Tranman said:
Did you ever watch the movie Shallow Hal? Jason Alexander has a hot GF but complains about her 2nd toe being longer than her big toe. And Jack Black is like...dude, who cares!!! Yeah, that's me... :mrgreen:
that quote, tran, nails it on the head.
i've only got 2 more things to say: after that, there's really nothing else i would even try...
1) this is from by-tor, someone very few would disagree is a rolex expert, nut, and meticulous reviewer (he loves them enough to have bought a gen GMT):
"...the watch certainly is a good looker and very good replication...It is available with the correct hand stack (short: CHS), which means independently adjustable hour hand. Correct hand stack means that the 24h hand is placed above the hour hand. This movement behaves like the gen, and the hour hand moves in one hour increments. But it's also an accident waiting to happen. I have plenty of experience with the CHS, so I decided to opt for the wrong hand stack Swiss ETA movement.
The wrong hand stack (short: WHS) version is a "faux" GMT movement, and it doesn't operate like the gen. The 24h hand is placed below the hour hand in the stack, and ONE time during the day the hour hand and 24h hand "meet". This is when the visual problem with the WHS occurs. However, you can set the 24h hand "meeting point" to say, 2am or 3am if it bothers you. Besides this "meeting point" the hand stack is very difficult to detect without a loupe. The small annoyance with the "faux" WHS modification is that you have to set the 24h hand "in sync" manually. This has been covered in this article (
http://www.rwg.cc/members/Replica-faux- ... 54602.html). I have developed a good trust in this WHS ETA "bastardization", and I can recommend it to anyone (as long as you really get a genuine ETA)...
Replica snobs look this movement down their noses, because it doesn't act like the "real" GMT movement. In this modification it's not possible to set the hour hand independently at all, but you set the GMT hand instead. This happens when you unscrew the crown into date set position, and turn the crown anti-clockwise.
The problem with the GMT hand setup is that the GMT hand turns freely and smoothly over the dial, which (supposedly) makes it difficult to set the GMT hand "in sync" with the local time.
In my opinion, this is absolute nonsense. There's nothing difficult to make it sync with the hour hand. Just wait until time is say, 9'o'clock sharp (or before setting the local time, set all the hands at say, '12 sharp manually), and move the GMT hand exactly into the desired xx:00 2nd timezone position.
When you have once set the GMT hand in sync, you don't necessarily have to touch it anymore, ever again (assuming you have a watch like Rolex GMT Master, which has rotating bezel with 2nd timezone hour markers). When you set the time (in the crown position 3) the GMT hand follows along perfectly (and stays in sync). If you want to set your GMT hand to follow some other timezone, you just turn the bezel into the desired position.
REPEAT: "...you can set the 24h hand "meeting point" to say, 2am or 3am if it bothers you. Besides this "meeting point" the hand stack is very difficult to detect without a loupe."
2) from fakey's corner:
OR, just buy the gen, one watch, for $7+ grand...
i have a few gens (all bought b4 i discovered this place), i have a few reps. personally, n this is JUST me, i'd rather get a high-end rep gmtII-c, set the WHS 'meet' time for 3am, and have enough dough for up to 25 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25) other high-end reps, if i wanted. that's a helluva lot more fun to me...
try to even think of 25 other reps you really really want...
