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Hi. I have placed an order for Breitling Superocean 42 Abyss Yellow two weeks ago. Purchase was flawless, everything went fine and package has arrived three days ago. When i received the watch i was amazed by its quality. I can tell you, it was love at first sight So I have spent a little while searching for some gen shots to make a little rep-gen comparison. DIAL: Dial looks pretty good to me. It is not perfect, so there can be found minor flaws compared to gen. Edges of the numbers on the dial are sharper on the gen. Reps have the edges bit rounded. BREITLING script on the reps looks to be written with different font. It looks like Arial or something like that has been used. And maybe the font is a bit thicker than it should be. Yellow color is really close, but is not gen like. Gens use colors that are a little bit more saturated or darker, it is closer to orange. But there is only slight difference between these colours. Numbers on the bezel are also sharper on the gen. Hands (hour and minute) seem to be more rounded on gen. Rep are more flat. But these really are minor flaws as we are looking at both watches under macro shots and these are not noticable by the eyes. On the other hand date wheel or script is the same as gen. Bezel is rubberized, lume is well applied (but not that shiny). Other things such as triangle, bezel teeth, markers, BREITLING logo look perfect. All in all dial is great and minor flaws are accepted. It is like 95% gen This is the same thing shoot from a side. You can nottice the small color difference here. STRAP: Caoutchouc strap is one of the best thing on these watches. It is great. It is light, comfortable to wear and matches gen - same material, same design, same script and details. This piece is so well made, that if I would be gen owner, I would not buy gen strap from my AD. I would deffinitely buy this one! CASEBACK: Caseback is absolutely beautiful. Engravings are correct and also correctly placed. Only minor flaw can be, that the engravings on gen are bit deeper. But overall, caseback is perfect. No cons. LEFT SIDE: SO42 look very good from the side. He escape valve looks fine, case looks to have small noticable differences, nothing big. BUT what concerns me, are those screws on the side of bezel! They are incorrectly placed. All the gens have these screwed at 15 and 45 and each 10 mins between. Rep (at least my particular piece) have screws at 60 and 30 and then 10 mins. This means that each screw on the rep should have been placed 5 mins later I have been searching through TD sites and it looks like these reps come with two types of bezel. One that matches gen screwing and the other one, placed 5 mins later (or earlier . So watch out. RIGHT SIDE You see? No crown at 15.... But crown and B logo looks fine. Maybe on the picture the gen crown looks bit larger, but in reality it is the same thing. Slight differences can be caused be the fact, that my shots were made by a mobile phone CONCLUSION: Aside from the flaws these reps are must have. They are so well made, that they look very luxurious and expensive. I can tell you, with these on your wrist, nobody is going to ask you whether they are gen or not. Quality is awesome and i love them. The best thing about these Superocean is their size. For people with small wrists these fit just perfect. They have its own design, which many may not like. I love them, because they are perfet juice of elegance and sporty design and i feel comfortable to wear these on daily basis as my main dress watch. Some things may be improved in the future for V2 like correctly placed screws, better lume, correct BREITLING script on the dial and make sharper numbers. On the other hand, nobody is going to study your watch while you have them on your wrist with microscope. When properly serviced they will do great job and run +3 secs a day like mine (yes, within COSC standarts Breitling Superocean 42 are one of the watches, I would recommend to everyone. GREAT watch. OK. And now some porn: Thanks for reading

I bought a Breitling Superocean Abyss in June, 2011. I used it a lot the first year, ie more or less a daily beater. Shortly after it stopped, and I used other watches. I brought it to Thailand and got it repaired, the repairman didn't say a lot and I hoped he had changed the movement. Didn't get an answer and he said of course " a year" and I thought sh.t! The watch went perfect not slowing or fastening, however after a month it stopped, then going 2-5 sec and stop for some sec and going for some sec, etc. When I brought it to repairman in Thailand he said it had had a shock. I did not use it when doing manual labour, however after it stopped I shaked it a lot around. There is a retired watch repairman close to where I live so I hope I can get him to change movement on this. (He doesn't do complicated repairs anymore, so I hope he will do this) I paid about USD 270 + post, and paid too much for the repair , so I thought getting an Asian 2824 and getting someone to change this. Trying to find an asian 2824 seems a bit difficult, although some on ebay. From watchuseek.com comparison ETA 2824-2 , Seagull ST-2130, TY2130 and HZ 6300. http://forums.watchuseek.com/f72/how-do-seagull-hangzhou-compare-eta-depth-look-216945.html 1. The link above does say that these movements are about the same, but I am unaware how to find the right replacement? Is this a match? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ETA-2824-2-AND-SELLITA-SW200-CLONE-MOVEMENT-SEAGULL-ST2130-100-EXACT-SAME-SPECS-/121081456572?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c310467bc How to specify a movement that fits? 2. Pitfalls? 3. Good to load up with movements? I have different movements like 4813, 2824, 7750, quartz, etc. Was a bit disappointed that this "simple" movement stopped. 4. surprised that these movements cost after I heard on this forum earlier that a movement like this costs USD 25. 5. Also heard this model, the Abyss had a tube weakness, my watch has been easy to fasten crown after adjustment. I know some watches fail and others go for a long time, that is also my experience.