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W Thanks for that very enlightening review of the AP franken story-- fascinating reading and explains a lot of the joys and frustrations of the process-- particularly rewarding and challenging for AP ROO. It's a shame that the game has changed so that parts are so hard to come by, but that may be that the trail you blazed just got too popular. I've been away from the rep game for a little while but happy to see a lot of familiar people still sharing knowledge and doing what they love

Zigmeister is an incredibly talented person who is willing to share his skills and knowledge with this group-- the watches are one thing but being able to work with him takes this hobby to another level entirely. Not worthy, not worthy!

Fight days looks to be a totally different maker. Font doesn't even look reasonable. Agree with above, best to wait until they sort this out. The rep game is like a spectator sport played out in super slow motion. Occasionally some very good match ups like h fac vs noob (wonder if these workers say, yeah, I work at the noob fac) but for the most part a lot of also rans who barely know the rules

That was three languages. Didn't realize the movement cloning was still happening in Taiwan-- This is some high end rep stuff. Feel somewhat better about buying from a country that is not at economic war with the west. This is definitely happening

<p>Thanks a lot. A few more pics.

OEM dial, ETA 7753, noob case, rotor and hands, and Taka DW after some masterful tweaking by The Zigmeister

That's really nice work The Zigmeister + OEM parts + noob base = amazing

Thats a perfect way to characterize the random bits of surprisingly authentic replication in some very low cost replicas with more obvious issues: ironic

DSNs' was good, don't know if he has these anymore, 289x mvmt w PR module was a rare find You have a modded Chinese 21j movement, not bad... Not much you can do to fix it tho

That strap actually looks better with more wear, glad to see you were able to revive it. Nice!

His bezels have bulbous pearls He will not stand by his products Not very helpful in my experience

Two words: Beanie babies

Great eyes and attention to detail Appreciating my early generation sosf with ETA a bit more after rereading this. Don't understand fully how so many part swaps and exchanges can be justified when the gen is so close in price to 3-4 of these reps? I know, rep logic doesn't always make sense, but shouldn't one draw some lines? Should build cost getting to 50% of retail gen be considered an upper limit?

Cool pre-A project What CG are you adapting the case for here? Did you move the lug holes too?

These are some great parts to start with... Bezel is gen too? 029A would be nice...

Very nice Love the pre daylight chronos I definitely need to get one of those... The polished bracelet looks nicer than the old school bracelets, really completes the look. I have been wearing this one all week-- and probably will until next project is done

Love the details and crispness of the lettering. Looks almost like porcelain in those pics.

Hey, steroids are amazing that way

W, how long have you been at this? I am amazed by how far back the experience of this community goes. You guys must laugh at all this noob and h factory hype. The days when rep giants walked the earth Folks be building preVs since before I learned of Vendome 7 years ago from a young salesman whose family later fled the country with the jewelry store in massive debt. The alpha omega saga...

Wow not bad at all Congrats and enjoy These were common on ioffer 5 years ago but I haven't seen them in a long while. You've got a A21j rep with functional power reserve, kind of scarce these days

Thanks W, you were right on with your recommendations from the very beginning. Much appreciated. The thing about these watches that evolve as parts become available (or disappear with the vendors) is that there's no way to predict how it will turn out ultimately...

That's pretty vintage Scuse my ignorance but would this be preV?

The daylight

The way a tool watch was meant to be used... Would you ever consider sending it in for the full monty reconditioning from OP? For about $500 you'd get back what looked like a new watch... If that's what one is after.

Looks typical noob quality, very, very nice. Comparing the pictures, the H factory version is really nice too, not shabby at all. It was so nice already it would not have been realistic to expect this to blow it out of the water. Oh it's on, it's definitely on.