felipe56

Interesting, but you can actually wind the watch? I cant even get it to unscrew properly..It either can be unscrewed and popped out to set time, but than wen do 1 click down to try winding, it just screws back in clockwise within 2 turns and is on tight after that..And when trying to unscrew it gives resistance than almost gets loose tthan pops, than after the pop it gets back to giving more resistance and happens all over..Is that what happens to u?

Yeah thats more or less the same thing so I have given up trying because one day it will pop out and it won't go back in again.

I was actually making a joke about winding the watch by gentle movements of the wrist or even better your girlfriends wrist!

Thanks! When I do that and wind it, it seems to almost make a click noise after every rotation is that, like I turn it anti clockwise it makes the winding noise, gives more resistance as you wind a full rotation and seems to get tighter, than "pops" almost and gets looser again, than happens over and over...is that correct? And to wind it, you turn it anti clockwise?

I have the same watch from the same dealer and I have the same, or similar, problem. Its not easy to describe because it does not "feel" right. But then it doesn't really matter because its an automatic. Gentle motion will get the watch going, sometimes it takes a few minutes, and then extend the crown fully and set the time.

On the advice of Andrew I have never used the crono function.

The watch has run perfectly for the last 4 months, the power reserve is not great but that gives me another excuse to"wind" the Rolex.

felipe56

i have tried for a long time... to this day i still can't tell.... sometimes when ppl post pics of reps for sale in shops...i go... WOW!!! nice gens.... sigh...

thanks ahchard its nice to know I am not alone!

No dealer carries it. The bracelet is real, with a milled flip-lock (no dent), the crown is real, but probably a Twin-lock (can't tell for sure from the blur), the bezel and insert look really good, probably real or good bezel with real insert. The crystal looks good, but can't tell if it is after market, mis-directed service replacement, or gen, but the bit of nastiness around the cyclops could be anything from simple crud, to left over residue from a repositioning (can't tell for sure from the blur), the indice at 12 IS off, the CG ARE Polished to a different finish from the rest of the case, and if you look at the bottom lug on the 'top' oriented pic, the grain of the steel of the case is huge compared to the grain of the steel in the bracelet, and the two are of different hues, both of which mean, different steel.

The case could be just about anything "modern", but from the nasty big grain, slightly dull luster and the longer lugs... I'd say it that the case (and maybe the bezel) came from "Paul", and his "Perfect Sub."

Most of the rest, probably came from many a butchered Rolex.

I must say I am totally in awe of you guys and girls who can actually identify differences between the gen and the rep. For me they all look the same, I have no attention to detail, and to be fair there are many like me!

My wife makes a joke about the fact that as I proudly "display" my TT Daytona I cannot actually tell what the time is unless its in a really good light.

My point is this: the quality/authenticity of a rep is actually wasted on me because unless I put on my reading glasses I can only tell the time by an educated guess. My main souce of time is my cellphone, its a LG choclate and it has a hugh font.

I guess I am writing this because I am jealous. I want to see but I cannot. It is not a matter of eyeglasses,I wish it was!

I guess a simple anaology is that many people would love to fly a fighter plane, I can and its what I do.

Horses for courses I think!

I will still trawl the boards 3 of 4 times a day but I am afraid, as much as I want to, I will never reach your level of understanding.

Thats probably why I ask stupid questions from time to time and to be fair you could, and you do, ask alot of stupid questions about what I do.

felipe56

Thanks Vic. Glad you liked the review.

Resizing the pic didn't take more than 60 seconds though... with Photoshop "distort" option.

By-Tor,

sorry this is probably a really dumb question. What does this mean "I would definitely buy one of the "faux chronograph" seconds at '6 models, if they ever become available again".

Obviously this does not refer to the watch that you reviewed. Is it a model with a different mechanism?

Felipe 56

PS. My seconds at 6 Daytona runs like a dream. I have only had it 6 months so time will tell.