Thanks for this comparison.
It's also very telling how brown the 'ROUGE' half of the insert on the Noob appears compared to the CF.
As for the varying qualities between the two, at the end of the day, I still say CF represents the best value and a definite improvement over the Noob.
Like everyone has been saying, lighting is everything. Here's natural light vs my camera flash.
https://imgur.com/a/XxIQFBJ
https://imgur.com/a/DGvdCl0
Not even remotely close to genuine colours. Keep this one under your sleeve.
Not even remotely close to genuine colours. Keep this one under your sleeve.
Each to his own. Let those who are happy with their watches enjoy this hobby, whatever the models are and however they may appear to others. I own 2 gens of the 41mm Pepsi but I still get a lot of kicks from owning the CF.
This is supposed to be fun.
Sorry mate, my bad, I was referring to 126710BLRO, got crossed over with my 12 LN
Not even remotely close to genuine colours. Keep this one under your sleeve.
Here's gen, you may be overthinking it.