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Omega Moonswatch reps - review of the cheap as chips new versions

teatimecrumpet

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Just got my moonswatches from dhgate and thought I'd post images of what I got for $15/each. I can't bring myself to pay more than $20 for a rep moonswatch...I know I know it's only $10 more for the swatch1 but I do like to gamble on the cheapies.

I got mine from qq409906347 dhgate.


Venus subdial border is really wrong makes it even more "blingy". This is the one I actually realy wanted.
The black snoopy's text on the moonphase is really bad and not even actual text. Doesn't lume up like other reps i've seen. Anyone have a swatch1 sboopy can confirm that the lumed text is good?



 
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Just got my moonswatches from dhgate and thought I'd post images of what I got for $15/each. I can't bring myself to pay more than $20 for a rep moonswatch...I know I know it's only $10 more for the swatch1 but I do like to gamble on the cheapies.

I got mine from qq409906347 dhgate.


Venus subdial border is really wrong makes it even more "blingy". This is the one I actually realy wanted.
The black snoopy's text on the moonphase is really bad and not even actual text. Doesn't lume up like other reps i've seen. Anyone have a swatch1 sboopy can confirm that the lumed text is good?



Someone is going to want that blinged up pink one... I feel like Karbon could do an ideal build with that.
 

teatimecrumpet

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Someone is going to want that blinged up pink one... I feel like Karbon could do an ideal build with that.
If only those were mini diamonds. Hard to see i my pics but it's like the border itself is a single piece of shiny plastic and the megative space is the dial if that makes sense.
 

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@Karbon74 saw you on the metal mod threads....if you could will into existence a pink cerakote speedie ss case that would be incredible...

(And a pink tachy too)...

Someone asked me to make a red case before and was ready to pay crazy money. i declined.

I guess everything is possible but would not be reasonable

A basic Ceratoke kit is almost $1000
Plus the amount of hours to execute the painting, you need to remove the pushers, paint them and the crown individually

Then place the moissanites one by one, on the bezel and on the dial

That said, I saw a rep F91W sell for close to $400 so I guess money is relative to some 🤣
 

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Someone asked me to make a red case before and was ready to pay crazy money. i declined.

I guess everything is possible but would not be reasonable

A basic Ceratoke kit is almost $1000
Plus the amount of hours to execute the painting, you need to remove the pushers, paint them and the crown individually

Then place the moissanites one by one, on the bezel and on the dial

That said, I saw a rep F91W sell for close to $400 so I guess money is relative to some 🤣
If you did a run of 10 of them, you could spread out the cost of the cerakote kit over all of the watches. Not your style I know but really the only way to effectively get into cerakoting watches... That would for sure bring moonswatches to the next level: cerakoted metal cases!
 
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There is an enamel paint made by Pebeo that would stick to metal. I could handpaint.

The issue is that I don’t think the watch will stand any kind of regular wearing
 

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I saw the $200 cerakote basic kits...i'm so tempted (I've never cerakoted). But the biggest issue to me I think is finding matched bezel inserts.
 

teatimecrumpet

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@Karbon74 Do you know if the swatch1 snoopie moonphase text is good/lumed?

And have you ever compared the $15 vs the $30 reps?

(You seem like THE moonswatch guy at this point lol)
 

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The best reps were from W77 but the shop closed
The Swatch1 are indeed better than the q shops but not twice better

The print on the swatch1 2H snoopy is okish but don’t expect anything like gen finesse…
The subdial is lumed but lasts like 20seconds

also the « black lume » on the hands is not lume.
 
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The best reps were from W77 but the shop closed
The Swatch1 are indeed better than the q shops but not twice better

The print on the swatch1 2H snoopy is okish but don’t expect anything like gen finesse…
The subdial is lumed but lasts like 20seconds

also the « black lume » on the hands is not lume.
Thanks, I wasn't looking for a 1:1 but I really wanted the snoopy and to have the text be some weird smudged nonsense made me sad. They should have just kept it blank.

I'd take a few seconds of glow so long as I could read it after shining it with a flashlight.
 

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Thanks, I wasn't looking for a 1:1 but I really wanted the snoopy and to have the text be some weird smudged nonsense made me sad. They should have just kept it blank.

I'd take a few seconds of glow so long as I could read it after shining it with a flashlight.

This is is from qwer44
Macro shots

Under a UV light





W77 had text. This one does not.
It’s honestly pretty good for 18€

Macro under normal room lightbulb, warm tone

 
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