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Posts posted by Watchmeister
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I am all in and I don't even own an Iphone.....yet.
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Damon- You are heading down a slippery slope. It started with seconds at nine reps and 6 years and 6 frankens later I could have bought a couple of gens. But where would the fun be in that.
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I go through phases.
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P.S. Nice watch, but it feels so cheap due to lack of weight!
Seriously, the weight is what makes the gen so good and the rep so disappointing. I own the rep but have also worn the gen a couple of times while on vacation. I even had the AD down to 16.5k Euros. The rep is gorgeous but it wears so fake. It weighs a ton. And truthfully that is the beauty of the gen watch. It is a bodacious watch which is wearable because it is ti. Comparatively the rep wears like you are wearing a cast-iron tub on your wrist. the only good news is that if you take it diving you don't need a weight belt. It never occurred to me there could be such a difference.
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If it truly is a scratch and don't want to deal with shipping your watch somewhere you can find a thread here which shows you how to use diamond paste to take out the scratch. Although I would guess is it a crack. It is pretty tough to scratch a sapphire. Or it is a mineral crystal.
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Try this. The gens start at $15k (even used). They are 100%. For 99.9999% of the population (including AP owners) it looks gen. I know. Now $500 doesn't sound so bad. And if you want to fix the crown positioning, etc. you are now looking at $5k. Actually the rep looks like a bargain to me (if the movement is durable of course).
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If it is a gen it is a beauty and a rarity - a faded bezel and complete pearl. Never happens to me in real life.
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Now that the forum has banded together to provide you with the proof of sapphire we expect you to provide pictures (and I am not referring to the insert).
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Very nice project. Wear that one well.
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Very nice project. Why does the 217 crystal look better than the 127. I assume they are the same crystal but the number distortion is much more credible on this watch. Perhaps it is just the angle of the photograph.
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I have never seen it in the flesh but take a look at the DSN 57c power reserve. It has a true 2892-A2 movement (power reserve) and is brown with TI.
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What I have always wondered about is how thick the coatings are. I know Gold Filled in the U.S. legally means that 1/20th of the metal is some form of gold (usually 10 or 14k). I always wondered what that implies for the thickness. Gold filled stuff can easily last 20 years.
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And I find HD impossible to work with. The original version is the best version IMHO.
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As folks intimate there is all kinds of modding - it can be simply reluming a dial, altering a case to make it closer to gen, replacing rep parts with gen parts. You can take a rep PAM for $300. Add a gen dial and hands and low and behold it is a $1,000 or $1,300. You have to decide how good you want your watch to be. If a new state of the art PAM is 95% of gen (aesthetically) you have to decide how much that 5% is worth to you.
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Rep versus gen extends to all kinds of things. Why do people ever buy gen handbags - leather is leather. $300 versus $6k in the case of Hermes Birkin's. And it is all choice. No one can justify 10x the cost for some improvements but let's face it we are buying a branded rep we care too. we are just too cheap. Otherwise we would be buying a no-name.
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Ahh, guys given the last two trades is there a sense that the value of the vintage Doxa's is falling. I thought there were watches selling for $2-3k not $1.
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Amateur hour (unless it is one of us letting them into the secret of "vintage").
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I may just give in this time. I even like the band.
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Ah ok so I guess I should go for one!! I know I have a small wrist but I never learn from others mistakes
IMHO. be forewarned it is more unwearable on a "not giant" wrist than just about any big watch I have ever tried. It just sits their like a hockey puck if you have a smaller wrist. The lugs extend out beyond your wrist if you do not have at least 7 " plus wrist so that it flops back and forth. The monsterous Hublot Diver wears better than the Super Avenger. I have a 7.25-.50" wrist and comfortable wear my old school Chrono Avenger but this one just didn't fly. And now I will let Dave weigh in. He loves those puppies.
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Watch looks great but I expect no less. And MJC, it should be fairly obvious....an amazing watchsmith up North. He has done several for me and others as well.
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Are the quills hard?
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Really nice piece. Wear that one well.
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Wow, that watch looks really good. I agree on buying the rubber and picking up a better after-market strap. The rep hornbacks make the watch feel much cheaper.
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Wow, gorgeous watch. Kind of makes a person think. I love the all black.
AP ROO Rep Prices
in The Audemars Piguet Area
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Here is the one I wear most frequently. It is actually a fantasy as I loved a specific dial and the Chronopassion case.
And a standard Old School silver themes:
My first franken from around 2008 or so:
And here are a pair of standard MBW's sitting next to my first gen AP bought 20 years ago when i fell in love with the brand. Watches were alot smaller then .
For me, AP was my introduction in the real world to haute horlogie (read as really expensive ) sports watches. I always loved the Genta design. By the way from all the pics it looks like the Diver rep is fantastic.