teddy boy

I agree with what you said, fooling a gen owner means absolutely nothing. The addendum that I would add is that fooling most gen salespeople means nothing. I have been astounded by how little gen salespeople generally know. When I bought my gen superocean I said to the guy (the store's watch expert btw), this watch still has the Breitling 17, correct? He had to look it up in the cataglog. Then I said, nice movement, it's built up from the ETA 28-24. He had no clue as to what I had just said. I had a similar conversation with a salesperson at Tourneaux in the Forum mall at Caesers when asking if Breitling continued to use the Valjoux 7750 in their chronos.

Seems particularly attracted to the steelfish, but who could blame him!

Last night I did a search on replica watch and went to Global Replica. I wanted to see what the evil empire was up to these days. Immediately my webroot spyware program detected a potentially harmful program attempting to load on my computer. I clicked on the block button and then did as webroot suggested and scanned the comptuer. When I checked the computer this morning, webroot had found a "behavioural" piece of malware that they rate at their highest risk level. Apparently going to the evil empire to check out their nefarious business practices comes with a new and potentially very dangerous risk.

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but someone who says "I figure there is something to adjust inside" probably shouldn't be opening the case. I would make that exact statement about myself. A mechanical watch is a very delicate instrument. Unless it's off a great deal, I'd let her be. Otherwise, find a watch maker who will work on a rep.

My wife and I were at the high end mall tonight and I naturally had to visit one of the jewelry stores. After looking at the Chopards, Tags, and Pams through the display case, I made my way over to the Rolex area. I wasn't dressed all that well, so they were ignoring me. Eventually the sales person noticed the Omega SMP on my wrist and I guess she decided that I was a watch person and thus possibly worthy of her attention. From that point on, she couldn't pull things out of the display case fast enough. I really only wanted to look at two watches; the solid yellow gold blue dial sub and a white gold day date with the rhodium dial and flouted bezel. Those are the two watches for which I own high quality reps. I handled both gen watches, tried them on and inspected them very carefully. While I'm not foolish enough to suppose that my reps would pass a side by side comparison, I am convinced that it would take a highly skilled person to identify my watches as reps other than side by side. I have to believe that most of the stories posted on the forum by people who were called out were either (1) a lucky guess or (2) an educated guess based on the wearers age and/or employment status. My point is that, in my opinion, our reps today are that good. Only people with the skill level shown by some on this forum and by gen watchmakers would allow one to pick out a rep. I don't believe that most jewelry store sales people have that skill level.

I was invited to a similar event in Charlotte NC. I decided that I would feel some obligation and probably end up buying a watch that I don't need and can't afford so I declined the invitation.

Three chears for Corgi, you spent a great deal of time and gave the noob terrific advice!

I was doing pretty well. I bought a gen Breitling Super Ocean back in November and then took the pledge. My wife rolled her eyes and said, "I'll believe no more watches when I see it". Like I said, I was doing well, that is until about three weeks ago. I had on my rep white gold day-date which is a very nice rep. A friend saw the rep and asked me to help him select a rep for his father and that sent me back to the sellers' sites. I know that I'll pull the trigger again soon, it's just a matter of time. The really bad thing is that there isn't anything I particularly want; I just need to buy a watch!

I looked at their planet ocean, it wouldn't fool Stevie Wonder. Their Chopard GT looked pretty good, however, and at $70 it's worth a try. I wonder how long they will be accepting paypal. Maybe we could have a lottery on that point.

Made me LOL and given that I'm sitting here while my kids take an exam, that's a good thing.

I am "thenightowl" on the rivals board. I live in Davidson NC which is close enough to hold seasons tickets; a group of friends and I go to at least one road game a year. This year it will be to the UF game. If you're a season ticket holder, I'll walk by and make my manners next fall, talk Carolina football and watches. Great pic btw, you just needed a watch in the shot.

me too

Sir Lancelot, I actually mistated. I live in NC but I am actually of SC. I grew up in SC and hold a degree from the University of South Carolina. I am a rabid Gamecock fan, please tell me that you don't see orange.

Thanks for the response. Some of y'all (I'm from NC) amaze me with your abilities to notice detail. I'm going to look more carefully at some gen pictures and also at some reps to see if I can pick up the difference.

Corgi, you're right up there with By-Tor when it comes to the camera.

$1000 is a $1000, a lot of money in my book too. I finally decided that my watches were for wearing so I wasn't going to hold them back. I just take the watch off and put it in my pocket if I do something that is likely to rough it up.

I only work on watches in my spare time when I'm not performing open heart surgery or cracking open someone's head as a neuro surgeon. As in the case of my watch expertise, my heart surgery and neurosurgery skills were aquired by visiting enthusiast forums and paying careful attention to the real experts who post there. It's just amazing what you can learn on this internet-web thing, I really believe it might catch on. The truthful answer is that I just bought a new bracelet for my airking and my watch maker will have to put the gen clasp on the aftermarket bracelet.

Here is a site containing lots of information regarding Rolex models including several reviews. Forgive me for postiing if it's old news. http://www.rolexreferencepage.com/articles/

I didn't get the sense that it was a genuine dial. Regardless, my knowledge base is so poor that I don't understand the issue with an "A" on the 029 dial. Here is a link to the thread: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=72298

Either my Pam 029 or my Ingeniuer although the Ingy has the incorrect white dial. Nevertheless, the Ingy is a very substantial watch.

A response to recently posted pictures of a rep 029 indicated that the version pictured had the "correct A." Could one of the Panerai experts explain what the issues are with the A on the Pam 029? Thanks in advance.

You can buy a gen at Bernard Watch for under $1000 so why worry with the rep?

It's from a guy who has lots of really good feedback on ebay over a long period of time. I'm going to go with it. Thanks again for your help!

Thanks for your reply. The best deal that I've seen for an aftermarket bracelet with solid 14k midlinks is around $330 on ebay. Given your post, this would seem high. Do you know of a source that offers solid 14k in the $150 range? Also I assume that my watchmaker can change the clasp?

I have a gen Airking from the early 80s that I bought used. Recently I've noticed that the pin on the clasp shows from the underside of the bracelet(it sticks out a bit) and that the bracelet isn't exactly square with the watch. Is this the end result of bracelet stretch? If so, other than appearance what are the problems. Should I get an after market bracelet as a replacement?