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[Nanook65]

Good grief dude....
Please stop posting pics that have been intentionally doctored to try and make your point. This pic is NOT at all representative...

[Nanook65]

I am sorry for hurting your feelings. I am not sorry that I called you out for intentionally doctoring a picture to make the look worse than it actually...

[Nanook65]

This is absurd! Why would you even say this? You have been here for a short time and have almost no posts so what exactly makes you an expert on this?...

[Nanook65]

I either have or have had every watch that has been mentioned here. My vote is for the VSF 2018 smp. It is a super nice watch & rep

[Nanook65]

Welcome to the forum...
If you use the search button in the upper right right area of the page you are on, you will find ther answer you are looking...

[Nanook65]

I think that as a general rule newcomers are overly obsessed with QC.

Check to see that the watch ordered is the same watch the TD has for...

[Nanook65]

I found RWG first, but I found myself here more often just because m2m here is so much more active

[Nanook65]

All TD's can get the same watches and there is a reason they are called TD's as they have all earned the title ....Trusted

[Nanook65]

Katt is great

[Nanook65]

If you are in the US Katt is more than capable. He is in the watchmakers here on ther site. He worked on my VSF 2018 smp 300.
https://forum.rep...

[Nanook65]

Intime is a dealer. They sell watches from all the factories. Factories make watches, TD's sell watches.
Factories are: noob, GF, VSF V6F, OMF...

[Nanook65]

When ever someone says should I get this or that watch I almost always think, "get both". You have basically come to that same conclusion so...

[Nanook65]

All reps might or might not be waterproof. Rep makers lie, ie they say watches are 1:1 etc when obviously they are not. So no matter what they say,...

[Nanook65]

a) why in the world would you limit yourself to just 1 watch?
b) Shilola makes fine watches & all but not many of us dream of a shinola...

[Nanook65]

Good idea!

For me, I have the tools & the ability to put parts together, but I wouldn't bother with what the op is thinking of doing....

[Nanook65]

Ok, so that wasn't ther answer I expected and changes things considerably. Your ability to put together watch parts is no longer an issue, but there...

[Nanook65]

100% agree with this...

[Nanook65]

Are you a watchmaker. Have you ever done this sort of thing and do you already have watchmaker tools?

If the answer to the above 3 questions...

[Nanook65]

I think these 2 pics depict exactly what I have been saying all along which is that lighting conditions and camera settings can change the color a lot...

[Nanook65]

if you are worried, skip Rolex and any other rep that is way above your pay grade. Stick to watches that someone with a relatively normal income could...