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Your shiny new watch survives the thieves in the postal service and arrives at your door. Excitedly you open the package, at first you are delighted with the latest addition to your collection, but delight soon turns to disappointment as soon as you spot some nasty flaw on the dial. The watch ends up in a drawer and will never be looked upon again. It's so frustrating for a well made watch with a quality movement inside to be knackered by a bad dial. I wonder how much more it would be worth to the average buyer t have the dial inspected with a loupe prior to shipping. Personally I'd pay an extra 50% on top of the price if the watch was given a thorough inspection prior to shipping. Maybe some dealers could think about offering a service like this. If some el cheapo Timex can have a perfect dial then surely top class reps can too.

I saw the one you posted. Gold isn't really my thing.

Were you born with a stick up your ass, or was it acquired at some point post utero?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forum Would you prefer it if nobody posted anything at all?

http://watchwindersworld.com/rdjms10022-wh...8362-p-900.html Seems to be a ladies model. Same is true of most listed in the men's section

on dealers sites ladies models, even when they are supposed to be men's. Just checnked te site of 2 of the bigger dealers and apart from a few pics that are proper men's models the rest are ladies. Don't want to order and end up with some crappy little ladies watch.

Anyone know if someone on this board does clear (polycrystalline diamond) coating?

Are these new style DJ with rolesor clasp accurate? My understanding whas hat the new style bracelet was paired with a slightly redesigned DJ case.

The Diastar series where very good. Radi has always been more about materials than horological prestige.

Anyone know where I can get high quality rado replicas? I saw that PT had some (mislabelled case backs), but wondered if there was anything else out there.

I said in another thread that it is unrealistic for dealers to sell more expensive reps when basic QC issues cannot be dealt with.

One thousands pieces isn't so bad. So I reckon the wholesale on a standard stainless steel, sappihre crystal, eta watch is about $100. Get a good design and you could start a watch brand. Outside of replicas you are hard pressed to get a watch with eta movement and sapphire crystal for under $300.

What is the minimum number of pieces needed for one of the rep factories to undertake a project?

The reason they won't make a 1:1 submariner is it would make it harder to sell new releases later on. Personally I have seen a lot of new and very expensive reps come out, but quality does not really seem to be any better. Still a lot of the same stupid faults.

Might have been wise to take off the plastic wrapping before trying to pull this scam

what is the movement that i going in it like. I understand it's an improved version of the asian 7750 with chrono functions removed, not quite sure why you would use a chrono movement if you don't want the functions but nevermind. As this is going to be another expensive piece it's a bit of a concern that the movement going in it is going to be of dubious quality. Anyone know any more about this improved version? I'm assuming removing the chrono functions will likely make it less prone to problems.

When I mean functional I mean in terms of actually being a valve, I have no expectation of it performing under pressure.

Do the replica release valves function the same way as they do in genuine watches?

One thing that has always bugged me with reps is the lack of quality control. It was one thing to have poor QC on junk watches made out of pot metal with shitty movements, but it's quite another for otherwise well made watches with ETA movements to be spoilt because the markers on the dial are crooked, or something else isn't quite right. Sure, these are reps, and their manufacture isn't exactly legal, but it does not cost any more to make it right than it does to make a mess of it. With the prices of reps creeping up with new Hublot anf Breitling reps coming in at $400+ QC has to improve. The factories that make these reps also produce a lot of legit watches for a variety of different companies. I can't imagine the poor QC would be accepted by those clients, so clearly there is no obstacle at the production level to better QC. I've often wondered why some dealers don't offer some sort of extra QC check on their watches for which they say a bit extra. I know I'd be prepared to pay quite a bit more if I could be sure the watch I was going to receive was not defective.

Yes, the gen big bang uses kevlar for the inserts, which whilst it sounds more impressive is still basically plastic. I'd have a hard time spending the inda money hublot charges for a watch that has plastic bits, just can't see it looking all that great after a few years. That's why I like Rado watches so much, practically impossible to damage them.

I kinda like the look of this watch, but something seems wrong with a high quality watch having a case made partly of plastic, it just looks cheap. Don't understand why the did not use ceramic.