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Thank you... I have 2 collection, so far my fav is 42.5mm 4th gen version. I will get the crystal double sided AR coated someday: Or... this one:

Gotta agree that ring maybe a better solution here Nevertheless, if I would have to choose, I will go with Deville Coax but that's about out of budget. Maybe a Breitling? Or SMP with white face?

Wow! You guys have fun To me, red light district is the best. I think scoobs will agree with me too

I will go for PAM111h but take note that it has a couple of flaws. Out of the watches you mentioned, I would narrow down the choice to PAM111h or Breitling SFSO. If I am allowed to suggest, go for IWC Ingenieur SS non chronograph.

Not bad at all Congrats on reaching postmaster rank.

I would try to answer the first point... RWI - The Dark Side uses cheaper hosting service but still it's not "cheap". We live solely from donation from members. At one point of time, we were really doing badly, daytona4me chipped in. Now, it's doing pretty well, extra money channeled back to the forum via raffle and giveaways. No dealers fee charged. From what I heard, what makes running this place expensive is a "hidden" server. My 2 cents, I don't see it as being very important. If we can find this forum, I don't believe the gen owners/lawyers/makers can't locate us. Just try Google search. This site is almost on every first page when you type replica.

donated unknown amount... This is what I have been looking for.

I decided to be a supporter

madness... 350 000 yen is more than 2000 Eur which is more than 3000USD. Yes, I hope this will be repped

Again, the Spitfire falls short on the dial. You can't go wrong with 3717, Ingenieur, Slevin or Cousteau Divers.

I think the gen does have lume on ...5...10...15 but not the rest of the numbers like on CD2006. Yes, my rep comes with ...5...10...15 lumed. It's not a reflection but the lume is definitely much weaker on dial markers and hands. By the way, hands are C1 Tritec Superlume, dial and bezel have rep lume (which is to my opinion very good and can last pretty long).

The AR will even bring the wave effect even more I have done it before.

The gen Tuiga/any HBB with CF dial definitely looks better than the rep. The gen however, is not smooth either. It has a noticable texture to it. It's hard to describe and to take picture of the gen dial texture correctly but I am sure that the rep with some texture looks more correct than the smooth one. As for the flag on the side, I would say that the gen has it. Just my gut feeling. I will continue searching.

I am so far a happy owner of Omega SMP Titanium too. I owned a white gold bezel SMP previously, all with automatic movement cal 1120. I would say that the quality is definitely much better than the reps (Omega) and for the price, I can't complain about it. Paid the WG for less than 1000USD(mint) and the Ti for 1200USD (mint).

Yeah... This Sinn comes with dark brown calf leather strap too... Didn't wear it much as I love the bracelet much more.

To me... Bertoluccis are just ugly. Thanks for sharing anyway.

Looks cool I am trying to replace the whole balance wheel set. Let's see Anyway, more or less this watch has been scrutinized pretty much. Geo just added a very good point. Without a good dial, it's a very easy tell.

It's taking lots of wristtime... right from the start:

Le Plongeur. You need colour my friend

I would say leave it as it's It's afterall still a rep and the AR on the crystal is just the deal sealer on this piece. You have to spend a lot more fixing that case dimension (i.e: to get a genuine case).

On HBB... is good. As good as new after more than a year (unlike those on Navitimer... it just fades off with time).

this IS really most Canal St. rep quality I think you can find hi end reps over there too. Price is not much different from the cartel but you have chance to feel/see the goods before buying. I even heard you can do exchange if the watch is faulty.

That is at least a franken. Possibly that movement contains "localised" parts as well.

He can do so, fraud case?

Maybe you can suggest to the factory that make CF dial PAM? It looks pretty nice IMHO