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I knew this but there are resellers who have stocks and others who are waiting to receive supply
 

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I knew this but there are resellers who have stocks and others who are waiting to receive supply

No, they don't carry stock, they only purchase the watch when you buy it from them
Thats the 3rd time today that I'm telling you to do your homework. Start with the newbie section and read. This forum is not meant to answer the same basic questions to all new members over and over again
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I knew this but there are resellers who have stocks and others who are waiting to receive supply

How are members supposed to know which stock levels every TD has or will be receiving. Put your big boy pants on and make a little bit of effort at least and reach out to some TD’s instead of expecting to be spoon fed the most basic information you obviously can’t be bothered reading.
 
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No, they don't carry stock, they only purchase the watch when you buy it from them
Thats the 3rd time today that I'm telling you to do your homework. Start with the newbie section and read. This forum is not meant to answer the same basic questions to all new members over and over again
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you're right, i didn't read everything because i was too excited to buy this watch, i hope i didn't hurt anyone, if i hurt i apologize to everyone
 

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I must've missed it, but what flaw are you referring to? AR?

Thanks!

The cyclops issue the bad distortion at the slightest angle off from a dead center view. It doesn't take great expense to achieve a distortion free cyclops. A Clark's crystal with AR cyclops is $34. You can't make one of those display distortion no matter what angle you view it from. Almost $500 (with shipping and fees) for a rep and you get this flaw, seriously?

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Mag level is too low for one thing, VRF gets this wrong a lot. But the bigger issue is the bad distortion at the slightest angle off from a dead center view. It doesn't take great expense to achieve a distortion free cyclops. A Ckark's crystal with AR cyclops is $34. You can't make one of those display distortion no matter what angle you view it from. Almost $500 (with shipping and fees) for a rep and you get this flaw, seriously?











Absolutely spot on as usual big bro KJ. Loads to learn from these notes.

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KJ2020

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Mag level actually looks OK next to gen. Really a moot point as the distortion is too great to make using the stock crystal a viable option.

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At least when you are concentrate to see the distortion flaw in the Cyclops, you completely obliterate the other flaws like the bump in the 6 and 8! :)
 

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Waiting for Qc Pics and asked for ones with various cyclops angles.

I know this hobby of ours centers around ‘can you live with flaw y, z etc’ and this might be a showstopper for me for this watch

Will post some once received, taking the forum rules into account
 

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Waiting for Qc Pics and asked for ones with various cyclops angles.

I know this hobby of ours centers around ‘can you live with flaw y, z etc’ and this might be a showstopper for me for this watch

Will post some once received, taking the forum rules into account

Consider a clarks crystal or profs as a relatively cheap alternative if you don't like it.
 
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Consider a clarks crystal or profs as a relatively cheap alternative if you don't like it.

Thanks. I have found a crystal, is this the one that would fit? How does it compare to crystals from (suppliers for) AR, noob, zf etc?

The other thing is needing a watchmaker to replace it, I do not have proper tools for it
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It is very hard to see quality in a pic from EBay, mate....but should not be worse of stock one