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Can someone remind me what was the best rep Rolex Sea-Dweller 43mm Ref. 126600 from a few years ago?

Cubatobaco

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I really struggle that anyone cares about this.
As long as the button presses, who cares?
If you're actually going down past 50m you're clearly in a submarine of some form, just unscrew the crown a bit and everything will be fine, any old rep can stand 10000 bar if the crown is open!

The recreational dive limit is 40m, you need to do extended training to exceed 20m, my OMF Speedmaster passes this test!

Great video by Harrison talking about this.
Very insightful!
 

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I really struggle that anyone cares about this.
As long as the button presses, who cares?
If you're actually going down past 50m you're clearly in a submarine of some form, just unscrew the crown a bit and everything will be fine, any old rep can stand 10000 bar if the crown is open!

The recreational dive limit is 40m, you need to do extended training to exceed 20m, my OMF Speedmaster passes this test!

Great video by Harrison talking about this.
I don’t understand the struggle. These are replicas. Certainly it’s not hard to understand how someone interested in a replica would want the most complete replica, regardless of whether or not the feature would be used.
 

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Does anybody have a link from the trusted dealers from Clean Factory or VSF 126660? Can't find any. Thanks in advance.
I just approved this from Ryan, have bought many watches from him in the past, great TD. I went the VSF for the VS3235 movement although i believe the VR3235 is 72hrs these days also.



 
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The new Clean 126600 definitely has some upgrades and I think the HEV is pretty slick, but as other have said still has a number of subtle tells (floating m, rounded date window bevel, bezel scalloping) and the VS3235 in the VSF would still get my nod.

I had an ARF 126600 which is worth mentioning as well for better SEL, but the cyclops magnification was an instant tell and still had the floating m issue.

ARF vs GEN: