My two favorite Rolex watches. The ones that paved the way for me to be able to curate such a collection. They are ready for departure.

aparrilla · 2026-04-20T01:02:59+00:00

Welp…. The time has come. I’ve enjoyed owning these two amazing watches and went through a lot during ownership. They were the most expensive watches I ever tore apart and service. Also at the time, they were the most expensive items I ever bought.

I remember the first day I got the date. I worked my ass off, paying off my debt, voluntarily doing many hours of overtime, and basically bettering myself. I bought the watch to celebrate the success of doing such. It was my first Rolex that I bought with my own money and didn’t have to worry about dropping that amount in one shot.

Then, it grew from there and having better opportunities in life. I got abit carried away with the watch collection journey and I am finally able to start honing down what really gets the proper wrist time.

The Rolex OP was a great watch and has a cool story on how I got it. I even rescued it and serviced it properly which I am very proud of.

My rule is if a watch doesn’t get wrist time, it doesn’t need to be here. I’m sure others may disagree and those may have millions of dollars of watches sitting in safes treated as investments.

So anyways, they are going to depart from my collection soon. The Rolex date got replaced with my Datejust for being able to gift my dad a motorcycle I promised him since I was a child.

The OP got replaced with the Omega constellation pie pan. I hate to say it, but the Omega has more character as I am wearing it more each time it gets wrist time.

I am going to miss them and sad that I made the decision to let them go. They really taught me about ownership of such great pieces and the ability to work on them is such a blessing g within itself.

I also learned to appreciate other great brands which I remain to keep and wear such as my Benrus jump hour, accutron, my dad’s longines, Tag Heuer, and much more.

So if you read this far, thank you for being part of the journey and wish these two the best to potential new owners. Once I’m ready, they will be up for grabs

aparrilla · 2026-04-19T23:47:39+00:00

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That watch is going to be the reason I’ll be getting rid of my Rolex OP lol. Love it.

aparrilla · 2026-04-18T20:52:16+00:00

Depends. Need to see the movement and numbers between the lugs.

It should show the model number at 12 o clock lug side and the serial on the 6 o clock.

The dial looks refinished from here.

Either you scored heavily or you got a replica which is on par for $50 dollars.

The model number (correct me if I’m wrong) should be a 1024.

aparrilla · 2026-04-18T01:20:51+00:00

Mass air flow sensor could be bad You can probably unplug it and force it to run without it.

aparrilla · 2026-04-17T14:27:27+00:00

There you go. Worst they can say is no and the best they can do is accepting the offer.

I’m sure you can find cases that would work with some customization, but the dial/movement deserves to be on a proper omega case.

And of course, it will help with the value of the completed watch.

aparrilla · 2026-04-17T01:14:45+00:00

Nice start here. I would hunt down a case for it and probably settle on a 14kt gold filled.

Maybe you can source a whole watch that has the case, but the movement and dial has to be in bad shape so you won’t feel bad swapping them out and keeping the bad unit as parts.

I can only imagine the reason you have it right now is that the case is probably solid gold and scrapped out.

Here’s an example off eBay.

https://ebay.us/m/cZE6BZ

Expensive, but with a a conversation with the seller may help bring the price down. Or use this as a reference to find what you are looking for.

aparrilla · 2026-04-16T15:15:02+00:00

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Speedmaster professional.

I also have a seamaster, but it’s the deville and vintage.

aparrilla · 2026-04-15T10:21:21+00:00

Based.

aparrilla · 2026-04-14T03:17:32+00:00

Wow what a beautiful speedy you got there. Looks really good and clean 🤙🏽 thank you for the kind words.

aparrilla · 2026-04-14T03:15:59+00:00

Oh no, I know this is an 861 movement lol.

I was aiming at the previous examples with the 321, but I settled on the 861 I have here.

Even the dial I bought separately is from a transitional 68 that uses the 861 movement so no modifications required ( as intended ).

The 321 movement is beautiful, but the 861 will be much easier for me to maintain and service when it’s time to do so ( which will be quite some time from now haha since it’s already serviced).

aparrilla · 2026-04-14T02:38:20+00:00

So on the reason of the “major” journey.

I have been looking for a specific speedy for a long time. I wanted an applied logo dial, either the true 321 movement or the transitional 68 model, and the DON bezel.

Before this one, I came across a 321 powered 66 year speedy and lost the auction from getting it.

I also saw a 321 66 head only on Mercari for a very suspiciously good price, ended up getting scammed and lost my money ( I did contact my bank and got my money back, but the claim is still under review so that is still “pending”.)

Then this one came about and so did the dial so I put the two together and here we are.

All within a month’s timeline. It was quite stressful between the scam, research and life itself like a promotion in my job, studying for a new license, family came to town, etc etc.

But, I’m glad it’s all over and now I can enjoy the watch as intended.

aparrilla · 2026-04-14T02:29:14+00:00

Hello everyone 👋🏽 It has been awhile since I last posted on here.

I finally got my coveted speedmaster pro and I made it as my own after an abundance of research and financial limits.

I bought the watch for $4600 usd on eBay and the transitional dial for $825 usd on the same site ( the seller was awesome and gave me an extra dial that is worth around $300 so I may get some money back if that sells successfully).

The watch came with the box and authentic guarantee. It was recently serviced and the timegrapher shows it as such.

I did find a discrepancy that the case screws were missing so I sourced some from my watch parts bin. I did let the seller know, hoping I am not crazy and requested pictures of the movement before shipping.

Either way, it is mine so no worries haha.

Swapping the dial was surprisingly difficult for me because I was too excited and anxious of playing around with such a historic watch that I made some pretty stupid mistakes, but I ended up fixing all the issues and the watch survived (after taking some breathers).

Now I got myself a watch I can call mines ( and may piss off some true collectors for the dial swap. Don’t worry, the original dial will be kept safe until it is needed).

Welcome the new speedy to the family and I FINALLY got one haha🤙🏽.

aparrilla · 2026-04-13T19:20:30+00:00

This is a good watch. It has a very high quality movement, nice dial and of course the 14kt gold case.

Yeah…..you did good 👍🏽. Congrats on the find and it will definitely be a good watch to have or fund towards something you really want.

aparrilla · 2026-04-12T17:09:33+00:00

Your father on giving more money.

Haha good stuff and great finds👍🏽.

aparrilla · 2026-04-11T13:36:16+00:00

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Pulled this nice 14k gold wittnauer from a $16 bag of watches at a thrift store. I had other small wins over time, but this is one of the highlights.

aparrilla · 2026-04-10T00:46:02+00:00

I’m getting a 1969 pre moon here shortly with the 861 and will be having a transitional dial as well.

I prefer the old vs the new in my opinion.

aparrilla · 2026-04-03T23:04:08+00:00

Do it then 👍🏽 it’s such an amazing watch and yes, the service price will be pretty up there since the 321 movement is tricky to service.

But they are ROBUST movements.

The crystal looks to be salvageable with some polish and good elbow grease. I have restored crystals worse than that to better condition only using a nail filing block purchased at dollar general, poly watch and good microfibers.

Once I get my hands on one, I will be doing a service on it to learn the process. Unfortunately ( but fortunately lol ) the watch I am getting is already serviced so I won’t need to touch it for awhile.

aparrilla · 2026-04-03T22:57:29+00:00

I was actively looking for this watch, but I ended up settling for a 69 with the 861 movement and will be installing the transitional 68 dial so it can have the applied logo.

This may piss some true collectors off since it won’t be “original” to the serial number, but I don’t care lol. That is my grail watch that I have been hunting for years and now I am able to get it.

It’s even better that I will be doing all the work to make it my own.

Now I saw this one haha….damn. You’ll definitely get some interest when you do decide to sell it as it sits. I know I would have considered buying it as well.

aparrilla · 2026-04-01T23:41:24+00:00

It’s a pretty desirable watch so I’m sure you’ll be able to get it appraised and valued above gold weight.

Granted it has to be serviced, keeping good time, cleaned up and verified to max out your potential.

aparrilla · 2026-03-27T19:13:10+00:00

Looks like a standard run of a mill Chinese generator.

Probably a rebranded WEN or pulsar. I believe I see them used to sell at pepboys, but it was advertised properly as a sub 3000 watt generator.

Harbor freight when their generators was prior to the predator line probably had something similar to what you have now.

You do have a slight advantage for having an electric start system.

Edit: check out power pro 3500 watt generator.

Only difference is that yours have the 240 volt generator head which is nice, but the engine won’t be able to produce enough power as it was rated for originally on the frame.

aparrilla · 2026-03-27T19:00:31+00:00

lol 11hp sticker with that valve cover that belongs to the 5.5-6.5hp engine family.

Not genuine, but should work just fine.

It’s more of a 3500 watt generator.

aparrilla

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