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New 5711 Nautilus Modder/Factory - BUFF?

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Those pics are meaninglessness. They’re clearly highly edited / catfish pics mate - designed to make it pop. They are not real life pics. In real life you don’t walk around with your wrist inside a black box with a sparkle filter on it.

Fuck knows what gen looks like at any given angle, lighting, batch etc. But what I can say is that you can’t make any conclusive gen vs rep comparison statements based on pics like that.


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Well picture are they only way we share info on the net. and this post is just sharing info of different opinions. Who is there is say whats right or not. i think we should be thankful to all member for sharing their knowledge to us instead of challenging one another.
 
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Thank you! Finally someone understand. These are just sharing info of whats out there. I am not backing the seller up or anything. It is what it is. who knows how they make it that cheap and i have never brought from them. Maybe if someone is not worry about being scam could buy one and share some REAL info . Hahaha
as i know Buff can build these ap15202 with gen mvt. Dont know what it cost tho never asked

as non sense other then watches, you guys would be scared of how much real gold with real diamond cartier rep bracelet goes for. These shit are just so cheap on china. You just need the connection to get the best stuff for the cheapest price.

Mate i do believe you, and you back it up with images also, i am also in the process of AP franken myself so that s a very interesting topic for me
 

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They are not real life pics. In real life you don’t walk around with your wrist inside a black box with a sparkle filter on it.

Fuck knows what gen looks like at any given angle, lighting, batch etc. But what I can say is that you can’t make any conclusive gen vs rep comparison statements based on pics like that.


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+1 editing and lighting. go look at watches in a window display and they sparkle under the lighting.


patek's dial maker probably weighs each pigment to the microgram for some consistency in production. these buff dials are done in batches so paint mix varies depending on how much baijiu was consumed the night before
 
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This one looks very much like new 3KF case with gen dial/movement in it.

The 3kf v2 case is based on the CNC case that China modders has been using for a while.

I know because mandarin is my second language and I communicate with buff in mandarin.

I cannot verify the truth of the story but here it goes:

When Buff first produces the dials and they have 2 packages

1) buff dials , datewheel and later hands with the 3kf v1 case which is the case with the big links and terrible crown guard shape.

2) buff dial, datewheel and hands with the CNC case. The drawback is that this way it’s more the 10k RMB.

3kf later updated that caseset to v2 which is a CNC of the CNC case ( a rep of a rep), so essentially what you get with the 3kf v2 is the CNC case remade by 3kf. So most of us will take this version instead of CNC case because it’s the same case for less price.


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Guys i recap again, please kindly DO NOT pm for the info of these franken watches anymore. i dont want to be involved to the selling, especially the high price of the deal. I am not a seller and will not help anyone doing the deal .
thanks for understanding.
 

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Guys i recap again, please kindly DO NOT pm for the info of these franken watches anymore. i dont want to be involved to the selling, especially the high price of the deal. I am not a seller and will not help anyone doing the deal .
thanks for understanding.

Lol you just dug a hole for yourself. You should have kept 咸鱼 and 微店 to yourself!


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Lol you just dug a hole for yourself. You should have kept 咸鱼 and 微店 to yourself!


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Lol! I tried my best to cover up info already.
Many people just dont like to accept new things that they never knew about. I mean if any of us never joined RWI we probably dont even know about noob, zf.. etc. They would probably still buying shit rep thinking thats the best out there. Same as buff, buff have been around for long time, but they just know about it until this post.

as i rmb the old legend TC sub, he claim everything was built in USA and most parts are made in USA . And everyone seems to believe that. But i know his partners , everything is from china. And all the watches are shipped out from china. Its just how dealer package their products.
anything could happen in china.
 
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I myself buy from China a lot..however that 15202 for 45k rmb is more than suspicious because the price is way too low
 

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I myself buy from China a lot..however that 15202 for 45k rmb is more than suspicious because the price is way too low

I agree with it being low but to get a sense of the pricing scheme in China I am going to get one of my contacts is china to ask for a price of a similar spec watch.

15202 with gen dial and hands and gen movement and CNC case


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I agree with it being low but to get a sense of the pricing scheme in China I am going to get one of my contacts is china to ask for a price of a similar spec watch.

15202 with gen dial and hands and gen movement and CNC case


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Question, this cnc cases are better from the ones that we are commonly offered from apsf or zf for example?

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Question, this cnc cases are better from the ones that we are commonly offered from apsf or zf for example?

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Cnc cases are made to fit gen dial and movements. If the movement is a clone movement that is gen spec then likely the case is the same from the cnc case. For 15202 case neither zf nor xf manage to get it to gen spec as the movement is thicker . So to use a cnc for that watch is necessary


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Cnc cases are made to fit gen dial and movements. If the movement is a clone movement that is gen spec then likely the case is the same from the cnc case. For 15202 case neither zf nor xf manage to get it to gen spec as the movement is thicker . So to use a cnc for that watch is necessary


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Thank you, a new world opened for me today with this new infos, so i got a lot of study and search to do.

This cnc cases are made by a specific factory there or cnc case its a word used for the clone cases that made to fit gen dial-movement in general and are many sources someone can get them from?
 

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I myself buy from China a lot..however that 15202 for 45k rmb is more than suspicious because the price is way too low

Most likely they gathered gen movement parts and build one whole movement. And i never totally believe what they claim is gen. for the ap 15202 they have a real 1:1 gen spec hands . They could easily just say its gen hands.
i guess unless someone really brought one then we will all know if the deal is true.
 

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Thank you, a new world opened for me today with this new infos, so i got a lot of study and search to do.

This cnc cases are made by a specific factory there or cnc case its a word used for the clone cases that made to fit gen dial-movement in general and are many sources someone can get them from?

Cnc as i read is a machine which is same as the one they use in gen factory. (Told by dealers, might not be true)
They suppose to make better quality case. However for the 5711, i do not see any different from 3k case.
 

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Ac1013 & Alvinado, I say let things be. Not your job to convince people of anything. I am one of a few though that would’ve paid up to get one of those 5711 frankens had I known about them.

I didn’t dm you lol but if you or anyone knows of a reliable source, please connect me…that price is peanuts in the scheme of things, and am more than happy to play so long as the source is trustworthy and delivers.
 

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Ac1013 & Alvinado, I say let things be. Not your job to convince people of anything. I am one of a few though that would’ve paid up to get one of those 5711 frankens had I known about them.

I didn’t dm you lol but if you or anyone knows of a reliable source, please connect me…that price is peanuts in the scheme of things, and am more than happy to play so long as the source is trustworthy and delivers.

I will not trust anyone in china with that amount of money unless you do face trade. Buff should also be able to do such frankens, but i wouldnt do it. Too risky.
 

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Ac1013 & Alvinado, I say let things be. Not your job to convince people of anything. I am one of a few though that would’ve paid up to get one of those 5711 frankens had I known about them.

I didn’t dm you lol but if you or anyone knows of a reliable source, please connect me…that price is peanuts in the scheme of things, and am more than happy to play so long as the source is trustworthy and delivers.

Noted! Whatever we share is for information. Their are lots of things we don’t know. The purpose of this forum is to share


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