Guest zeleni kukuruz Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Does someone have some pics that you could post here? Would love some pics and wrist pics. Im thinking of getting one Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkay Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Do not taunt the LHOOQ His: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlydog Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 I miss this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephry73 Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 One day. One day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeleni kukuruz Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Great, thanks for the pics but pleAs let em come! Im thinking of a summer snorkel/dive watch and maybe i will contact davidsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubiquitous Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Do not taunt the LHOOQ Like a stick dragged across the bars of my cage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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redwatch Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Don't have this one anymore, but I still have the pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeleni kukuruz Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Im just afried that it will be too big on the wrist. It's 41mm but it looks bigger, im used to vintage rollis so will this one be too big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkay Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yes. This watch is too big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeleni kukuruz Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yes. This watch is too big. Hahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlydog Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hahahaha Did you buy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephry73 Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 There was one on ebay that sold for like 198 dollars not too long ago. E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeleni kukuruz Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Did you buy? No not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBOGH Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Some very nice Blancpain Fifty Fathoms here. I need to get one myself at some point. Decided to initially just tip my toe in to test the waters. Here's my cheaper gateway drug version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asf Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 i like that date wheel gbogh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi22 Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 hi guys what's the consensus on the best fifty fathoms rep? only two i know of right now are dsn and phong's, with a huge price difference, and according to some, a matching quality difference. anyone have any comments on this? thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woof* Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Ive never seen this watch in person and have also worried about the size on my wrist. One thing bout them is the vintage aspect is similar to Rolex. I landed on a cool website a couple years ago that had a huge display of them. All the variants over the years in high res pictures. The collection belonged to an old diver. I just spent an hour trying to find that site with no luck. The thing that really struck me was the aging of the dials...lume and tritium...all differnt colors and textures...very much like vintage Rollie's. I've wondered why the guys with the reps, in general don't age them this way? I wish I could show some examples. Beatiful watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 The FF wears smaller than I thought. Wears more like a vintage 40MM Rolex Sub.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 what's the consensus on the best fifty fathoms rep? only two i know of right now are dsn and phong's, with a huge price difference, and according to some, a matching quality difference. anyone have any comments on this? Apples and oranges, unfortunately, as they replica different models of the Fifty Fathoms. The DSN is more of a "composite" replication of the Fifty Fathoms from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It generally tries to copy styling cues from FFs with thick/tall bezels, and small dials. In my opinion, the model the DSN case most closely resembles is the Tornek-Rayville TR-900. The early "No-Radiations" dial and the '53 LIP-Blancpain dial are good choices for DSN. The Phong replicates the Aqua Lung, which is a smaller and slimmer watch, with a thinner bezel. Positives for the Phong BP include the period AS movement and the three-piece caseback. Negatives are the price, and the unconvincing bezel. It's too much money, in my opinion, for a watch that won't fool any Blancpain expert. You think vintage Rolex guys are paranoid? Any vintage Fifty Fathoms is presumed fake until proved otherwise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scropper Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Apples and oranges, unfortunately, as they replica different models of the Fifty Fathoms. The DSN is more of a "composite" replication of the Fifty Fathoms from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It generally tries to copy styling cues from FFs with thick/tall bezels, and small dials. In my opinion, the model the DSN case most closely resembles is the Tornek-Rayville TR-900. The early "No-Radiations" dial and the '53 LIP-Blancpain dial are good choices for DSN. The Phong replicates the Aqua Lung, which is a smaller and slimmer watch, with a thinner bezel. Positives for the Phong BP include the period AS movement and the three-piece caseback. Negatives are the price, and the unconvincing bezel. It's too much money, in my opinion, for a watch that won't fool any Blancpain expert. You think vintage Rolex guys are paranoid? Any vintage Fifty Fathoms is presumed fake until proved otherwise! The T-R has one fairly obvious tell though... In gen form it was never released as a 'civilian' piece and thus didn't have external lug holes. The Mil-spec and the No Rad dials were released as both military and civilian versions and the LIP dial was civ only (I think) so, lug-hole-wise anyway, they are more accurate. All of DSNs have external lug holes. That is just about the only thing I remember from my reading up on these a while ago, but with it in mind I think I'd go for the LIP and/or No-Rad as you also point out. S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi22 Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Ive never seen this watch in person and have also worried about the size on my wrist. One thing bout them is the vintage aspect is similar to Rolex. I landed on a cool website a couple years ago that had a huge display of them. All the variants over the years in high res pictures. The collection belonged to an old diver. I just spent an hour trying to find that site with no luck. The thing that really struck me was the aging of the dials...lume and tritium...all differnt colors and textures...very much like vintage Rollie's. I've wondered why the guys with the reps, in general don't age them this way? I wish I could show some examples. Beatiful watch here's blancpain's fifty fathoms tribute from 2010: http://www.forum-mdp.com/t16583-exposition-blancpain-tribute-to-fifty-fathoms-lhistoire-de-la-ff here's possibly the site you were trying to find: http://www.watchdeco.com/Welcome.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi22 Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Apples and oranges, unfortunately, as they replica different models of the Fifty Fathoms. The DSN is more of a "composite" replication of the Fifty Fathoms from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It generally tries to copy styling cues from FFs with thick/tall bezels, and small dials. In my opinion, the model the DSN case most closely resembles is the Tornek-Rayville TR-900. The early "No-Radiations" dial and the '53 LIP-Blancpain dial are good choices for DSN. The Phong replicates the Aqua Lung, which is a smaller and slimmer watch, with a thinner bezel. Positives for the Phong BP include the period AS movement and the three-piece caseback. Negatives are the price, and the unconvincing bezel. It's too much money, in my opinion, for a watch that won't fool any Blancpain expert. You think vintage Rolex guys are paranoid? Any vintage Fifty Fathoms is presumed fake until proved otherwise! thanks. and btw, you are absolutely correct about the FF guys; the polish navy issue is a good example, and i think the problem that made them all paranoid. a lot of polish navy fakes, and on top of that, they don't consider the 'gen' polish navy to be legit collector's pieces, bc no hard and fast provenance has ever been established for them. the non-fake pieces were all put together with NOS parts, but afaik, no one has found a well-used legit polish navy watch, let alone any documentation, only NOS ones. given all that, and the still pricey nature even of NOS polish navy pieces, i'd love to find a good rep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 The T-R has one fairly obvious tell though... In gen form it was never released as a 'civilian' piece and thus didn't have external lug holes. The Mil-spec and the No Rad dials were released as both military and civilian versions and the LIP dial was civ only (I think) so, lug-hole-wise anyway, they are more accurate. All of DSNs have external lug holes. Good stuff! All I remember was that any Polish Navy FF with pierced lugs were considered suspect. Of course, given the points raised by luigi22, that might be moot. The reason why I would choose the TR-900 option is the thick bezel the gen shares with the DSN rep. The later Bund and Polish Navy FFs also had thick bezels, but these were shaped differently. (The Precista PRS-50 is a good visual match for those later watches, I think.) Most of the "classic" FFs of the 50s and 60s had thin, fragile, bezels that no rep or homage has ever tried to copy. I do wish the old version of watchdeco was still up, or that I'd saved more of its photos. Whatever happened to that comprehensive chart it used to have on its last page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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