HauteHippie

Notice the no-dates still have hollow end links. It's a different case, not just a different dial. As to rehaut depth, someone like Ubi might know definitively, but I *think* they might be shallower. I was just at an AD earlier this week and glanced at a no-date sub. It appeared to me to have a shallower rehaut, but I wasn't looking closely. I could easily stop in tonight after work and compare it side by side to a date model, though.

Then we'll agree to disagree. Because for me the rehaut is the most important detail. Dials can be swapped. CGs can be reshaped. Date magnifiers can be repositioned. But rehaut can not be made deeper. And I can spot the thin rehaut of the CN sub from a distance. It just won't do (for me). The no-dates are different. I can't disagree with that. But, then, I prefer to make comparisons to the gen rather than to the old CN subs.

http://www.expeditionexchange.com/omega/indexmain.shtml That's a great read for anyone interested in the Moon watch.

Congrats yet again. You must be thilled. We are all certainly thrilled for you.

I don't know what the difference in fractions of a mm is, but I strongly suspect it is greater than 0.1mm. Honestly though, I don't think the actual measurement matters because regardless of the difference on paper, the visual difference side by side with a gen is significant and immediately noticeable. It is immediately noticeable on the wrist from a distance, too. Trust me. I own the CN sub from both TTK and TWG and have put them next to a gen. Further, pictures (unless the rep and the gen are in the same shot) can be very deceiving because of variances in shooting angles, crop factors, lighting, shadows, etc. This is not a cop out. This is a fact. I've been deceived by photos of rehaut more than once. This is not a knock on the watch or of your review, it is simply an observation of what I've personally seen firsthand. FYI

Another perfectly Ziggified MBW vintage!!!! I gotta get in on this next!!

Where'd the old go?!? I'd like to own that one!!! The new kicks unbelievable amounts of ass too, though.

A commendable job! Mine is on its way to The Zigmeister, because I leave this stuff to the master himself.

I believe it to be the same watch, also. I have a non-functional TTK version (movement is broken) that I bought used from a forum member for the dial and the datewheel (planning to follow Ubi's lead in creating a Franken), and I have a brand new TWG version.... They sure look identical to me side by side.

Thanks for the review, BT. You always spend alot of time and thought on your writeups. I will, however, have to disagree with your comments on rehaut depth. The rehaut on this watch is very thin compared to the gen. I don't know if the actual difference is 0.1mm, and I doubt that it is, but it is very noticeable. You poke fun at the sub nerds for obsessing over rehaut, but it is in fact the most eye catching detail, because it is really the one detail you can spot on the wrist from a distance. I see fakes ALL the time out in public and use the rehaut to spot them. If I see a watch with deep rehaut, I generally assume it to be real because there are SO many shallow fakes out there and because it's extremely difficult or impossible to see other details without grabbing the watch off the person's wrist!!

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=71 BOB straps.

You have too many. I'll take the gen super off your hands.

I would also try Cape Cod and see what happens. It's obviously going to depend on how deep the gouge is. But if you've already resigned yourself to not using the insert, then I don't think you have anything to lose.

Very nice work as usual. That original lume job looks like another bad lume job you've shown us recently..... Did it pass through the same place before making its way to you?

Here's a gen non-SEL. It has "SWISS" on the dial instead of "SWISS MADE".

Pug - nice backdrop in the Seiko pic. Where is that?

Brand spanking new Ingenieur... It'll be on my wrist until early next week when it will take a trip to Canada.

Indeed. Very nice.

Wrist shots:

I would like to point out the irony in the fact that Joe's claims of IBS were bogus, and yet, he was completely full of [censored]!!!

No, I think we are. Seriously, though, that's overpriced. Shop around.

Ubi's almost looks deeper than the gen!!!

Just arrived from EL. One word: Wow. Another word: Damn!! Final thoughts: Yea baby!! Wrist shots in a few hours.

To each his own.

I think the ETA movement is a tad thinner than the Rolex, actually. But either way, I don't see how it matters. It's all in the case anyhow. There are two modern 16610 MBWs. One has deep rehaut, the other not so deep... Just to add to the confusion!