Every time here (for example now in the clean 16500 panda) even if there are no big tells people are saying that the watch is totally different form gen and if you say something different you don’t know what you say since you don’t own the gen…
Oh i get you.
No mate i can assure you that they are pretty pretty close.
Let me get a little more on to this.
Rolex Panda dial and royal oak dial are different day and night. The rolex dial is a simple plain dial with nothing special details on it.
Royal oak dial has this tappiserie (there is a video on youtube with the process to see), this thing can not be "exactly" replicated. But again this fine details can be seen only when light hits the dial and i repeat you must know the gen dial.
CF panda dial and gen are the same, nothing special on the gen dial that can not be replicated it and CF knocked it out of the park.
Also you don't need a gen in hand to see the differences, you can see the differences better from photos than in your hand, and if someone said this because you dont have the gen dial in hand it is BS.
Video of manufacturing the dial at AP:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=292wB7HkNCM