Sogeha
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1 hour ago, Navi fan said:
Dear Folks,
Andrew from TrustyTime now use a new trick: Before sending ordered watches to you, he send to you some photos. At one of photos is digital measurement device which show divergence 10 sec/day at piece exactly chosen for you.
Of course, after watches arrived to you, you executed some tests, which show divergence 21 to 22 sec/day. Andrew refused to share his horlogerie secret recipe, how to keep divergence at 10 sec/day. It is his business secret or mystery.
So from this point of view, take Andrew's photos of specifically your ordered piece with some grain of salt.
I always question the motives of anyone who joins a forum simply to complain. Obvious I understand that if you were to sell a watch that was bounced around in the post halfway across the world, you would absolutely guarantee it wouldn’t be affected by that.
I have also deleted your redundant post on a long dead thread. Please resist the temptation to post exactly the same post in different places again, you are just wasting forum bandwidth doing that
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19 hours ago, Ronin said:
If I had to guess, the Bezel is a "Nylon" ring tension bi-directional system on the acrylic dome models. (Similar to what BP-Factory uses on some of their Vintage models). Guessing the sapphire get click bezels. The Nylon system sucks. Breath on it, and the bezel rotates. At least the "Wire" system can be tweaked for tension.
Also, the adhesive rings for the inserts are usually too thick, best to just use GS hypo... 😞
Correct. I bought a few for none rep builds
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On 4/24/2021 at 1:54 AM, automatico said:
"...Switzerland once copied British and American watches as swiss were considered inferior."
Their biggest hits were copies of USA made RR grade pocket watches and copies of fancy dress pocket watches from the late 1800s through the 1920s/1930s. I have seen a lot of them for sale at watch shows, commonly known as 'Swiss Fakes' and there are people who still collect them. The brand names are often misspelled to 'fool the fools' back then.
The Swiss also made millions of low grade pin lever wristwatches in the 1940s/1950s/1960s as well as some higher grade pin lever models featuring 17 or more jewels. Bettlach and Ebosa brand movements were used in many of the better brands and most usually had '17 Jewels' or '21 jewels' on the dial. The common models had cheapo 1 jewel movements with no jewel claims on the dials sporting brand names no one had heard of that retailed for $10 or so. Some went so far as to have 'Bolivia' (knockoff Bulova) etc on the dial and came with boxes and papers...they were around $15 or so.
The most famous pin lever brand of them all was Timex with movements from all over the world including the USA and England.
Bettlach 17 jewel movement:
17 Jewel Ebauches Bettlach 8800 Walk Through. - Your Walkthroughs and Techniques - Watch Repair Talk
Swiss Fake PW movement:
Genuine fakes, not at all like Chinese fakes of Swiss watches, which obviously an inherent evil😂
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Andrew (Trusty) has started selling parts, could try there
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On 3/27/2021 at 3:31 AM, Pen collector said:
Whatever you do stay clear of replicamontblanc.cn it's a scam company
Resurrecting a zombie thread to tell us what we already know, and you would too if you had done your research and read up before diving in
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11 hours ago, alligoat said:
I recently picked up a Tudor sub from Andrew
This has turned out to be a nice watch. The case is 39mm and the tophat crystal harks back to the 1680 of years ago.
The 79090 came out in 1989 from what I can tell, it was followed by the 79190 in 1995 which had a sapphire crystal.
This watch has nice lume- it shines all thru the night. The yellow could be toned down a bit, maybe with a light brown wash of tea or coffee.
Typical rep stuff- drill the lugholes and trim the crown guards. Maybe install a 703 crown with a good aftermarket tube.
The bezel insert has a nice all-acrylic pearl and the bezel construction is gen like- the same as the 5513/1680.
Bracelet is folded link with 380B ends and a 7836 marking and a flip lock clasp. If it was a 9315 marking it would be perfect. But there's no screws to remove links and the smallest size is 7-1/2" + which is ok for me. If you have small wrists, making the bracelet fit could be a challenge.
Date font is a little thick, but the 2836-2 asian is doing fine.
At $260, I'm happy with the deal.
I had thought about doing a Yuki dial, but with the lume being so good, I may leave the dial and hands it came with in there.
Wish I could post a pick or two but I'm having problems with imageshack these days- shit won't post on rwg.cc.
You should be able to directly post images on the forum Ali
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Yes, please keep comments to the sales thread, it is okay to post a link to the sale here, since you had an enquiry
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Again I have to warn you about selling outside the sales forum
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Anyone avenue any experience or thoughts on Ruby’s 1016 case? We are long overdue a good solution to 1016 cases
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Welcome to our community
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2 hours ago, macarone said:
I find this thread racist!
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYeah, I worked for a US multinational that banned us from using the word “blackboard” because it was racist, so every time a manager referred to a whiteboard I filed a formal complaint. If you met me you would probably assume I was Caucasian, but one of my direct ancestors was an emancipated slave who did very well in business. So I guess we could just all grow a pair, act like adults, judge people on how they behave rather than stereotypes and accept we all came from Africa it’s just a matter of how long ago
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On 3/1/2021 at 6:21 PM, 508-Fanatic said:
Still looking
Depends how stuck you are brother. I have a mate who won’t disappoint, but he is in Europe
drop me a message if you want
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Remember it to is Chinese New Year at the moment and not getting a response from any Chinese company is to be expected
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Yes, but they are not entirely honest
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Daytonas at €500 instead of €30,000 list price. QED
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Long gone maker
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I wouldn’t waste money putting genuine parts into a Raffles kit, just enjoy it for what it is. With patience one can pick up Airking cases and dials on eBay, then use an ETa movement
Going either way would be good, aiming for the middle ground probably not so much
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Damn, that looks good
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47 minutes ago, oldtools said:
I found these. I don't know if they're any good...
https://www.kuvarsit.co/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=hoj95n7brskg38arch993k1440&keyword=egiziano&x=51&y=9
Well done, thank you. I guess as the original was 60mm and the PAM341 is 60mm, a 47mm fantasy doesn’t need to be too accurate and the price is right
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Don’t think there is a current production. DSN retired but you can find the huge 60mm and I believe Silix has a few 47mm
Thank you, I know about Davidsen retiring. I’m kind of gutted, but wish him a happy retirement at the same time
I’m off to search Silix
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Does anyone currently make Egis?
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https://rwg.cc/forum/59-tools-parts/
A couple of moments looking at the forum index and it’s right there, along with the rules for posting sales, which you have also bypassed
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No backdoor sales please.
Only two posts, both selling expensive parts without listing properly in the sales area, reason to be cautious I would say
Today's best 6542, the "Pussy Galore"
in The Rolex Area
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Some have speculated that they all start out as the same basic casting and the level of hand finishing is different. It is certainly better to judge each case individually as they do vary
MQ is a PITA to deal with