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The easiest way to tell 42 or 45.5 size is: - distance between a DW and the 3 hour marker, - insert - width of a white stripe, - bezel - number of the teeth.

It is Francis.

Yeah sure... gen AP is dime a dozen and everyone can easily buy five of them for 6k. And when you buy gens, obviously you do not ask for the photos of box and paper, first you accept no box nor papers,t hen just request them from the seller. What a [censored]!!! I hope paypal staff knows the basics about deals on gen and they will tell him "Loled hard but sir you are a retard, dispute dismissed". Legend, expose him anyway. Such people usually try to come back on the rep side. He has 5 items each worth approx 1.2k so for sure he would like to sell them sooner or later.

Check ebay - there is a UK seller who's got pretty much all parts.

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Correct, the stem height is a one way to tell. The other way to tell is the inner 'cut'

It is probably the biggest trusted dealer on the rep market. buy with confidence.

Yes, it is ETA case you can tell by the crownguards. And it is BP serial so... your watch is either late BP or GMF:) (people say GMF is made in 100% of BP parts) Early BP had awful bezel insert, yours is much nicer so it's GMF or recently updated BP, I can't tell more. The most important thing is that watch is period correct: clasp+rehaut+dial, that does not happen often in reps. I think you did a good deal, this watch is better than Noob v7, I love the crystal - it's superior over the v7. Personally I wouldn't touch it, watch looks nice oob and you can't improve eta case anyhow. What do you want to mod? BP case is not gen spec.

6YZ code is used by BP and GMF, but most of their clasps have polished inner blade. Yours isn't Only sanded 6YZ clasp, which I am aware of is BP with miyota9015. Still does not make sense as this isn't the miyota dial, the dial looks like Noob v6s. Do you know which movement it has? Can you post a better resolution photo of the ctystal cyclops and bezel pearl? And the rehaut, I didn't get what you mean with "not being the solid lines".

Here we go OP, you need this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Omega-Seamaster-Crown-Factory-New-Stainless-Steel-screw-down-5-6-mm-with-tube/253417129733?hash=item3b00d68705:g:h48AAOSw65FXve0L it is the ebay account of clarks, buy with confidence.

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In the decent replicas of the submariner, you have two main options for the movement: - asian clone of Eta2836, - asian clone of Rolex 3135. More reliable is 2836, it hardly would require you to do any service. In 3135 it's hit or miss, you may receive the movement which will work fine without any service, or your movement can die after some time.

You are right. BP sux with their "ceramic" inserts. BP SubC insert is not ceramic, actually I am not even sure is it metal or just some polymer. BP CrSMP insert - quite tired and clearly the edges are scratched in many ways. Btw, what happened to your watch?

Chesty

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OP, how do you assess the dial printing and shield logo printing when compared gen vs rep?

Trick

I was lucky to pick-up v6s 116610ln and it's pending some gen parts now. Another v6s case will be used together with my bp no-date sub, still didn't figure out the final gen/rep shape of this watch. One rep v5po is pending gen dial and hands. Before the crash i sent few SMPc inserts to Steve, so he can try to develop some mod with smoothing and filling (with metal) the bezel engravings. I am really holding my breath here, still no feedback from Steve but if he success I will turn into a nice SMPc rep, otherwise will use that case for frankening into the older SMP. So many things, so little time, lol

No bro, too many open projects to hop in the YM

Same here mate:) How is live, did you sell that nice ND build before the crash?

Hello androme

Hard to say without the installed bracelet, for me it's Noob v5 or v6.

Mate, does it mean 3235 has only 2 crown positions? 1st for manual winding/date quickset, and 2nd for the time setting?