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Excellent, lovely collection!

I saw they were having a bit of a handbag fight in the sales forum last night. What the hell happened for the £45? Did one file dispute over the other or something? Anyway does anyone really care! Seedy bstard I knew you'd say that! I'd let them in aswell, they can bring the Pizzas in with them

Excellent on the brushing/sandblasting, wasn't sure from the pics. It's a cracking watch then! Ye should seriously think about going into business as a small boutique watch brand in the future, really good independent designs like this are rare these days!

Can't see the image Importr?

Yep, better to buy a cheap gen smp, even a quartz, which are great value for money than any of the reps. Those old chrono smps were great also, better than the newer rasied marker version for sure.... they seem to be rarer than hens teeth these days unfortunately.

I agree with watchman, the current non chrono smps are a disaster beyond belief tbh. better to ask what is right with them than what is wrong with them. Too many issues to list, dial/waves/logos/He/dw/crown/pearls etc. For such a straightforward three hand watch it's ridiculous that there isnt a better rep. As said above an old now closed factory from around 2007 had a better one in production...but those are long gone! Go for the first one, both are same watches, just lighting making one darker in pics but if you look closely one is slightly updated and has correct strikthrough omega logo and the other one has underscoring, not a big deal but the correct logo one is just nicer, it's not exactly a different watch, just a V1.1 update somewhere along the line. Some dealer offer the underscore version, go for one with the correct logo. See here: Gen vs new raised logo rep version (this one has underscored logo). QC pic of newer updated strikethrough logo verision: Good review of the raised logo 'red' smp chrono here: http://www.rwg.cc/to...-chrono-review/ As for who has it in stock, not sure, but they all could get it I'm sure, does Tony not have it in stock?

No prob nwolf. The black chrono is also nice but the black has the added issue of having green lume and greenish markers on the rep wheras the gen has blue lume and very white markers. The blue is more accurate in this regard.

Wow, not bad for a quartz rep that watcheden one, well not accurate but, it would look good if you don't mind ticking and wrong subdials etc.

The blue chrono is about the best of them, not superrep but not too far off, lume/Ar/pearl are issues, but tbh gen smp AR is rubbish single inner only anyway. So add lume and pearl and excellent rep, if not it's stiill great outofbox.

Congrats Ryan, keep us posted on the PO purchase. Didn't know you sold the TC also, ...you can always pick one up again later!

Those are extremely close to the gen, the black version they put wrong dw in it but the white/silver are great, black is great too, just put that proper dw in.

I saw it the other day, at first I went wow, but now that I've had another look at it not so sure. A cracking design definitely and fair play to the creators, but a lot of polished surfaces going on there (Breitling fans will be happy) and the middle part of the bracelet is not right ...saying that, the case, the hour markers especially and dial look cool, so does the red chrono hand. ....in fairness to the guys involved they should start their own company....companies like CW, Steinhart are making huge bucks dooing less original stuff.

Yep, happy to see this, there is alot to do, tidy up bezel numbers, centre pearl, correct rehaut but this is gonna be a big seller! He should hopefully update on progress soon.

Angus just posted some pics over on rg about the progress on a black bay from noob. Looks interesting so far! Gen on left, rep on right, a bit of work to do but the build looks extremely promising at this stage!

Great write up and great read BT, the watch looks fantastic. The final bit of smoothing around those bracelet edges is one of those things that should be done on most rep bracelets, even the good ones. It really adds that little bit of extra quality feeling and is well worth the effort.

Yeah old closed factory rep. Would love if they would get some factory to do them to that quality again. Probably never happen though.

Hi Akira, thanks for all the updates, definitely confirming if he can put dial and hands in one of his standard mystery v72 offerings, looking for full build here from him if possible. I know this is being awkward but I don't want to get into the $000's of a heavy franken daytona.....I love the watch but for those prices there are others too tempting Edit: I'm not up on DW's offerings, is he still doing builds with his mystery movement, how much roughly do they cost?

Certainly looks like a dg2813, or NN2813, does it have any markings on it? You could just buy a dg2813 from ofrei or cousinsuk or even on ebay and swap it out. I'm not sure of this particular movement exactly, but worth a try if you want to resurrect the watch. http://www.ofrei.com/page1119.html Keep the old movement as you may want the rotor or other parts from it if the hands done fit on the new movement cannon pin etc. btw if it is a price angels watch it might be just less hassle to buy an new one? How much did it cost?

lol chad, sorry nik, I actually found this one funny.

I'd go with the new portofino, it's a very good rep. Alternatively something like a PP aquanaut on a leather strap can look very dressy.

Great collection Miagi, three classics for sure. The LLD's are a great watch, bigger face on it than I imagined.

Great pics for size comparison roger, I have the jlc, and constantly interested to see the AP in good pics next to it. These are perfect.

Absolutely, count me in

Keep an eye on this thread OP, no news as yet! It could be a while until we see any release of the new ones. http://www.rwg.cc/topic/149835-when-do-we-see-decent-rep-of-omega-po-new-range-2011/