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Gen VS Clean champagne dial Daytona 116515/116505 releasing

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Hi my friends
I 'm back with some fresh new Daytona again!


Clean is bringing in the new champagne dial Daytona (aka Victoria Beckham Daytona). This dal is very special. It is almost silver under bright light, but slightly pink in normal to dark environment. Clean did a very good job in the color correcting this time. The color variation is very close to the gen Daytona. But the image also shows a difference in the radiate texture of the dial. But overall, clean products are trustworthy.

The case part has been shown many times before. There's nothing wrong with the details.

We found a small problem on the dial though, the markers and the case are not the same color. We made a conclusion with clean that the gen champagne dial also has yellow gold markers, not rose gold.

Other than that, the end link pin also has a problem. All the rubber strap and gold bracelet models have yellow gold end link pins, including the GMT, Submariner and so on. Probably Rolex wants to cut the costs.
 
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Dial is much closer than the BTF version, but it's still a bit more pink than silver champagne.
 
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Looks very nice. Will clean release a full rose gold oyster with brown dial? Been recently drooling over that one
 
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Looks very nice. Will clean release a full rose gold oyster with brown dial? Been recently drooling over that one
They already have

 
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They already have

I meant the brown dial with the rose gold bezel and bracelet. Not the black bezel on oysterflex. Only seen btf
 
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Thanks so much for this detailed comparison. Hugely valuable for those who want a macro shot comparison of this watch. Fabulous work!
 
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Maybe a noob question, I've noticed different versions of this watch have different CLEAN stickers on the back. For example, what version is this?

The gold color looks different to the version shown here yet they are supposed to be the same release. Is it the lighting?


 

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Maybe a noob question, I've noticed different versions of this watch have different CLEAN stickers on the back. For example, what version is this?

The gold color looks different to the version shown here yet they are supposed to be the same release. Is it the lighting?
Haha it's just random stickers for different batches. I believe the color difference is only because the light
 

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1) will you be releasing a video comparison as well for gen vs cf on this. It would be truly appreciated ;).
2) is it me or is CF slightly darker rose gold
 

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This is the older version we shot, I will just post here. (It's not that I'm lazy, only because I need to supply something here)

The dial appears light champagne color comparing to the last one. It's more special because of the black markers and chronograph second hand. It's relatively popular model.

We have shot RG Daytona for so many times, so we only present accessories that are different this time.

I have to mention that only Clean did the stainless steel clasp spring inside the claps which is the same as gen. It’s because that the 18K gold is not as elastic as stainless steel. All the gen clasp springs are made of stainless steel no matter it is RG or YG. From this we can know that other factories plate the watches after they put all the parts together, while Clean plates all the accessories separately. It’s only an unnoticeable detail, but only Clean bothers to achieve this level.



Also the video:

That's all
Bye~
 
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Interesting that they chose to go with a serif font which is not gen
 
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Interesting that they chose to go with a serif font which is not gen
I think I figured out what happened. They just did some arabic dials recently (old dial style) and I think they mixed up the pad printer. Older dials have serifed fonts for everything. Not the new dials that have sans serif (without serif)

Oops, hope they didnt make too many of these dials yet.
 

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I always appreciate your breakdowns. Thanks for this.
 
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Isn't this the sunburst dial from 2021?

I don't think I've ever seen a champagne dial on this Daytona before.
 

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I think I figured out what happened. They just did some arabic dials recently (old dial style) and I think they mixed up the pad printer. Older dials have serifed fonts for everything. Not the new dials that have sans serif (without serif)

Oops, hope they didnt make too many of these dials yet.
No these dials are correct sort of. They are the older style dials from the first release of the 116515/116505 models. So the Serif font is no problem. The only problem is that the old Gen dials are probably Superluminova and the Clean ones are most likely Chromalight.
Not sure if there are any Gen combos of Serifs and CL but I highly doubt it.

But the dial printing per se is correct. Only the lume is wrong. But you will not see that in daylight.
 
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