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Just got in my new PAM 386 from Mary and Rochest at watch-international.com and I thought I'd post a few pics.
Since I like guns too, I thought I would pose it with my engraved Ansley H. Fox double barreled shotgun from 1910. The rep (watch not shotgun) has been pretty extensively photographed and/or discussed by others so I'll keep it short! Here are some topics that made me order it:
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27422
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=25299
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=23652
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=23002
I ordered from RWG TD's Mary and Rochest and transaction was smooth as ever. On arrival, I nearly had a heart attack when the balance wheel wasn't moving... reading advice on this mechanism on the forums, I gave it a rap on my palm and it started up right away.
Overall, I think it's a great looking watch. The build quality is very good. The lume is standard rep lume, good but not great. It keeps perfect time. The movement via display back (which I have not opened) looks good; the gen actually has the calibre number printed on it and this does not. I don't see much in the way of AR on the crystal, as you can tell because I had to take a lot of pics from an angle (so you didn't have a big old camera reflection). Any flecks or odd reflections are dust or fingerprints; the watch arrived immaculate. Many people have commented that the "diamond like coating" is easy to chip so you have to baby it.
I asked Peter Guni at Gunny Straps (http://gunnystraps.blogspot.com/) what strap he would recommend for it, he said the 339 model would go best, so I ordered that as soon as QC pics were in. The last photo has a comparison of the rep strap and the Gunny... as you'd expect, the rep strap can't hold a candle to Gunny Strap awesomeness.
I hope you enjoyed this! Anyone calling it "purple" gets their ass kicked by me and the Fox on the skeet range!
-Mach
Since I like guns too, I thought I would pose it with my engraved Ansley H. Fox double barreled shotgun from 1910. The rep (watch not shotgun) has been pretty extensively photographed and/or discussed by others so I'll keep it short! Here are some topics that made me order it:
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27422
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=25299
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=23652
http://www.rwgboard.com/board/index.php?showtopic=23002
I ordered from RWG TD's Mary and Rochest and transaction was smooth as ever. On arrival, I nearly had a heart attack when the balance wheel wasn't moving... reading advice on this mechanism on the forums, I gave it a rap on my palm and it started up right away.
Overall, I think it's a great looking watch. The build quality is very good. The lume is standard rep lume, good but not great. It keeps perfect time. The movement via display back (which I have not opened) looks good; the gen actually has the calibre number printed on it and this does not. I don't see much in the way of AR on the crystal, as you can tell because I had to take a lot of pics from an angle (so you didn't have a big old camera reflection). Any flecks or odd reflections are dust or fingerprints; the watch arrived immaculate. Many people have commented that the "diamond like coating" is easy to chip so you have to baby it.
I asked Peter Guni at Gunny Straps (http://gunnystraps.blogspot.com/) what strap he would recommend for it, he said the 339 model would go best, so I ordered that as soon as QC pics were in. The last photo has a comparison of the rep strap and the Gunny... as you'd expect, the rep strap can't hold a candle to Gunny Strap awesomeness.
I hope you enjoyed this! Anyone calling it "purple" gets their ass kicked by me and the Fox on the skeet range!
-Mach
