sander

please take a look at the excellent review of the 'new' movement done by francisco: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=89999

too bad it's doesn't look like a major improvement...

Just want to let you know, It

Very nice, wear it well!

Your pics are really nice and I also love the watches. Unfortunately I think they are not even close to the real deal, so it

Very nice piece indeed Robert.

I think that strap looks geat with it!

Hi Sql_pl,

Thanks for the pics. They are great!

If you look at the size, would you say it wears bigger than your APROO or Big Pilot?

I really love it but I

Absolutely a beautiful piece that Fiddy.

Concrats

the quality of GENS is ''far away'' from that of REPS....

I agree that there is a difference in quality between the gens and the reps.

But to be honest, I think the gap in quality (actually, I think we talk about the finishing when we look at it) is not as big as the price difference between the gens and the reps.

I think that there are some really nice pieces out there, which look and feel very close to the real deal. Also when you have them side by side.

For me, most of the time the biggest tell is the strap. That

Yelp apart from the crown position it's near to perfect.

I had some trouble to install the gen Insert but I solved

The problem.

Next step is to install a gen Crystal and then it's finished.

Hi Tribal,

It looks wonderful.

I

Looks pretty good so far. I would only recommend to put something over the movement. You can put a glass over it or so.

Thanks for sharing Russ. Very good looking watch and nice pics.

Your pics are also great robbie! This could me my next one

Thanks for Taking one for the team dude, I've been debating this for sooooo long.

Might have to take the plunge, Shame about the lack of AR though, I think I read somewhere that the movement is also a PITA to remove and then put back , do you think that's still the case?

That Brown strap looks awesome, may I ask the source?

cheers and fingers crossed for you

ST4

Hi ST4,

Even if it has AR, I would have send it to Chief. It's such a difference. I have 2 Big Pilot's and one came with damaged AR. I send it to Chief and you won't believe the difference.

I might take some pics sometime to show the difference.

I have no experience with removing or installing the movement.

I just opened it again to take some pics of it. It

Hi GB109

I do agree with Corgi. Wonderful watch the FM. Also very nice with a good quality strap on it.

My wife

Sander, can you please clarify this? I have no idea what you are talking about.

Are you saying that there actually is a new version of the portuguese?

Because everything i read so far suggests that nothing has changed at all and the so-called "improved version" is still the same as it ever was...

...but now you say the case size changed from the "old" portu chrono reps? are you sure about that?

thanks

simon

I

There is only one watch for new years eve for me.

It

Very nice model.

I was also thinking about this one because you know for sure that the colours are right.

I did choose the white dial version though, mainly because almost al my watches have black dials.

I have decided to wait with any movement treatment until it stops. Maybe they actually fixed the movement

It is really a beautiful watch. If they could ever fix that movement...life would be good.

Don

I thought wow, it's really getting close now.

But when I looked better, I noticed that they are both fake

Like the old models, the

One of my first nice gen watches was a Portuguese Rattrapante. Really nice classic watch but it didn

I really love the watch but the white dw is also a problem for me.

What kind of dw did you use?

I do agree with Francisco, please show us the staps you made and of course the results!

Ciao,

Sander

I

Here is a good picture of a modified gold version (courtesy of Avitt)

Thanks b16a2. That is indeed a good picture.

Never saw this post but it

Andrew told me that the back is still polished so I

It