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CousinsUK has the 24-7030.0 with 5.2 and 6.2 mm length. I would guess that the 5.2 is what you need... Dee

They are quite useful as door stoppers! If you cover them with a thin layer of lead no burglar will ever care Dee

It's according to industry standards. 200 m / 660 ft is the tested pressure to be passed for a watch suitable for "diving". And remember, not every diver just goes down to 20 m. I know some "normal" recreational divers reaching 100 m, well I'm keeping myself at 60 Dee

There are some better matching reps of the 6694 but I always wondered why the people would pay 200 for a rep if the gen is at 800 if lucky... If you like the 15000 I could propose a frankening... Take case, caseback, crystal and blue dial as gen parts. Look for a suitable movement and hands and you have a watch which without opening is indistiguishable from the gen! Dee

I'm quite a noob, but there is a reason why they are also named the "twins"... Dee

Yepp, that will be the hunt for a fitting one. But as Iearned yesterday when exchanging the crystal of by DD-rep the gasket is the thing to fit! The crystal on the DD was to gen specs but the gasket wasn't... Dee

Having worn a gen SD over years and now typing this wearing the new one... My gen had no rest of paint when I bought it and I never wanted to place any paint to change this. The bracelet on the rep is like on a gen which has been worn for like 3-5 years, so nothing to worry about! After having replaced the broken tube today, next to replace on mine is the crystal with a lower profile one and the insert with a gen. Dee

If you want to be really close to gen, take the black dial version, which comes quite good out of the box. Go for the asian ETA which has the correct sweep and then replace the crystal with one not having the etched crown... Dee

I picked a gen YG Day-Date in f*cked up condition and got it restored by my watchmaker. The photos were so bad that the price was really low and when I sold it I made >60% profit. Dee

Oh, then pirate radio took long to jump over from Germany. My father had a pirate radio station in the late 50s - luckily the detecting technology wasn't as good at that time so they went after him but never got him... Now, as I'm retiring, I might take another hobby like internet-pirate-radio. Oh, wait... That's nothing pirate... Dee

The gen laser etched coronet is not as visible as on the reps. You can spot them on a rep if sitting next to the one wearing while on the gen you need side lighting and a loupe Dee

Smooth bezel reps are already available as China was a little ahead of the Rolex design department Dee

As the T-dial with luminova is the rarer version I always would go for this! Dee

The etched coronet in the crystal... Look out for a non-etched crystal which fits... Dee

I wouldn't be sure that it is related to water. In my DayDate I found a lot of little "bubbles" of which I think they are little glass balls used for media blasting and may have come into the case due to the poor cleaning of parts. You can spot them on this photo, mainly on the caseback: Dee