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I was never a big Fifty Fathoms fan but that it was one good looking watch right there. That sub homage is nice too. I really like their minimalist approach to the original. I would wear both of those with pride.

Asking 80.00 for this one. Asking 40.00 for the second one. It has a small dent but it's hard to notice once mounted. You can see the dent in this macro. Otherwise it's the same dial as the top one.

You building a DJ? I have a few gen silver stick dials that I'm getting rid of. I ended up finding the silver linen I was looking for.

That listing just screams fake.

I doubt it's a 160x series, looks to be a quickset dial to me.

They were all 36mm in size. The Datejust 2 is 41mm but is a different ref number. They have an extra 1 in the ref, ie 116233. The 162xx series were quickset with a sapphire crystal I believe. The 160x, 160xx, and 162xx were all 36mm and dimensionally, the cases are all pretty close with slight differences in lug shape.

I'm a certified GMT junkie. I have the Explorer 2, GMT II-C, and the PAM 89. I have to say the PAM 89 is my favorite. That anthracite dial is just amazing.

3035 is the quickset movement that beats at 28000 BPH. The 15xx series of movements is a lowbeat, slowset movement. 16xx and 16xxx wer series of watches that used those movements.

3035/3135 quickset dials will not mount on a 1570 slowset as far as I know. The 3035 movement is very different to the 15xx series.

On a slowset you set the date by rotating the hours hand through two full 12 hour rotations. On a quickset you can change the date with the crown via it's own detent. A slowset (piepan) dial doesn't have dial feet but quicksets do. I believe cases for both 160x series and 160xx and 162xx will fit both movements. The 162xx uses a different crown/tube combo. It uses the newer 5.3/6mm crown.

Looks good to me. I have never seen a fake piepan dial. Others might have more insight though. If there ever were any slowsets faked they would have been done a long time ago and the printing on this one is way too good.

Thank you sir!

Sure does look great on that velcro!

Afaik all of them have inaccuracies with the chrono functions in the auto movement versions. The quartz ones I have seen have had poor dial placement.

Can Toro source dials?

That's a real work of art. Hope you hang on to that one!

Look gen to me. End link fitment and crown guards look spot on. You rarely see reps that get the CG and especially the end link fitment right.

1:1, the mythical unicorn. I say find something and enjoy it. The more you sit nitpicking the thing on your wrist seems to go against the very nature of owning a watch to enjoy it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Luxury-Mens-GMT-Dual-Time-Zone-S-Steel-Date-Automatic-Mechnical-Wrist-Watch-/251067925885?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item3a74d0857d Check that link for a Bagelsport Explorer 2 knockoff, probably the cheapest way to get a GMT movement. $38.00

Poor watch. It seems to be whispering "Please kill meeeeeee"