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Daytona Appreciation - Post Your Daytona Pics & Opinion
- Thread starter Joshj
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No way. Are you a watch maker and this is a clients?Gen Big Red
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- 18/8/20
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Absolutely fantastic. What are the specs? It looks gen to meThey sure do
Case and bracelet very smooth, also the dial is wonderful!Yeap full genAbsolutely fantastic. What are the specs? It looks gen to me
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Id say my rep looks pretty damn close to be honest. Clean did a good job.
Of course the gen has much nicer ticks on the dial, and the case and bracelet are nice and soft/smooth looking.
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Yeap that clean dial is really very close even the matte finish colour is good. The red is way better than the noob racing dial, I had one and did side by side shots and it wasn’t good.
Biggest tell on the rep is obviously weight but you are not going be giving someone the watch to hold. So for most the biggest tell is colour. Steel reps are too cold and blue as white gold is soft and has yellowish hue. But get yourself a plated version and you have a fine rep.
Biggest tell on the rep is obviously weight but you are not going be giving someone the watch to hold. So for most the biggest tell is colour. Steel reps are too cold and blue as white gold is soft and has yellowish hue. But get yourself a plated version and you have a fine rep.
Yeah, never have I ever had someone else hold my watches, gen or rep lol. That would be a weird thing to ask.
The gens are too expensive (I’m not a big baller with Daytona gens, mine are all under 10k XD) to trust a friend who might not be able to afford repairs when they drop it 3 seconds after you let them hold it anyways.
I’m actually really impressed with the bracelet quality on this one, it feels really nice. It squeaks and all that because it’s a rep and isn’t oiled properly, but besides that it’s honestly solid. The finish isn’t nearly as good as yours of course.
And yeah regarding plating, I’m still deciding if I want it done or not, I have another WG Daytona I’d want to get plated as well if I went that route.
Overall I’d say the Daytona reps still lack that smoothness you see on the corners of your case, and the end of the sels. It impacts the overall “shape” quite heavily. That’s a Daytona hallmark IMO, and I haven’t seen a rep be able to replicate it, which isn’t surprising, the gen Daytona is hand finished as far as I know. You can see the edges on mine kinda just drop off, yours is like a soft/smooth rounding. Makes such a difference IMO.
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DonkeyHoTay
Cockwomble Misfire Specialist
Before and after with Noob vs BTF Platona dial:
Noob
BTF
Some people told me there was a problem with BTF sub dial sunburst, but I don’t see any problems. And the BTF font is better as well.
Noob
BTF
Some people told me there was a problem with BTF sub dial sunburst, but I don’t see any problems. And the BTF font is better as well.
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Been enjoying my Daytona this week after it being away for so long.
Ohh you snuck that sky dweller in there!!!! Also the drsd looks great in this company
Picked it up recently m2m and I'm very happy with it!
Thanks mate, honestly that DRSD is still one of my favourites, it's all the vintage I need atm (until I can pick up a good GMT build)
- 18/8/20
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Finally got that blue dial pal, things we love to see
JF 116520 from like 2015/2016, picked it up for $100 lol, just wanted to compared to my black dial BTF with clean bezel.
JF rehaut is really bad, and it is a bit thicker with non functioning chrono, not that i ever use chrono, for the price, solid pick up
