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This is one of the biggest WIS myths. If you don’t saturation dive you don’t need a 300 metre depth rating, if you do saturation dive you don’t need a 300 metre depth rating on your watch because you will be using a proper dive computer and not an obsolete piece of man jewellery I have a PADI open water cert that covers me to an impressive 18 metres. 200 is cold and dark and unless you are very well qualified it will be small consolation to know your watch will still be ticking when they pull your cold lifeless body out. I did two seasons diving with a fake Casio bombmaker with a depth rating of zero. I still have it, it still works Also if you open the watch, the depth rating is down to you and your greasing the seals and pressure testing

@davdhaked90 Arrived on the scene and kindly let four members know his brother has the parts they are looking for just lying around. After I issued a warning for backdoor selling and hide his posts, I thought I would reach out and see what else they had. i asked if they had a 6263 exotic dial. Very quickly he responded with pictures of exactly what I was looking for, lucky me. The pictures did all have different backgrounds, but whatever So hardly believing my luck I asked how much he wanted for this rare genuine dial $2000 LMAO be careful out there

I doubt you will easily find any pocket watch new of worthwhile quality at anything like an affordable price, let alone specific dial variations

I imagine that there were some made back in the day. However I think your best bet would be to find something like a Waltham, American pocket watches still have a fantastic parts supply. It may need a service, and while it is stripped, get the dial reprinted to your specifications

Good to hear from you. San Martin make very nice watches, I have a few

No date 41mm Sub. My current understanding is there isn’t anything noteworthy as yet

A timely reminder that not everyone is trustworthy and Christmas always seems to bring the scammers out. If you are contacted and offered a Watch by DM be especially suspicious. Is there a reason the seller isn’t willing to openly advertise it on the forum? Do they have any sales feedback? Are they active in the community? As always an offer that seems too good to be true probably is

Welcome

It is not your question, rather your challenge that prompted me to step in

@freddy333 is a very long time member and former Moderator. There are build threads for those watches as well as a long history of posting them here. As to posting them on Rolex forums, please familiarise yourself with the rules of this forum. Posting reps on a genuine forum is a banning offence. In my book encouraging others to do so is also a banning offence. Fortunately Freddy has more white in his eye and knows we don’t ever do that

Kif shock protection does nothing until you drop it😄 YMMV but I see little point in such attention to visual details of a movement as signed rotor and engine turning of the same pattern on a rep of a watch with a closed back

None of these cases are 1:1, there are tells, tells that won’t in any way stop you enjoying your watch, but which are there nevertheless. It will look absolutely the part on the wrist, but a really knowledgable expert will be able to tell it from genuine, and in my opinion that is how it should be, this hobby is about the pleasure of building more affordable versions of classic vintage watches for one’s own pleasure, which seems to be your desire, if cases were ever completely indistinguishable, it would just encourage scammers and fraudsters Owning both Phong and other, cheaper Vietnamese cases, I’m not convinced Phong is worth over twice as much YMMV Try Arsla5 on eBay for ETA movements, he is very genuine

Welcome home, it’s always good to see OGs return. Please show us anything you buy and let us know what you think of them

You have to build your own, it's quite fun Although that dial is not available for sale, there are plenty of online sellers of dials for seiko movements

Noob version is literally the first hit on a google search. I've given up spoon feeding unknown guys on their first post since not one of the ones I've given information to has ever stuck around to contribute a single thing to the forum and I got a couple of snotty DMs from guys with buyers regret Anyone who wants to learn and willing to read, I'll help as much as I can. Anyone not prepared to put the slightest effort in themselves, less so

I thought you were going to say H4 pinion kit and I was kicking myself for failing memory. I can’t see why it can’t be swapped from the existing movement, but going to need one, and a date wheel swap to get the DWO for Rolex date window position Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

No, should be plug and play. The original TC movement is a 2824 clone

It will fit the case, but not the dial or hands. Why not just get an ETA2824 or clone? I can’t remember which version of the case needs a notch cutting for one of the movement retaining screws

We stick to trusted dealers, so I doubt anyone can help you. I have certainly never dealt with them

Oh you are.most welcome😊 Really I was just following up on @martycus post. However talk of 1:1 always amuses us. There is no such thing. So probably the best idea is to do what the rest of us do when researching a watch. Head over to your preferred dealer or dealers and see what is available, then research those options to see what are the strong points and weaknesses of each maker's offering and decide what YOU can live with and what YOU can't, which may very well be different from someone else's preference

If by people you mean senior Admin, crew and long standing members, and if by accusations you mean concerns, then you are probably correct There is far less wrong with buying a $7 rep on DHGate than in trying to fool others or yourself that a rep is genuine

Ah, the famous P factory https://www.panerai.com/en/network/authorized-dealers.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwLKFBhDPARIsAPzPi-LjvpKf3jwfXv_pVi0CpGLA8V-EG4djl59h2i0V3RBTfCW9lmyk28caAlzPEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds If you are looking for 1:1 this is the place If you are looking to read and learn about the best Panerai reps and how no rep is ever 1:1 and the Chinese Ministry for Accreditation of Counterfeit Goods does not award AAAAA+ ratings, then all the information you could ever want is in RWG

Looking to fool people isn't what this hobby is about and if you think any watchmaker who has worked on genuine Rolex movements is going to be fooled by any clone movement, you are deceiving yourself

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