The shit that crosses my bench.....

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Re: The shit that crosses my bench.....

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Tanukjaju wrote:I’ve received a few over the years and each time I have heard the plates are improved, I get a new set. I’ve also had numerous plates and movements sent to me over the years for a conversion too. These aren’t a simple drop in unit and off they go tonunreformed or Back to the customer. I’ve probably had less that a 25% success rate of these dropping in.

IMO, these are cosmetically good but still require working on. If you buy these, there is a likelihood that they will still need to go to a watchmaker who can work on it.

Good to know. this is overwhelmingly the experience for others even to this day.

They look prettier than before but still suffer the same failures in machining and consistent quality.

It is understandable given the source and it’s intrinsic rock of quality control mechanisms and followup.


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