Great watch!! but the date it too far left, I hate having reps like this! i always have to change the date wheel or center it myself when possible.
Other than that looks great!
Other than that looks great!
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Noob Exporer II V2 w/A2836 Now Available
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I noticed that too, but at that angle I know it will be better in person, I say this because my white dial appeared that way in my QC pics as well and when I got it and held it directly on, it was fine. If you look closely it is being help up at a slight angle and with the magnification it skews everything. If it is way different when I receive it I will deal with it then, but I honestly think it will be like my white dial and be just fine.
I know i'm just being picky that's all the watch looks great, and i like my rolexes with centred as gen! one of the first tells when you look at a rolie.
As promised here are my QC pics, I accepted this one from Trevor. It looks very good to me. Monday I was at a Rolex AD, he only had the black dial in stock. I did look at many things, and yes peter the color matching of the hands to hour markers. In the black I could see a very small difference in the shade of white. I asked the dealer if this was normal or just me. He said in his 13 years as asst manager of his store no one had ever asked him that question. He said it must be normal because every one he had ever seen was pretty much like the one I was looking at. I was looking at more important matters, like the font on the bezel, the crown, the clasp, the sheen on the black dial and how much thickness was in the clasp material.
So after looking at the real deal at the AD, how does this one stack up vs gen?
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I am no expert, but I can't really see any difference from the pics I have seen, but once I have it in my hand I will be able to say a lot more. What I was surprised about was how close to gen my bracelet is on my noob V1
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Actually from comparing pics online on ebay, the instances where there is a difference in shade of white, the hour hand on the gen is less white than the hour markers. In this V2 it's the reverse, the indexes are less white where the hands are a stronger tone of white. I like V1 better bc the indexes and hour hands are a strong white and gives the watch a great contrast vs the black background
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Please help me understand why that phenomenon would be happening with a gen. DSSDs, subs, and even the new GMTs that all use the new Chromalite lume do not have this variation between hands and indices. Why on Earth would this watch be any different? I'm going to post the question on TRF, too, because it really doesn't make sense unless it is a defect or optical illusion with some samples. I did not notice it when I was playing with the gen black and polar. I looked at them last summer and again just recently. Of course last year this wasn't even on my radar of things to look at though.
I just got mine and the color of the hands does not match the dial markers. 
It's not awful but you definitely notice.
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It's not awful but you definitely notice.
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Here is what I am hypothesizing, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone who is buying the rep and then justifying or explaining away the color difference. The hands and indices are clearly being lumed separately. There is no other possibility. If it were an illusion, then all of the V1 reps would show the same thing AND all of the relumed reps from Vac and Ziggy would show the same illusion. V1 was perfect in that regard and so are every single one of the relumed reps, so it can only mean there is different lume.
If it doesn't bother people, then that is absolutely OK. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is indeed there and it wasn't there for V1 and it isn't there if you get it relumed.
If it doesn't bother people, then that is absolutely OK. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is indeed there and it wasn't there for V1 and it isn't there if you get it relumed.
I had hoped that it would not be noticeable in real life but it definitely is. I think I'll have it relumed. Otherwise it seems to be a great rep! I'm surprised at how little you have to pull the crown out compared to a sub. It's a very short pull after it's unscrewed. I also thought it had a glide lock clasp but I have a spare that I'll be putting on.
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I think it's more visible on the white dial, much more subtile on blacks.
Anyway lume is not an issue, just send it to one of our great modders it's worth it, and in the same time ask for a better AR'ed cyclop! No need to change the crystal i think it looks great as it is...
Anyway lume is not an issue, just send it to one of our great modders it's worth it, and in the same time ask for a better AR'ed cyclop! No need to change the crystal i think it looks great as it is...
It is very noticeable on your polar, sorry about that. I know it's another up charge, but getting it re lumed is very much worth it on this rep. It has so many great features. My V1 died a couple weeks after I received it, I sent it to Speedy G, he found it had a bad rotor bearing. He replaced the rotor and bearing with an ETA. It was $90 but in my mind well worth it, why? Because I love that watch, it is one second slow in 36 hours and looks great. My guy Trevor gave me free shipping this time because my Polar had the bad rotor. So when all said and done I have a super accurate Explorer 2 that I love.
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I was just looking at my QC's and another guys as well, it almost appears they sourced a different batch of hands for the polars. The hands for the polars are bright white, but when looking at the QC's for the blacks the hands are the same greenish off white as the hour markers. Am I going lume blind or does everyone else see this too? I'm being as objective as possible, the truth will be when I have it in my hand. I pray the clasp is as good as my V1, it is one of the best I have seen.
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Here's my clasp. I've already swapped it out for a glidelock. One thing I noticed is that I don't think the first link after the micro adjust is correct. It has a groove to click in to a glide lock but there's nothing for it to click into. Looks like they just reused the link from another watch?
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