Bigsy

Well I took the movement out, had a quick look on ebay and found it looks almost identical to : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asia-Automatic-Watch...1QQcmdZViewItem Decided just to buy that and have ago at a swap myself, if I muck it up not much lost its only cheap.

I have a PO lite with a cheap movement in, it worked finr for a bit but now can now no longer change the date, it appears to struggle for power. When the watch gets to about 11:30 (30 mins before date changes) it will just stop, if you shake it vigorously it will start again. Everything else works as it should. Is this just a case of lack of lube do you think? Is it worth me taking it apart slightly and trying to oil it? I have some v.thin oil. It's not worth trying to get it fixed properly as it was so cheap.

Bought a tag carrear from josh about 10 months ago and the crown as fallen off. I can't work out how it was attached in the first place as nothing seems to have snapped and there are not threads or anything. Anyone else had this problem?

Thanks for the advice, I just had ago at the staining with a cottonwool bud and some alcohol, it cleaned up a lot of it, but on the main bit of staining it removed the excess silicone but the dial certainly seems perminalty marked. I've ordered some cleaning putty off ebay to see if that will help but I can't see it making any difference on whats left on the dial, think I'm going to just ask for a new dial as well. So going back to the my original post....how difficult is it going to be to swap out?

My recent purchase seems to have developed some kind of staining all the way round the outside of the dial, I'm probably going to ask for a new dial off my dealer which he should hopefully sort out. I assume I remove the screw at the back to get the crown out to remove movement? Do the 4 tiny screws on the dial need to be removed? Can I just pull the hands off if i'm careful or do I need a special tool? Anything else I need to know? Thanks.

I was talking to King about a Carrera order and she does a version with AR (pics on her site afaik), but I chose non AR simply because its closer to gen. EDIT: Carrera AR

Damn thats a shame, thanks anyway.

I have a real ETA 4th gen PO 42mm. I also have a 5th gen 45mm ultimate PO (from josh) with a one of these crappy "copied" movements which has started to go wrong. Is it easy to swap these round? IE are the 45mm hands going to fit on the real ETA? Any other probs?

Had me till the point "address" was spelt wrong, I think the FBI would proofread such a statment. Anyway it needs changing back as all the links in threads to other RWG threads are broken because of it and its starting to [censored] me off.

Just bust off the back of my 45m PO lite, and it clearly has this shitty copy and not an ETA copy as advertised, not happy!!!

I have a few panerai but none are PVD and I quite fancy one. The only one I have seen which fits the bill is the PAM 028 power reserve, but its a lot of money, plus I already own a 2893 based PAM, and don't want to shell out on another. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Mines been the same status for 6 days now, also from josh. You get yours yet?

I'll be honest I glossed over your post, so have have no real idea of what point your trying to make. Feel free to summarise the section your feeling so smug about.

Well I'm reading your post pugwash, there's a lot of guff there to be and honest and I'm really not seeing any good reason as to why TTK has licence to insult other members at will. As to why I want to be counted on this forum? Simple I don't, I come here to see what new reps are out, that's as far as it goes. It's threads like this that make me not want to stick around and make a valid contribution. As for 'soiled' thread, get a grip, seriously. Yes it's probably not turned out how TTK and his love-in crowd would of wanted, but that's the beauty of forums.....balance of opinion.

Couldn't of put it better myself. I think any prospective TTK buyers would be wise to heed fletch512 sentiments, interesting to note Neil didn't really address any of these comments, simply launched in to a incoherent playground rant, which was most certainly easier than actually trying to disprove them..which I think he would of struggled to do. Interesting that a member (non-paying) was threaten with a ban (is banned?) for personal insults etc and yet TTK post the stuff above time after time with not so much of a word from a moderator. I don't care that imperfection or what's his face is banned, I don't even care about TTK's child-like rants. I am interested in why there is such a huge discrepancy? Why is a blind eye turned everytime? Because he lines RWG coffers by chance? I don't know you tell me? But what ever it is it stinks.