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Whilst cleaning out the watchbox and project bins I stumbled upon a long forgotten relic that made me realize that newer folks probably never got a chance to see some of these. The hunk of metal lurking in the bottom of the parts bin was this PAM088. It all starts some 8-9 8ish years ago with n H Factory PAM089. The 089 is a weird story. I bought it with the Ted Su hornback strap and the movement took a [censored]. Sent it in to misiekped and it was botched and I needed to find another A7750 to repair it. It took me a while but eventually I came across another 089 with the same movement and thought it was good to go but alas it was giving me issues as well so I shelved it and the search continued. That's when the 088 came up. So that one arrives and it turns out it was misadvertised and has a slowbeat movement. A comedy of errors at this point stretching on and on. My life got busy and I left the rep hobby behind for a good while. Years later I pull the 089 out and it's back to life. Still functioning to this day. Strangest thing. I figure the other 089 is probably in a box of spare parts somewhere on Mike's bench or hopefully it brought some other unfortunate watches back to life. The Davidsen Fiddy Destro was purchased back around that same era. This has a caseback engraved with RXW indicating that this would have been a rep of what was essentially a high end rep. Another strange case for the rep files of yesteryear. It's a beautifully done watch though with a Swiss movement, torch lume, and a beautiful strap by Blue Radish. The 088 and 089 are both on Ted Su straps, the 088 wearing a Ted Su ammo strap, and the 089 wearing baby hornback in grey to match the anthracite dial and titanium case. One of my favorite watches I've collected in years of collecting. Long since obsolete and rare these days, I'm glad I found the 088 in my box of spare parts. It took me down a road of nostalgia and fun memories.