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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.

Are broads available now on the open market? I think there's one here we can put up for sale...

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.

Has be posted there lately? I have his address - but its to a UPS Mailbox and UPS will not give me his details - full name, address and phone. He sold me and another member the same watch and of course, just kept the money. I would love to pay that [censored] a visit in person....be a nice surprise....

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.

I purchased a VCO case set from fellow member bertieng which arrived in record time from HK. Thank you bertieng! The case set included the watch case, crystal and the case-back all assembled together. I need to send out the crystal for AR treatment and I don't know how to remove the crystal. I have a few jewelers

I sent him a PM. Do you remember what they cost and how much a typical install is? Thanks

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.

Next time I'll just buy a new, less wide datewheel!

Hopefully it won't be for a Rolex, then!

Thanks for the tips, guys.

Thanks for the "How to" and awesome comparison pics. I never noticed how the lugs kind of wrap around the bezel on this model. You obviously love this model!

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!

Or maybe he's creating a new profile to gain trust and scam again.

Someone please post this info over at RWI so the admins can keep a look out for him.

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.

Ok so I'll be busting out my new suit for New years, its a CK black pinstripe, 3 button single breasted with flat front pants. The shirt and tie combos are endless, for shirts I have dark blue, baby blue, black, light blue with dark blue stripes, black/plum/dark purple stripes, white, charcaol, blue with white collar & french cuffs, few more shades of blue. I'd like to buy a new tie anyway, but i have tons with blue/black, blue/dark blue, white/black houndstooth etc. I'd throw some pics in but I'm really lazy right now.

Also, what watch? my fave black/ss sub, or maybe a two tone/blue sub, 2-tone DJ with jubilee, or 2-tone GMT? I'll probably have a 6263 rep by then too, going for black with white subdials.

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.

Nice. In fact, very nice. Unfortunately it probably only comes with the A7750. Perhaps that movement can be scrapped and a good Swiss movement be put in place. Perhaps, perhaps not. Good looking watch.

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.

The logo font is COPPERPLATE

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.

The watch is made as a gen as a limited editen less than 100 pieces

Cheers

TWP

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.

One of the collectors told me we can expect it early next year. Hope its true, there are many nice dial variations.

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?

Im just wondering how you butcher a screw so badly? It looks like he didnt have a screwdriver and used a kitchen knife of something...

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.

RG

I would love also to see the correct 6 and 9 on the dial. This is very obvious points on the dial which will make the dial unique and stand out from others.

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.

Watchbuff is a very good dude...I've had many long convos on the phone and in person and I must say his knowledge in this hobby thouroughly impressed me, and at the same time hes a standup guy- Good luck man, cant wait to see it when its all finished!

LOL!

The horror, the horror.

Yesterday i sat after work with nothing to do, longing for my new straps i

That watch is absolutely horrible. Might aswell go for one of these.

Unlike the IWC, that one is kinda interesting!

Ok darling. Your words "yet another reason" suggested that you were using the Tarantino scene in the video that Pugwash posted to support your statement that Tarantino is one of the most overated directors (except for Reservoir Dogs). I understand differently now

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.

One source: Hanoi, Vietnam. The original maker is a famous forger who has ripped off countless military watch collectors. I had the displeasure of meeting him once many years ago. I should've broken his nose when I had the chance - but he vanished before I got the chance. Either way, there are others hunting him down (he's been roughed up a few times already).

Too bad, he could've done things differently.

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.

But if you want to make a fair comparison you need to compare it with a serviced & regulated rep. All non-serviced movements out of the box - either Swiss or Asian - will always be a gamble. However, after modding and decent oiling most high level/'super'/'ultimate' reps (with AR, sapphire crystal, Superlume, Swiss movement - or perhaps even some Asian - and handpicked by the collector for extra QC) will certainly stand the comparison to a mid range - or even better - gen watch.

Just my 2 cents...

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.