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Clean new 126500 white and black dial comparison with GEN

M Scott

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Many thanks to @M Scott for the detailed case study of the 12 series vs the 11 series in his thread. Extremely informative stuff.




Is it just me though or do the lug lengths look drastically different at the bottom?
Thanks for the kind words...

This is a much better picture to use to compare the lugs as both watches were together in the same camera shot. Both watches are Cleans, but the lug lengths are very, very close to Gen.

Different cameras and lenses tend to distort the pictures a bit depending on how far the camera is away from the watch. Comparing the flat dials side by side in photoshop is easy, but the different watch pictures can tend to distort when you get farther from the center of the dial. Even the numbers on the bezels can start to distort.
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The big difference in the picture above is the shape of the Solid End Links (SELs) on the Bracelet.
 
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The big difference in the picture above is the shape of the Solid End Links (SELs) on the Bracelet.
Am I correct the left watch on your picture is a gen 126500?
Looking at the 60 mark on the lower subdial which on the clean rep sits right on the lower edge of the subdial, in your picture its not. The reason I ask is that you say: both watches are cleans.
 

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Am I correct the left watch on your picture is a gen 126500?
Looking at the 60 mark on the lower subdial which on the clean rep sits right on the lower edge of the subdial, in your picture its not. The reason I ask is that you say: both watches are cleans.
Actually the watch on the left is a Clean that I photoshopped a Gen Black 126500 Dial in for Black Dial comparison. It was shown that way in a post earlier in this thread. I posted it again to answer the lug shape question. I guess I should have posted this picture instead of a Gen and a V1 Clean.
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Anyone with a caliper measured the thickness yet? For gen the thickness reduction looks like is from the case back. Cleans caseback looks like gen, but just curious if they achieved gen thickness.
 

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Anyone with a caliper measured the thickness yet? For gen the thickness reduction looks like is from the case back. Cleans caseback looks like gen, but just curious if they achieved gen thickness.
It is around 12.2 mm, maybe less but not more
 

M Scott

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Hmm, that’s the same as current 11 daytonas. The new 12s are 11.9mm. Curious to know where the difference is from.
The new 4131 Movement in the Gen 126500s has been redesigned with fewer parts. Maybe it's thinner too?
 

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but when i put them side by side with mine 116500 the 2650 is a hair thinner, it is very close to my 126334 clean datejust

You posting pics every few days made me cave in and I just ordered one is well :ROFLMAO:
 
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Nice comparison with the gen!
 

Bobi01

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Would like to see the white dial under the gen crystal, this crystal looks like it has colder hue, even with that crystal the dial color looks the closest than all other panda dials before
Anyways good job from clean
 
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Btw for those who say that the new 126x Pandas are thinner than 116x this is not true. Rolex says it is but Hafiz (YouTube channel) measured both and they are essentially identical thickness, the 126x is negligbly larger (like 0.08mm or something)