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New Release: Noob Skydweller

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Why wouldn't they do a 28,800 and 904l for such a beautiful watch and amazing accomplishment
 

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KJ2020 You had to be the guinea pig for this lol, almost pulled the trigger myself.

Hope they will release the gold with silver dial. I am a absolute sucker for that colour combo:
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Why wouldn't they do a 28,800 and 904l for such a beautiful watch and amazing accomplishment

There are some 2813 high beat movements around but none with this particular GMT complication AFAIK. Why wouldn't Noob do it? For the same reason they still sell GMT Masters with the 2824 CHS timebomb movement - because there is already an inexpensive ready made movement in sufficient quantities that performs all the functions this rep can offer.
 

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It won't ever get any better than this. It took them 8 years since Rolex released the model to get the GMT wheel and the month indicator functioning, proper size hands, and a respectable datewheel. Rep factories are never going to attempt to replicate the 9001 any more fully - the ability of the calendar wheel to double flip a date in a 30 day month, the automatic month indicator change, the Ring Command bezel are all beyond the scope of a rep factory's capability to implement. What Noob has done here is a generational leap ahead of previous offerings and won't be equalled or surpassed any time soon, if ever.

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Those are some cool images.

Ya know, this has always been a disappointing model from a rep perspective just because of how complicated the movement is.

I love those images though and I didn't know that the sky dweller was a full calender feature. In that it would adjust when in months with 30 days vs 31 days.

But it's just been one of those models that's so intricate, there's always a tell. Whether it's a GMT function or a calender function. I have seen a few in real life and I knew they were reps because of who was wearing them. But looking, I always see the wrong month indicated and with things like that it's one of the easiest reps to identify from arms lenght.

I will say, I think when Rolex starts making their movements more complicated as the next step in anti counterfeit measures, the factories will figure out a way to rep them.

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Too bad I already took the 15202 blue, I wait for the first one he arrives for a nice review and then I will pull the trigger!
 

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I will say, I think when Rolex starts making their movements more complicated as the next step in anti counterfeit measures, the factories will figure out a way to rep them. Lol

I hear ya bro. The thing is they've alteady done that with this release so there's no place left to go. The only cost effective improvements possible at this point would be a high beat movement and 916L steel. Those may come but why bother?

They will sit on their lazy happy butts and watch the money roll in because their target audience now has a new fidget spinner to play with. Just like Noob is content to keep selling the 2824 CHS timebomb GMTs at mugger prices because they have exclusive sourcing of the best Pepsi insert.

I don't really care, this is enough of an improvement to easily warrant the purchase IMO. The hands are a good size, not skinny like previous models. The date window is normal size, (unlike the gen which is narrower than other models). Those two improvements alone are worth the upgrade in a model with a functional GMT wheel. Add in the fidget spinner and we've got a real potential winner here despite the high probability of it being low beat. Anyone worried about that being a tell need look no further than the date display which (gratefully) doesn't have horizontally condensed numerals and spacing. The gen has both. I can't begin to tell you how much time I've spent trying to make a datewheel that will fit in the previous model date window without the numbers looking awkward or misshapen.

Ironic that just today I will likely get a final usable datewheel printed version after ordering one of these new Noobs just hours ago. I will still mod my older one, it now has GREAT sentimental value, lol.

Compare these two datewheels. In particular the double digit numbers between 20 - 31. I basically re-scaled and repositioned gen numerals so they would fit the window space, while keeping as much of the gen shape as possible intact. The previous rep Sky-D date windows and datewheels are SO bad but I liked the rep anyway and enjoyed trying to make it better. Noob just pitched in and gave us all a big boost in the right direction. But like their GMTs, their job here is done. It time to put the mugger suits on again.

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KJ2020 You had to be the guinea pig for this lol, almost pulled the trigger myself.

Hope they will release the gold with silver dial. I am a absolute sucker for that colour combo:
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the way this watch pops in gen form is crazy! unlike any other gold watch ive seen. they wont be able to capture it in rep form in a million years
 

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KJ2020 You had to be the guinea pig for this lol, almost pulled the trigger myself.
Hope they will release the gold with silver dial. I am a absolute sucker for that colour combo:
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That is indeed a beauty bro. Rolex quit making Sky-D dials with Arabic or Roman numerals at Basel 2018 so IDK if Noob will take on anything but stick dials now.
The Roman numeral dials looked OK with truncated 5-6-7 numerals but the Arabic dials were downright fugly how those numerals got hacked off. Maybe that had something to do with their demise.

Beautiful and ugly all wrapped up together. Just an opinion of course but that would always look like a HUGE flaw to me.

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Its interesting how no one see completely wrong Rolex logo, coronet or print when there are fr bigger issues. From this POV Subs look like gens dont they?
 
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That is indeed a beauty bro. Rolex quit making Sky-D dials with Arabic or Roman numerals at Basel 2018 so IDK if Noob will take on anything but stick dials now.
The Roman numeral dials looked OK with truncated 5-6-7 numerals but the Arabic dials were downright fugly how those numerals got hacked off. Maybe that had something to do with their demise.

Beautiful and ugly all wrapped up together. Just an opinion of course but that would always look like a HUGE flaw to me.

I would be so down bro for a gold/silver dial version.
 
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Its interesting how no one see completely wrong Rolex logo, coronet or print when there are fr bigger issues. From this POV Subs look like gens dont they?

If you look at the comparison on the previous page you’ll see its not bad at all. Rolex use a mix of logos and coronets - its a messy brand.

The logo is different from model to model, it does not match the one on the warranty card, which is different to the one on the box. These are all different to the one used in the display, which is different to the one used in sponsorship....
 

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If you look at the comparison on the previous page you’ll see its not bad at all. Rolex use a mix of logos and coronets - its a messy brand.

The logo is different from model to model, it does not match the one on the warranty card, which is different to the one on the box. These are all different to the one used in the display, which is different to the one used in sponsorship....

This helped a lot to my OCD lol
 

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QC pics already - going to approve this. The bottom edge of the crystal looks unparallel to the top edge but when one sample is like this it's usually a batch issue. I'll probably replace the crystal anyway. I have a Prof's and a Clark's Sky-D crystal already. I had asked for a timegrapher pic but did not get one so I asked again. Also asked for a pic showing the month indicator, which is apparently between two months in these pics. D'oh.

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A small nitpick is the text below "SKY-DWELLER" is too large on the Noob. Will get fixed in V2, right?

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Thanks for pulling the trigger on this and taking one for the team! its looking promising. feels like the SELs are flush, but at least they look tight. the dial is going to be the dead giveaway, it looks matte in all the pics. no sunburst effect at all