Yes, those teeth are wierd. What purpose do they serve?
Funny thing is, I look at large photos like this and then look back at my reps. They look soooooooo small. I doubt people that have seen a 027A know about the teeth.
Check out the pics of this watch on King's site. They show the dial much better. It really has a nice look to it. I'm excited
http://www.cclv.net/PANERAI-191.htm
And the back for fun:
Davidsen cases are slightly different than standard rep cases. One of the differences is that the lugholes are closer to the case. This makes really thick straps rub and fit too tight. I use Toscana/MP/GeF straps on my DSNs w/ no issues at all. I can't put thicker custom straps on my DSNs for the exact reason you state. I doubt him swapping out the case will fix this issue. It's an issue on all his cases unless he has some new different sized ones.
Sweet, that's great news on the gloss. Only 5 made?! Wow. I guess I got lucky. We'll see if I actually get one.
EDIT: I just emailed Josh. He said he has one allocated for me so I will get one of these. The review is back on track
Josh told someone on another forum they are sold out as well. They ordered one and got an email from Josh 15 min later with the news. I guess if you ordered one and didn't get the email, you are ok.
Either they only had 10 or these are insanely popular. At $288 a rep for an asian 7750 movt. it must be like printing money.
If I told you he takes a day to respond and he took two, you'd be sad This way, you are happy as he responded sooner than I said! (He does get busy however, and it sometimes does take a while.)
I have the swiss from him but he not might have anymore available. I've been hearing good things about the new asian 6497 21K movements, however. The modders I've spoken with seem to really like it. I'm not sure which asian movt. his watch has. I personally have gone swiss if I could in the past but that's getting harder and harder to do. The swiss E bridged movts. (like the the one in this watch) are almost impossible to find it seems. DSN is backlogged on fiddy orders because he can't get the movts. right now.
DSN does not do any 42mm rads. The 204 from Josh looks good and has a Lemania/Venus/Sea-Gull copy movement which is supposed to be bulletproof. It's the closest to gen of all the 42mm rads he sells.