Newest addition to the family

[gioarmani]

This is my fastest arrival to date: I ordered this piece from Josh, for my girl, and it shipped the 5th, from Guangzhou--amazingly enough it arrived on my door in Florida this morning at 10:00 AM. Outstanding service!

And an outstanding piece. Already running perfect ETA 2671-2, siliconed & polished, dressed and ready for our 1 yr aniv in 3 weeks. Have a look:

And for comparison, here's a gen 79174 from the Bay:

The smooth bezel, SS, ladies Datejust on an oyster--especially with the basic Roman dial--is my favorite womans watch that Rolex makes. Well made, classic, minimalistic, not pretentious, and universal to almost anything she wants to accessorize with. She liked this piece in my AD a few months back, but rolled her eyes as to why anyone would pay that much for a watch, but she loves to sit & watch me tinker with these things, so I'm sure she'll get a kick out of it.

[freddy333]

She ought to love it.

[mikellem]

Beautiful watch!

I am sure she will love it...

MM

[gioarmani]

Thanks

[Toadtorrent]

great pick!!

[dluddy]

Nice one Gio...

[P4GTR]

Gio she's going to flip. Its beautiful.

[ammandel]

Hmm, gio - I don't see this model anywhere on Josh's site.. just the silver version with no rehaut engraving and old style bracelet, yours has the new type of functioning bracelet. Do you have a link please?

[Cats]

Nice gift for the 1st ann.

What will be the gift for the 2nd

Carpe Diem

Cats

[CY0811]

I bought my GF the older version of this years ago from EL...very good choice

[gioarmani]

Hmm, gio - I don't see this model anywhere on Josh's site.. just the silver version with no rehaut engraving and old style bracelet, yours has the new type of functioning bracelet. Do you have a link please?

http://www.jpc8118.com/rdjls10013-oyster-s...671-p-2313.html

[Jkay]

You mention polish .. what gear do you use to re-polish your watches to such perfection?

[gioarmani]

You mention polish .. what gear do you use to re-polish your watches to such perfection?

Actually, on this piece I just did a little on the brushed parts with this cloth:

http://www.amazon.com/Pierce-This-2-Polishing-jewelry/dp/B0007OEZ9G/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=jewelry&qid=1251584787&sr=8-21

When I need to buff out the actual polished parts of the case, I use a 6" bench grinder with this wheel & white rouge:

http://www.amazon.com/Woodstock-D3189-6-Inch-8-Inch-Buffing/dp/B001UE7JDG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=industrial&qid=1251655865&sr=8-1

Edited August 30, 2009 by gioarmani

[Jkay]

Thanks! I see that just as I asked this, your polishing tutorial appeared.

[gplracer]

Very nice. did you get the box from Josh as well?

[krpster]

Nice! I got my wife one of these for our aniversary too (except black dial). Very nice piece indeed. She loves it. Of course I wrapped it up with a little something for me too..... a Breitling Super Avenger

[docblackrock]

Nice pickup gio.

Shame, but I notice they still haven't addressed that glaring DW font on the ladies models. Suppose you could always pick up a gen. c.22xx DW and use as overlay.

[gioarmani]

Very nice. did you get the box from Josh as well?

Lord no--my boxes have only been gens. Rep boxes, especially the Rolex ones are a joke. They're not even the right shades of color.

Nice pickup gio.

Shame, but I notice they still haven't addressed that glaring DW font on the ladies models. Suppose you could always pick up a gen. c.22xx DW and use as overlay.

Where does one find one of those?

[bundamania]

Outstanding !

[HunterBL]

good choice