As someone new this hobby(Aug) I asked a lot of questions, maybe an annoying large amount of questions and Chris always got back to me and addressed all my concerns. The customer service that I have received during this exchange is really the incremental thing that had the most value during this process. I will now be a life long customer and have another ROO Franken RC Project, a 15400 Heavily Modded Project, and a ROO Diver Heavily Modded Project + Rep & Gen watches now with Chris due to his competence and my confidence in his abilities demonstrated during this build. Much thanks to my friend Chris for his work on modding my first AP franken project!
Breakdown:
- Gen Dial, Tachy & Backplate
- Gen Spec Mikey Hands
- Brand New LWO 283 movement w/ gen cyclops (thx guru)
- Prof 2x AR Crystal (thx rnrpfof)
- Gen Spec Datewheel (thx edgematic)
- Noob Safari Case Donor thinned to spec
- J12 SS Bracelet
I received this watch a few weeks ago but today is the first time I've actually had a chance to sit down in front of my computer and write a much deserve review of my experience. It has been a bumpy road with a lot of studying and a lot of work to get this watch made. I first bought a RC dial of Ebay in a rush to make my first franken and then discovered it was going to be very hard to find a gen tachy. Upon realizing that a silver tachy was nearly impossible to source and I couldn't seem to find a rep donor with a silver tachy anywhere. I was spending hours every day looking all over the net and then I found a Dial-Tachy-Backplate set on eBay. I reached out to forum for some help on the build and what to do with my 2 dials. Guru informed me about the movements he could get and said he could help translate for me to the modder and it seemed as a pretty viable option to send everything across the pond to get everything installed.
While in the process of ordering a brand new donor and shipping sourced parts overseas I get a message from Chris saying he can do the build right here in the US, at the time I didn't mind the international dealing as I had dealt this way before with no issue. So I have one build across the pond and one build here in CONUS and money has been sent through paypal and everything is fine or so I thought... A few days after payments are sent they are pulled and suspended by paypal, and my sending money privileges are revoked by paypal. Paypal tells me that I'm moving large amounts of money overseas with no explanation as to why and they need me to explain myself. So I do just that, submit documentation but paypal keeps freezing my international payments, and are now not letting me send large amounts at once. Issues with paypal happen over and over again for about a month, I'm 35 and Ive started a few businesses since I graduated college way back when, so as you can imagine paypal has no reason to doubt the legitimacy of my transactions. I've used them alot the past 15 years. I finally get paypal to push the money through by threatening to close down my merchant accounts with them. In the end it was a great big mess and left a bad taste for paypal in my mouth, and unfortunately with international transactions paypal is one of the few that is usually universally accepted. In the end I had to get Chris to send the final international payment for me.
Going the extra mile doesn’t begin to describe it. I was told a few weeks to do the build once he had all the parts. I think he had it off to me in a little over a week. I’m ecstatic that we can get these amazing franken builds done here is the US as well now, and I’m glad that other folk that have held off on getting their grail assembled because they didn’t want to deal internationally can now send their projects to Miami to be compiled.
Pics Of Dial-Tachy-Backplate & QC from Chris (I asked for lots of pics)
.... in my possession
Cheers,
Jonathan
Breakdown:
- Gen Dial, Tachy & Backplate
- Gen Spec Mikey Hands
- Brand New LWO 283 movement w/ gen cyclops (thx guru)
- Prof 2x AR Crystal (thx rnrpfof)
- Gen Spec Datewheel (thx edgematic)
- Noob Safari Case Donor thinned to spec
- J12 SS Bracelet
I received this watch a few weeks ago but today is the first time I've actually had a chance to sit down in front of my computer and write a much deserve review of my experience. It has been a bumpy road with a lot of studying and a lot of work to get this watch made. I first bought a RC dial of Ebay in a rush to make my first franken and then discovered it was going to be very hard to find a gen tachy. Upon realizing that a silver tachy was nearly impossible to source and I couldn't seem to find a rep donor with a silver tachy anywhere. I was spending hours every day looking all over the net and then I found a Dial-Tachy-Backplate set on eBay. I reached out to forum for some help on the build and what to do with my 2 dials. Guru informed me about the movements he could get and said he could help translate for me to the modder and it seemed as a pretty viable option to send everything across the pond to get everything installed.
While in the process of ordering a brand new donor and shipping sourced parts overseas I get a message from Chris saying he can do the build right here in the US, at the time I didn't mind the international dealing as I had dealt this way before with no issue. So I have one build across the pond and one build here in CONUS and money has been sent through paypal and everything is fine or so I thought... A few days after payments are sent they are pulled and suspended by paypal, and my sending money privileges are revoked by paypal. Paypal tells me that I'm moving large amounts of money overseas with no explanation as to why and they need me to explain myself. So I do just that, submit documentation but paypal keeps freezing my international payments, and are now not letting me send large amounts at once. Issues with paypal happen over and over again for about a month, I'm 35 and Ive started a few businesses since I graduated college way back when, so as you can imagine paypal has no reason to doubt the legitimacy of my transactions. I've used them alot the past 15 years. I finally get paypal to push the money through by threatening to close down my merchant accounts with them. In the end it was a great big mess and left a bad taste for paypal in my mouth, and unfortunately with international transactions paypal is one of the few that is usually universally accepted. In the end I had to get Chris to send the final international payment for me.
Going the extra mile doesn’t begin to describe it. I was told a few weeks to do the build once he had all the parts. I think he had it off to me in a little over a week. I’m ecstatic that we can get these amazing franken builds done here is the US as well now, and I’m glad that other folk that have held off on getting their grail assembled because they didn’t want to deal internationally can now send their projects to Miami to be compiled.
Pics Of Dial-Tachy-Backplate & QC from Chris (I asked for lots of pics)
.... in my possession
Cheers,
Jonathan
