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Trying to delete this post.

Apologies for whatever ill-feelings this might have generated. wasn't my intentions.

have reported my own thread to ask mod to remove.
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That is the same movement. As above I don’t get what exactly you are suggesting. Were I your watchmaker I too would ignore you. Cleaning a Beryllium-Copper coated movement with an aggressive chemical can strip the plate and the colour but I think what you show above is purely photo colour temp variation. Did you really take that first photo yourself? It looks awfully like a post processed dealer shot, perhaps from the site where you bought it.
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SkunkPrince
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The movement is plated in pure copper. It when copper tarnishes, it looks amber. When it's cleaned, the tarnish is removed and it looks pink.

I agree with the other guys, and you owe that watchmaker an apology for being an idiot. In person. And on here, because you "called him out."

You are damned lucky we are as tolerant as we are.
 
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K KenN
now my question is: what exactly could I do about this? Is there honestly a case where a cleaning process could actually take an original movement down to shiny silver like that? I’ve never encountered anything like this, across my other movements (that are serviced elsewhere)
Serious question... are you color-blind, perhaps? It's not "silver", it's clearly pink.
 
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That's a hell of a first post. Let the games begin.
 
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K KenN
When I raised this issue and showed the original picture, the owner got very aggressive and raised his voice suggesting that I was accusing him of smth immoral.

You have accused him of something immoral. Very much so.

I think you're looking at evidence of a well cleaned and serviced movement - your movement - here.
 
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Can't wait for everyone to chime in on this one ::stirthepot:: What watchmaker would go through all this effort to "steal" a movement. Maybe you would have some reasonable doubt if the serial didn't match or it was a different caliber. This has either got to be the most embarrassing first post or the biggest troll post ever. Now we wonder why people aren't looking to become watchmakers anymore ::facepalm1::
 
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K KenN
the wildest thing is that the new movement almost seemed like it had been engraved to mimic the original - even the serial number is the same.
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Ken,

Glas to hear your cancer free. Your watchmaker did not swap movement. All looks good.
 
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Just when you think you’ve heard it all, comes a post like this!::facepalm1::
 
padders
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Dennis is that you? I hope so. I miss the squirrel.
 
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As I told you on WUS, where you have made the accusation, nothing nefarious has happened here. It’s the same movement, cleaned, and with a photo that is slightly out of focus, with different white balance/colour temperature.
 
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Archer Archer
As I told you on WUS, where you have made the accusation, nothing nefarious has happened here. It’s the same movement, cleaned, and with a photo that is slightly out of focus, with different white balance/colour temperature.
Not some tarnish removal?
 
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Wow, your watchmaker did a nice job of cleaning that movement.

and congrats on being cancer free.

now go and enjoy that very original looking watch.

i hope its not a redial.
 
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Well cool your cancer free man. Cancer is nasty stuff someone I know went in for surgery today still waiting to hear how things came out. Seems like you are good and your watch is good so I’d say it’s all good.
 
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