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Hi, great place! Need your help. I just received a new Santos. Could you tell me what grade is it?

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@Observer How about some more details about the rep? Where from? What factory? How much?
 

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Ah right okay... And your reasons for suspecting it might not be..?

BTW, are those scratches round the edge of the case and screws? Or just some debris or reflections?
 

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Here's a gen vs GF blue dial comparison shot of a Reptime User from 2020.

Looks like my mid-tier assessment wasn't that off, after all. 😁

I think it's pretty clear which one is which. Dead giveaway is the finishing of the bezel screws. Datewheel on the gen is totally different. Datewheel font on the white dial rep seems not identical to the blue dial rep, but could be that it's just different between dial variants on the rep. Otherwise, finishing and overall quality of both reps seem to match, I think...

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Here's a gen vs GF blue dial comparison shot of a Reptime User from 2020.

Looks like my mid-tier assessment wasn't that off, after all. 😁

I think it's pretty clear which one is which. Dead giveaway is the finishing of the bezel screws. Datewheel on the gen is totally different. Datewheel font on the white dial rep seems not identical to the blue dial rep, but could be that it's just different between dial variants on the rep. Otherwise, finishing and overall quality of both reps seem to match, I think...

RDT-20230421-1713133315689109052065094.png
Thanks. Very informative. Would you rate mine as AAA , CG or SCG?
 

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I'm not familiar with those abbreviations. 😂

"AAA" I do know and I find it as silly as "super clone".

Real rep categories are Dhgate shitters, mid-tier and high end reps with subcategories like NWBIG... Yours I'd rate in the mid-tier category because of the overall satisfactory build quality and robust standard movement.
 
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Does it have some plastic still on the bezel? Is that why the screws look distorted in your original post?

GF is supposed to be top tier for the santos. I had and sold one and looked very nice.

Provenance?
 

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I'm not familiar with those abbreviations. 😂

"AAA" I do know and I find it as silly as "super clone".

Real rep categories are Dhgate shitters, mid-tier and high end reps with subcategories like NWBIG... Yours I'd rate in the mid-tier category because of the overall satisfactory build quality and robust standard movement.
Thanks. Really appreciate your feedback.