Hi there RWI community!
Just want to share here my review of GF watch, that is - Breitling Colt 44 rep.
So, I have this watch for about a month now. GF has made fantastic job. Movement is working great, it's most accurate of my automatic watches, timegrapher on QC was saying it's +14s/day but from my observation it seems to perform better on days when it's being worn. One thing worth mentioning for people who had never experienced asian eta 2824 - there is significant difficulty with winding the movement, it's not as smooth as you will experience on most of movements, so keep that in mind.
In case of build quality everything is on top, I'm absolutely amazed about quality of it, they repped every single detail, even things like small Breitling logo on bezel, although there are couple I would say... incompletenesses when it comes to this being 100% true to gen - one is obviously the dial. I think that GF intentionally made it different, but not in any means bad. It's a gray sunburst dial, just like on the newer COLT's, it also reminds me of design from Breitling digital warranty card. Personally I think that they are capable of doing matt black dial, for example like the one on UBF COLT but I suppose they made it like that on purpose, just to make it kind of their own. Sometimes I consider it to be better looking than that gen matt dial, but I also have days when I wish it to be one of those super reps and be 100% there. The best scenario would be to have a choice between matt and sunburst dial, saying that - the best choice when you want to go closer to 100% is to go with white dial option. Second incompleteness, smaller one, is the engraving on clasp - it's not as deep as on gen. Third one is the mismatch of both dial and bezel in relation to case, bezel itself is perfectly align with dial.
Lume on this watch is good, bright like C3, but not as long lasting, as I can see from many other reviewed watches, that's common.
If you guys have any questions regarding this watch - feel free to ask !
Just want to share here my review of GF watch, that is - Breitling Colt 44 rep.
So, I have this watch for about a month now. GF has made fantastic job. Movement is working great, it's most accurate of my automatic watches, timegrapher on QC was saying it's +14s/day but from my observation it seems to perform better on days when it's being worn. One thing worth mentioning for people who had never experienced asian eta 2824 - there is significant difficulty with winding the movement, it's not as smooth as you will experience on most of movements, so keep that in mind.
In case of build quality everything is on top, I'm absolutely amazed about quality of it, they repped every single detail, even things like small Breitling logo on bezel, although there are couple I would say... incompletenesses when it comes to this being 100% true to gen - one is obviously the dial. I think that GF intentionally made it different, but not in any means bad. It's a gray sunburst dial, just like on the newer COLT's, it also reminds me of design from Breitling digital warranty card. Personally I think that they are capable of doing matt black dial, for example like the one on UBF COLT but I suppose they made it like that on purpose, just to make it kind of their own. Sometimes I consider it to be better looking than that gen matt dial, but I also have days when I wish it to be one of those super reps and be 100% there. The best scenario would be to have a choice between matt and sunburst dial, saying that - the best choice when you want to go closer to 100% is to go with white dial option. Second incompleteness, smaller one, is the engraving on clasp - it's not as deep as on gen. Third one is the mismatch of both dial and bezel in relation to case, bezel itself is perfectly align with dial.
Lume on this watch is good, bright like C3, but not as long lasting, as I can see from many other reviewed watches, that's common.
If you guys have any questions regarding this watch - feel free to ask !
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