lazarini

Good morrning all ... thx for ure kind replyes and nice wishes it showes what a little communication and a few great people can cook up ... i had some extra info that i digged out the suprize almost got ruined by me when i went ro rotwilds desk yesterday a few times to discuss customers ishues ... i remeber now that yesterday he jumped nervously seeing me strolling through open space to his desk ... the thing he was hidding was infact the envelope that contained the watch from manuel . My GF said he was just repacking it to a diners club envelope witch are common in our office due to the corporate cards we use for buisness related travel heheh ... I will be giving it a good week of wear and then with heavy hart sending it to the guy we all know well for the first batch of mods (gen crown,gen tube,crownguards reworked , drilling lug holes and instaling gen springbars) etc . regards laz

Hello all , due to the event that happend in the last hour im still emotional and will even do things that i never thought of dooing ... show photos of me ... NOW ... here is the story I was in a bad moode last days as manny of you know my SFSO quit on me but that aside i was also a bit sceptical that my MBW that i bought from manuel did not surface from Spain yet ... i had some dealings with Spain members before all superb fellas so i was confident that he would deliver the goods also his flawless reputation keep my confidence up . Since i payed fo the watch thursday 12.07 and still no sign of the watch i started to be a bit worried, also as my girlfriend sprung for half of the expences and was worried on what she will say about the board , my hobby and so called friends. Middle of day today my girlfriend invited me to a dinner at a known Greek restaurant called Taverna to celebrate my BD witch actualy is today next week so 30th July , but due to i leave on wednesday on a buisness trip she made reservations today . I was not in a moode and wanted to just cancel it but after rethiking and beeing rational as she is not the cause of my recent problems i said meet u there just before i runned to my next meeting ... So i arive there we started the usual how was ure day chat as i realised she had that grimm on the face , u know guys what i mean that grim that reveals she was hidding something what she wanted to reveil for some time ... so i ask whats up and she says --- I HAVE SOMETHIN FOR U She pulls out a small paper bag with a little sheep n it and slides it forward ... i open it and inside a golden plated key ... in that secod i said bingo its that black watch box that we saw in old part of the town a few weeks back ... as she pulled out the raped box suggesting the size i was sure . I unraped the paper big smille and said thx baby as she grinns more ??! She said unlock that ... so i do it thinking some nice cleaning cloth ? maybe a nice key chain , some sweets but NOOOO not that anyway u already know ... whats there do u HOW THEY DID IT .... Explained ... She saw mail adress from manuel as we were sending emails back and forward nd contacted him ... she told me he was confused and afcourse thought of a scam or some joke ... but when she asked him to send the watch on same adress but different name that name beeing a member on this forum ROTWILD witch by the way is my coworker and a personal friend . I remebered a way back manuel pm ing me about if i know him hehehe now i know why ... when and rest is easy ... AT THE END _ i wanna thx manue for sendding this beautiful MBW 1860 with gen tropic installed and correct holow linb bracelet watch is a gem just briliant indeed , i wanna thx my girlfriend Monika for aranging this super sweet suprize THX BABE love u and the last accomplice thx rotwild buddy he was the one recived the watch today called my gf and pass it on , appriciated beers commin up . NOW for the people that stayed tuned and actualy read this rant here are the pics of the events that took place just 3 hours ago ! Regards laz

Guys thx for replyes appriciated ... the thing will unfold as folowing im meeting the watchmaker tomorow after work and he will give me an idea if he is confident in a fix , whats his recomendations etc if he will take on the job ill also ask when reasembling the piece to lube up the gasket ring before tightening the case back and do a watertest (he confired he has a machine on the phonechat) now on the other scenario if he will say no i have rolf already in contact with his watchmaker for a possibme movement swap and the works ... anyway ill keep u updated as i go along first failure for me and probably not the last ... but u got to get used to the idea this things are bound to happen ... keepen my head high cheers laz

Rolf , im still in a search for one that will even want to open the watch and diagnose the reason of failure ... till now no sucess noone wanna do nothing with it ... strap change yes but thats about all My GF pinged me few moments back that a colleague at work has a friend that is a watchmaker and he said he will ask if he woud take on the job at hand ... will keep this thread updated to let u all know what is up with that ... Regarding ure reply what u mean a real eta 2824 ... this means the one inside is a "fake" 2824 ... as i remebered u have a black sfso swiss version ... u wanna tell me that the movement inside is not swis eta 2824 ? regards laz

Hey fitmic , yea ill ask the gentelman mentioned woud be great if they woud be able to help im in Slovakia ... regards laz

UPDATE !!! Not a good one do i took the watch to a local watchmaker and he refused to work on it , his reason was that he dont have the tools and that ist automatic ... when i explained that its an eta 2824 that did not make a change He said try sheroon dealer they have the tools for sure ... but as this is a breitling AD thats deffinetly out of the question . The fact im a forigner here does not help also ... Now is there anyone on the boards that has the capabilities and time that i coud send him the watch asap ? I would prefer not to send the watch outside of EU ... so if anyone wanna have a crack at this and help me out (course will pay xou for the services provided) now is the time to step out ... Post here or PM me and we can have a chat . regards laz

if u go to hxxp://www.paneristi.com and check under straps link u will find the link to his photobucket album and his email adress ... hope that helps . regards laz

Dont know about iphone as im in EU and its has not been released here as all of u know ... but can confirm that symbian phones work oka ... tested on N95 ,E90 and some older models E61 ,9300i etc. regards laz

hello there and welcome ... ure on the right boards thats for sure ... i learned here so much by just browsing around ... lotsa really nice people on here also ... u mentioned ure from Spain ? there are some really nice members from ure country that helped me alot ... im sure u will meet them soon regards laz

sheesh ... stepahane , euno ,rolli, delta , repaustria , justasgood , BB , Ubi ... just to name a few ... shoud i go on regards laz

Hi Stephane how is the vacation going yea we all know when we got into this that sooner or latter this things are bount to happen (hell even the gens have problems) i will ask our resident experts on the board what coud be the problems at hand and how to go about it ... im eager to go to a local watchmaker here but the loosing the ability of the water resistance is keeping me away ... thx for ure reply , regards laz

Hi paul and JK --- regarding the water breach im 99 percent thats not the case i was on sun today 35 + degress and the watch did not show any signs of condesation then or now ... looks more like the movement had run into some problem and just stoped after cca 2 hours of struggling to run and beghaving like (mech-quartz hibrid) my concern is not the fix but the ability for the watch to retain the waterproofnes ... as i mentioned above this was my reason for going for this piece ... im have no ideas how it is when the watch get put back together and the case back screwed back on can the same rubber ring be used or has to be new to insure waterproofnes ? if anyone knows more please feel free to chime in ... regards laz

So i recived my sfso last week from a fellow member ... he purchased it 3 weeks back and due to the size and weight decided to pass it on ... its a swiss eta version with double-sided AR ... so i wore it the whole week and worked just fine was running cca 10 sec faster in 24 hr but that did not bother me at all --- I weared it in shower swimed with it all fine ... today at round 18 50 it just stoped ... i was in a shopping mall with my gf and another couple and we went our separate way and decided to meet at 20 00 . I was wondering why the time moves so slow when sudenly realised that the seconds stood still ;(((( i asked for the time at it was 19 50 ... shaked it a bit nothin .... unscrew the crown wind it up ... nothin ... wont move at all ... checked it now when i write this nothin dead funny thing happened before round 17 00 my gf asked me what movement is there as she thought it was moving veird like something betwen mechanic and quartz (smart girl ey ) but me beeing smart just scooled her its an eta mechanic one not checking to see what she spoted ... the thing that she saw was actualy watch beggining to struggle with running ... now whats ure suggestion i do ... can a simple watchmaker open the case and see whats with the watch ?? how will this affect the waterproofnes obviosly i got it for the summer and the ability to keep water out ... just to make matters worse i just bought a gen rubber strap of bay and a rep black leader of a felow member here last week ... sheeesh all comments appriciated regards laz

agreed ubi ... removed now ... regards laz

The Zigmeister , what u ment by that ... the metod above i got from "Verbal Kint" Robie ... and worked fine ... if u think the metod i mentioned is not oka pls feel free to post what shoud be better ... i dont quite get ure reply .. sorry for inconvinience . regards laz

Sure , hope it works out fine for u as it did for me , keepin fingers crossed , regards Laz

hello there ... i had a simmilar problem 2 weeks back when i sent my first watch from eu to states in a trade with a fellow meber of this here boards ... PM me for the metod that worked as i removed it ... hope rckh will do the same ... regards laz

Viki ... ure a dame ... gent rulles apply regards laz

Stephane , sweet im bookmarkin this to folow up on the pics ... enjoy it while it lasts im writing this from my balcony in the middle of concrete dessert have fun my friend ... laz

U have a pm

sssurfer ... what about the buckle on the reps ... i like the old stile one the one on ure rad from the link u gave me but in SS i presume is 20 mm ? can this be sourced somehow ... regards laz

THX Phoband , thats a nice combo there looks inpresive indeed in the meantime someone from paneristi offered me this strap ... its described as PAM original for 40mm radiomirs measures 25/20 ... 115/75 gen croc ... opinions appriciated ... aint cheap do regards laz

Thx sssurfer ... i was checking the paneristi site and under strap link there is writen that the size of the strap for 42 rad is RADIOMIR 42mm Straps 25/19 Long 115/95 Standard 115/75 Short 115/68 Small 98/68 I have never seen someone of the strapmakers producing this size ... looks like i will need to settle for something else ... anyone out of our resident strap makers coud maybe chime in ... V and the other lads ... maybe a custom job here regards laz

thx to both of u guys ... now i asume noone produces a 23/20 strap that i coud purchase ... except gen that is also when we talkin gen or oem this ones are probabaly hard to source anyone have an idea where ? laz