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448 OEM Dial a little crooked?

watchngars

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31/3/16
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Yeah, obviously. I bought this Franken back at the end of May I believe. Dead on arrival but the seller agreed to replace and 'redo'. It arrived last week and looked great. Several hours in and the dial shifted. I sent it up to Katt (he's awesome) and while trying to take the movement out, the stem broke. I'm snakebit. He said that I'd need to send it to someone that can work on "keyless" movements. Keyless, and I'm clueless. I wonder if I should just have someone put in a new movement, one that could more easily be serviced.. Check it out. Kind of looks like the VC that is off-center. But the movement "doesn't know it". :laugh: (And yes, the strap is badass; it was the 'hook', along with the original Panerai Cali dial)

 

NickOT

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post a picture of the back,
if you have the P3000 clone movement you're going to have to buy a new crown and stem from a TD.

I'm guessing since this has a gen dial the dial feet has been cut off and the dial stuck to the movement using glue or double sided tape, this has come undone so the dial shifted.
still confused about what happened though, a broken stem and keyless works needing fixing are two different things. Not to be too harsh but it sounds like katt didn't really know what he was doing.