Hi guys,
I wanted to share with you the fantastic work that the great master Harleysta91 did with my Noob Daytona SA4130.
I had the great fortune and comfort of living "near" Harleysta, so it was really nice to meet us to talk better, and I must say that we spent a very pleasant afternoon together talking about watches and our passion.
But let's get straight to the point, I bought in late October - early November the 116520 Noob white dial with clone movement, the purchase was made mainly for the movement, since you have never seen a watch with a vertical clutch column wheel like that for about 500 euros, and I must say that I was satisfied.
The clock arrived and I immediately noticed an annoying feeling of movement and badly made / not made at all oiling in the rotor bearing, it seemed like it was going to take off like an helicopter at any moment, it was even noisier than my 15400 JF V3 (known for its noise) and this made me a bit annoyed. The wrong font (116500) bothered me as well, so I decided to look around RWI in order to find someone who to make this watch 99.9% indistinguishable from the gen counterpart on the wrist.
In the end I decided to contact with Harleysta (certainly for the convenience and closeness) but also thanks to his complete and interesting threads in which he described his operations of modding and revision/service of other daytonas, so I understood that the watch would be in good hands.
I was lucky enough to agree with a member of the group ( botsyboy ) that gave me an ARF bezel, thank you very much! you helped me completing this project. Then I contacted Puretime to buy the ARF Dial, and I opted for the Black Dial, as I began to like the steel-black contrast in the first month of testing with the white dial.
I met harleysta, I left the Daytona, dial and bezel to him, and he proceeded to do an excellent complete revision, modding of the chronograph pushers and of course application of dial and bezel of the ARF.
As soon as I saw it myself I was impressed, I did not believe that those 0.4 mm difference between noob's gasket (2.7) and gen (2.3) could create such a change, the look is definitely gen, before it seemed much deeper , now I see no difference in proportions between this and my gen 116519.
What else to say? BRAVO!
I will leave to Harleysta the pleasure of posting the thread about my watch as soon as he downloads the pics, so be ready to click it to see the details!
Here are the pics, before:
and after:
I wanted to share with you the fantastic work that the great master Harleysta91 did with my Noob Daytona SA4130.
I had the great fortune and comfort of living "near" Harleysta, so it was really nice to meet us to talk better, and I must say that we spent a very pleasant afternoon together talking about watches and our passion.
But let's get straight to the point, I bought in late October - early November the 116520 Noob white dial with clone movement, the purchase was made mainly for the movement, since you have never seen a watch with a vertical clutch column wheel like that for about 500 euros, and I must say that I was satisfied.
The clock arrived and I immediately noticed an annoying feeling of movement and badly made / not made at all oiling in the rotor bearing, it seemed like it was going to take off like an helicopter at any moment, it was even noisier than my 15400 JF V3 (known for its noise) and this made me a bit annoyed. The wrong font (116500) bothered me as well, so I decided to look around RWI in order to find someone who to make this watch 99.9% indistinguishable from the gen counterpart on the wrist.
In the end I decided to contact with Harleysta (certainly for the convenience and closeness) but also thanks to his complete and interesting threads in which he described his operations of modding and revision/service of other daytonas, so I understood that the watch would be in good hands.
I was lucky enough to agree with a member of the group ( botsyboy ) that gave me an ARF bezel, thank you very much! you helped me completing this project. Then I contacted Puretime to buy the ARF Dial, and I opted for the Black Dial, as I began to like the steel-black contrast in the first month of testing with the white dial.
I met harleysta, I left the Daytona, dial and bezel to him, and he proceeded to do an excellent complete revision, modding of the chronograph pushers and of course application of dial and bezel of the ARF.
As soon as I saw it myself I was impressed, I did not believe that those 0.4 mm difference between noob's gasket (2.7) and gen (2.3) could create such a change, the look is definitely gen, before it seemed much deeper , now I see no difference in proportions between this and my gen 116519.
What else to say? BRAVO!
I will leave to Harleysta the pleasure of posting the thread about my watch as soon as he downloads the pics, so be ready to click it to see the details!
Here are the pics, before:
and after:
