First order with puretime - GMT bruce wayne oyster CF

[davethecross]

Emailing alice, was told the model i want is orderable from the factory

09/09/2024 - sent international money transfer, wont clear for up to a week

Now time to settle in and wait

 

[puretime]

Thank you for your order. We will email you payment confirmation once money arrives

 

[davethecross]

10/06/24 - Recieved QC pictures and seeing a few red flags. Going to take several hours and debate what to do. Primarily the rehaut and laser etching on crystal

 

[j-unit]

10/06/24 - Recieved QC pictures and seeing a few red flags. Going to take several hours and debate what to do. Primarily the rehaut and laser etching on crystal

When buying the first watch, rehaut and LEC are rarely valid reasons for rejection as zoomed pictures often highlight minor things you won't see later on your wrist. You can upload a picture of the flaws (not more as we don't do general QC) if you like.

 

[asusundevils1971]

The crown at 12 is not centered and the LEC is noticeable in your QC pics that are magnified 20 or 30 X....

Gen Rolex watches have the crown on the rehaut not centered on every of their watches and the LEC will not be noticeable when you have it in your hand. You will have a hard time seeing it and will need to hold it a specific angle and probably have to use a light source too..

The two things you mentioned will not be noticed while on the wrist and you will also be taking a chance / risk of your next watches rehaut alignment even being worse. Also the time you will have to wait till the factory ships out a new watch...

It's your money, you will be the one wearing it and it's you that will have to make the final decision whether to RL or GL...

 

[davethecross]

I just posted the briefest of summaries because I've got another post going on reddit, but if it were a single thing I'd be more willing to let it slide but it's several things. The finishing on the crown and the bottom right lug is not where it could be and the cyclops position at the bare minimum I'd need additional photos.

I'm not basing this on a gen I'm basing this on several other CF QC photos that are flawless compared to this.

 

[davethecross]

Sorry I thought I uploaded the photos

 

[asusundevils1971]

1. There is nothing wrong with the location of the cyclops as it's just the angle of pic.
2. The crown looks like any other I have seen for the Clean GMT including my own.
3. Don't see anything wrong with the lower right lug either.

You do understand that these pics are magnified 30X...

Good luck on your next watch if you RL this one and maybe you should buy a gen Bruce Wayne GMT..

 

[davethecross]

Like I already said, the rehaut and laser etching is my main concern. They are drastically out of place. They didn't make your list it seems.

The finishing stuff I wouldn't care about. I've seen a cleaner crown and lugs on every other CF CQ I've looked at. Again I wouldn't care if that was it.

I didn't say there's anything wrong with the cyclops, I said I'd at least need better pictures if the laser etching is a mile off.

And once again, I'm comparing to other CF watches, not a gen.

I don't want to argue or spam, just stating what I see and continuing to post the record of my purchase

 

[j-unit]

Rehaut is not perfect centered, agree, but would be acceptable for me. You will not notice while wearing.

Additionally, I agree with @asusundevils1971 ^^

 

[Andrew_watchlist]

It wouldn’t bother me, that misalignment is so slight.

 

[tokidoki]

Keep in mind this is a rep not gen and minute flaws will be present.
Looks good to me but I'd use the qc web tool to check angles..

 

[davethecross]

So yet again, I'm not comparing to a gen. I'm comparing to CF reps. I have used the qc web tool. I was told not to post all qc pictures. Anyone curious this is the thread. 90% of them aren't like this.

 

[dc5525]

As other posters mentioned, no rep is 100% flawless and you need to have mindset there likely will be imperfections but will be absolutely unnoticed because no one walks around with a 10x magnifying glass wanting to inspect watches everywhere they go. I think watch looks awesome and enjoy it.

 

[davethecross]

If that's truly the case then I'm a little curious why the previous 40 CF GMTs I looked at in a row don't have these two flaws? I'd GL each and every one of them. I'm sorry but I'm not being picky here and I'm starting to get a little surprised you guys aren't seeing this.

I'll just repeat it every reply I guess. I'm not comparing this to a gen. I'm comparing it to other CF GMTs. I can see clear as day that the other ones are drastically better lined up than this one.

 

[MaximillianGT]

If that's truly the case then I'm a little curious why the previous 40 CF GMTs I looked at in a row don't have these two flaws? I'd GL each and every one of them. I'm sorry but I'm not being picky here and I'm starting to get a little surprised you guys aren't seeing this.

I'll just repeat it every reply I guess. I'm not comparing this to a gen. I'm comparing it to other CF GMTs. I can see clear as day that the other ones are drastically better lined up than this one.

Typical Rediot...

 

[davethecross]

haha okay if I get one more post like this I swear I will make a slideshow of the last 50 CF GMTs on reptimeqc. None of them will have these defects except for another bruce wayne that's on there. I'm busy but I'll do it. I can't be gaslit on this one unfortunately.

 

[MaximillianGT]

haha okay if I get one more post like this I swear I will make a slideshow of the last 50 CF GMTs on reptimeqc. None of them will have these defects except for another bruce wayne that's on there. I'm busy but I'll do it. I can't be gaslit on this one unfortunately.

Very typical Rediot.

 

[asusundevils1971]

If that's truly the case then I'm a little curious why the previous 40 CF GMTs I looked at in a row don't have these two flaws? I'd GL each and every one of them. I'm sorry but I'm not being picky here and I'm starting to get a little surprised you guys aren't seeing this.

I'll just repeat it every reply I guess. I'm not comparing this to a gen. I'm comparing it to other CF GMTs. I can see clear as day that the other ones are drastically better lined up than this one

You are being picky and you have many veteran members who have ordered high hundreds in watches (including CF GMT's) telling you the same thing that there is nothing wrong with the watch. You open a thread looking for advice and don't want to take said advice given but if one of our members would agree with you, then that would be the only advice you would listen to and ignore all the others given.

Maybe you should go back to Reddit and see if one of the 40 GMT's you would have GL can be purchased off of the members who have them. The members here know nothing about watches compared to Reddit users (their words) and are second class citizens to those Rediots (TY @MaximillianGT for the word).

Maybe @Reaps would be nice and lend you his rehaut adjustment tool and one of your concerns would be taken care of.

Here is a pic of the LEC on my GMT and would you RL.

 

[Reaps]

If that's truly the case then I'm a little curious why the previous 40 CF GMTs I looked at in a row don't have these two flaws? I'd GL each and every one of them. I'm sorry but I'm not being picky here and I'm starting to get a little surprised you guys aren't seeing this.

I'll just repeat it every reply I guess. I'm not comparing this to a gen. I'm comparing it to other CF GMTs. I can see clear as day that the other ones are drastically better lined up than this one.

You're buying a fake Chinese watch for 500 bucks and expecting it to be better than geninune. This is quite insane.

There's a easier way. Noone is forcing you to buy these replicas if they're not up to your god forsaken standard. Just save your money for gen. Which is what I'm thinking you should do.

By the way, I can also make you a 50 slide powerpoint filled with misaligned gens that cost 50x more. So what is the point here?