Yawn

Yawn,

That 7159 is very nice.

Can you tell which parts this is made of, Val. 234 movement?

Thanks, lolex

Lol just saw the comment, my 7159 has returned home from mod. Pretty much all gen except the case, hand and strap.

here is the site I was talking about. http://www.watchreport.co

 

it seems like a lot of people are showing actual pictures of watches received...but again it could be a lot of work just to make perfect watches look legit.

I did some background check, they are all connected, same owner has over 10 replica watches and bag selling site and 3 blogs and 3 review sites. 

It was very suspicious that the blog you saw might belong to them, all of their backlinks are pointing to them. They also own various types of rep selling websites with similar layout. I m not sure if they are legit but they did a lot of works to rank 1st on Google. 

DIY your own

Some fun examples, Franken blancpain FF no radiation and tudor 7159. Both took over a year to complete, pretty much everything gen or customised made except cases. I m very proud with the end results and probably I ll never resell them.

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Ridges on the dial are smaller on the RHS one, and there's more of them. Writing is in a different place and smaller.

Ain't just the hands. That's a special 1:1 canal street super rep

It is also about de different, imagine weekly wristy with everyone showing their 111 and v5 divers. It becomes boring and you gotta mix it up a little.

I'm cleaning my watch box now, slightly modded models had already been sold, leave around 10 highly modded frankens and rests are gen.

I'm thinking get another gen and I will probably stop buying watches for couple years.

yours? Looking good, what else did you mod except the gen movement?

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Just sourced a gen dial for my Franken 7159. Now off to modder, I m going to vintagise the watch and shave down the chrono hands.

I got 6" wrist

I d like to see he try to ID some of our best Frankens.

When two vintages meet

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Sliver bezel number and hands make a big difference

Bit too polished and I m not fond about the case back engraving. I still prefer my vintage FF.

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its on the bay bid starting at $2000 lol no bids yet ends in 12 hours 

This is not going to end well

Another tell is the 'automatic', gen doesn't have the third line.

This is a rep because:

radiation signis off, plus there should be a cross on radiation sign;

hands are wrong;

bezel number shape is wrong (the shape of '3'); bezel is not raised, the texture is also wrong;

'Aqua lung' should be raised from dial in sliver colour, this one is not;

Lume looks very cheap and not aged;

'SWISS MADE T<25MC' is wrong, Aqua Lung version should only have 'SWISS MADE'.

Go Franken and be different

When I feel like I need some attention, I pull out my graham chronofighter

If I had that collection of Mike Woods I'd be wondering "Why?". Unless he's done 90% of it as an investment, there seem to be easily 10+ of any particular watch (by which I mean the same model and combo of strap bezel, etc) If he has found & bought (e.g.) a watch that he loves, and then found and bought 9 more as an investment, I can understand that, but I don't understand someone having multiple identical items purely from a collectors point of view. Note that I don't think he's daft, odd, stupid or anything else, I just don't understand his reasoning for the collection (and anything I don't understand i'm always curious to try to see it from their point of view)

I'm considering the RBII, I really like it. The diver not being an option is a personal preference ?