Iggyg00 Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Hello, I found this site about a week ago and started to look at breitling Rep. After a couple of days I went to a jeweler in the area and looked at both the SA with a blue dial and a Bentley GT with a black/pearl dial. Finally after pondering the price between a rep and gen I figured if I can save several thousand dollars and have the same movement etc why not. I started to look around at rep vendors of the SA and places to get gen parts. After not being able to source the actual watch from a vendor on the site I started to look at other sources and found Discovery110. I bought everything from him since he is local and it eliminates customs or shipping. The following is what I received: -Replica watch with asian movement, Pro 1 bracelet, black dial, and Double AR coating - Gen Blue dial - Gen bezel - swiss eta 7750 movement After getting all the parts last night I was chomping at the bit to put it together (WHAT A TASK THIS WAS, BUT I HAD FUN). mind you I have never put a watch together before and all I had for information was reading the site and threads on how to remove dials, hands, and to swap out an Asian ETA 7750 to a Swiss ETA 7750. So first I had to press the crystal into the case, this took several tries with the crystal press from harbor freight but it worked and seated all the way. After this I was going to put in the Asian movement with the Black rep dial until I was comfotable with swapping out to the swiss movement ( well that didnt happen after putting it in the case the movement would not work). So 10pm what do I do, start removing parts and putting the gen parts on because I spent all this money and want to wear this watch . So long story short 2:30 AM watch is complete and working and I didnt even have a hand puller (used needle nose tweezers and went very slow) - not for the faint of heart. Good thing though is know I can mess around with the asian movement and see if I can get it working again. I just want to say thank you for this great site and look forward to adding to my collection. I will try and get pics up later today if I can find my camera. Iggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b16a2 Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Sounds like you have had a lot of fun, can't wait to see pictures of this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italiano17771 Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 wow great job! thats incredible...cant wait to see the pics. congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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