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Some Suuntos actually have a sapphire crystal, although I don't think they make a model perfectly suited to the gym.

Very nice indeed If I may make one small but important point. Your watch is a Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph (ROO), not a Royal Oak Chronograph. The RO Chrono is a different model, and many of us have been waiting for years for a proper rep of that model. So I kinda get all excited whenever I see "Royal Oak Chronograph" in a thread title...only to feel like I'm on the wrong end of some sick practical joke when I click on it and find out it's a ROO...

So the "D" on the rep DW is actually closer to the gen than the "D" on the ETA DW? Crikey....I'm not sure I want to know this information. It's taking Repology to a different level...

I say it's a rep, because the day font looks wrong.

sounds like you saw some AWESOME watches, Sub

Unfortunately my machine doesn't do pseudo-erotica, it just makes coffee.

The gens retail for US $35k (all carbon), $70k (rose gold/carbon) and $130k (platinum/carbon). However they're all sold out, and currently go for a healthy premium on the secondary market. I wouldn't take this rep even if it was free. However, the one thing that the rep has going for it, somewhat amusingly, is that is appears that it's easier to read the time on the rep compared to the gen.

Happy New Year peeps!

I have one of these machines from Meile.

The watch is the world's first forged carbon wristwatch (as opposed to carbon fibre). The difference is that for forged carbon, the raw materials are put into a mould and placed under intense heat and pressure, and "forged" into the working material/shape (rather than being drawn and woven into carbon fibre). It took two years of research (and no doubt, a lot of money) for AP to produce this.

LOL, no offence taken. I dislike this AP model as well. I think it's badly designed and very overrated. I was just confused by your comparison with Casio. I have never heard of an AP being compared to a Casio before...

What has the AP Team Alinghi got in common with a Casio?

It were ravishingrick wot said that, not me. Honest, guv!

They really shouldn't have bothered repping the AP Team Alinghi. I thought they would completely [censored] it up, and they have. The gen is too complicated a timepiece to rep correctly. Forgetting the regatta chronograph function for a moment, the fact that the watch uses forged carbon should rule it out of consideration. The almost amusing thing is that they decided to rep the platinum model, which retailed for US $125,000 (there were only around 100 of these, and this rep has the dial variant that only applied to a small minority of those units). Another reason they shouldn't have repped it is because IMO it's a poorly designed and very overrated watch. EDIT: I should add that the white dial rep is a fantasy model.

I hope they don't rep it. The design is so intricate that they would [censored] it up, charge $700+, and then we'd say "They shouldn't have bothered"...

So what happened in the end? I don't see a husky in the picture...

There can be only one... Seriously, we've been waiting for a proper rep of the RO Chrono for years. It's certainly at the top of my wishlist.

This is interesting. Can the ADLC coating process yield the same colours that can be produced under PVD?

I think the criteria for the "Rep of the Year" award should be out of the box accuracy, and in the event of a "tie-break", complexity should be judged. The price of the gen should not be taken into account. Also, there are a lot of people out there that simply don't like Rolexes, PAMs, Tags or Breitlings etc and, not to forget, there are a lot of HBB fan-boys etc. These biases should not be allowed to influence the award. If there is anything out there that matches the SOSF for accuracy, then we should go to the complexity criteria. If there is a more accurate rep than the SOSF, the SOSF should be ruled out. Otherwise the SOSF takes it.

Many of the larger Sainsbury's have a pharmacy at the back of the store.

Who is the Hello Kitty Woman? I would like to know more please.

So it's accurate to within -4 to +6 seconds of variation per day. Awesome!

There is an idea of a Jetmid. Some kind of abstraction, something illusory. The sanctity of Jetmid, and all it has come to represent, should be protected, not insulted.

I'm confused. For such an inaccurate rep, why is it so expensive?

I raised the same issue in this thread.