Stephane

Sorry, Applewave is a dealer who sells low-end watches for about $40-60. Given the price and look of the Panerai, I wondered if that was who you'd bought it from. If you google his name, an auction site is one of the first results. They're the dealer who I bought my fiance's J12 and my 2531.80 project watch from. I've seen him get bad reviews on other forums, but I've found him (as a person) very nice and professional to do business with. Sure, the watches aren't fantatic, but for $60, I wasn't expecting a 1:1 rep

Hmmm, I see. I checked it and yes it pretty cheap what is sells but that was not my source...

Mine was a "one time" chinese seller of eBay (that disappeared the day after after I contact him).

He sent me to a crazy site with all the watches that he could get and I poked twice: maybe one of the reps could have been not to bad, but the idea was to get them in hands to actually touch the difference with our dealers watches.

The kind of site I visited looked like this : http://www.pickyourgoods.com/productdisplay.php?sortid=3

Having said that the bracelets of the Rolex are quite good. Spare parts at least ;-)

Stay tuned I have a nery very bad rep of a B&M Capeland S for later

Purchased from Applewave?

Sorry, I dindn't get that

Please STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

No, and you'll suffer even more ah ah

Here comes a Panerai GMT @ 33

Wow, that is my favourite

What about clicking and listening to the attached file ?

I hope it's attached and it works

Oh by the way, fench is my mother tongue

Ingenieur.mp3

My goodness, that is a beautifull collection and again great pictures as usual.

But I see a problem here Pug

No I'm serious:

The IWC GST chrono that I'm trying to stay away from .... YOU MADE ME WANT IT TOO !

Congratulations for this huge collection,

Cheers

Stephane

I don't think we are taking money away from genuine brands. If people can afford gens they will buy them. I never thought of purchasing an expensive watch until I started buying reps. I am now considering the purchase of my first Breitling.

I fully agree with you: I will soon stop reps for a while and get my self a gen Sub 16610 pre-owned.

I would never have spend 3k in a Sub a year ago.

The gens I would get Let's dream a bit!

None of these ones should loose their initial values.

2,5k

Omega PO 45

3k

Zenith

ZENITH PORT ROYAL EL PRIMERO ROUND

3,5k

Zenith

ZENITH CLASS T EL PRIMERO

5k

Zenith

ZENITH PORT ROYAL GRANDE DATE

Jaeger Le Coultre

Master Compressor Dualmatic

Cheers

Stephane

I sincerely think I will not be able to compeet with you guys.

Anyway, as promised here are two beauties from the "Rolex package"

Remember, it was a 100

... Avitt.. that looks gen to me?

I have no idea, but if it's a rep, it's a true Horror

Hi All,

What do you think about the pearl of PT's PO45 Ultimate ?

I was so happy wearing the animal since friday now I wonder if my pearl is good enough

Cheers

Stephane

...the last one I received

I wear it since friday

One to add to the horror museum.

Here is my frankenstein FOLEX I built from a bunch of old junk parts...

Wow this one is great Ubi! Congrats.

I will post my Rolex @ 33

Ok, I'm gonna be honest........those pics make me actually WANT those watches.....what the hell? ..........

Fantastic pics, really, and these certainly are not as bad ast the daytonas

Ah Ah, I keep them for sure.

Stay tuned, more horrors are coming soon....

Dear All,

I thought it could be fun to have an Horror Museum.

In example, I ordered 2 times a 100

I met him for all of about 10minutes. I was happy. It's one of the most memorable points of my life so far!

did you have a chance to get something signed by him ?

I met Paul and Linda in 1975 in Hawaii. He was renting a house in Koko Head for a month, which was down the street from my house. My buddies and I were at this place called the point smoking doobies when they walked up from the beach and said hello. Over the next month we met again a few times. I even helped pull Paul out of the water when the waves got a little big. I was around 17 then and it was most memorable, impressive and exciting.

Great ! At least he wasn't yet SIR Paul and probably more relax...

If he made watches then maybe he would consider creating a line of reps to RWG specs. Maybe you could explore this with him.

Usil

Yes that is sure, you should explore that.

I'm sure there is a market for 99,9999999% reps if they stay under 500$

After all, for non chronos at least, if it's possible to make them so close, it should be possible to make exactly the same, isn't it.

Nice story

Thanks for sharing Steve

Stephane

PS: if you want a tour in Belgium I'm afraid we have no scotch but only beers

If I can find the time I will, there are so many variations on the Miyota copy, I do have some old Asian copies here, but not sure if they are the same models as in this model, or any of the newer ones out there... I dont' get any Asian copies in for service.

RG

@Ziggy,

If it helps I have open the GMT and the movement in it looks exactly the same as the one I have in a Sub I bought for 40$ and that doesn't work.

Maybe I can give it to you ? The only think is that I would like to keep the sub (even without the movement). If you want it , let me know and it's yours.

@By-Tor

I like the Bond bracelet, you're right it looks much better than the other one that looks a little "cheap" to me now that I see your last pic.

Great job.

Thanks again.

Cheers

Stephane

I've been looking at these too...(seems like I should start to work 24/7 to get enough budget for all these babies )

Which one would you recommend in terms of accurancy ?

I see there are black bezels and steel bezels...

Thanks for your advice.

Cheers

Stephane

Actually there are squirrels in there. The whirring noise you hear is them running circles inside the watch, the more you shake, the faster they run.

My god I love all your replies guys

I spent the most hilarious 5 minutes of my day.

Thank you so much.

FLB's posts are amusing. I'm starting to look forward to them.

I must confess me too

After all the only danger is that noobs like me buy hockey pucks and vises to mod their wifes

Stephane,

Thanks for the information. I didn't thoroughly read your post or I would have seen the $95 price. What a great watch for the $$.

Cheers,

Jim

Buy it, you will love it (even my wife said "oh that is a nice one")

Stephane,

Does your GMT have a Swiss movement and correct hand length?

Jim

Hi Jim,

No and No

I opened it and it's an asian 21.

It is thus the exact same watch as reviewed by By-tor.

One remark: I won't try to regulate the time at all on this one as it is 5 seconds too fast in 48 hours (very impressive for a 100$ watch no ?)

Cheers

Stephane