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My new PAM 236 arrived


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looks good and thanx for the quick pics. date alignment? AR quality? and the bracelet to lug spacing looks loose?

all the best.

I only advanced about 8 days with the set function on the case and the dates snap into place perfectly. I obviously have not been able to observe the overnight change by the normal movement function.

I am still learning about the fine points of AR. I have quite a few watches including gen complications and I find the AR on this watch excellent.

Regarding the spacing between bracelet and lugs, I also was concerned about that when I saw the QC pics. The top end of the bracelet fits perfectly. The spacing at the bottom seems due to manufacturing tolerances of the bracelet piece. The bottom one is about .2mm narrower than the top piece. Bear in mind though that the watch is significantly magnified in the pics and the spacing is much less noticeable in reality. I will check with Josh whether he can get me a better end piece for the bracelet.

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:mellow: this does not look promissing...post-391-015752800 1284676802.gif

I agree. This appears to be the problem: It seems that the hole of the lever is lined with some kind of a plastic tube and the crown is not springloaded. When the lever is closed -- the force is pretty strong -- what gives, is the lining in the lever hole and thus the end of the lever near the pin gets pushed out. If the lining of the lever whole has enough elasticity, then reducing the diameter of the roller of the lever might help. From what I can see without taking the CG apart, shaving the lever does not seem to be an option as there is not enough material because of the lining of the lever whole. Please bear in mind that I am guessing a bit as to how exactly the lever is constructed.

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Lume is not a problem. That can be re-done.

The CG is a much bigger issue

Should be fixable by either swapping the crown gasket and/or the lever pin lining - failing that a different lever

The roller ball detail is nice but I would have liked to see a better fitting CG as a basic must have

Will have to see when mine arrives

FGD

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Should be fixable by either swapping the crown gasket and/or the lever pin lining - failing that a different lever

The roller ball detail is nice but I would have liked to see a better fitting CG as a basic must have

Will have to see when mine arrives

FGD

Your point about the crown gasket sounds interesting. Another member just posted pics, and the CG on his watch looks a lot better. I noticed that the crown on his watch is located much closer to the case. I also looked at pics of the gen and it appears that the spacing between crown and case on my watch is larger than it is on the gen. It seems, there is a good chance that the CG problem can be fixed if I can figure out how to get the crown closer to the case by about .5 mm.

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