Highflyingclive

I was thinking about picking one of these up! I think I will wait for now. Any sugestion for a pan? I love these watches!

Your inspiration starts here:

http://perfect-clones.com/panerai-c-35.html

Jos has an enviable reputation as a dealer who goes the extra mile to keep his customers happy - and offers a great range of Panerai replicas.

I'm fairly new to PhotoShop.... where do I find the "noise-ninja" tool?

@None... Having a non-OEM strap will not diminish the credibility of your rep. If you read the Paneristi board, you will find that they are as fond of our favourite strap-makers as we are.

I've probably got some straps marked "Panerai" in my bits box... I'd send them to you, but you wouldn't thank me. These are straps that came with some of the reps that I have bought... I replaced them immediately. Nothing screams "fake watch" louder, than a cheap, nasty strap.

Loving my Davis Sen 195

The thing that I like most is how crisp the David Sen case is... the edges on my polished SS pams are quite soft in comparison.

See what I mean?

Thumbnails are better they take up less bandwidth, i think???

@he is is like god Big pics are OK - if they are on a remote host. Like ImageCave, for instance. The pics that I post take up little or no bandwidth.

@Ken..ahh - the things that I could tell you...

But my lips are sealed, so I won't

Happy timekeeping!

Clive

Excellent choice. The best version without a doubt.

I beg to disagree. The black bezel version, is without any doubt (in my mind) the best version

The only Rolex that I will wear.

Except for my Colamariner, of course.

"Daniel Mink" is not listed on the official Swiss watch industry website: http://www.fhs.ch/en/links.php

Another Montres Wassname, perhaps?

Timezone gives them a mention: http://www.timezone.com/library/news/news631793746206875000

If you like it, buy it... but armed with the knowlege that it may not be entirely Swiss, haggle hard.

I've just got one of those tools from Reg.

Couple of questions.

What's the silver screw on the side for, and the moving bit it holds in place?

I'm also going to be resizing a PO bracelet but it has no arrows, how do I know which way I should be pushing?

Ta.

The small screw ajusts the height of the bed that the strap lies on, so that you can line up the pushy bit on the pin. Not absolutely necessary, but helpful... if you can be bothered to fiddle with it.

Using the tool:

1. Check that the bracelet is secured with pins, not screws. You won't believe how silly I felt when I discovered that I was trying to push screws out of my Omega bracelet... Doh!

2. Inspect the ends of the links through a loupe. Pins are *usually* just split-pins, so they show a solid face one end, and something that looks a little like a screw-head the other. This is the two legs of the split-pin shoved tightly together.

3. Align the tool so the the pushy-pin lines up against the legs of the split-pin - it has to come out plain side first. Advance the pushy-bit slowly and with care... if the pin does not move, you are doing something wrong. Stop, inspect, think...

4. Reassembly is the reverse. You may need a very small hammer to GENTLY drive the pins back into place - generally, I find that they can be pushed back, most of the way at least.

Edit to add... as your bracelet does not have any arrows, mark the "plain head" side of the bracelet, so you know which way to re-assemble it.

Just for laughs, my Omega came with arrows on the bracelet pointing one way, an arrow sticker pointing the other way... and was, as I said, held together with screws.

And they say that the Chinese are not out to get us.

I hope that this helps.

Yup! They're not very tough.....but by god are they punctual!

Great work taking the scammer on.

Ken said:

... even gave us the RWI watch from every conceivable angle

Ken

From every angle? I don't see any pics. Do I have a problem... or did a mod delete them?

If so why?

THIS AS AN INSULT TO THE DEALER AT ALL AND MINIMIZING OF ANY OF HIS WATCHES!!!!!!

Looks like English

Sounds like English

Makes no sense at all....

And he calls us idiots.

Oh well....

I seem to remember that The Zigmeister mentioned that he found it impossible to obtain spare parts for the Seagull tourbillion. Of course, he may have been able to rectify the situation, since.

Have a TsingTao for me

I expect that I'll be wearing this David Sen 195 again tomorrow...

Just cannot seem to be able to take it off. Have you noticed how crisp the David Sen PVD case is...?

Edit to say... sorry... bigger pics than I had intended.

Happy timekeeping!

Clive

@ubiquitous,

You always take excellent pics... PhotoShop will enhace, of course. But its a bit like gilding the lilly, really.

However, in conversation with my tame pro photographer, recently, I said that we now use PhotoShop, "because we can."

"No", he replied, "We use PhotoShop because we must".

"My job is to give you the best possible pic. For years, I have been doing my best to do this using conventional equipment" (And, I should interject, he is pretty damn good at it)... "Now, I still take the best pic that I possibly can, using the abilities of my camera, my lights and my experience to the full... then I pop the shot into PhotoShop and improve it".

Well, you could probably create the BRM dial in PhotoShop or CorelDraw... but having those distinctive hands made will cost a few shillings.

Interesting project...

Now, this is tempting... since receiving my David Sen 195... I seem to have lost interest in my 111.

Seems to me that I could recycle the movement into a PVD destro like this. Now, that would be fun.

Within a minute a month on an Asian VC Dual Time Regulateur, purchased from another member.

ETA powered Seamaster Professional from Jos - spot on, to the second, over a week.

Which is impressive, but unimportant.

Because the watch that I decide to wear tomorrow will have run down and need setting and winding.

And the day after that... the same thing will happen.

The big advantage of reps over gens...

is that we can afford to own a lot of them

Within a minute a month on an Asian VC Dual Time Regulateur, purchased from another member.

ETA powered Seamaster Professional from Jos - spot on, to the second, over a week.

I love the croc.

Me too! Where can I get a DinoZei strap like this?

Does that make me a bad person?

Jon

You posted a rant before giving the dealer time to solve the problem.

How would you feel if the boot were on the other foot?

Use www.imagecave.com

A big fat strap will prevent lug-overhang... and look great, too.

The strap on the Pam 195 that I'm wearing tonight is 5mm thick at the lugs... only a child would get lug-overhang with this one.

Even more important. Wear a strap that you really love. If the colour is the exact shade of perfect and the texture brings a tear to your eye ... you will feel comfortable with your watch.

The opposite, sadly, is also true. My Pam 111 is gathering dust because it is currently mounted on a strap that I just can't love. There is no good reason for this - it is a fine strap by any standard. But because the strap does not quite work for me, I rarely wear my beautiful 111. Time to buy another strap.

This fantastic David Sen 195 arrived a few days ago - after a faultless transaction with Ravishing Rick:

And the obligatory wrist shot...

I'm really enjoying this watch. The strap is much too big for me - but its a great strap... so its staying.

Thank you, RR!