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Edgematic, great watch! Can you turn on your messanger please? I tried to PM you but it didn't work.

What do you mean by 'cream bezel'? The bezel is supposed to be stainless steel.

Thanks for posting this. The shots look really good. How big are your wrists?

Can Subway do Fancy Sauce instead?

They already made a Montoya rep. It was terrrible.

The gen is 42mm, but looks bigger than other ROOs because of the larger pushers.

If they used a gen RBII to make the replica, they didn't do a very good job. A gen RBII on the second hand market is around $35k. I suppose they could have dismantled it, repped it, and then re-assembled and re-sold it. The problem there is that the end-buyer would have a very expensive watch with a voided warranty.

I think TommyB asks a very good question.

It would be ironic if Hublot tried to take action against people who infringed AP's intellectual property rights.

I agree. For such an expensive watch, with a voided warranty, I don't think resale is an attractive option. Even if you asked AP to service it, it would take them 6-12 months and they'd probably charge a few thousand dollars, depending on how bad the rep manufacturers screwed up the parts.

The new Jules Audemars uses a new AP escapement which (properly) beats at 43,200 bph (6 Hz) and requires no lubrication. 56 hours power reserve. Estimated retail $266,200 (approx 200,00 Euros)

That means we are guaranteed the rep manufacturers will screw it up.

How important is it to do this? ps. great post, goin.

Thanks for clearing that up. Could you post a picture of the Porto Cervo caseback? As far as I'm aware, AP did not release publicity shots of the caseback. I'm interested to see whether the rep makers put a standard caseback on it or something different.

Why does the new watch you received today have blue subdials in some of your pictures and white subdials in your other pictures?