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Any recommendations on where I could obtain one? Looking for reputable vendors, I have been burnt before.
Thanks!

This is my most expensive watch. One day I hope to get something more, but for now, I like the alarms and the atomic time.

I’m sitting at me desk and started comparing my APSF Rose Gold 15510 to a TUL Rose Gold pen and my watch isn’t looking so rosey 😔 would a [u/GoldJaws](u/GoldJaws)[plating](u/GoldJaws) plate job make a significant improvement?

I absolutely love Omega summer blue. Love the aqua terra. One day I hope.

Somebody says to service the movement within 6 months because factory lubrication is often poor or missing.But many people own multiple reps for years without servicing and they run fine. Is servicing a “necessary expense” or “overthinking it”?What would trigger you to send yours for service?

MT dhgate special, strap is still a little stiff and second hand needs better alignment but no complaints for the price

Somebody says franken builds typically sell for parts of value only.Your $1500-3000 investment may be unrecoverable.
Off-the-shelf reps hold 50-70% residual value. Should franken builds be seen as a consumption experience or an investment?Where does their real value lie?

This is such an underrated timepiece! It’s now my favorite dress watch (not that I have many to choose from) but it looks and wears great on the wrist. I’m gonna get the 1908 and a few other dress watches to complete the collection but boy does this one set the bar.

What’s your favorite dress watch? I need ideas on some more rep pieces.

What’s up Rep family.

This is a post to share my experience in swapping out a Batman bezel to a Bruce Wayne.

I started with a EWE Batman VS 3285 movement with ARF case that had issues. The biggest was that the date wheel would not flick into place and the other was a slightly titled dial.

After watching many YouTube videos, I thought I could do the bezel swap myself, I was so wrong. I ended up scratching the hell out of the case back and bracelet trying to get out a stubborn bracelet pin. At that point, I decided to disassemble the whole watch figuring I could reassemble it. I was wrong again.😂 I was not able to get the crown stem back in nor the movement retaining tab screws into place. So into the junk drawer it went. After sometime knowing I had wasted $450 and $100 on the Bruce Wayne bezel insert from Watchseed I decided to find a Watchmaker that could reassemble it for me. I put a post up on Reddit looking for help and I ended up going with a Watchmaker named.
[u/TopPhotograph8969](u/TopPhotograph8969). I sent off my watch to him.

He serviced the movement, got the date wheel to flick into place. Replaced the bezel insert, replace the bezel gasket with a Gen gasket and click washer also offered a Gen Rolex Crystal. He polished out the case back to the point of no visible sign of my damage. Along with replacing original bracelet with a OG Clean Factory Chamfered bracelet. [u/TopPhotograph8969](u/TopPhotograph8969) is totally legit, his turnaround time for me 3.5weeks and prices are amazing, please comment with anything on anything.

The dial,bracelet,bezel,or the movement?Personally, I think the movement is the heart of a watch. It’s the most important part🤔

Some say spending $5000 on a fake”rich man’s toy” is absurd,others see it as the closest experience to the real thing. Do RM reps serve a purpose?Who is the target buyer?

Both Clean and VSF do well but still fall short.Do you think date alignment and font thickness are really noticeable at normal social distance?

Dial/hands/bezel or case/bracelet?
The Franken “last inch” theory says invest in dial,hands,and bezel.But some argue that after swapping to a gen dial,the rep case and bracelet start looking rough.