I find that a little hard to believe given my experience with it. I've had mine since May last year so just a little over a year old... and the watch is functioning perfectly in every way. In fact everything from power reserve to timekeeping accuracy is top notch. Crown may not be as smooth as gen but certainly not sub-par for a rep.
but then again we're talking about reps here so quality control issues may present themselves from time to time?
Well there seem to be some quality issues on these watches. I own 5 Noob4130 Daytonas. Two of them would not reset correctly to the 12-o-clock position. Even worse, on my white 116520, I had some strange noise when winding manually. So I was lucky that one of our most profound experts
Micasol here on RWI took a look at it and repaired it. On this occation some upgrades have been made and I got a stunning watch back today.
Gen barrel an main spring
Gen reversing wheels
Gen wheel on the auto-wind module
Gen wheels on barrel bridge
Gen crystal and gasket
modded ARF bezel (the watch already had a ARF dial)
and a good service, too.
Now I am extremely happy with the watch.