Hey guys, thanks for the welcome.

KrisOK - Thanks for the advice. I took the watch to a local shop today. I have a vintage Longines in need of an overhaul anyway so I thought this would be a good opportunity to forge a relationship with a local. We talked about the gen Omega SMP Chrono I was wearing (service is $495 for this watch, ouch), then I showed him the Longines, and then I pulled out the Survivor. I explained the problem, and he said, well this should be under warranty, AP is a very good brand and there should be no problem there. I then explained that this was in fact a high quality replica, and he seem shocked. He said "I would never have known if you didn't tell me." We then got to talking about replica watches and how quality has increased greatly. He mentioned in passing that he would be very hesitant to buy a Panerai from anyone but an AD - which I think is very good advice at this point.

Long story short, he is going to overhaul my 18k Longines from the 1940's (passed down from Grandpa), plus fix the hand on my Survivor for $225. I think that's a very fair price considering the movement in the Longines is stuck and I'm not sure what will be needed to fix that. 2 week turnaround on both. I told him when I come back in I'll bring my Hublot Tourbillon. He said he gets tourbillons in for service every now and again but hasn't seen a replica and was curious.

All in all a very nice guy. Now, the question is....do I just write this dealer off, or try to get them to give me a deal on my next watch through them for the trouble of this deal, and then write them off? I'm leaning towards just writing them off.