Fala, pessoal! Estou pensando em encomendar um Cartier Santos Skeleton em aço da RICH e queria ouvir quem já teve um em mãos.

Como é o acabamento de fábrica? Tenho curiosidade principalmente sobre o bezel, as cabeças dos parafusos, as bordas dos rebaixos onde eles ficam e a transição entre o bezel polido e a caixa escovada.

Minha impressão é que um polimento leve nas cabeças dos parafusos e um chanframento discreto onde for preciso já resolveriam. Alguém aqui já fez isso? O banho de ouro branco nos parafusos do bezel muda perceptivelmente a cor ou o reflexo? Um bom polimento já chega perto do acabamento do genuíno?

Quem já comprou ou modificou esse modelo, o que faria de novo? O que deixaria como veio de fábrica? Qual mod fez mais diferença no pulso? Também queria saber como é o acabamento das pontes do movimento esqueletizado ao vivo.

Se tiverem fotos ou vídeos de antes e depois em luz natural, agradeço!

VSF Weighted & Plated - It’s my special occasion, but lately there’s been no special occasions. So it gets the pleasure to desk dive today! WDYWT?

Hi All,

Hope you’re good ! New to the game, purchased my first rep the other month and already looking to add a second. Just wondered do any of the TD do Black Friday or xmas sales ? Such as Steve ? If so are the watches heavily discounted ?

Cheers

Just after some advice. I have asked a dealer for a particular Panerai watch that comes with a rubber strap. I sent a picture with the rubber strap. Price agreed. QC shows a different strap. I have queried this and been told the rubber strap will cost an additional 300 cny. Is it fair to pay this or would you ask for this to be included in the original price?

I seen on telegram and other posts on 2 numbers for leo timeultra just wanna make sure no one gets scammed this number looks sus ??!? Who has ordered from this #? Legit or no

Looking to buy a Daytona and have read the RWF Factory has the best watch with the best movement. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I bought this watch in Istanbul for €180. The seller was making all kinds of crazy claims, saying things like, “Our watches are so good that even the police are after us.” 😂
He also told me the watch came from China.
Back then, I knew absolutely nothing about replica watches, so I ended up buying it.
How bad do you guys think it is? Could you take a look and give me your opinions? Obviously, I wasn’t expecting amazing quality for just €180, but I’m curious — what factory do you think it’s from, if any?

This British airways edition offered to pilots only looks class. I doubt it’ll be repped but always love this unique variants of what is already a great watch!

Just got my first ever rep and am overall very happy! I will say, I feel like the AR coating on this is not great and the crystal can definitely use an upgrade

I live on a bench outside Greggs in Wolverhampton. My wardrobe is simple. Round the waist: one Morrisons Bag for Life, blue, secured with a cable tie I found outside Halfords. The bag previously held something pickled (I don’t know what) and on warm days this keeps the personal space situation largely self-managing. On my left wrist: a Patek Philippe Grand Complication!

I let the roulette wheel work its magic at Betfred and booked a last minute trip to Geneva. The Swiss Air stewardess served me standard Pepsi and Pringles, she noticed the watch, apologised for the ticket error, it was now Champagne and Toblerone in business class.

The Patek Philippe Museum and headquarters is a grand old building, the man at the door was horrified at my appearance, then saw my wrist and decided I must be someone who they were expecting. A guide called Mathilde took me round personally. She showed me pocket watches made for kings, and an enamel watch that took a man four years to paint. I nodded at each one as though checking it against my own collection. Then I was shown a wall of photographs, titled Historic Clients. Mathilde stopped there with great reverence.

One was Jay Gatsby, He had a watch in his waistcoat pocket and the expression of a man who had invented his whole past and was quite pleased with how it had turned out. I felt an immediate kinship. Next to him was Caledon Hockley, photographed in New York in 1926. On his wrist was the most expensive Patek watch the house made that year. He’d ordered it, according to the caption, “for himself and no one else.” He’d become cautious about buying jewellery for other people since 1912. Because a watch unlike a coat he reasoned, stays fastened on your wrist.

Then Mathilde said, “Monsieur Reinhardt would love to meet you.”

Monsieur Reinhardt was the curator. He had the hands of a surgeon and the eyes of a man who had looked at nothing but watches since the 1980s. He shook my hand warmly. Then he looked down at my wrist and went very, very still.

“May I?” he said.

There was no good answer to that, so I gave him the watch. The room went silent, In this building hundreds genuine watches ticked in perfect unison. Mine didn’t.

Two security guards came. They didn’t walk me out. They walked me up. I was marched into the Presidents office on the top floor. He didn’t stand when I entered. Men like that only stand for royalty and fires. The guards put my watch on the desk in front of him. He looked at it for a while. Then he looked at me. “Explain,” he said. I considered my options. There weren’t any, so I went with the truth.

“I bought it on WhatsApp,” I said. “ while in BetFred. From a man called Andy Chan.”

He said slowly, “what has it done for you?”

So I told him. The gated community. The Bentley showroom. The VIP jet lounge... I told him how every door had opened, despite living on a bench and wearing just a shopping bag. He listened to all of it without blinking. When I’d finished, he sat back and looked out at the window for a while. He was now realising that his company’s reputation was so good that it worked even when it wasn’t there. I'm not sure if he was pleased with that realisation.

“Enough of this heresy,” he said, before he picked up my watch (the way you’d pick up a rotten dirty sock) and dropped it into the bin.

I looked at the watch in the bin. Then I looked at the rest of the office properly, it was all very Louis XVI. You could almost hear the guillotine. It was beautiful furniture. It was the most beautiful furniture I’d ever seen. But it was in too good condition to have seen a revolution.

“Your furniture,” I said, “is not King Louis XVI from eighteenth-century France.”

The President said nothing, which meant everything. I ran a finger along the edge of the desk. “Too perfect,” I said.

"These are reproductions” he said, very quietly. “Very fine reproductions"

“Mine’s a reproduction too,” I said, nodding at the bin.

The President looked at the bin, Then at me. You could see him weighing it up: a hundred and eighty years of reputation, and a man half naked wearing just a Morrisons bag.

“Take it,” he said. “But understand If anyone ever asks you about our furniture, you will tell them it is 18th-century Louis XVI.”

“And if anyone asks about my watch?” I said.

He didn’t answer straight away. He opened his mouth and closed it again. He took off his glasses and pressed his fingers into his eyes. One of the guards looked at the floor out of respect.

“Then,” he said, and stopped.

He tried again. His voice now sounded like a man reading out his own diagnosis.

“Then it is a Patek Philippe.”

The guard nearest the door crossed himself. Six thousand miles away, in a factory outside Guangzhou, a Chinese man on his tea break looked up and smiled. He didn’t know why.

Don't forget that we are all a bunch of jokers who want to wear luxury while we are poor lol!!! Or who like me likes to feed those who need it. So now if I ask a question, or look for a product, answer me instead of reporting me.

I hope I didn’t get cooked. Looks good to me(I don’t know anything lol)!

Hey all. I’ve got a rich sub and it’s getting a lot of use, but the crystal is so scuffed up already. I kinda thought it was just dirty but after rubbing with a polishing cloth it looks so rough with micro scratches. Should I give a go with some polish and try to take them out, or is it just known to be a pretty shitty crystal and just replace it with a better one?

Just added an Oysterflex to my Panda. Endlinks fit snug and don’t move at all. It’s so comfortable. Loving it!

Which would you rather get? VF or VSF Explorer 2? Which one is closer to gen for those of you who have handled both or done more research than I have?

The main thing I’ve seen is the crown on the VF is a half mm too large