I have seen some with the letter a and others without. are there any differences in your opinion?
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I have seen some with the letter a and others without. are there any differences in your opinion?
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I have not owned an ARF Daytona bro. They appear to be high quality and many people love them. I don't like it that they have a deco plate on the movement which forced them to use a lighter rotor to stay thinner. Many people swap in a gen or gen-spec ETA 7750/3 rotor to solve PR issues. And then remove the deco plate. It would have been nice if ARF had just done that for us. Plus the 3 and 9 subdials are frozen, which is less of an issue to me but still.
I wanted the ice blue dial with "diamonds" in particular which ARF doesn't make so it was an easy choice for me go with this new one. It looks pretty good from what we can tell in the pics.
I wanted to figure out which modified movement 7750 was better of the two. Biao don't have deco plate but second at 6 anyway Is a problem.
So i ordered Black Dial steel bezel. I Will post It.
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I would try one of those if I was in the market for that model.
I had a little hiccup ordering my "unknown factory" Ice blue Platona. QC pics showed a TWF, which we've already established is a different offering. TD is trying to get it sorted. Watch was rejected with comparison pics. You can get a really good idea of what the TWFs are, at least.
Watch had a TW tag on it.
I would try one of those if I was in the market for that model.
I had a little hiccup ordering my "unknown factory" Ice blue Platona. QC pics showed a TWF, which we've already established is a different offering. TD is trying to get it sorted. Watch was rejected with comparison pics. You can get a really good idea of what the TWFs are, at least.
Watch had a TW tag on it.
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sorry..but how thick is twf? what I posted is biao. what do you think?
I enlarged the photos. I'm pretty sure it's good what the seller ordered me. Do you agree?
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I enlarged the photos. I'm pretty sure it's good what the seller ordered me. Do you agree?
Yours is good bro. The TWF looks 15mm, like every A7750 Daytona except ARF and biao.
Has anyone gone ahead and purchased the biao factory 116519ln? seeing how things are going.. i guess i shld just settle for these in the meantime, oh wells.
I have never heard about BIAO what I can find it?
I own Noob and ARF and I can say I am happy
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- 12/3/18
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I would try one of those if I was in the market for that model.
I had a little hiccup ordering my "unknown factory" Ice blue Platona. QC pics showed a TWF, which we've already established is a different offering. TD is trying to get it sorted. Watch was rejected with comparison pics. You can get a really good idea of what the TWFs are, at least.
Watch had a TW tag on it.
These QC pics were received by me on June 20. Today, a month later, I am still waiting for any more QC pics, or word on whether or not a BIAO Daytona can even be sourced by a TD.
There is a WeChat number on the BIAO webpage for each listing which includes a notice stating that they will not accept "any form of agency" (does this mean other dealers like a TD?). Please don't construe this as advice to buy it from a non-TD, don't do it.
So I wait for any word from my TD.
Any idea whether the insert on this is as good as / the same as the clean insert? The dull insert was the biggest frustration for me on the noob
I'm going to swap the bezel to a PM style. This is s build I've had in mind tor a couple years. I think Rolex totally missed the boat putting a ceramic bezel with this dial.
Gen dial
I've been hunting this dial for ages, and very recently came really close to pulling the trigger on an aftermarket one. I was even contemplating swapping "diamond" markers around because some aftermarket dials didn't have the subdial sunbursts. But there are some text thickness and spacing flaws in most of these aftermarket dials, and I just couldn't commit to one at around $300.
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https://www.watchesparts.com/product...ce-blue-dial-1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/13376525258...kAAOSwim9gpPMt
This unknown factory sample dial looks decent, maybe I can even live with the wrong case shape since it's a little thicker than gen. If not, I have a Noob I can see about swapping the dial and bezel into.
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I used to have a dealer in HK but with the pandemic no replies from them
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