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I guess I'll stick my head in the door for a quick wave hi myself . I have switched channels in life and have not been active here in a while, but its good to still see some familiar folks around. Cheers

Cool, I'm in, thanks!!

Hi all I know I'm late to the party and not eligible to win, but I got a joke anyway. A man goes to his doctor for a physical, about half way through, the doctor says, "you know you really should not masturbate so much." The man replies, "why, am I causing myself some kind of harm?". The doctor replies, "no, but you're hand keeps getting in my way." Badda boom boom... Happy holidays everyone!! Cheers

Wonderful story, but.. That's over sharing Cheers

I have three DDs' that have a genuine dial, each watch came from a different source (Josh, Trevor, and used from another member). The one from Josh and the one from Trevor both had genuine dials drop right in, both the day and date windows align perfectly and look great, both used the more modern flat dial. The used one I made into a vintage using an older pie pan dial, the day and date windows did not align and I had to make my own day and date wheels. So, I would say that as long as it is a rep of the older DD (not the newer, larger DD-II), and you use a flat genuine dial, it should work. One thing though, if you try to use a dial with stick markers, you will find that the hands will not clear the taller markers on the gen dial and you will have to either a) change the hour wheel and pinions to taller versions, or slightly bend up on the minute and second hands (like I did). See picture below of my vintage using an older pie pan dial; Good Luck! Cheers

Well this is a fine dowdy-do; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18155293 Scary! Do you suppose the cartel folks are branching out to new products , jk . Seriously, this is a bad problem, and I wonder who going to point fingers at whom. Cheers

Oohhh dat's niceeeeee!!!!

You forgot Luckyy

Thanks for the reply. Yep, I remember Freddy's thread on the perfect rep Daytona, and I just went and reviewed it again. However, and this may just be a trick of the camera lens, you're bezel still looks flatter than the normal rep fare. Most if not all faux chrono Daytona's have that flat case back that also has that nasty looking "Winner of the Daytona 500" etched into it. I often thought that if that etching is not too deep, then some quality time with a dremel would remove it, and if that caseback is the same size and thread as what the 7750 case back has, then that solves that problem. Using this same case you used along with the newer A7750 with the closer subdial spacing from the Zenith Defy Chrono rep and the elprimero Daytona dial would make one hell of a project. I was going to try this a while back myself, but I had to sell some stuff to pay some bills and that included selling the elprimero dial I had, so its all out of reach to me now. Anyway, I have been barking and snarling about the rep makers doing this kind of rework for the rep Daytonas for a while now, but I've all but given up since they seem to be sufficiently occupied with comming up with a seemingly endess parade of AP ROO chronos of every color, vast varietys of Panarai watches that all look the same to me after a while, and Hublot after Hublot after Hublot..... Still, they do an awesome job, better than they have ever done, but seriously, they can certainly do what you, Domi and Freddy have accomplished here. Once again, great project, all the best to you!! Cheers

Dang Looks like it may be time to sell off some of my collection to be able to get one of these . Great stuff

Great stuff, looks fantastic!! Congrats, on all you're projects!! I do have questions though; 1. is the bezel genuine, or is it aftermarket? 2. what crystal was used? 3. is the caseback genuine, or aftermarket? 4. did Domi have to modify the 7750 to run without the rotor (making it manual wind) so the flatter caseback would fit? And a question for our rep makers; Why can't you make a Daytona like this ??!?!?!!!?? Cheers

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