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Yup. Now just start begging Ubi. He makes fabulous inserts once in a blue moon.

You may well be right. I am with you on the acrylic pearls but I do think there is a surround. My starting reference point has always been this: http://doubleredseadweller.com/rail_white_sd.htm Then again, the more I look at the pics the less convinced I am there is a surround. However, red subs of roughly the same period definitely had bezels around the bezel pearls. So I stick with bezel on pearl on bezel.

I am no Rolex expert so take it for what it is worth. The Great white would have been in the 1977-1980 timeframe. Double reds were '71-'77. I think it would have had a flat tropic 39. I think you are right to say the bezel pearl would have a surround but also many bezels lost their pearl and were simply replaced with just the pearl. See Ubi - I'm learning.

That would be fantastic. I almost gave in and bought the gen. Thank god.

I saw the gen a couple of weeks ago and actually have the IWC brochure for it as well as the 300 page IWC reference book. It looks white so I went with C1. And hopefully you will get a preview of what yours is going to look like shortly. That assumes you elected to swap the day/date wheels. The ingy is C1 I matched it up at the AD. The one I am still trying to figure out is the 3717. It is not as clear cut. I would still guess C1 on that one too. IWC does not appear to be too creative when it comes to Lume color.

They will wake up one day and figure out just how "reppable" (new word) their watches are. If the rep maufacturers ever can reproduce the 8 day movement you can then make virtually any IWC you want. I suspect he might want to have a gander at my upcoming CD. I just found out my GST chrono is better than the gen. IWC was too cheap to do an AR coat on that one.

If you are French wouldn't he expect you to pronounce it with French pronunciation. If the guy is American go with "Air ren" ' Jewish or not. Because everyone else does anyhow in his native country.

Glad to see FM is being resurrected. I was actually hoping for the old school King Conq/ Chrono with rectangular case. I and a number of other members own several original dials awaiting this one. That was the one that always seemed the easiest to get up and running. Similar although not the exact case have been made in the pastand it would take would easily take the 7750 movement. Whatever they do ultimately make I hope they do it in SS. Gold never cuts it unless they are willing to take the plating into the 15-20mm territory (old school "gold filled"). If you have ever run into a gen of one of your gold reps it is just embarassing.

No I may be missing something. I didn't remember it having proper date set-up or as bold a font on the dial numbers. I don't actually pay much attention to the 40mm's so they may have been that good for a while. I would still kill for their ti 194 though. And as far as I know we haven't been able to buy from them since Ken disappeared. Sorry to hear Slay was scammed. I guess that was by Ken.

Be forewarned that unless you bought the MBW $3500 version the sub dials will not line up unless not a chrono.

Too cool.

I don't have mine at the moment but as of a month ago one was good for well over 40 hours (clsoer to 50) and the other for right around 40 hours. They are the ETA's and I gave them full wind at the same time. That is one of the first things I check when I get a rep. I once got one with 7 hours.

I don't know if this is old news but have people seen this one from Honpo? They even super impose it against a gen. http://shopping.e-conveni.net/item_info.ht..._id=700220&

Aah, the invaluable toothpick.

The problem is getting someone to donate a CG for the CNC'ing.

F- Then again, you may be smarter than me. It is my third (and final) wife. By the way what happened to the longer post? Just kidding. The other thing I forgot to add is that the upside of my wife being so enthusiastic is that the sales woman when she found out I would be back in several months made it a point to give me that fabulous 400 page history book IWC did for 2006. I am now truly an expert on IWC. Now here is a little tidbit on that movement. The movement actually has 8 days of reserve but they show only seven (I haven't figured out whether the movement actually stops on the 7th day) as god forbid you lose a millisecond of time on the eighth day as that lightened mainspring begins to lose power.

Somehow we knew this was the case. I just could not picture Ravishing Rick with 5" wrists. Raging Regina maybe - but not Ravishing Rick.

But when the wife says buy it she knows she will make it back in spades. GF's have a little different perspective.

If it is right you got to show us a pic of the CD on.

It was within 1 tick of the fluted chrono pusher bezel on the Honpo. I won't know on the new one until I receive it. Last time I had the benefit of comparing my honpo very carefully with another member's gen.

Rep crownguards will fit but you need to make sure the screws do as well. The CG's are almost impossible to find. I have seen more than four figure PAM trade fall apart over the lack of a Jimmy CG. I would guess the going rate, if you can find one, is well in excess of the cost of any other part - certainly $200+.

I gave in. The pricing was toward the bottom of my guess and so reasonable in light of the cost of the movement. It is on the way from King as we speak. Of course as the lab rat I will provide pictures as soon as I receive. I also have the benefit of little downside as if it is a bad rep I can either cannibalize parts from my Honpo 187 which is defunct to make it better or use the nicely decorated movement in one of my defunct Pandas. Now I just have to start begging Angus to make the buckles for a 26/26 Kevlar strap buckle combo. Hopefully this new watch will be the instigator.

Like this? Just teasing you. Gen dial with stunning relume and properly blued hands. But it did start life as a Josh 2892 so I would bet Andrew's is the same.

IMHO, the rubber strap on my CD is one of the best rubber straps I have ever worn. Definitely more comfortable and easier to put on than my gen Breitling or gen Panerai.

Another fabulous RWG topic. Actually I am not worrying about the gay theory. To quote Seinfeld: "And there is nothing wrong with that." I am more concerned with "the bigger the toy, the "smaller" the boy". That would not bode well for PAM afficionados. On a serious note, PAM is only now beginning to come into its own in NYC. Old guys are wearing them on rubber straps as their weekend warriors versus the standard gold Patek or Breguet during the week and young guys are wearing them on nicer straps to work. I would guess I am seeing double the number of PAM's on people's wrists versus a year ago. Yes, only us idiots are staring at people's wrists.