Late comer to the 1661 club. First of all I'd like to thank all the members that contributed to this thread. As this was my first rep purchase it made the decision to pull the trigger very easy after reading all of the positive comments.
I've had the watch for just over a week now and I really like it. The Carbotech is done very well, sometimes during the day I'll look at it and get lost in the swirls, maybe still honeymoon period
. I've been wearing it in rotation with one other piece so it sits pretty much untouched every other day and so far I haven't had to wind it, time keeping is excellent.
The rep strap is great, I know some people switched theirs up for various reasons but I'm really happy with it. The only thing I noticed after reviewing the images in this thread is that my strap has horizontal stitching by the lugs. So this is different from gen as well. It doesn't bother me but I thought I'd just point it out.