Craytonic

A watch that gathers nanuq's interest? Must be something good...

So can we deposit and take out $$$ whenever we want?

I get 5% in some real-world banks!

Jon

compounded yearly... not daily.

Send your RWG bucks to me and I will give you 7.5% yearly and beat your bank back home by 2.5%

You know you are a dork when you bust out the calculator for the RWG bank.

wow

1680 red

new VC overseas

I haven't managed to scratch any of mine yet.

Give me any malbec from Argentina or Spanish Rioja if you are talking bank for your buck. Sipping the Don David 2004 reserve right now... amazing wine.

Just returned from a tour of Napa. Stag's Leap wine cellar was my personal favorite, their fay estate reserve is a great cabernet sauvignon for ~85, silk in the mouth. My girlfriend preferred the cask23 one there, but at 180 go figure (and she needed 2 bottles).

I was impressed by the chardonnay from Clos pegase, great value. Cake bread had a decent one as well.

Not really an expert on these matters though.

It drives me nuts--here's how it works: European winemakers (it seems primarily in italy and spain. The French are too damn stubborn fortunately) see all this money being made in california on wines that are extremely cleanly made, soft ("Fruit driven" they would say) and therefore not offensive to anyone. So they send their kids to the University of California at Davis to learn how to make these wines, then they replace great-granpa's [censored] with high tech gadgets. They call the results "New World" style wines and import them to the US. Because these people are not idiots, they have come up with a way to make even more money: They set the best grapes aside to make the wines' they've always made, just in smaller quantites--and much higher prices. They make a killing selling the "New World" stuff at american supermarkets, but they also know people who actually like wine will pay top-dollar for the "old fashioned" stuff.

The wine guys I know are constantly bitching about this: they see their job as providing guests with a wide range of wines to perfectly match whatever is coming out of the kitchen--the differences in wines by origin is, 'natch, the most reliable way to do this. When those differences narrow and wine tends to taste more similar, customers start noticing and go for the cheapest bottles. And why shouldn't they? The stuff they buy at the Pick N' Save all tastes about the same. And who's going to pay $250 in a restaurant for the good stuff, which cost 75 bucks five years ago?

I don't mean to say this is a crisis--there are still more unique and interesting and beautiful wines than anyone can drink in a lifetime--but it does suck to open a bottle of a wine you've come to love for the taste of the dirt and water where it was grown and the signature of the guy who makes it only to find it now tastes like a lot like a Robert Mondavi Merlot from a good year.

Sounds like someone watched mondovino.... so true though.

Nice, love the breguet pic.

I prefer to have the swan neck... nice having the watch taken a little higher in accuracy.

They are relatively harmless now... killed by political correctness. They used to reshape the children of the elite into men and leaders, but the reformation part is over.

No I disagree with you there. Modded MBW's especially vintage ones particularly with an OEM dial are virtually impossible to tell from the real deal if done properly. Unless.....you take off the back or handle the watch. On the wrist its really difficult. But why go to the trouble of repping something that can't be seen? Go that far and you may as well fit a gen movement or buy a gen watch and be done with it.

I qualified with "just about" specifically for the MBW vintages or some others... that definitely wasn't a universal statement if you re-read it.

Getting 2 V72's is easy if you are prepared to pay the stupid prices they go for. Just buy a watch off Ebay with one in and take it out. It's easy. But be prepared to pay those crazzzzzzzzzzzy prices.

And who are you really kidding? A Daytona expert will spot the fake a mile off as it's not just the bridge that makes the movement.

An expert would spot just about any of our reps from a mile off. Its just a hobby we all share and enjoy.

It is a possible upgrade but I'm not sure if the cost/benefit analysis justifies it.

I am very picky? Might fool people but the sapphire looked fake to me. I don't think they can get a rep movement in the ultr-slim case which is why it was quartz.

Josh -> is the bracelet diamond cut?

1. My target is locked with 6263. It seems that DW has the best one but he is not opened for any PM's so what can I do to?

Will a gen dial fit the rep 7750 movt in case I decided to go for this investment?

No because of different subdial spacing. Case size will also be wrong. Also wrong movement, should not be automatic

Is DW's 6263 having the correct pushers and crown? If not, any chances to get the correct parts? And what is the T21?

In case if I can't get DW, will other dealers like Joshua, EL's 6263 fit for the above mods with the correct parts to make it close to the gen?

Some might? Not sure.

Bet he doesn't show.

Can you withdraw me? If it is too late that is fine.

Get well soon Joe! Let me know if you got my sub in if you get a chance.

Yep, like I said nice they put the screws in each bracelet link. Thanks for pointing out the crown issue on the old silix, never noticed that. I think I am going to do the same as you and get this one and take the cross off my old one. Hope more pics of the bracelet go up, I'm curious if this one has a more diamond-cut look in person. Wish he was offering an asian version so I could use the old movement.

admin is right that the black dial looks better - at least to me.

Is this watch a good choice for a small wrist ????

It is smaller than a panerai but bigger than a Rolex Submariner... My girlfriend called it the "big watch" before I got a 1950. It stayed the "big watch" and the fiddy became "big ben" or the "flava flav" watch. It really is a beauty though.

This new one does have the correct bracelet with screws on each link!

The other version that has the correct clasp (silix-prime, etc) has the correct cross from what I can tell from mine. You could probably pop one off that one if you had it and put it on this one.

I can't really tell the difference in the other correct-clasp one and this one besidese the cross? That one had a screw-down crown, etc as well? Could this be the 2nd iteration of that watch?

I had one of these and just was not that impressed (was a grail search for me, always loved the watch)... could only get it in quartz and the sapphire was a dead give away.

I didn't know jetmid had a retarded little brother.