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CF Pepsi picture leaks BLRO

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The cf Pepsi bezel construction is kind of ugly.... Click spring bent, tons of grease all over (why ?!) Crystal retaining ring not as nice as other factories iv seen.

Maybe it's just this one i received but it's wasn't fun to work on especially because my whole bench was covered in that damn grease....
 

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The cf Pepsi bezel construction is kind of ugly.... Click spring bent, tons of grease all over (why ?!) Crystal retaining ring not as nice as other factories iv seen.

Maybe it's just this one i received but it's wasn't fun to work on especially because my whole bench was covered in that damn grease....

So it appears to be normality on those. I worked on 3 of them already and every single one of them was full of (vaseline? lol) under the bezel.
 

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So it appears to be normality on those. I worked on 3 of them already and every single one of them was full of (vaseline? lol) under the bezel.
Can confirm on my end as well. Although a while back when I had my ARF 116710LN with an absolutely horribly gritty bezel action, I took the bezel out and put a few micro drops of grease, which helped the action immensely.

I can see why CF would do it

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Can confirm on my end as well. Although a while back when I had my ARF 116710LN with an absolutely horribly gritty bezel action, I took the bezel out and put a few micro drops of grease, which helped the action immensely.

I can see why CF would do it

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Few drops is fine, dipping whole watch in Vaseline jar is not :giggle:
 

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Can confirm on my end as well. Although a while back when I had my ARF 116710LN with an absolutely horribly gritty bezel action, I took the bezel out and put a few micro drops of grease, which helped the action immensely.

I can see why CF would do it

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6003 using Tapatalk

It's been reported that the bezel tension ring (flat washer that goes under the 3 pin click ring) has an inside diameter too small and it grinds against the retaining ring during rotation. So a bunch of grease was their solution. As thin and weak as those washers are made, they really aren't even needed. I have more than one GMT on which I just removed them. Some don't even come with one.
 

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Just thought I’d say I have very recently received my QC photos of my BLRO and it appears to have the correct length hands and a lip around the bezel.

I will send clearer pics once I have received the watch, which is on route.
 

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Just thought I’d say I have very recently received my QC photos of my BLRO and it appears to have the correct length hands and a lip around the bezel.

I will send clearer pics once I have received the watch, which is on route.

Not on a CF

Pics or it didn't happen.
 
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Just thought I’d say I have very recently received my QC photos of my BLRO and it appears to have the correct length hands and a lip around the bezel.

I will send clearer pics once I have received the watch, which is on route.

check it again..............................
 

Jackson.

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New Clean QC pic:

the hands look longer and appreciate camera angles etc but compared to a previous QC pic (below) of the same angle and lighting it looks like a lip is more apparent?

Previous Clean QC Pic:
 

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New Clean QC pic:

the hands look longer and appreciate camera angles etc but compared to a previous QC pic (below) of the same angle and lighting it looks like a lip is more apparent?

Previous Clean QC Pic:

Can I ask what TD you got this from and how long the process took? looking at Jtime right now.
 

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New Clean QC pic:

the hands look longer and appreciate camera angles etc but compared to a previous QC pic (below) of the same angle and lighting it looks like a lip is more apparent?

Previous Clean QC Pic:

thanks for the photos, the size of the hand is definitely different from previous version i don't know about the lip is it just a light or actually have something like small lip.
 

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Looks encouraging. If it's confirmed IRL, my wallet is about to take another hit ;)
 

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New Clean QC pic:

the hands look longer and appreciate camera angles etc but compared to a previous QC pic (below) of the same angle and lighting it looks like a lip is more apparent?

Previous Clean QC Pic:

Who is the TD? Convinced me to buy