They can be had for under 480. Just gotta check around the Tds.
Intime and Puretime and very good dealers, but they have always been a bit higher on prices.
And yes, they dont have to be a TD here to be trusted. Years ago I dealt with a few dealers who werent even on the forums and had good luck. However, you cant believe all of the things they might say.
Bottom line, if you like the dealer and theyve treated you right cool. But dont come running for help here if they screw you over.
thats of course, this is the only dealer that i had been dealing with tho and all my pieces have perfect alignments on insert click pearl, DW, date cyclops, laser etch crown and rehuat crown you tell me thats not handpicked ? and i am lucky every single time? my TD upload hundreds of QC videos showing his customers the exact same thing alignments every deal he makes its the same anyone who purchased from him has the perfect alignments, there is trust there is honesty, definitely a responsible TD .. just a bad thing is you have to wait, because like what i said, not everytime when the stocks arrived you got the luck to pick the best alignments, most of them have bad alignments, if he is lucky he can only choose maybe 3 or 4 out of 20 pieces and i believe him, why ? because every QC he uploads on youtube are all perfect alignments.
previosuly i was using intime but really bad service, sent me an scratched dial watch and cant be seen on QC photos, asked them to double check and they did not, fooking waste of my time and had to reship it back to them, which cost me even more. had very bad experience with big TD.
$480!? impossible mate hmm.. 904 steel V9 doesn't cost that cheap, i just checked even hontwatch is selling it at $528 and i dont think it's with shipping too. i only paid $520 with shipping. i think its considered cheap.