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BTF platinum Daytona

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Li from Jtime told me Clean will be releasing theirs in about a month give or take.
 
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I have seen this comment on another forum:

" I saw the 2 of them side by side in the diamond dist in NYC a few years back. The dials are the same shade. The pics on Rolex makes them look a little different. The baguette version going all ice blue maybe gives the perception of being a little lighter "

So, BTF really dropped the ball on the baguette version, big time
 

muiramas

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Not conclusive. I’d go with the Rolex website before some random guy in another forum.
 

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Another video. I don't speak the langiage so I don't know what he's saying, but the google translated title seems to say to stay away from it.

Maybe @cranestep can translate?
 

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I get that the initial few pics we saw might have the wrong hands on them but i've seen a fair few different images of these now from (i'm assume?) different pieces out of the factory and they all have the hand flaw which makes no sense as BTF clearly have access to the correct hands to do the other 116500 builds they produce daily?

Or does BTF just send the same two samples out to each TD/Reviewer and it just goes from one to the next showing the same flaw?
 

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I get that the initial few pics we saw might have the wrong hands on them but i've seen a fair few different images of these now from (i'm assume?) different pieces out of the factory and they all have the hand flaw which makes no sense as BTF clearly have access to the correct hands to do the other 116500 builds they produce daily?

Or does BTF just send the same two samples out to each TD/Reviewer and it just goes from one to the next showing the same flaw?
I think it's more likely that BTF doesn't have access to the correct hands. The non-diamond platinum daytona has unique hands which are not found on any other current Daytona. As far as I can tell from the pics on the official rolex website, the non-dimond platiunum daytona is the only daytona that has hour and minute hands which do not have the black stripe down the middle. I suspect it's very unlikely that we'll see the correct hands from any factory since the volume for these products probably isn't high enough to justify a custom production. I suspect it's the same story for pushers... the pushers on platinum daytonas have 3 lines in them, but we are unlikely to see bespoke platinum style pushers for the same reason we'll never see bespoke platinum style hands.
 
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I think it's more likely that BTF doesn't have access to the correct hands. The non-diamond platinum daytona has unique hands which are not found on any other current Daytona. As far as I can tell from the pics on the official rolex website, the non-dimond platiunum daytona is the only daytona that has hour and minute hands which do not have the black stripe down the middle. I suspect it's very unlikely that we'll see the correct hands from any factory since the volume for these products probably isn't high enough to justify a custom production. I suspect it's the same story for pushers... the pushers on platinum daytonas have 3 lines in them, but we are unlikely to see bespoke platinum style pushers for the same reason we'll never see bespoke platinum style hands.
Correct hands on this model is actually more common than you think; Both Noob and ARF had the correct hands without the black stripe. Even lower quality 116506 Daytonas did as well in between Noob/ARF shutting down and the opening up of CF, BTF, etc. BTF just got lazy on this first release imo. My guess is that CF will have the correct hands on their V1. Now to what wont be right, only time will tell.
 

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Correct hands on this model is actually more common than you think; Both Noob and ARF had the correct hands without the black stripe. Even lower quality 116506 Daytonas did as well in between Noob/ARF shutting down and the opening up of CF, BTF, etc. BTF just got lazy on this first release imo. My guess is that CF will have the correct hands on their V1. Now to what wont be right, only time will tell.
Fair play. I haul down my flag... It looks like even QF got the hands right. It's too bad they got basically everything else wrong:

 

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LOL... looking at the movement pics of the QF on PureTime, you can even see that one of the three screws that secure the rotor has sheared off at the head. Ouch!!! It's a worrying sign when the QC sample you send out to TDs for pictures includes a broken off screw head bouncing around inside the movement.
 

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sorry who are?
so true to the QF comment above lol!

BTF looks like a solid contender with their dial.. looking forward for a V2, fix hands and the fugly endlinks… good release just horribly rushed to get first sales i think..

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LOL... looking at the movement pics of the QF on PureTime, you can even see that one of the three screws that secure the rotor has sheared off at the head. Ouch!!! It's a worrying sign when the QC sample you send out to TDs for pictures includes a broken off screw head bouncing around inside the movement.
Happens quite a lot. The prototype may be passed around a few dealers to photograph ahead of release, and it may have been thrown together from parts as well.
 

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I definitely want to pick this one up, but I am going to wait for a few more updates. From more than 5 feet away it looks great, but these watches are for me and not to impress anyone else, so I want it to look rock solid from 2 feet away :)
 
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Seen on WeChat 1 hour ago… it looks like the clasp markings are fixed (ie correctly show pt950 and the pointing squashed sideways square thingy for platinum, not the Mastercard double circle balance thing for gold). But the back of the case shows pt950 (good) and the Mastercard double circle (bad).

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