New Tudor pelagos is coming

[Feefo]

Can anyone help me with qc pls.

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The purpose of QC pictures

At RWI, we're fortunate to have a few dealers who take the time to individually procure, inspect, and photograph watches for potential buyers. This has not always been the norm, and in fact, it's a recent development. Up until about two years ago, all of the dealers drop-shipped everything and...

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A little on QC pics.

QC pics are to satisfy YOU that the watch is OK to YOUR standards, that there are no crooked indices, missing lume, offset chrono hands etc. QC pics are not for picking tells or things that are present in every example of a model such as spelling errors, happy feet, wrong lume colour etc. These...

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[bemeforaday]

 

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[bemeforaday]

What à beautiful rep watch !

 

[Kecho0]

Chiming in here because I didn't actually want a whole new watch (I have the TUF rep on rubber strap), especially with the lack of sunburst on the ZF dial (sue me, I think the sunburst on the TUF looks awesome). I asked around and the answer was a resounding NO for buying just the ZF metal bracelet, and I didn't really know what to do. I was in the process of buying the IXDAO titanium bracelet since they're the only "homage" with a true 21mm lug width supposedly, but their clasp design (no on the fly micro adjust, massive "IXDAO" text engraved on it) nearly made me gag. I found a potential suitable clasp replacement, although it was steel, but all in would have cost me around 100 USD for a bit of a gamble. As soon as I placed my order I suddenly stumbled upon this listing for a 21mm titanium strap on aliexpress. It's probably way overpriced (177 USD right now) but It looks to be an unbranded tudor pelagos 39 bracelet, and so I went ahead and canceled the other orders and bought this one. I will update when it arrives to let you all know if it fits the TUF rep. Hopefully it matches the color/tone of the case and all that. No reviews on the aliexpress listing, so i'm not sure what to expect, but fingers crossed its good!

WOOOOHOOOO! it's here! not sure if anyone really cares, but it's finally here! took longer to unwrap the darn thing than to get it on the watch- and it fits absolutely PERFECT. Everything feels great, microadjust and dive extension work exactly as per gen. everything feels smooth, well made, and nice and light! first impressions is that this was worth every penny. That being said I did immediately manage to put a nice scrape on the clasp when reaching to type on my Aluminum laptop, so it seems this will scratch if you look at it wrong. I think that's a characteristic of titanium more than anything, and besides- I scratch the shit out of any watch that I wear more than a few times... Anyways- Photos!

 

[Xcalm]

WOOOOHOOOO! it's here! not sure if anyone really cares, but it's finally here! took longer to unwrap the darn thing than to get it on the watch- and it fits absolutely PERFECT. Everything feels great, microadjust and dive extension work exactly as per gen. everything feels smooth, well made, and nice and light! first impressions is that this was worth every penny. That being said I did immediately manage to put a nice scrape on the clasp when reaching to type on my Aluminum laptop, so it seems this will scratch if you look at it wrong. I think that's a characteristic of titanium more than anything, and besides- I scratch the shit out of any watch that I wear more than a few times... Anyways- Photos!

Do I see some Sunburst in the first pic?

 

[Kecho0]

Do I see some Sunburst in the first pic?

this is the TUF rep which only came with the rubber strap, but I bought a aftermarket titanium strap for it- so yes! this one has the full sunburst on the dial

 

[Sennerj]

WOOOOHOOOO! it's here! not sure if anyone really cares, but it's finally here! took longer to unwrap the darn thing than to get it on the watch- and it fits absolutely PERFECT. Everything feels great, microadjust and dive extension work exactly as per gen. everything feels smooth, well made, and nice and light! first impressions is that this was worth every penny. That being said I did immediately manage to put a nice scrape on the clasp when reaching to type on my Aluminum laptop, so it seems this will scratch if you look at it wrong. I think that's a characteristic of titanium more than anything, and besides- I scratch the shit out of any watch that I wear more than a few times... Anyways- Photos!

Which version is that then ?

 

[Kecho0]

Which version is that then ?

I guess I should have been more clear in my post- I mentioned in the follow-up post directly above yours this is the TUF rep with an aftermarket strap that I happened to find on Aliexpress. I've had the TUF rep for some time and really wanted this watch on a bracelet but ZF wasn't selling just the bracelet, and I wasn't interested in buying the ZF rep because then I'd have duplicate watches AND the ZF rep doesn't have any sunburst on the dial, which in my opinion is a huge part of what gives this watch extra flare/character in the right lighting.

 

[mayhemag]

Good dial but bad rehaut

 

[Kecho0]

Good dial but bad rehaut

fair to say the rehaut is thicker on the TUF than gen (and ZF), but I will point out that in person it is far from being a feature that stands out. definitely not something you could really notice unless holding the gen and TUF rep side by side for a solid minute. Personally I would much rather have the thicker "bad" rehaut of the TUF than the completely flat matte dial of the ZF, which I think is a much more noticeable difference.

 

[Xcalm]

Lets open a poll on this question

 

[mayhemag]

fair to say the rehaut is thicker on the TUF than gen (and ZF), but I will point out that in person it is far from being a feature that stands out. definitely not something you could really notice unless holding the gen and TUF rep side by side for a solid minute. Personally I would much rather have the thicker "bad" rehaut of the TUF than the completely flat matte dial of the ZF, which I think is a much more noticeable difference.

Maybe. Is for this that I'm thinking to try the TUF version.

 

[Eugenio23]

Hi everyone i ordered today from Steve the p39 from ZF and waiting for the QC. But I read in this thread that the ZF have a “bad” behavior with the Sun and I read this “sunburst” mentioned.
it is a problem that is very noticeable and compromises the rep? Thanks

 

[Caboose]

Maybe. Is for this that I'm thinking to try the TUF version.

Damn I wanna see if I can source the TUF dial and the ZF everything else at this point...

 

[mayhemag]

Hi everyone i ordered today from Steve the p39 from ZF and waiting for the QC. But I read in this thread that the ZF have a “bad” behavior with the Sun and I read this “sunburst” mentioned.
it is a problem that is very noticeable and compromises the rep? Thanks

If you see some review videos (for gen version) you'll discovery that the sunburst is really too hard to see, in my opinion nobody looks this defect.

 

[mayhemag]

I guess I should have been more clear in my post- I mentioned in the follow-up post directly above yours this is the TUF rep with an aftermarket strap that I happened to find on Aliexpress. I've had the TUF rep for some time and really wanted this watch on a bracelet but ZF wasn't selling just the bracelet, and I wasn't interested in buying the ZF rep because then I'd have duplicate watches AND the ZF rep doesn't have any sunburst on the dial, which in my opinion is a huge part of what gives this watch extra flare/character in the right lighting.

How to buy a TUF in EU?

 

[Eugenio23]

If you see some review videos (for gen version) you'll discovery that the sunburst is really too hard to see, in my opinion nobody looks this defect.

Thanks a lot

 

[mayhemag]

Thanks a lot

And... I feeling that the sunburst is too high on TUF than the gen...