aprolexlover

Anyone has any other contacts besides Phong, MQ, Ruby, Dung Chrono? Im looking for a 6542 case back, and Ruby has recently raised her prices by quite a bit. She is asking for $300 for a case back!!!! Need some help here.

Eagerly waiting to see your completed schumi project on the wrist

Wow thats a beauty, may i know where did you get the arabic DW? You should try to get gen insert, it makes a huge difference. And rep's althought able to age it like gen but the font print is a big give away. Especially number 22.

Wow unbelievable. What movement is this on? LWO or A7750? The dial I assume is rep, and the dw has been repositioned, cut out areas has been replaced? Amazing work

Suggest you should just wear it and acquire a ceramic or forged carbon or steel rep diver and get legend to mod a little for you. Or if you have 5 grand to spare you can acquire a franken AP ROO, and have a couple of watches in your arsenal to play with. You already bought the watch, and its meant to be worn. TBH, AP has very little residual appreciation, you can see historically all the steel 42-44mm ROOs prices are coming down by at least 30% or even more for some RG models. This means, even if you keep it in the safe, it wont appreciate any much more unless you plan to bet on selling it after 40-60 years in Mint, quite possibly you could make some money, but we do not know yet. Historically speaking, the Jumbo RO only made it with appreciation value, many other ROOs which majority of them did not hold their value that well. So I would suggest you to wear this occasionally instead. I have a few friends who plays with these gen ROOs and they wear them almost daily because they are aware about this massive depreciation on their watches, when they dont like it anymore they will sell it without even thinking twice. And yes, you cant get away with those hairline scratches no matter how careful you are, its inevitable. Look at AP as sort of owning a Bentley, people who could afford the real thing often change their cars within 5 years, even when it suffered massive depreciation that would still move on to a newer Bentley, since they already made that much. this is just my personal observation and opinion

I guess these guys has factory access to request them to manufacture one off pieces. You got a photo of it assembled? ive not seen this before

Hi Carlytoss, can you link or share with me Jensen's contact? I would truly appreciate it. As for MQ, I wouldnt recommend. I inquired about #97 Paul Newman step dial half a year ago with a handset and he wanted $1,000. I then asked a friend to walk into his shop in Saigon HCM city to ask about the same dial and he quoted him $1,200. Today I asked him about the very same dial via whatsapp and he wants $1,500. earlier I asked him about a 6542 insert, on his website the photograph of the insert looks superior. But when I ask him to send me a photo of the actual thing it's no different to Ruby's! This means whatever photos he puts up is not necessary the thing you'll be getting! You'd be better off buying from Ruby.

I find the counter print is very sharp and crisp, the layout is highly similar to gen 3RCO, thats why I kept looking back into it. But as what @tomhorn suggested, its difficult to say without seeing a straight photo. Crown can be replaced with gen, this seller asking 769 euros. not sure whether worth it or not.

If its gloss, it should be gilt. Later 6542 service dials are matte and silver printed, sometimes they aged till a certain point where people mistaken them for gilt because of the patina. You'll have to see it in person.

I would go for the Noob, theyve mastered this since the beginning, difficult to fault with.

Phong makes the worst PN dials out the entire viet fleet and they cost a fortune. Are you sure you got it right? you can compare Phong with Ruby's 6263 dial, its huge difference. I use Slay to do my builts, he is probably the most knowledgable and long standing member. Others use Rolojack, which ive seen his work and also not too bad.

Ah thanks for sharing, the right pusher seems to sit a fraction lower than the left pusher. Correct me if im wrong. By the way, I really really like that 6265 tiffany dial, may I know where did you get it from?

got a photo of the side profile? They say the pusher position is different compared to V72X, is this true?

may i know who helped you thin the case and 9015 movement? i have one up in order but stuck with Loco Louie