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Oh dear.....

I am inclined to agree, although I am not too sure about this one...

I was in there two weeks ago. Full of prententious rugby playing types and the prices have gone through the roof. More people out the back than actually in the place thanks to the smoking ban... I don't drink beer at all these days (my gut is big enough thanks) apart from the occasional cold one in summer, but the barmaid down our local hates it when my crowd come in as three of them like their Bellhaven Best and it is a total bastard to pour...

Not bad for a personal import. They even managed to spell the laser etching right!

Bet that paint doesn't help grip levels.

Actually JTB, they've got a point about the beer. The very thing that makes our water so good for just about everything else (washing/whisky/putting in your iron/car battery etc.) is the thing that makes it utterly crap for beer making ie. lacking the minerals to create a decent natural fizz. Most Scottish breweries actually add a small quantity of plaster to the water to make up for it (filtering out the gritty bits before kegging it of course). I got a dose of the skits just looking at that site...

Yeah, same here. Looks too much like the product of a marriage of my two favourites already in my collection (SMP and Link Chrono). I'm seeking something else in titanium at the moment....

All of a sudden I've gone off IWC....

Is one not enough? If you ever decide you don't need the spare......

OK, so this is revival of an old thread, but it does indeed seem to be the case that it is 'OK' to replicate something as long as you spent A LOT of money on it so as not to devalue the premium image. A bit like the replica classic car market - build a Porsche 356 from brand new VW Beetle spares and you are pilloried, but build it from hand beaten aluminium and a Porshe 911 and it is OK (despite the Beetle derived one being more accurate...)

The flipside is that no-one will give you the answer you seek, because it is a matter of subjectivity. If I had $150 to spend on a Submarianer I know which one I'd buy and who I'd buy it from, but I'd never tell you it like fact in case you were looking for something subtly different and you then called me out for giving you bad advice.

Brainless people. I think we need to start getting a bit protectionist about this. If the dealers don't already have an official (secret) customer blacklist then perhaps they should get together and set one up.

Unfortunately I couldn't find a '[censored] stirring' smiley to finish my post off.....

Non matching shade of black between tachymetre ring and dial, and the slow day change of the 7750...

What I wanna know is what kind of fool would refuse $10,000 for a rep Seawolf.

Absolutely. Dayught was almost certainly some poor Chinese chap/chapess trying to match what they saw in the picture they were working from with what they could find on the US keyboard in front of them. EngineoYod.... try saying it with a silly accent. Methinks that was an unfortunate phonetic attempt....

I'm not taking part in this anymore as my collection ain't big enough and it is getting embarassing for me. (No hope of the collection increasing in size in the near future either as some little scrote vandalised my car two days ago..... )

Might just do that. It probably wasn't to his exacting standards so he took it down for an edit I just wanted another look at that picture of the wheels for the hand stack being held in place with bent case clamps. Most entertaining!

What happened to The Zigmeister's post where he did a breakdown (literally) of the latest 2836 movement modified for pseudo GMT operation?! It was here last time I looked.

Panerai Dayught Ferrari EngineoYod by Officine Panerai Polfy Gelena Shitinerand

Well well! My phraseology for these crud modified movements is catching on I see I remember when this latest 'GMT' 2836 movement with 'adjustable hour hand' broke cover in the Omega SMP, and I dissed it big time saying I'd choose the Asian version of the watch as it was otherwise identical and at least came with a proper functioning GMT movement as opposed to a bodged ETA. I was almost burned at the stake at the time for daring to suggest an Asian was a better choice over the 'Swiss'. I hope that, seeing those mangled case clamps holding the hour gears on, those people will come back here and apologise. Feel sorry for the peeps with this rubbish in their watches though. The 'Swiss' supporters should be apologising to them too....

I happened to have one in my spares box, recovered from my long broken and sadly missed Silix Oris TT1 which had very thick lugs, hence the short springbar. 9mm is a typical size for a ladies watch though.

There's a spring bar hidden in there connecting the section of the clasp with the multi adjustment holes to the bracelet link. See my post about bracelet problems!

Following the earlier loss and replacement of the screw holding the clasp/fliplock section of the bracelet on my TAG Link, the strap came apart again today, though this time at the other end of the clasp. The reason - probably the worst quality springbar I have ever seen is holding this end together. I can only assume the spring has weakened with age because it was incapable of pushing both prongs out the ends at the same time. I would advise other owners of this popular rep to replace the bar pronto with something sturdier. The bar is 9mm end to end not including the prongs. For a tip on how to remove the bar, as its ends are not particularly accessible deep in the holes of the bracelet link, see the attached pics