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BP Factory
- Thread starter CJS57
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- 12/3/18
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Best place to check is your TD. I have read that BP was never affected, except that all factories laid low after the raids, and ofc the holiday.
Maj Williams on reddit puts out regular announcements
https://www.reddit.com/r/RepTime/comments/n2k6rh/news_update_may_15_2021_chinese_labor_holiday_and/
Maj Williams on reddit puts out regular announcements
https://www.reddit.com/r/RepTime/comments/n2k6rh/news_update_may_15_2021_chinese_labor_holiday_and/
Marv got me two BP (1655 and 216570) during the raids as BP never closed. So you can go ahead and order
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- 12/3/18
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Yeah 1655 to practice ageing and an ICHS Polar 216570 with a2836
It is nice but honestly the lume market/hands discrepancy and the dark orange hand/light marking are annoying. Noob dials are/used to be much better than this BP... so I am hunting a new dial rep (white markers/bright orange) or gen. someone told me the hands aren’t great either but I am no specialist
But it makes for cool pictures
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Starry Night
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I just put in an order with Andrew for a Rolex 31mm 278274 DateJust Blue/jubilee/fluted from BP and he is able to procure one.
- 12/3/18
- 35,487
- 70,410
- 113
Yeah 1655 to practice ageing and an ICHS Polar 216570 with a2836
It is nice but honestly the lume market/hands discrepancy and the dark orange hand/light marking are annoying. Noob dials are/used to be much better than this BP... so I am hunting a new dial rep (white markers/bright orange) or gen. someone told me the hands aren’t great either but I am no specialist
Hmmm, now the BP dials have grey marker daytime lume, bummer. Recent Noob dials were worse than yours, some had just 3 6 9 grey lume, some had all grey lume and both were darker. Noob's "fix" was silver marker surrounds on the Polar dials because the grey lume is caused by black paint in the marker wells.
Noobs
Latest Noob on bottom, note the silver marker surrounds
My old BP
I have the same orange text fading, seems an unavoidable issue. I think your hands are fine.
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My old BP
I have the same orange text fading, seems an unavoidable issue. I think your hands are fine.
Your dial is miles better than mine. Not only your markers are beautifully white, but the text is better crispier. The Explorer II text is correctly placed (less close to the oyster text) and has a darker orange than my new one...
Is the bezel BP too?? Because they are clearly different....
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- 12/3/18
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AFAIK the bezel is BP also bro, it was an M2M purchase. The bezel markers do look a little thicker than my black dial BP, but not as thick as most Noobs seem to be. Different batches I guess.
I see this more often that batches differ time to time. Didn't knew this also happens with Noob watches
I think we can agree there is no good polar dial out there. The difference in between my polar and [mention]KJ2020 [/mention] polar is huge...
Noob being reported closed until further notice - and by [mention]KJ2020 [/mention] images above not worth considering, BP and GM factories seems to share the same dial supplier, we are left with JF. I might try to get my TD to source me a dial but I have the feeling it is going to be hard....
What about people who restore dials?
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Noob being reported closed until further notice - and by [mention]KJ2020 [/mention] images above not worth considering, BP and GM factories seems to share the same dial supplier, we are left with JF. I might try to get my TD to source me a dial but I have the feeling it is going to be hard....
What about people who restore dials?
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MrHEPennypacker
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I have disassembled the watch but not started yet. Got a Clark xtal and new bezel but still waiting for tiger hands to arrive. Also ordered a brown vintage strap (really don’t like the old bracelet)....
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