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.
A dealer's statements are only a reliable as what they has been told about the watches. Unless they test or are close to the manufacturer of the watches themselves is there any real guarantee on the fine details of the specification. If you want to be 100% sure what you are buying don't buy a replica, get the real thing from a legitimate source.
Have you got a movement shot. I have looked at a few 210's and this looks the best one I have seen. What do you think?
I thought the group buy was only silix watch.
It looks like the description and pictures are done by different people. The pictures seem to have been done by someone who knows about the watch and shows the features to emphasise , the brief description doesn't tell me anything about the watch. Surely for that amount of money you would say more than what the seller has managed.
I would ask for picture of the papers/receipt and the watch on a recent magazine/newspaper.