I am not in favor of ARF or Noob, I have made an objective review, without being in favor of one or the other clock, but only based on the quality of one with respect to the other.
Now, to defend the Noob for the sword traces of quality seems to me simply ABSURD. This watch has everything but NOT aesthetic a high quality.
The Noob movement is a very important step in the history of replica watches, but its true long-term reliability is still unknown. It is therefore wrong, in my opinion, to defend the goodness of this movement since only a couple of months have passed since it came out.
Beyond this, the movement seems solid, qualitatively nothing to envy to truly Swiss movements.
This movement has a higher quality than the SA3135 or SH3135. The components seem solid, precise. By comparing SA4130 components, those of SA / SH look like tin, cheap, of too soft and badly made metals.
SA4130 is one of the best Chinese clone movements I've ever seen before.
In my case everything works perfectly, someone seems to have been unlucky with the keyless, others with the reset of the counter at 9 o'clock, and others with the "stop" of the movement not even a minute from the start of the chrono (I think there is only dirty in those cases).
For the description I update about the pusher and other little things (I took the description by copying it from another speech I had already done in another discussion, so this could be incomplete)
ARF = quality
Noob = Movement
If you do not care about the chrono functions and you want a nice watch out of the box, get the ARF.
If you're interested in the chrono, or you're going to do a nice assembly, take the Noob.
You think I held the ARF after my review, right?
You're wrong, I kept the Noob for a modding project
I will do this project, and if I'm not satisfied I'll sell the watch. But it's early to say
The only thing I really do not understand is how can some people defend the aesthetic noob quality of these daytona. Everyone of these stock watch sucks and screams "hyper-cheap" from everywhere (talking about stock watch obviously, because this comparison would make no sense between an ARF stock and a Noob franken).
The Noob dials, although the Noob may have slightly updated, are all totally wrong and must be replaced. They are wrong these dials (it is more correct to say subdial) on purpose because in the old 7750 versions that they had done the subdials were ok.
Those of these subdials Noob are too fat and give a totally incorrect font to the whole watch (besides having just a fantasy layout oh the black 116520 for example). It's a shame as this detail goes to ruin the whole watch.
