible to temperature, humidity, pressure, and vibration fluctuations, even inexpensive watches are designed to minimize these environmental detractors. The oscillator is shaped like a tuning fork and designed to vibrate at exactly 32,768 Hz (that's 2^15 cycles per second, from which a steady, second-counting 1Hz signal is derived). In addition, many watches feature inhibition compensation. That is, they're intentionally built to run fast, and programmed to a set number of crystal oscillation cycles at a regular interval. This allows the manufacturer to measure and store the timing information in non-volatile memory on the chip, rather than expend the cost of cutting the crystal precisely. So, just as mechanical clocks overtook the sun dials and water clocks before them, they too have been eclipsed by a more accurate method of counting seconds. And who knows? Digital watches giving way to something even more precise can only be a matter of time. [Wikipedia 1, 2 - How Stuff Works - NIST - jecka / Shutterstock] Entire text

Just a nice article I came by. http://gizmodo.com/5983427/why-a-10-casio-keeps-better-time-than-a-10000-rolex

Oh that would be interesting!

Still have to pay but sead is not very fast in giving his payment information. Money is ready haha

I am buying it from sead, he sells the noob so should be fine..

Thanks!

I feel comfortable on a 2836-2 because I already fixed the keyless works. So is there some tear down sheet to be found or guide? Btw maybe I need to start a new topic. Sorry to the OP. didn't want to steal your post

What would those movt. cost?

How difficult is it to service a 2836-2? What are good movements to start with for practice? Are there good guides on Internet? I want to learn this.. Without doing an expensive education. I know this is hard but I've managed to repair my keyless works of my eta 2836-2 without problems. This got me very interested in trying to take apart an entire movement. I want to start on a a2836-2 but I would like to do it the good way with a guide. Is that possible?

Are all TD's selling the same one?

Wow!! Great lume! Thanks

The gens do have a rolex crown engraved... it is called LEC. only harder visible on a gen then rep most of the time.. Not always though since rep crystals are getting better and better

Kenny's lume guide?

Build yourself a super franken body ;-)

Just shoot him a PM.. It is CNY. He will get in touch with you after

When I receive I will for sure do a little write up.. Even though there have been done many since starting this topic ;-)