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vs322



Member Since: 08 Apr 2020
Location: Athens
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Greece 2004 Range Rover HSE 4.4 V8 Java Black

Happy to be of assistance. Anything else you need to know on the matter, just ask Thumbs Up
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alanm_3



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Location: my House, unless I’m not at home, in which case I’m somewhere else.
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Scotland 2017 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Ask our old friends at Watchfinder, they might be in a benevolent mood Thumbs Up Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey
Post #679388 3rd Dec 2023 11:10pm
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Les XRN



Member Since: 13 Feb 2025
Location: Cheshire
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I've had my day date for a good while now, it was a final gift from my wife before she passed away at a far too young age.

Re; servicing, I didn't bother until the seal on the winder leaked causing damage to some parts inside. That was an expensive lesson as it cost me £3,600 to get it repaired, it did look like new when I got it back though.

My biggest regret was selling my Rolex Milsub for just £25 when I left the UK Forces as I was short of money back then. They fetch a staggering amount nowadays. You live & learn.
Post #712281 20th Feb 2025 9:06am
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Stuart-



Member Since: 16 Dec 2017
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United Kingdom 2017 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Santorini Black

Stuart- wrote:
I bought a bimetal Omega Constellation in the 90s that I still have (Don't remember how much, maybe £1800, I paid in Deutschmarks as they were cheaper in Germany back then for some reason). About 2000, I bought a blue face Rolex bi-metal Submariner when they first came out (about £6k then, imported from the UAE, much more now). Still have that too as my 'daily'.

I had the Constellation fettled a while back even though I don't really wear it now, I might give it to my lad on his 21st in a couple of years as he has been coveting it.

My Rolex is a bit tired after 20-odd years of wear. It's been serviced a couple of times but now one of the gold links is wearing away at the pivot point, it's overdue to go in somewhere to be fettled too.

If anyone knows a good Rolex cosmetic fettling place I'm all ears. Lot's of places online, but I'm a bit wary about sending it off to some place - I might never see it again.


Since I wrote the post above, I have found a *superb* watch repair place in Hong Kong. I drop mine in and collect them personally when I'm there, but most people send them in from all over the world. They rebuilt the strap on my Omega (which nobody else could) and also rebuilt the bracelet on my Rolex mentioned upthread. Their site is >here<.

They have my Grandfather's vintage Accurist and a Russian-made Sekonda in for fettling now. The former, watchmakers here since the 80s have told me is unfixable and kaput. They looked at it and said, "no problem".

I just recently bought a automatic winding up thingy that runs on a USB from Ali Express for twenty odd quid. And its super. You can see it working on my Insta >here< 2017 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography in black
2018 D300 SE Velar in champagne
1982 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit in green
Spiffing wheel centre caps, L322 sill repair panels, etc
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Les XRN



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The chap I used is in Lymm, Cheshire. Should be easy to Google. He's very good and I would certainly recommend him.
Post #712334 20th Feb 2025 7:45pm
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vs322



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Greece 2004 Range Rover HSE 4.4 V8 Java Black

I bought this bad boy last year for not a small amount of money but the condition and the originality pretty much justify the outlay.
It belonged, only for a short while, to a soviet pilot and then to the head of the water service of Kyiv.
Upon receiving, I had it regulated to +1~2 spd easily, using my phone app. Then got a MN strap and also sourced the original bracelet (which I don't particularly like or dislike). Minor niggle had always been the presence of fine debris on the dial as the paint on the coloured hands is slightly flaking. So today I bit the bullet and had everything cleaned up nicely. A minor concern was how to pull out and reinsert the stem. It is said that before depressing the release button, it must be pulled to the setting position or else pretty much the whole movement will have to be disassembled, to reset the keyless works. Shocked

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