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[PamRehab]

Hello everyone

New to the scene here. Have been mostly in the Pam homage scene, but have recently gotten interested in reps for higher quality pieces.

Currently own a Pam 111 Ti homage from Jackson Tse on a Panatime strap. It was my first piece and it's currently about 7 months old. Has been a daily beater and has kept nearly perfect time since I've owned it. Flimsy crownguard, and a recessed canon pin, but still a nice watch.

Just ordered a Getat piece -- a 112h homage in polished steel, superlumed, proper canon pin, sapphire crystal on one of his new bands that everyone seems to be happy with. He's also putting the Seagull ST36 movement in it for me, as I have been very happy with that movement in my 111.

I also own a IWC Fa Jones rep from Andrew @ Trustytime, it is AR coated sapphire with a Panatime black crock strap w/ white stitch. It's a nice piece, but is very dressy and does not get much wrist time. It's also gaining about 20 seconds a day. Guess I am just a Pam guy!

I'd love to own a real Pam, and can afford one, but simply cannot justify spending the 3000+ required to buy one. I could buy an awful lot of rocks and fossils for 3000 ( I am a geologist ). I suppose higher quality homages and reps are good enough for me.

I'd like to get into doing my own watch repair and customization, and perhaps becoming proficient enough to drop vintage movements into Pam cases.

My next watch will be a proper fiddy. I thought 44mm would be almost too big, but it is just right! I have the same hesitation about 47, but I'll take the plunge soon.

Thanks for reading guys.

[gileto]

Welcome aboard

[Ni8rider]

Welcome

[TheGodfather]

Enjoy!

[Milamon]

Ah, welcome PamRehab! I'm new here too. Have been here for a couple of days now and I'm already addicted to all the information and there has been such a great reception to me as a total newb! You will love it here, it is the biggest repforum with almost 1 million posts (no , I'm not a salesman lol).

Btw how does your watches survive the digs? Any scratches?

[Acemangqx]

Welcome.

[SFA437]

Welcome PamRehab

There are a LOAD of tutorials here on how to mod your watches, disassemble movements- you name it.

I started not knowing the difference between a 21j and an ETA and now I'm vintagizing Panerais, doing datewheel swaps, learning to relume and setting up an end mill to mod Big Egis and 3646/Radiomir cases for vintage projects.

Yeah this place gets a little bit addicting

[stolikat]

Cheers and welcome.

[tim_j]

welcome!!

[qsracing]

welcome...

[PamRehab]

double post

[PamRehab]

I'm a petroleum geologist so not much digging for me! If I ever need to get the rock hammer out on geological society trips, I take my old Seiko kinetic.

I've been browsing many threads and am starting to try and figure out which movements can be adapted to work, and at least fit, in the 44/47mm cases. I'm mostly interested in early American pocket watch movements, but it's tough finding something that isn't a 16s train watch.

I have a couple Asian 6497's laying around I can practice working on, I just need to figure out what tools I need to buy, and what steps I need to take in progression of difficulty and ability to learn.

I'd like to learn how to transplant a movement, remove hands -- etc -- and have found threads explaning this. However, how to truly adapt the canon pin, adapting the hands to fit on the canon, relocate or disable seconds hands, modifying a stem to fit, fabricating something to properly hold the movement -- not to mention perhaps getting a movement that isn't working perfectly and having to figure out what's wrong -- seems like a slippery slope of "oops" waiting to happen. I'd also like to learn how to relume, and the threads I've read make that seem like it just takes a steady hand and some patience. No problem there.

Well, look forward to learning. After I figure out the first step, I'll be on my way!

[Zed]

Welcome to RG !!