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You're going to be wearing a tux, right? Ususally that would mean no watch, but if you do wear one probably be it should be something unobtrusive and on leather. Weddings and fashion are both about convention, so you can either follow it or break it. I'd say do either w/ class: Follow would be a thin dress watch on black croc--lot's of accurate reps to choose from from Omega to Patek. If you're going to break it, I like the hilarious green LV w/tux idea above. If I were you, I'd put a gen on the credit card and then tell your fiance you're goiing to pay it off w/ all the cash you guys rake in at the reception. After all, you definitely want to start your life together on sound, debt-free financial footing.

My God man, it's breakfast time. Something about the "it looks pretty new" line tells me that guy has less of an appreciation for Panerai watches as he does making people remove them and hand them over.

Maybe if you filed a small claims action against him in your local area you'd be able to subpoena that info from UPS? That can probably be done by mail for less than $100.

My watchsmith charges $30 for the DW install. But since he only charges $120 for a service on any auto movement, I ususally just go w/ a service and the DW install is free...so I figure I get a service for $90, which is not bad.

Hopefully it won't be for a Rolex, then! Thanks for the tips, guys.

Great job on the brushing!! BTW, that's a damn accurate rep--the only things I noticed were date fot thickness, crown diameter, lug shape, and bezel--the case back on the rep looks fabulous in those pics, and the dial looks good too. Beautiful watch!

Nah, MICAV is in california, and is a different scammer. The fact that he's still posting on RWI is reason #1 I don't go there anymore.

Wear whatever tie you like...bring the suit to the store and have at it. IMO, the 6263 is the only one of the above watches I'd wear w/ a suit. I know I'm in the minority but subs and GMT's w/ suits are like Nikes w/ suits and a bling DJ is..well..a bling DJ. If you're going anywhere people may know what a Daytona is the best favor you can do for yourself is to go buy a nice pair of shoes for Xmas. Really nice shoes. Few people will be able to tell your suit's a CK, but if you wear that Daytona w/ a pair of Florsheims you're going to get (silently, maybe) called out.

Also, keep in mind that the A7750's bad rap is 80% from the old version. The new versions, especially in straight chrono versions isn't nearly as bad. This is a very accurate rep on the wrist (the gen has a solid back, but who gives a rat's A$$?If you don't take your watches off and pass them around the bar or sell them as gen, it'l be no problem. The only change I would make would be to swap the hr. and min. hands with correct blue ones, which should be easy since similar ones are found on lots of of 7750 watches. The rep's GMT hand is fine.

Are you sure? The Missus' fancy font recognition sofware says no match w/ copperplate, although it ID's both Copperplate and the Panerai font as based on Helvetica. Maybe OP's font is an in-house designed version of helvetica similar to Copperplate? ON EDIT: I just checked out copperplate. It looks like paneraicollector has solved a longstanding mystery: Comparing letter for letter w/ copperplate in Photoshop, they're very close. The biggest difference is that the bar on the capital A in copperplate is lower than the bar in the A's in PANERAI. Probably, the repmakers use Copperplate for rep dials, and the result is the famous drooping A's.

And i bet the back of the RG rep is identical to the standard SS pieces, if you care about that.

I doubt the bidding here is being driven entirely by people planning to destroy this clock and put the movement in a fake watch, unless Tourby's crazy friend joins the madness. At least partially, te tiffany mark is what's driving this. My wife collects costume jewelry, and unfortunately i know from watching our bank balance drop that anything w/ a tiffany mark goes for 2-3 times the price of a comparable piece--you have two groups of collectors. going for a Tiffany piece: People that collect either clocks or lamps or jewelry, etc and people that collect Tiffany anything. I bet if you looked at a Tiffany book, very few of this type of travel alarm were sold under the Tiffany brand even if the configuration is pretty common for Angelus.

Lets see...40mm or more: check. steel bracelet: check. Available w/ black dial: check. Not too interesting design: check. heavily advertised brand: check. Gen available for under 3 grand: check. Usable w/ A7750: check. If this watch is not repped within 6 months I'll give away my modded PO.

I love these dpth ratings on watches. The gen makers have to know that the deepest 99.99999% of their watches will ever go is however deep the deep-end of the Country Club pool is. That, and if someone does dive to 300m to salvage a ship or something, they're not going to strap on a 10,000 BlancPain, not because it will crack under the pressure, but because they don't want to dent it. BTW, one of the watch mags tested a Breit dive watch and it cracked at 1/3 it's rating. If a collector rates a rep to 1000m I'm thinking you can wash your hands, shower w/ two russian hotties, and hit the pool...as long as you don't dive in too forcefully. Isn't that enough?

Look everyone makes mistakes--my local smith, whom I'll stack up against anyone alive, scratched the crap out of a gen muller dial--but constantly destroying peoples watches and having the balls to charge top dollar for it is another matter. BTW, I like the guy who did the above mods. But greed does funny things to everyone, no matter how nice they are. I wonder if there's some sort of way we can come up with as a group to help limit the temptation. Hell, in the real world even the most free-wheeling, fast and loose professions set up some kind of mechanism to protect their customers, if only to keep them from running away en masse. If they don't, either the government or the market will do it for them. We're at the point here that the market is going to start regulating severely if we wont regulate ourselves-- if these horror stories keep rolling in, established modders like The Zigmeister all the more overbooked and it's going to be hard for any new honest, talented modder who may come along to get trusted enough to become an established modder. Either way, lots of us are not going to get our watches modded.

I'd research any aftermarket GPS systems thoroughly. We've had three GPS's: The fabulous ffactory unit that came w/ the 2007 Acura MDX, the decent factory unit that came w/ our 2004 LexusRx330 and the unbelievably horrible aftermarket unit I paid 2 grand for (including Sirius and a DVD system) w/ the 2005 Ford Exursion. Whatever the ford dealer put inside (I'm too lazy to go out and get the manual to remember the brand , which has the word star in it somehwere but no onstar) our truck is so astoundingly bad it's almost funny. Locations that have been around for decades--for example a restaurant I like that's been in the phone book since 1964--are AWOL, only the first 5 digits of phone numbers are displayed, there is no category search, if you enter a location you know the quickest way to, you'll laugh aloud at the route it choses for you. If you plug in a location you don't know how to get to you're [censored] off because you f'n just know there are 20 faster ways to get there. If you make a wrong turn, fuggetabot it, it's like the thing is punishing you--it'll take you 10 miles out of your way instead of telling you a quick way to just turn the f around. The only time we use it is when the babysitter needs to drive the kids somewhere. In fact, she's the only person on earth who that thing can possibly help.

I once found something similar near my balance c ock.

Hi Davidsen, it looks like the base files for this are your current dials. As mentioned above, please modify the 6 and 9. Equally important is the font on the text which will be different from your current font, expecially in thickness and the in particular the "A"s.

LOL! The horror, the horror.

Unlike the IWC, that one is kinda interesting!

Of course Tarentino is overrated. That's what he pays his PR people for. He's a genre director, but at least he made up his own genre: ironic homages to genre pictures or whatever. And he does write some of pretty interesting dialogue,e.g. the scene w/ Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in True Romance . Film geeks give him a hard time, but he's not trying to be Greenaway or Tsukamoto or some other art guy. He's a mainstream movie maker--His compettion is James Cameron and Clint Eastwood who pass off Arron Spelling TV shows set on big sinking boats and WWII battlefields.

Yeah, a waste of talent. If he would just sell as reps he'd have been a legendary figure around here, but greed always gets in the way. Anyway, I'd love to see a rep of the reissue, which is absolutely gorgeous, but I doubt it will ever happen. The factories will always rep what the market wants, and the market always speeds straight for the lowest common denomenator. Because breitling and Rolex have lots of ads in Sport's Illustrated lots of people, even people around here,fall all over themselves to spend 30% of the cost of a Seadweller or 40% of a Superocean instead of 5% of a 10 grand, equally reppable fifty-fathoms, even though all have the black bezel inserts, black dials and steel cases that everyone drools over.

That's exactly right--every rep I buy gets serviced and modded as well as a high quality stap. This adds $200 or so to the price but keeps them well within the OP's range. I have never seen a difference in reliability or fit and finish between a solid rep and a sub $1000 gen. Specific case in point: I'm in the process of helping another member build a handwind PAM w/ a jimmy case, guard, etc: He's having The Zigmeister service the movement and lume. My smith is helping install an OEM crown and custom tube. I bet the total cost is well under $750, even if he does a single sided AR coat. W/ a jimmy case, good guard, single AR, The Zigmeister lume, and 1:1 funtioning crown, and serviced swiss movement, I'd love anyone tell me a gen that will be more reliable, more durable, have a more interesting design, and a "better"brand name (since I do care about cachet as long as I am spending my dough) because I'll immediately go out and buy one.