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You just gave me permission to pimp you out Totally agree brother. Recently it was taking me 3 hours plus to get through PMs and alerts and that is if I stayed away for only 8 hours. It was getting nuts. I stayed away from the fora a bit as the actions of that hacker really got to me. Now I am just having fun and getting to read about stuff for once instead of spending every minute of my free time on speed on RWI.

I agree they look different but I honestly believe it is the angle. It caught me at first too. The dark 1s should be longer than the light 8 as far as I remember. All 1s should be longer. The only thing i am looking at now is the 2s. Rolex 2s usually follow the curve of the xtal and are not straight. On this one they do not stick out at an angle as most reps do so it looks good. I would have expected more fading on the insert though so not 100%. However I am more familiar with the 16713.

The 18 is the same in both it is an optical illusion look again. Looks gen to me. The only maker of this left is TW and they have stopped. The movement looks gen to me I have never seen a clone version of a 1570. The insert pops like the gen too. The watch is not too expensive but the dials and inserts can go for silly money. I love the nipple dials. I am not sure if it is an original bracelet. BP makes a 16713 version.

I actually do. It is a big lump of a watch. It looks like there is a 7750 inside but no chrono function, running seconds hand and a frozen hand at 6. No regatta function either of course. But as big watches go this is not a bad one. I love TTs. However I find the white dial a bit bland. So would I buy a Super Duper Franen of one, probably not but I picked this up for something like €80 so no complaints here. Would I pay €300? Maybe I would have eventually if I had not picked up this one. It is not a must have.

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You know me. I tend towards the eclectic. I always wanted to find out what these looked like and now i know

That is a Cartel 5513 with a 2836. The case has been reshaped and lugs drilled. The dial and hands are Yuki and it has a gen replacement plexi. @xj4sonx has it now. I have a new Franken 5513. Wow Thank you.

I am only finding my way around this forum. I do not really know who is around here. I use my own watchmaker. He works on my watches on the quiet. So I am just lucky

The name is Bond, Jane Bond.

The V6s is unavailable now and hard to get but they do come up in M2M but rarely and are gone in no time. To get close buy a Sub with a SA3135, not reliable but can be swapped for a gen 3135 or SH/Yuki 3135. Then find a gen dial and hands. Gen parts are not that easy to find but with some networking you will get to know how to find these parts. 116610 Frankens come up regularly in M2M sales on my home forum. There are plenty of modders out there who can do this work. Just like buying from a TD read about them and decide who to go with. The rep watch rabbit hole is a dangerous one. For example a franken 16613 cost me probably 60% of the gen price. A true franken SMP 2531.80 cost me 90% of the gen price I ended up selling the parts and going gen.

He needs to have more than one film a year to boost his conquest count.

Omega 2220.80 and Omega 2900.50.91 A new Bond: Daniel Craig and new watches. In “Casino Royale” we still see the SMP in the form of the co-axial Seamaster 2220.80 but for the more rugged Bond look they also introduce the big 45.5mm 2900.50 Planet Ocean. He sticks with a PO until “Spectre”. However, he downsizes to the 42mm 2201.50 in “Quantum of Solace” and wears a custom-built Titanium with the newer 8500 movement. Here is a cheapo Ali version of the 2220.80 (I still love it), a Cheapo version of the 007 Limited Edition Skyfall (45.5mm with ceramic so not accurate, however the Skyfall in the film was Titanium the production model was Stainless Steel) and a V4 UPO 2900.50. Omega Seamaster 300 Spectre and Omega Aqua Terra 150m 231.10.42.21.03.003 Spectre is all about retro and apart from a DB5 what better way to do it than a modernised Seamaster 300 with co-axial movement and a liquid metal bezel. He also wears one of my personal favourites the AT 150m. Below are the V6F Master co-axial, the V6F AT 150m and the Special edition V6F AT Spectre.

Seiko something Roger Moore wore a Seiko in Octopussy, indeed wore many as 007. I did know the model but unfortunately forgotten I am sure someone will tell me again. The great members at RWI discovered a very close approximation to this the Casio WorldTime or to the watch freaks (I do not include myself in that blanket statement) The Casio Royale. Nice find @Shelby1501. Rolex 16610LN Timothy Dalton’s weapon of choice in “Licence to Kill” was the infamous 5 digit. You must excuse my poetic licence here as I do not have an aluminium LN, so I improvised a bit lol. Use your imagination and picture a Black Bezel However a further caveat, it may not have been a 16610 but a 16800. Omega Seamaster 300 2531.80 (SMP300) Pierce Brosnan, from a little town called Navan in Co. Meath heralded the dawn of Omega as the choice for Bond, due mainly to a new designer and the links between Omega and British military watches. These were gadget laden watches. In “Golden Eye” he wears something with a battery or something in it called the 2541.80. However, by “Tomorrow Never Dies” they see sense and give him a 41mm automatic 2531.80, he continues with the 2531.80 throughout his tenure as Bond, so we see it in “The world is not enough” and “Die another day” as well. However I did read somewhere that they lost their marbles briefly again in “The world is not enough” and gave him a 36.5mm quartz 2561.80, however I am not sure on this. Here is one of my favourite Bond watches the Omega 2531.80.

Shaken not stirred. Aka. Not another Bond Thread!!! (Pic. Heavy) Something i threw together on RWI. I thought I might share it here. What is our fascination with this sociopath, misogynistic, alcoholic, emotionally dysfunctional, sickly charming, ruthless killing machine? He might be all these things but the films and the character exude style, taste and there is a little bit in all of us that wants to escape into the fantasy world in which he resides. One really has to question the effectiveness of a secret agent whose preference for alcohol beverages is known to every bartender in every exotic location throughout the world. Anyway, lets re-visit the much written about Bond Watches. Along with Cars and women this is another area where the character displays great taste and style. However, the only thing he really chooses or seduces is the women, we know that Q (not @QueTip) chooses his cars and watches. So, Q is the man. The great thing for Bond, unlike us, is he gets them all for free. So here we go, some but not all of the 007 watches. Hours of research watching and freeze framing went into this thread lol. Joking of course but now since this watch hobby (addiction) has overcome me I cannot watch a Bond film without my finger hovering over the pause button for those minuscule glimpses of 007 arm candy. Rolex 6538. There has been some debate over the years regarding what Rolex Sean Connery wears and the provenance of it. However due to the advent of DVD and Blue Ray it is now fairly obvious. As @Thrasher is tired telling people the Connery sub is a 6538 big crown, with a silver triangle and a 2 line metres first gilt dial. The strap was generally considered to be an admiralty grey nato. We now know it was a black red and green undersized RAF strap. It was also worn on a Black leather strap in Dr. No. and From Russia with love. The RAF strap appeared in Goldfinger. Again, in Thunderball the 6538 tells the time while the Breitling Top Time tells supplies the Geiger counter. My version is the Helenarou Connery Submariner. It is a work of art in my biased opinion. Rolex 5513 An early appearance of the 5513 is displayed by George Lazenby in “On her Majesty’s secret service”. It was made more prominently worn by Roger Moore in “Live and Let Die” and “Diamonds are forever”. It had the buzzsaw bezel in “Live and Let Die” and a handy magnet for disrobing young ladies. Apart from the quirky bezel it has a feet first 2 line dial. The weird thing is when I was searching for images the photos of my watch and rivet bracelets are all over the internet lol so here it is my @JohnnyLazar built “Live and Let Die”.

Still looking stunning my friend

I am actually down to 4 APs now Three of them are in my watchmakers Too many franken Rolex recently made me liquidate most of my APs I will rebuild but it will take time. It is much easier for me than some of you guys. I am pretty happy with APs OOB I do not have the same need for detail so it is not as costly an exercise for me lol.

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That is a Noob V2 114060 No Date. Trusted Dealers called it many things, V2, V5.1 r even V6. It is the one directly before the Noob V6S ARF are a new factory the TDs are using. Check out the TDs websites. Dial configuration depends on what batch of parts the various factories receive and assemble. They vary some are more close to gen than others. The Noob V6s by all accounts is the closest so far. Remember it is a Rep so you are getting a pretty great watch for about 5% of the cost of a gen. You will not get 100% perfection. The Rep golden rule: