palpatine

Excellent review!

i have to thank you rob! you know for what!

WOW! beautiful collection of movements and datewheels! you were right, its a genuine rlx datewheel. the clue is, its installed on an old movement with the correct rotation (counter clockwise). so it does function correctly. well it would, it does not at the moment because i have some problems with the movement and i think i have to bring it to my watchmaker because i do not find the problem.... so overall, this 1680 has: -genuine crystal -genuine bracelet -genuine datewheel -genuine endlinks -genuine insert with vintage pearl

i looked through old pics and i found some of one of my last projects before my time-out and i thought i post them... not finished so i think i will soon try to make some progress with it... BTW: please ignore the tudor crown

they will be made to fit ETA 6497 manual and 7750 auto stems. i will check if they will fit on asian auto movement stems too... there will be also a (smaller) run in titanium

Hi! i am not sure about the final price of the new batch, i will ask him if he already knows that. @all! thanks, its good to be back and do some watch stiuff again!

First of all an explanation: I was not involved in the offerings of the first batch of the crowns. I did not even know what the status of the project was when I was offline. I am receiving some PMs which show that some of the members think that I sold the crowns etc. so please understand that I simply do not know about the details of your transactions with pam ela. i will forward the pms to pam ela of course and do whatever i can to help you... Here is an update of my involvement in the crown project: i simply helped the initiator of the crown project pam ela with my input etc to get the best out of it. The plan was that I get crowns then for my customers. and then i went offline due to the death of my mother. Now after being back again, i called him 3 days before to get the status of the project and heard that he went on on his own and sold his first batch which is understandable of course because I was not able to participate for some weeks. I read that the crowns were not 100%. But still far better than the rep crowns in my eyes but I know that we are a bunch of eagle eyed and insane members here which are 100% into details so we are satisfied when its 99% or 100%. He told me, that the drawings etc were very good (and modelled after our input) but it seems that the man who made the crowns with the CNC machine did not follow all the instructions 100% to make them exactly like in the drawings. Its hard to explain that but everyone who already worked on some things like that know that its very hard to get people to do EXACTLY what one want, especiall we the watch nuts which are 100% into details. so he simply did not make the 100% correct bevel. thats what pam ela told me. the situation now is: he is already working on the next version of the crowns and in this run I will be involved again with my input. He also wants to offer a special deal for the customers who bought the first version crown. If they want to, thay will be able to upgrade at a very low price (costs of making) to the updated version if they want to. So he tries to find a fair solution for the ones who already bought one of the crowns from the batch (which are not bad IMHO, still way better than the rep ones). Pam ela has spent a lot of money to make the crowns and it does look like he will not get back the amount he spent on the first batch, so that’s pretty that is the latest news i got: there is a new batch already in the making which (hopefully, if the CNC man follows the drawings 100% exactly this time) will be the better and close to perfection. My latest info is that it will take 1-2 weeks until i receive the first crowns out of the new batch which i will check out and post a detailed review. So lets make it short: PAM ela offers the follwing: Members who want a crown from the first batch can still buy these from him for a reduced price. Members who bought crowns from the first batch can upgrade at special conditions Members who want a crown from the 2. improved batch can get these soon in 2 weeks. I will get the new ones as soona s they are finished and write a review. If they are as good as they should be, i will be able to get these for my "customers" thats what i know so far and i will stay on teh ball and keep you updated! cheers tommy

thank you so much for all your nice replies and pms!! its incredible...i do not know what to say just thank you all for your support!!! i am still reading and reading....so many things that happened and so many new watches i want to have . but these have to wait until summer because i can´t afford any at the moment. no wonder after all the weeks without working and any salary, i had an unpaid leave BTW: i will post an update about the whole PAM crown thing in repair section soon...

Hi folks, some have noticed that i was offline for some time and therefore I wanted to let you know that I am back again and I wanted to post an explanation for my absence. Also about the status of the PVD project and the PAM crowns. First off all, thanks for all the emails and the nice words i received, it really helped me!! its so great to see that this is far more than just an internet forum! The reason for that I was not able to visit the forum(s) for the last weeks was that my mother, to which I had a very close relationship, suddenly died. It was not the fact that she died that completely pulled the ground under my feet but it was the circumstances under which that happened. I do not want to get into details here, all I want to say is, that it happened in a restaurant during our lunch. she died there on the floor between all the shocked people and I was kneeing besides her. That’s all I want to say at the moment, I was completely knocked out, because it was a horrible scenario. After that I got serious problems in the following weeks and I got medication to calm me down. i never thought that something could hit me like that. I stopped taking medication now and I start to feel better now, slowly but continuously. I have days where I feel good but then again days where I feel bad and I have problems with my concentration. Therefore I was not able to work on watches, I tried but it was impossible. I want to say a big sorry to all members who joined the PVD project and that had to wait for a moding project. I will do all I can to accelerate these things now. I will keep you updated soon! Also sorry to all other members who have PMded me and I did not reply. I will try to slowly catch up now and reply to the messages. In case you did not get an answer in the next days, please PM me again. I will try to catch up with everything, please i have no clue what watches are new, what has been going on with RWG, Blade etc. so i have to invest some serious time in reading through all this. Besides that, I started to work again and i have so much work to do, its unbelievable. but thats good, it means no time to think tooo much. Therefore please understand that it can take a bit until i can respond to emails and PMs. But i will definately! Life must go on. Cheers Tommy P.S. damn, i made a typo in my screen name "palaptine" instead of "palpatine" would one of the mods be so kind to correct this? Thanks!!!