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In 18K gold, the gen is substantially heavier than stainless. I think the steel's about 120-140g, but I don't have a scale

Yeah, mine gets "stiff" if I don't rotate it. It should rotate both ways pretty freely once you get it moving. As for being "detachable" yes, but everything's detachable, just that it's not supposed to come off.

I have that one in black. Pretty good rep. The main concern is the movement crapping out. Mine hasn't yet, but I've heard of them dying in a s little as 2 weeks. There's tonnes written about these in the forum, do a search.

You own a genuine Rolex Yachtmaster and do not know if the bezel rotates? Are you serious?

Genius, but the genuine Omegas are only "reproductions of the watch used in Casino Royale". That means that what he's selling is still counterfeit. But I love the presentation. He even has a fake Parker pen that "works perfectly as any Parker pen" :rofl:lol!

Drooling over the BCE with the two tone bracelet. Very nice!

Now that is one sweet watch! B.T.W. Love that BCE (I have the same one) - did yours come with the 2 tone bracelet, or were you able to source one from somewhere?

If I were you, I wouldn't push my luck with the dealer

Yeah, it was the next day, after your dealer sized it.

I think the subdial spacing is the same as those old ones you refer to. Looks like they made the subdials smaller and the rings thicker so they could fit the markers in at 3 and 6. This also helps to make it look like they're closer together than they actually are, but they're still too far apart. All in all, not a bad watch though, and you don't have to worry about a hacked movement grinding to a halt.

Please tell us where you get 7750 chronographs for less than $50. I'm sure we'd all love to know.

...except the ones with the 6,9,12 layout as the 1154/1164 is just a stock/modified Eta 7750

It's the 2594.52.00 SMP chrono. It's off 'cause of the 7750 subdial spacing, so as a rep it's not accurate, but still a nice watch. Most of the dealers have this one for a decent price.

or simply, French for "rubber"

Nice watch, wear it well.

why did *F L A N G E* get censored? LOL!

You'd be correct in that assumption, but assuming that the guitar's made of solid mahogany, you change the pickups (most people trash the stock pickups and rock EMG's, Duncans, etc), and have the thing set up by a pro, change the plastic nut to bone, maybe put in an OEM bridge, there's no reason it wouldn't be close. Add to that the amount of post-processing that goes in (distortion, wah, [censored], EQ, chorus, phase) and you'd have to be really good to tell them apart. These are actual guitars, not toys. It would be like saying a rep Breitling couldn't come close to the real thing - it might not be exact, but close? Probably. The purists will argue with me, but dropping EMG's into a rep Gibson, would be like dropping a swiss 7750 into a rep BCE.

I got one a few (3 or 4?) years ago. Paid $350US for it shipped EMS from China. I wired the guy the money and the next day he was "no longer a registered user". I crapped myself. "Should have known better" I thought. My emails were bouncing and I had no clue how I was to get my money back. Three days later (I [censored] you not) I received a guitar. I'd compare it to the fake Heuers of a decade ago, but then I'm guessing Gibson copies were in their infancy. I'm told that they're a lot more accurate now, but I'll let you see for yourself. However inaccurate, it is very playable. The neck is straight, action extremely low, body is solid with a decent timbre, the pickups are very bright and have a lot of gain (almost useless without distortion, but I play death metal/rhythm). The Chinese are pretty good with Ibanez I hear (though I think Ibanez does make guitars in China, so they very well may be authentic, rebranded as better models)

Probably. I got this for my Heuers and it's perfect for $6: http://cgi.ebay.ca/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&...em=120163156294 Use the link remover to get the pin out a bit (so you don't scratch the case), then use the cebtre-punch thingy and a hammer and tap it the rest of the way. Then hammer it back in when you're done sizing.

That's what blows me away about these pricese lately. For $2500 with a bit of luck, you could own a Genuine Rolex, and an Omega. No sports models, but still genuine. That's probably what they're doing, but I still wouldn't put it past them to perfectly clone a Rolex movement and never say anything about it so they could sell them as genuine. They've been doing that with Ibanez guitars for about a decade now.

Is there any way that could be a replica? I noticed the print isn't filled with yellow - maybe it's just the pic. Either way, I've seen old datejusts on ebay go for as low as $1000-2000 with 3035 in them, so a $2500 replica with a genuine movement isn't that exciting. Finding out that they had indeed copied a Rolex movement would be more exciting IMO.

I agree with. Most of Jay's pics have a "washed" look to them, but if you look closely, you can see all the flaws, reflections, sometimes even fingerprints, so I don't think he does a lot of post processing, it's just the angle it was taken at.

I didn't say that, you did. I'm wondering how the absence of any reflections can be construed as evidence that there is no anti-reflective coating on a crystal, and the presence of reflections proves that the AR is better?!?

Good AR doesn't reflect a perfect blue hue at every angle. It reflects nothing at most angles:

..and for you to truly judge that, you'd have to see a reflection first? I would assume the best AR would be completely invisible at most angles.