Robotomic

Same thing happened to my VISA a short time after purchase at another TD. I suspect the Chinese payment gateway has one or more corrupt employees.

That's why I now only use paypal.

Only tell I can see is lume colour on hands and dial don't match.

Would love to see a gen vs rep comparison of the sm300 vintage. Imo one of the best looking watches of all times.

Orange text Explorer on dial looks smudged out in all qc pics I've seen. Don't knew of it's noticeable to the naked eye but visible in the pics.

New great-looking Mark XVII on Angus' site:

http://puretime.co/product/pre-view-mark-xvii-11-best-edition-a2892/

Updated datewheel, dial looks nice, but no bracelet :-(

Opinions?

Bad date font as usual. A shame since there is a good one out there, on the new mark xvi.

Any update or advice about firansky ?

Smith in EU will be intersting, though !

Xel

I tried to contact him. He answered the first PM and offered a very good price, but then he ignored me consistently so could never send my watch. So I sent mine to Wiz despite long waiting times.

Perfect pearl! Tell us more about this.

Can you post a link please?

Have you had one in person to make sure?

Yes, it is especially noticeable if you have a smaller wrist.

It's a very nice strap. The thing that bothers me with straps on the 3717 is that there is a very large empty space between strap and case compared to other watches. The hole in the lugs is far out on the lugs.

Just got one from puretime last week. The watch looks and feels great, stunning quality and feel. Of course it's not perfect, it has some issues: lume pads on 12, 3, 6, 9 are a little different colour and more block-like than gen, the date font has been updated which is not mentioned on their site - now the 7s are correct but the day font is the same as before so they don't really fit each other, also the bracelet SEL fit is bad. Other than that it's my best rep so far.

If you like the watch it can still be nice to have. 99% of the population can't tell a fake, remember we are geeks here...

Also, from the dial I can see the watch had several complications including moon phase, which means the watch should cost around $100K if genuine.

You gotta post higher resolution pics. Can't see anything. Easiest way to tell if it's fake: check the movement engravings. Real Pateks have beautiful gold engravings on the movement. Replicas have pretty ugly engravings on the rotor only, and almost never any engravings on the rest of the movement.