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Daytona 116520 : a mid-range franken project

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Really excellent comparison photos, it’s so revealing to see the differences between gen and rep in such detail. Thanks!
 
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I am following the exact same path as you, one bezel behind you! The gen dial upgrade, black or white, is the most significant part of the upgrade.


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I just got news, the magic is on : the watch is getting built with it's gen parts and the 4130 movement serviced as we speak.

The wait is almost over...!!
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Watch is built! Looks so nice, now the wait for shipping is killing me...

TheTimegrapher looks quite good after servicing too. The 4130 had a keyless off when I shipped it to JD, back to proper functions now.
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Watch is built! Looks so nice, now the wait for shipping is killing me...

TheTimegrapher looks quite good after servicing too. The 4130 had a keyless off when I shipped it to JD, back to proper functions now.
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Bezel is not centred! ;-)
 

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Beautiful build bro!!!!!! ;-)
 

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Aaaand the franken beauty has landed, and I just love it.
The bezel has been recentered as noticed before (thanks chaps), the movement has been serviced and honestly, the gen parts are giving it that special gen touch that place the frankens apart of the replica industry, one level above.

I must thank Johnny Depp for his great work and advices.
Well, now have to wait a bit more to put the ARF bracelet on (2mm diameter spring bars are on the way), so let's put it on a black nato in the meantime.

Cheers
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Absolutely amazing. I just started a 116500 build, but I do think I’m gonna need one like this aswell :) plus the gen parts are a lot easier to source :)

do you really feel a gen crystal makes a difference on this build?
 

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Mike suggests that one should keep the Noob bracelet with the Noob case as the ARF SEL doesn't work well with the Noob case and use the better ARF clasp. If you insist on using the ARF bracelet, perhaps you can start with the ARF case and migrate the clone moment over.
 

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Mike suggests that one should keep the Noob bracelet with the Noob case as the ARF SEL doesn't work well with the Noob case and use the better ARF clasp. If you insist on using the ARF bracelet, perhaps you can start with the ARF case and migrate the clone moment over.

The problem with this is, all noob endlinks are wrong. The middle is to short (up against the bezel)

Johnny Depp did a mod a while back, since the clone movement won’t fit in a ARF case.
 

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No he modded the ARF case to fit the noob movement

and btw, noob case and ARF bracelet is not always a bad fit. I got one with perfect sel fitment
 

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The ARF bracelet on Noob case works good enough IMO. I ordered 2mm diameter springbars as gen specs, but while the wait I gave a try to 1.5mm diameter ones, and it appears they fit quite ok :


Regarding the crystal, the Noob is not bad actually, but I took the gen option to "finish" the job :
 
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Why would it not he available if the bezel was the best version of gen. There is alot about the manufacturing process I dont know.

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Because the factories like to get one thing right and fuck up another in every version, so you are forced to buy more than one version of the same watch. It's about marketing. And it sucks
 

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As such some rep parts or models are being heavily searched for on the forum and M2M. Marketing priorities being what they are, some anterior versions of an item can be better than the updated one.

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