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That is an excellent point.

I'd buy an accurate reverso in a second--I remember reading an article in one of the watch mags in which some guy from JLC said that he was surprised more companies haven't copied the concept of the reverso since technically it was remarkably easy to accomplish. Maybe there is no chinese or ETA movement thin enough for an accurate rep that's mechanical on both sides?

OK...I was just getting a little worried. We went from 4mm to cigars to golf clubs to dogs pretty quickly. I really wasn't saying anything about your personal watch buying or wearing habits, which I don't think about very often to be honest. I was making a general statement: If you hang out here or any watch board long enough you will read dozens of posts written by people who say emphatically "I won't wear a watch under 44mm" or I can't wear a watch unnder 44mm" or refer to a 41mm watch as "way too small for me" Call me a purist, but I'm sorry to say that I do have trouble referring to someone who absolutely refuses to wear 98% of the watches on the planet a "watch enthusiast." It'd be like calling a guy who only drinks Pomerols a "wine enthusiast." He's a Pomeristi. To you I was only saying, and still say: If you agree with those guys, you won't like the PAM 50 or 51 however accurate or beautiful they are. You will look at it and think, "This watch is 4mm too small." I should have also added, "If you do like watches smaller than 44mm, I reccomend the PAM 051 because the white dial works much better on 41mm PAMs than 44mm PAMS to my eye." Peace and hi to the pups.

Only if I've had the bracelet rounded. Those sharp edges might pop the blowup doll.

I see exactly what you mean...the curved lugs look a lot better. So your watchmake essentially forged you new ones...Amazing craftsmanship! Do you think it would be possible to approximate the mod my grinding and bending the existing lugs?

I remember thinking it was an air king...

Are you OK?

Sometimes it pays to wait...the Black Magic and the 2007 CD (no rec room paneling on the back)....My take-the-kids-to-the-pool watches for this summer. BTW...let's hope they're using existing dials just for the pics of both ceramic BB's--both are wrong for their respecive models by a wide margin, although I bet it wouldn't be hard to remove, paint, and replace the numbers on the Black Magic. ON Edit: What are the odds that they used Ti on the Black Magic?

LOL! You're pulling our legs, right? The .2mm of date window bevel and a .1mm mark above an "E" count as steps? I just can't see the what's wrong w/ the hands and "automatic font" except they both look a little more crisply executed on this version.

A date wheel would be pretty easy--about ten minutes work as a matter of fact--if someone knows the right font and if there is no overlay used on the rep change the position of the date to accomopdate the window. I already have the size an alignment for 28XX wheels in Illustrator. It would literally be 4 mouse clicks--two to change the font, one to save, and one to send the file to the print shop. I'd cretainly be willing to make a few and have them printed and cut--at least as a small made to order run--if someone else can ID the right font.

You know, maybe someone should actually "pay him a visit..." as in call him first, see if they can do anything to help him out, maybe even by mailing what needs to be mailed for him at their expense, or paid via some kind of collection here which I bet would be instantly successful. I ain't no Mother Theresa to be sure, but if a Washington DC RWGer were sick, I like to hope I'd be thinking the last thing he needs in his life is [censored] like Mark is getting in this thread and that maybe I'd make a 5 minute phone call and do an hour's worth of work for him.

If you've actually fallen into the "I don't wear anything under 44mm trap," don't even bother w/ the 40mm. You won't like it. Read some of the threads about 40mm PAMs and you'll see what I mean. Personally, and I'm certainly not trying to offend anyone, but if watch a enthusiast has really excluded himself from wearing 98% of all watches in existence, I kind of doubt their watch enthusiasm. I'm thinking they just like really big objects on their wrists....

I think Davidsens dial is pretty good, maybe even better than the "original" rep dial, depending on what bugs you. Davidsen's font isn't exactly the same as gen but his "A's" are better. Lume is too green, So, assuming you'd get Davidsen's relumed to correct the color and the other one relumed to improve the lume, which one is better? Depends on what bugs you more: a font that's not exact to gen, or the infamous drooping bar. One thing is for certain: Unless you hang out a Paneristi conventions on a regular basis, you chances of getting called out w/ a modded 63 are nil.

Am I going blind? Can't find them in his section....

From a post @ finishing.com, w/ cuts and my italics: "The PVD treatments that are used in (good quality) watch casings are much more resistant to scratching than electoplating... An excellent reference is the Longines website.... ... What is actually on the top of a PVD watch is a sub-micron finishing layer of gold which highlights the gold colour of the PVD coating (usually titanium nitride).... As mentioned before, since the top layer on a PVD coating is so thin, if you manage to scratch a PVD coating you cant buff it back...." So it looks like PVD is much harder to scratch than electroplating, but if you scratch it, you're screwed. Also, it looks like Louis Erard offers a PVD Rose gold piece...

congrats!! The business end of the 2894 is the chrono module--which appears on a number of watches, high end and not so high end. The chrono module makers make the modules to fit on a wide variety of movements with minor modifications--AP for example puts a DD module on a JLC movement for the ROO, I believe. My Tag Monaco is powered by a 2894, I believe, although it may be an elprimero... whatever it is it is completely reliable and keeps cosc time.

Looks awsome...may be my next buy. BTW, I don't know anything about this model--what is the lugs mod that needs to be done?

Also, I just blow off the owrd serviced in any ad--as zig points out there's no real way to verify, so I won't pay extra for it. IMO, if all the "serviced" reps offered in the trading section really were serviced, our watchsmiths would be doing nothing but servicing movements 24/7 365.

Thumb....hmmmm....never heard of him. Just speaking for myself, whenever a "new" modder or dealer shows up, I always try to find out if its someone I'm already familiar with, for good or for ill. 'Cause you know, I would wonder why anyone would feel feel the need to pop up under a new name. I woulda thunk modders, like dealers, live and die by their reputations. Those who have changed their names usually announce it pretty loudly so their good reputations--and customers--follow.

Great pics as ususal! Looking @ the caseback pic, I'd swear that the boat is stuck to the glass, not the wood. Haven't heard this reported....wonder if this is the case, just an illusion by the shadows in the pic, or whether the guy who made sql_pl's watch is a free spirit or something...

There's no reason why some factory couldn't do a perfect 104-- good font Dw's for the A7750, and good magnification systems already exist on other 44mm reps, & the good dial already exists. All they would have to do is put those parts together and fix the caseback. We could take care of the crown, which they will never get right. I'm afraid that that would never occur to a repmaker--that level of detail is under their radar unless they try for it from the get-go, like on the HBB and Couteau Diver.

They want people not to buy reps in Asia and bring them into the US--this guy was made an example of. Just part of US government's due dillligence protecting foreign luxury goods companies from tourists, while letting 90% of the shipping containers that enter US ports to go unchecked.

An old thread--but a high class shine never goes out of style. To polish out brushing I'd invest in a dremel. Use one of the felt tips w/ green polish then continue as per JJFlash's directions.

Customs got the press hit they wanted, knowing that their announcement of the fine--which their press office undoubtedly pitched--would be news and the dropping of the charges, which was undoubtedly left to the victim to try to get in the papers, would get no play. I bet the the ratio of stories on the fine and stories on it being dropped is 50-1, which is the whole idea: 99% of the people who even know about this incident still think some guy got fined 50 grand for trying to bring fake rolexes into the country. Think about it--How many reps are carried, smuggled, and imported into the country? How many individual collectors have paid a fine at all, let alone 50k? I'd say your odds of losing a watch via postal theft are much higher than losing one in customs--which is exactly why some dealers take customs risk but not theft risk.