Here are a couple of links that cover this subject:
http://members.optushome.com.au/heliosz/jamesbond.html
http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2006/11/jame...-history-q.html
Agreeing with Pugwash, selling is not always the hard sell. Sacking a salesman who makes a sale seems a strange business model.
Jnkay, If you're after perfect sub, the easiest watch to satisfy it is to get the gen, congrats
Bet you keep reading the sub posts.
http://www.newturfers.com/bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?pid=408037
Some blue subs have aged to purple.
The link doesn't seem to work properly, but refresh will bring up the post.
A little light reading.
More about high end Seiko.
Here is a post about a visit to the Shizukuishi Watch Studio which is on Higuchi's community board.
Roachman's private collection
I want this GS
and a bit of Seiko History
http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml0023
http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml0024
Japanese Catalogs as PDF
http://www.seiko-watch.co.jp/purchase/catalog.html
Everyone should have a Seiko .
Here is a recent post from a gen forum about Panerai movements, the suggestion is that the unitas is a direct descendent of the cortebert.
http://nawcc-mb.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tp...3442#3221003442
I am not that surprised, a lot of the problems that are highlighted are not that obvious to an untrained eye. Knowing what the faults are make it a lot easier to spot e.g. the hand stack of a GMT II. How mainy salesman are likely to notice that when selling a watch. A good rep, especially in a restaurant with probably less than ideal lighting and a few drinks, would be difficult to spot.
When I went to an AD the salesman had a look at my watch and wound it. This is probably because the feel of the how it winds is one of the most obvious differences.