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Franck Muller - Vanguard
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Muller are hard watches to rep. Just the cost of liming the curved numbers is difficult with cheap labor. Their also fairly chunky. I like FM but wish the would do more Long Island reps.
Elloello can get ahold of some reps he has built in the EU. Very interesting watches. I've wanted a Conquistador King Cortez. Only one TD has one but because of their strap inserts you basically have to enjoy the rubber straps or spend $500US on a gen strap. That's what I did with my Casablanca but it does look very nice.
What shall we have? An '82 Margaux! Is it any good? Good....?, It will make you believe in God!
Elloello can get ahold of some reps he has built in the EU. Very interesting watches. I've wanted a Conquistador King Cortez. Only one TD has one but because of their strap inserts you basically have to enjoy the rubber straps or spend $500US on a gen strap. That's what I did with my Casablanca but it does look very nice.
What shall we have? An '82 Margaux! Is it any good? Good....?, It will make you believe in God!
The Rose Gold one with Black dial is a Casablanca. Right now you can only find ones with Chrono and A7753 movements but they work well in the. Better than in some PAM modems that have tried 7753 with mixed results. Of course with RG, 18K you have to be very careful as that gold plate is soft. I actually bought a plating system and the solutions just in case. I love the crazy hours. I did a big project one one last year. I have loads of parts leftover but it's a fun watch just not great for all occasions. A great conversation starter as people see it and just come right up to you and ask you about it. The bigger curvex ones don't look as nice as the LI do but some great dials available. I still have a copper dial and a silver dial. I asked Vac how much to Lume the Silver dial and it was $225US. The curves are quite difficult. FM watches are pretty much love them or hate them. TheFlyingDutchman and elloello have big collections of beautiful watches.
What shall we have? An '82 Margaux! Is it any good? Good....?, It will make you believe in God!
What shall we have? An '82 Margaux! Is it any good? Good....?, It will make you believe in God!
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^ thanks for sharing your knowledge of FMs. Really appreciated. I agree it will be hard to replicate no reps are perfect. But with the recent introduction of the IWC 5001/5007s I am very hopeful that if the makers put their best efforts they can come pretty close. I really hope they do make some nice FM reps in the future instead of trying hard to replicate RMs.
I own a gen Vanguard and have yet to see a half decent rep. Will be a long time, if ever - before we see a good rep of this line.
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I've seen one like this... The yachting one
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I certainly can let this grow on me... Link?
That's gen, no rep as far as I'm aware. I meant the yachting one, that's rep
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I saw the blue one on Ali or DH a couple of months back. It was 233. Obvs not sure about the quality.
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It's not a million miles off... More a thousand
I'd love to get one in hand tho, all things fm interest me!
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