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Updated Royal Oak Tourbillon by R8 Factory are out
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Do you think the watch needs a custom dial regarding the dial color, the surface and marker finishing?B8BE1868 354D 4D4A BB82 FF72A9470C38
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Have you compared your watch with pics/videos of gens? If so then do you think the size of the hands base is Ok or annoyingly larger?
There is not much thicker when compared to the original.
As for the finish, its rough texture is not the same as gen, it should be painted with fine alumina and be darker.
I also didn’t like that the tourbillon itself was in oil and oxide, I had to polish it and the hands were dirty.
Ok. So here it is. After a long wait, my R8F gray tourby has arrived. He’s a big boy! A lot thicker and wider than my v5 blue dial. And that is bigger than my gen 15400.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.
Ok. So here it is. After a long wait, my R8F gray tourby has arrived. He’s a big boy! A lot thicker and wider than my v5 blue dial. And that is bigger than my gen 15400.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.
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Looks pretty thick, thank you for the pics. What do you think of it on the wrist?Ok. So here it is. After a long wait, my R8F gray tourby has arrived. He’s a big boy! A lot thicker and wider than my v5 blue dial. And that is bigger than my gen 15400.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.
It’s a beautiful dial. Maybe a smidge darker than the hen in low light but it stands up almost like an ROO. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration but definitely feels a bit “off” especially since I (and I think most watch enthusiasts) have been favoring thinner lower profile watches lately - think 15202, 5711, aquanaut vs the ROO behemoths of years past. But that could just be me or my inaccurate observation.
I would also say it would be hard to pull off with a suit, whereas I have no problems with my nautiluses or 15400s.
I removed the rotor, it is held on by glue, I don’t understand why they didn’t make a real one, since everything is there for this
The real one, but it works very poorly with this rotor due to the high resistance and there is no inversion in the mechanism, it only starts in one direction
Is that high resistance only present in the wound condition of the watch or always? My ZF 15202 with the stock Miyota movement and rotor hardly auto-winds when the watch is on full power.
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There’s almost no resistance on my rotor, it spins freely. When the watch has fully stopped it starts moving again when I pick it up with slight movement.
I can hear it wind when I turn the watch clockwise and not counterclockwise. Looking at your image it looks kind of crazy that it’s just stuck on like that..
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When I received it the little plate covering the rotor screw was loose and blocked the rotor from moving. so I had to open it up and place it back in the centre.
The sapphire on the case back was pushed too deep on my one and caused friction on the rotor( which made it unable to spin freely). I pressed it out very slightly and the rotor was able to move freely.
By twitching my wrist, I managed to start the clock without a rotor, they worked for several minutes!
Ok. Brand new C&R AP Tourbilion (see middle AP above) is going up for sale soon if anyone here wants first crack at below retail cost and less wait! Just shoot me a PM.Ok. So here it is. After a long wait, my R8F gray tourby has arrived. He’s a big boy! A lot thicker and wider than my v5 blue dial. And that is bigger than my gen 15400.
Ok enough talk. Let the pics speak for themselves. And a box shot for good measure. Anyone who wants to play “spot the gens” have at it. I’ve given you a good head start.
PS - my pride and joy, the Montauk Highway (super modded from different versions; two years in the making) will be going up for sale soon if any of you AP lovers want first crack at it.