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Honest Review: The Clean Pepsi Sucks
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These are always such shit responses. "Not happy with your 500$ watch? Go buy a $10,000 one". Did you even see my video? It would be one thing if there was just one bit off. But there's not. Every comment on here is recommending basically spending between 1-300 bucks to get the watch to a stable state. That's crazy. That's not a good watch. I get what reps are supposed to be, but it's okay to admit when we have shitty ones. The best part of this watch is probably the dial and case, but that should be how we talk about it.
Your movement videos are going to give me nightmares. I hate that shit.
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Rolex AD wouldn't even let you buy one if you had the 10k haha.
mari115
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Not impressed with CF's GMTs or reps in general.
If I had to buy a CF i'd go for the 124060, and that's actually what I did.
Except for the bezel that turns with just a little force (it doesn't have the same resistance of my VSF or my genuine one) it's pretty spot on and since it has no cyclops it's basically indistinguishable from gen
If I had to buy a CF i'd go for the 124060, and that's actually what I did.
Except for the bezel that turns with just a little force (it doesn't have the same resistance of my VSF or my genuine one) it's pretty spot on and since it has no cyclops it's basically indistinguishable from gen
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A gen crystal is pretty much a necessity on any rep with a cyclops if you want the best experience. The CF bezel parts can be tweaked and lightly greased to give an acceptable result. Then the insert gets realigned since many are not.
This is as good as it gets IMO, all in for under $1K. It's a V1, so the V2 is even better with the longer minute hand and better bezel lip. Swap in an ROF Pepsi insert if you want, I have that build upcoming.
Gen crystal, bezel tweaked and insert aligned.
This is as good as it gets IMO, all in for under $1K. It's a V1, so the V2 is even better with the longer minute hand and better bezel lip. Swap in an ROF Pepsi insert if you want, I have that build upcoming.
Gen crystal, bezel tweaked and insert aligned.
It looks like in your shot there, something funky is going on with the 0 Hour on the bezel insert? I have that on mine, I thought it was just a lighting artifact on the QC pics but it really just is unevenly filled
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Are you talking about the insert triangle? If so I agree many of the CF samples look imperfect there. I'm going to do a paint mod on one of my CF Pepsi inserts after swapping the ROF insert in.
Most ceramic insert markers can be improved by a gentle scrubbing with an ultra soft toothbrush and some dish soap. Rinse with a thin stream from the faucet with the watch tiltled away from the crown and caseback.
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Bro I bought ROF insert...I will build same your pepsi.
CF watch
ROF insert
Gen crystal car c1
Do you think we have to change DW with gen one?
For me there's no need
I suspect you wont know until you have the crystal on. You can see from this shot that the font fills the opening differently, but it's unclear if the stretched look of the numbers is due to the mag or the font. It's like, theres clearly something off about the font under the microscope, but I once you get rid of the weird effect of the rep mag you wont really notice it
I think someone mentioned in a different thread they had the rehaut hit with a buffing wheel, and I think that would help alot. You can see it in this shot, the rehaut is pretty hard to see compared to gen
I think someone mentioned in a different thread they had the rehaut hit with a buffing wheel, and I think that would help alot. You can see it in this shot, the rehaut is pretty hard to see compared to gen
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The V2 has a quite thin crystal at 1.60mm so anyone putting in a gen crystal should have an assortment of crystal gaskets on hand to test out the best result. I take pics and do side-by-side collages before deciding on the final combo.
These were some combos I tried, also tried a Sub gen crystal which is 2.0mm thick. The gen GMT is 1.80mm, CF V1 is 1.70mm. The CF V1 has a thicker bezel.
Top number is crystal thickness, bottom number is gasket height. Left pic is stock CF V1
These were some combos I tried, also tried a Sub gen crystal which is 2.0mm thick. The gen GMT is 1.80mm, CF V1 is 1.70mm. The CF V1 has a thicker bezel.
Top number is crystal thickness, bottom number is gasket height. Left pic is stock CF V1
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Legit question. With my movement the way it is, do you think its serviceable or am I better off just buying a new movement m2m?
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Have you checked its performance on a timegrapher bro? I don't think there is anything wrong with yours. All of the rep and gen 3185s have hands wobble while hour jumping. The initial wobbling is usually more pronounced. See if yours becomes more subtle if you keep moving it in the same direction vs only stopping and starting it in opposite directions.
It's possible your click spring is just dry, making it lurch with each step rather than advance smoothly. The gen part has a hole in the upper cover that enables lubing. The rep VR3185 part has no hole and needs to be disassembled to be lubed. The rep VR3186 part has a hole on the bottom through which proper lubing isn't really possible so it needs to be disassembled as well. A few members have just swapped in the gen part 3185-660 for good measure. I have one of those but so far haven't had the need to use it as all my VR3185/6's are running and hour jumping normally.
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If you are referring to hands wobble that is only a characteristic of rep and gen 3185 GMT movements.
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