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Well from your list I would go with the GP sea hawk, because I like it a lot, but to you

@FasTTap I just added your Nautilus gallery. It has several great pics especially from the nautilus 3700.

@ jeff I never has seen a jumbo with roman numerals, only the one with the IZR indicator, so I

That was a great review, as always. Indeed the Daytona looks very small, also I was wondering if it

@jeff Well to me the Nautilus it

First I would like to thank all fellow members who kindly response some of my questions as whopfish, ubi, and chino and especially to Paso for this unique piece. I know than you have seen several Nautilus treads but I couldn’t avoid doing a review of this watch

A Little History of Nautilus

During the beginning of the 1970s, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin started to develop new "leisure” watches, more suitable to the new life style of their costumers as Omega and Rolex had make it. And in all the cases this watches became an absolute success. Coincidentally all these revolutionary watches for these traditional brands were the work of Gerald Genta. The Royal Oak for Audemars Piquet, the 222 for Vacheron Constantin and Nautilus to Patek

Around the first part of the 70’s Patek Phillipe started the design of its first water resistant sport watch, the design was commissioned to Gerald Genta; based on a porthole, in 1974 he came on with a bold design considering the current line of Patek at that time and in stainless steel, which Patek only very selectively used for any timepiece. The design was a logical follow up to the Royal Oak (1970) while having at the same time an architecture adapted to the spirit of the Patek Philippe watches.

It was water resistant to 120 meters, thanks to its hermetically sealed two-piece milled case, which was secured by four screws and a gasket.

The only problem was the size, it made the watch enthusiast wonder, its 42 mm where too big inside the Patek collection, despite the fact it’s an sport watch, it was almost 4 mm bigger than most of the watches, remember that we are taking when Panerai were an Italian state secret, but the design became a success and the platinum, gold and smaller versions appeared. By 1990 when Patek Philippe decided to use only movements made in their workshops, the Jumbo was abandoned. It wasn’t until 1998—a year after Panerai’s re-launch and success —that the original 42 mm dimensions for the case returned with the 3710/1 made in steel with IZR indication of winding zone, then in 2004 was added the 3711/1, identical to the 3710/1 without IZR, only available in white gold. The 2005 was marked with the appearance of the 3712 with three complications. Finally in 2006 the new Nautilus collection was launched introducing a chronograph with a size of 44 mm

MBK Jumbo

Some of you may wonder which model reps the MBK jumbo, well basically It’s a fantasy based on the 3700 it also has a second hand as the 3800. The clasp it’s like the one on the current collection than on the original jumbo.

Well there also other flaws that probably would be spotted by a nautilus owner, Patek fan or a Patek watchsmith (around the 0.000000000000001% of people) the date font, as any Patek rep, is way off and also it’s the date placement.

I wouldn’t dare to say that the dial isn’t right (the outer white markings) because this model has had several dials versions, although I never had seen a dial with that markings only with dots, also I can tell you that the hour markers are fatter than in the 3700 but are as good as the 5711, but not with the same shape. As different subject you could address the alignment of the 12 o’clock marker, this it

I would say that it’s is a Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso Sun Moon the one with the caliber 823, not the Reverso Grande Sun Moon which has a caliber 873.

If I’m right, I must say than I love your watch

I would guess that this is it

caseback

It looks really nice but not accurate. I would have preferred that they also had replicated the bracelet. BTW there is no tt case for the gen chrono. Any way the biggest problem for an accurate rep of this would be the case back, this hardly would be replicated.

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Very nice watch looks very classy, old money I would say. You have a very good taste Richard

ohh...I need one of those badly. That blue dial ....

Thank you for sharing and congratulations for that great watch.

I live in south america and been on several countries near by, and I cant tell you that generally the rep that you will find it

Thanks bk I didn

:yucky: It looks like Rolex stole the blueprints for this one from a rep factory. Well, If you can

Looks nice. I was looking this one at an Omega AD, and your watch looks exactly the same. Well maybe the AR coat isn

Hi, I think that the cross looks good, but the date window it

TTK shows an impeccable taste... I

Agree, both gen

This is an old discussion and I

oh, good to know

I don

I got one from EL, long time ago and made an small review http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showto...amp;#entry98436. The only real diference with the gen it

Nice collection, I especially like the smp pro, my still favorite rep, the gen dial it