Carrera Tachy lume?

[nicewatches]

Hey everyone,

Just received my first rep from Mark at TimeShops.net - the bloody thing took 20 minutes to get into (amazing packaging) - and it looks great and seems to be keeping good time in the past 2 days (though it died on me tonight but I only swirled it for a couple of minutes and set it down for 12+ hours so that's probably my fault!) however I did notice a couple of differences, with the lume being a really big concern for me.

I was delighted to find that the screws in the back are silver and not blue like the one I ordered - I was a bit worried about this since it screams rep.

Differences noticed from gen:

1) Marker at 9 position is a bit longer than the gen (it should be the same as the marker at 3)

2) 'Swiss Made' at the bottom is a little bit out of center in comparison to gen (this isn't a huge issue because you will never look at that anyways)

3) Subdials are a bit thicker than the gen, however without having a gen side to side you wouldn't be able to tell a difference

Overall a great rep, however I tested it for lume and didn't see any! Does the gen have lume? I didn't have it in the sun, but rather just in the daylight in my house, so I am not 100% sure this doesn't have lume but I thought it would still give off a little glow!

From the pic there seems to be lume on the minutes/hour hands, and also around each marker (5,10,15,20 minute etc).

Any info is appreciated!

I also ordered an IWC Portuguese unitas 6498 hand wind movement from this thread: http://www.rwg.cc/members/IWC-Portuguese-1...Pho-t97170.html

Will post a full review some point this weekend! Cheers

[jmarin.72]

This is a gen so that you can compare it

BTW the lume on the GEN is not good either.

[nicewatches]

Wow - just checked TimeShops and the watch that I ordered is no longer there or in stock, and it was replaced with the version I posted in the original post. I am kind of [censored] about this because the subdial rings are completely off, the marker at 9 is too big in comparison to the Gen, the word "automatic" is too close to the subdial on the rep than in comparison to the Gen.

This is not the watch I ordered (ordered before the website was changed, and ordered this one: http://www.timeshops.net/Tag_Heuer_Carrera...0_Black_581.htm - however the picture has been removed).

What can I do about this? I kind of feel ripped off from Mark because he totally switched versions on me without letting me know and even changed his website to cover it up.

Edit: After thinking about it even more, I am now very upset about this. I thought Mark was supposed to be one of the trusted dealers, so why would he pull this kind of crap? He took the product down from his website, and sent me the wrong watch (which after comparisons to the Gen looks nothing like the gen and most important of all nothing like what I ordered). If he is not amicable about this should I reverse the charge on my credit card and send the watch back?

Edited June 26, 2009 by nicewatches