Watchmeister

It will take no time. You just don't want to do it yourself if you haven't it before.

Usually you reach out to get on their schedule and they tell you at that point. Typically it is 3-4 weeks or so door to door.

All the trusted dealers offer box sets. Back when this post was originally started they were much rarer.

I am not convinced that the gen movement will necessarily fit in a rep case. You would certainly require a new movement ring and it is possible you would need to redrill the crown hole. And no there is no ETA equivalent with the power reserve and date in the same place and even close to the same dimensions.

One of the things that is in the back of my mind (but it is a guess) is that the factories really did get stung in these raids and one of the offshoots may be that they will want to minimize inventory on hand.

He did one for me years ago and I don't remember him redoing the bezel. Only he can answer the question and I know he is away for a bit so I don't think he will be able to tell us what he did.

Ever get the sense we are our own worst enemy? With all the new watch models coming out which we pile into it makes you wonder why they will ever go back and redo an older issue. And with the profitability as bad as it is for the dealers why do they have incentive to stock it?

Sorry to hear this. You might ask another dealer - Connie, Angus or Toro. The Noob factory stuff is definitely suffering from lack of inventory. I don't know whether it is a factory or dealer issue. The Noob factory has not been the same since the raids a month or two ago. Also some dealer's try and minimize product from the Noob factory as they charge the dealers so much there is little room for profit and they are notoriously difficult on defective watches. Right now the factories have all the juice. I am still trying to figure out whether Noob is going to bother with future runs of existing watches.

I had heard the 7753 gen movement was a direct swap and that they had further manipulated the latest A7750 so you had good enough date placement to use the rep dial with a gen movement. Being able to use the same datewheel is surprising.

Welcome and good luck with that first order.

Wow! Great stuff. If that bezel comes out like the gen it will be one very cool piece.

How much did your last vacation cost and how long did that last? Would you rather spend the next 20 years staring at that palm tree in the picture or that work of art on your wrist? You know you stare at that wrist everyday. As for the picture of the palm tree.....do you even know where it is?

On the Diver, I suspect the driver is the 2824-2 being increasingly difficult to get in volume and ETA is vigilant on what goes into China. The factories can't get them for less than we do and they are usually $150+. On the clone LWO 283 movement there are not enough current hot watches that use that configuration and the funniest part is the factories would have to re-engineer the whole rep back to true gen specs (case height and depth, offset-pushers, etc.) so it would be a complete redo.

+1. All things being equal I used to go with Swiss until I concluded it was random luck whether your movement was assembled with care and that far outweighed which movement you pick. The service for these 3 hands are relatively inexpensive in any case and often when it does come time to service, if I am still in love with the rep, I will often upgrade to ETA.

Of course Edge has it right. Go for it and wear it well.

Fully agree this is a big step in the right direction. You can only take it so far and then you live with it (or don't).

It is a totally different movement. The gen has in-house multi-barrel movement. This is just jury rigging an existing movement and cutting better looking aesthetic plates. You will never end up with the jewels in the right place, etc.

+1. line up the marker at 12 correctly and then look. My guess is it is fine but just ask the dealer to reset the inner bezel.

My guess (and it is a guess) is that if the reset function does engage but it won't reset to zero that the hands are slipping on the pinions. A common solution is to actually drop a touch (and I mean touch) on the hands when putting back on. If you haven't done or before have someone who has do it. That was the standard fix when fitting hands into the A7750's that wouldn't hold their position. Their is a surprising amount of torque for those little buggers.

Sounds like a blast. I know you boys in the EU always do a bang up job. Per usual I will know about a week in advance whether I can go but hope springs eternal.

My observation was always that Paypal is really better organized to protect the buyer rather than the seller and the seller is generally presumed guilty while it is the opposite for buyers. As a buyer I like Paypal with a better nom-paypal credit card linked - you have two levels of protection. As a seller I simply restrict my transactions to people I know - or at least know where they and their families live.

A Vietnamese case is a case made in Vietnam. Seriously, I thought those cases have not been made in quite a while. As long as we are on the topic what do you guys think of the older Yuki cases (for gen movement)?

Daniel- Welcome to the forum. A number of folks here (myself included) have built franken PO's. Believe it or not depending on what you are building and how many gen parts you want to put on it, you may be better off saving up for a second hand gen. But take a look around in the Omega section and feel free to ask questions.

Hopefully not. This particular movement is for the 8 day rather than 3 day range of watches.

If they can't even get the basic dimensions right suffice it to say it is not a top notch rep and I would never pay more than $150. If you are determined to get a top notch AP rep go with the RO Offshore Chrono or better the V3 Diver. It is fine if you don't care about accuracy but then don't spend a lot of money. Or to put it more simply, I own gen, franken and rep AP's and the last rep I would buy is the Royal Oak chrono. I would look on your wrist and know instantly that it is a fake.