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KW/V6F PAM 508 Ceramic review [PICS HEAVY]

kilowattore

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Average. It looks good and is pliable, but feels a bit like cardboard. Maybe some leather conditioner might improve it :)
 

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Great review! Entertaining. :) Your strap sets it off


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I also was wondering if ALE and his PAM team have a verdict about this rep status...

Is this PAM508 v6f considered a super rep or not? If not, why?

Mine says hello!!

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We will know soon enough ;) I'd like to know what's your wrist size? And your pearl looks spot on, great!
 

Bizi

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We will know soon enough ;) I'd like to know what's your wrist size? And your pearl looks spot on, great!

Hi, Therion. I have never measured my wrist before, but I am 1,96 meters tall.
And about the pearl, it all depends on the lightning, since it changes its appearance a lot.
My PAM508 is from the first batch.
Cheers!!
 

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I'm just now studying and evaluating all versions of PAM 508 just released

There are 5 versions from Dec 2014 until today. This is a hard job

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At 1,96m you can pretty much pull off any PAM without looking like a kid wearing his dad's watch I guess :) I'm 1,88m and have an 18cm wrist, my PAM243 fits perfectly and I also wear a Ploprof and it looks OK. But I did try my friend's 52mm Invicta some time ago ( what a monstrosity..) and the result was as described in the 1st sentence :)

 

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@ALE7575: We appreciate your effort and hard work, no need to hurry, I know it must be very exhausting with all these PAMs being released recently..
 

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Five versions ?

I thought only 2 with updated pearl and one more version with Seagull but same case.
 

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Especially the earlier samples had different pearl and bezel.paint as I recall.
It's getting more and more difficult to keep up with these releases, even more when (like recent h-fac luminors) makers mix old and new parts.

The watch reviewed here should be the "definitive" v1 from kw.
Evaluation is on ALE of course, but as I stated in my review there's little room for improvement here imho.
Pearl might be updated in the future, but colors will always be a discussion factor in any rep because it's impossible to evaluate them correctly without a gen side by side with the rep. :)
 

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I have one of the first editions of this watch and still not sure about the coreections of the perl as You also mention that in Your great thread. As I see there is updates perl, but I am not sure how it looks :(

 

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I have one of the first editions of this watch and still not sure about the coreections of the perl as You also mention that in Your great thread. As I see there is updates perl, but I am not sure how it looks :(


Looks fine to me :)
 

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Hi,
recently I bought 508 V6F (ceramic with seagull) from TD I always do trade with. I'm very happy with watch but I found small dial/bezel misalignment so I'm wondering how to fix it. Please have a look at the pictures showing misalignment I'm talking about. Any advice how to fix it?
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That's a fraction of millimeter, maybe. C'mon, wear it and enjoy it :)
 

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That's a fraction of millimeter, maybe. C'mon, wear it and enjoy it :)
Yeah I know it's not a lot, probably not noticeable to the others, but it ruins otherwise perfect watch :) I'm wearing it, as I said, I'm very satisfied with a watch and seagul movement is much quieter than movement in my gen Millgaus, and keeps time perfectly. Even my watchmaker was surprised with a movement :)
So, I didn't mean to complain (I know the rules of the game though), just, if I get this alignment, the watch will be perfect. Pay attention I'm not concerned if is it 100% gen-like, just with a beauty of the watch and quality of workmanship. Btw, pearl is just beautiful :)
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I know the feeling. :)
You don't have many options though, except disassembling the bezel and try to re-align everything. I don't think it has been done yet as there's a chance you or your watchmaker break the bezel assembly.

We all need to learn to live with these things as long as we buy reps :)
 

ShiroTenshi

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You just need to access to the movement and nudge it a bit.
The gen will have similar issue.


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