Noob Needs Help!

[pollux1]

hi all, i've just purchased an ultimate Po from Andrew, it's flawless to be honest! can anyone advise how to remove one link from the bracelet? it's pins not screws. Also, my next buys will be a s/s bracelet for my Panerai ( no probs there ) then an Ingenieur, and after that hopefully an Omega speedmaster moonwatch, is there a speedmaster which is close to the gen? And finally, does anyone know if or when the new ingenieurs will be released and will they have the dial chip and bracelet weakness sorted? Sorry for so many questions, and thanks for taking the time to read and answer.

[fotoman]

you need to either take it to a watch place, i recomend one of those places in the mall that wont blink an eye at the watch or get yourself a pin tool

[KB]

As Pho says get it to a watch repaire place to do it, I just had mine done at my local jewelers and he actually called me on it being fake simply because the clasp was a bit hard to close.

However my wife and I have do a fair bit of shopping there so when I asked how much for removing the link he just shook my hand and said Merry Christmas

Love the season

Ken

[pollux1]

Thank you ken and Pho, i'll take it to a local watchmaker, it'll save me from ruining such a nice watch.

[tvt]

Doesn't surprise me that Ken got called out on the fake just by the feel. it is almost always the FEEL of a watch that is the dead giveaway. I think 99 out of 100 fakes can be caught with your eyes closed if you are at all familiar with the way the gen should feel. With gens you simply do not have clasp issues or bezel issues or winding issues that you often have with the copies.

I think that visually, especially whe on the wrist it is MUCH harder to tell.

On a side note I was at an Panerai AD today and they had a Daylight. The bezel engraving was fine, I mean REALLY fine, MUCH finer (by that I mean think and sharp) than any fake I have seen. I wonder if this is a newer change they started recently as it seemns finer than the gens used to have.