kernow

Very sad. Religion eh?

For the sake of balance: MSM1, whilst slow to respond, has to date, always communicated with me, albeit slowly.

Personally, I'll not send him any more work, not because I believe that he is a thief or lier, but because I can't stand the anxious wait. He has remained civil throughout this whole debacle.

Al, if you're reading this, I'm not defending you, just giving an honest opinion of the situation. Now, about my Rubberclad???

He's done work on some of mine:

Black Seamaster Chrono - still working fine..

Hublot Black Magic - two attempts to fix it and it's now very stiff to hand wind (yeah, yeah I know about hand winding 7750's, but you SHOULD be able to, even if only to start them running)

Pam Black Seal, keyless works issue, fixed and lasted about 5 mins before it went again. This will not be returned because of .........

AP ROO Rubberclad - this is where my problems really are. He's had this for around 6 months. I paid when I delivered it to him (in person). He has since started to have problems - read too much work. There has been excuse after excuse but no watch. I'm not the only one mind, there are many people in the same boat as me over on Repgeek. So, do not send him any more work!

Glad to see people working it out for once.

Legend is, well a legend. Good work people

Torro is a good trusted dealer. Make sure you use the link to his website from RWG as there are fake sites copying our TD's out there.

Noob and BP are rep factories. Both make great reps. Some people prefer BP, some Noob although sometimes one factory produces a better version of a certain watch compared to the other. I suggest that you spend plenty of time here in the forums and research the watch that you want to buy before spending your money.

Message SSteel on here. He's a good watchsmith and can probably assist. He's from the UK but resides in Finland.

Closed factory reps do come up M2M, personally I'd keep an eye there. Otherwise most of the reps seem to have the HEV in the wrong position. Sorry, I can't be of any real help.

That's nice! My wife has a gen ladies Royal Oak. From memory it's 28mm, like yours it's a Quartz movement and whilst hers is stainless and gold, there otherwise seems little difference! Maybe time for her to be introduced into reps!

Hmmmmm I'm watching this with interest. My dealings with Toro have been good so far, but as always there is always another story. My future dealings with Toro now on hold until this is resolved.

Yeah, I looked at one at an AD in London a while back. It looked rather large for me so I didn't try it on. Would suit someone with large wrists - back to you Mike.

Lovely and fantastic value too.

The wife thinks so...

Yeah, but she says that to everyone.

If you like the watch and are only having a few reps then you could actually get into this hobby and buy the rep and when it goes wrong have it fitted with an ETA 7750. That would solve your problems and give you the watch that you desire.

At the moment you're unhappily sitting on the rep fence. Maybe you'd be better off on a homage forum?

Shocking that in the modern world things like this still happen. Condolences to all those affected and I hope that the offenders are brought to justice quickly.

Wow, just wow. No other words needed.

If you're worried about asking them to work on a rep, then say that someone has given you a gift and that you think it maybe a fake/copy/rep and ask if they'll work on it.

SSteel is EU based. If you're CONUS then there are watchsmiths in your side of the pond. However SSteel is great by all accounts.

If you only want to send a watch back for repair then find someone local. After having the watch for 2 years any trusted dealer (including Josh) won't be of any great help. The TD's are middle men who trade watches, they are not repair shops! Where are you located and maybe someone can suggest a watchsmith to you.

Here's one, over on RWI.

http://www.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php?t=205564

I believe so. If not then they do appear in M2M sometimes.

RIP Cats. Alas, I didn't know you, but from the posts above you were a true gent and will be missed by our forum and even more by your friends and family. Condolences to all of your loved ones.

Maybe Tag should be Lexus.

Oh no not another one. Let's hope there is good news for once.

(It's also sad that I'm getting more news from RWG than TV!)

Who is the TD? I'd like to know, so perhaps you can PM me if you don't want to name and shame just yet,

Yes, happy Christmas everyone.