Your watch appears to be real but I can't tell w/o a picture of the
movement. The back light from your computer monitor really screwed up
the exposure of the watch. You wanna be a watchmaker capable of working
on Rolex and other high grade watches? Read the A Day In Watch School
articles, links at the bottom of this page:

http://www.thepurists.com/watch/indu...clesindex.html

Watchmaking is really something you have to dedicate your life to. I
know enough to know that I'm dangerous.

Richard "will find chills and thrills outside of a watch case" F

wrote:
Moka Java wrote:

There is no watch.
Shoot a picture of the back and front and post it [to prove it].
I think you have poor judgment as to how to handle an expensive watch.


Hi Richard,

In light of what happened today, I might actually agree with you on
this.
What happened was, (probably from all the banging), the second hand
fell off.
I like to learn by doing ... and making mistakes is part of doing ...
but maybe I'm learning a bit too much about Rolex watches!

In the spirit of providing necessary detail before asking a question,
here is a set (more than a half dozen) rather large (the free image
hosting site has a limit of 1MB so I had to keep them barely below that
size so you can blow them up if desired to prove I really snapped the
photos just now) photos of the watch with this thread on my computer as
the background.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4404/rolex19zh.jpg
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1465/rolex28rh.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4349/rolex37af.jpg
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/710/rolex45we.jpg
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1149/rolex52bj.jpg
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/9494/rolex65rb.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3668/rolex73tj.jpg

I'm not the best photographer there is and I've never had to prove I
owned the item before being able to ask questions about it; but I don't
mind as long as this documentation task helps me get the answers I seek
with respect to a better understanding of the Rolex watch and how to
repair it.

Once I remove the back plate, is it described somewhere on the web step
by step how to disassemble the watch (particularly to get that second
hand back on)?

Rusty D.