At first glance these look a lot like the VRF GMTs and share a lot of the same qualities. The case shape, lugs, CGs, dial, hands, crystal/cyclops, and insert all look a lot like VRF.
A big plus for the ROF of course is its movement. The VR3185 is the gold standard and all factories should be using it.
All of the the ROF inserts look decent. The Pepsi could be from the same source VRF uses. The LN looks good, maybe even CF like VRF is using. And the Batman looks just like the Pepsi in different colors. The Batman insert is arguably one of the best around now next to ARF. The 1 serifs are correct, little to no speed bumps, good blue color and font thickness. 18 transition is a little low but that's better than high and it eliminates a speed bump at 18. Even some recent ARFs have this low 18 transition.
I initially thought it could be a VRF case but on closer inspection there are some differences that say no. First, the ROF Pepsi case has hallmarks that are very well done on the underside of the case lugs. The VRF does not. The ROF case resembles the Noob case too, which does have the hallmarks on the Pepsi, but Noob's are not as good.
Second, the ROF rehaut engraving is different from VRF. It's better quality and not rough like the VRF, although it is a little thin.
So the ROF case looks pretty good to me although I did notice a little bit of CG asymmetry in most of Trusty's still shots. The left CG is clearly narrower in these pics, although this may have been the same sample used for this pic for all the models. Maybe just a one off case.
The ROF CGs did look fine in all of the videos. The ROF coronet on the crown looks good.
All the ROF clasp codes are 138, which Noob uses on its Pepsi's. VRF clasps are 6MW.
SEL recess is there, at least it's not flush.
The ROF crystal like the VRF Max is junk. The dials are OK (more about the meteorite later). The hands look better than the second batch of VRF hands but not as good as the first. ROF hands have a slightly smaller profile, have thicker borders and smaller lume plots than the VRF first batch. The first batch VRF Pepsi hands were better.
VRF first batch on right, second batch on left.
The meteorite dial looks like a pattern dial that will be the same on every sample like BP/GMF. DJF meteorite dials are all unique. It's also a wrong color blue, though some gen dials have bluish tints in them. It's hard to tell if there's any texture in this dial. At least they have a "WG" frame around the date window. Overall, I like the way this looks. The blue tints in the dial look very cool and I could wear this no problem as I place far more emphasis on whether I like what I see on my wrist than on whether it looks like a gen.
I may well pick up one of these if for no other reason than to scavenge the date frame for my other meteorite build and then mod this into a different GMT. I still have a bunch of ideas floating around in my head, haha. Working on this one now. It will get a brown GMT hand and a brown leather strap.
The ROF GMT looks like a worthwhile offering to me.
