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NOOB Pepsi GMT 126710 BLRO mini review

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I contacted the seller and he offered me a return
To exchange or fix. But the cheapest Express shipping rate to China is $90 through Canada post. I dont think it worth it.

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KJ2020 said:
His is a Noob bro. You can see the 18 transition point on the insert inner edge is halfway through the 8 just like his QC. Besides, nobody else makes a rep Pepsi ceramic insert with that color red.
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Yes it's a noob. They imitate the white gold version with dark it's dark red an red/blue transition inside the 8.

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its a shame your noob came apart like that..very strange..it's very difficult to come apart and takes great force to do it as it did mine.
 
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Vvvlllooo said:
its a shame your noob came apart like that..very strange..it's very difficult to come apart and takes great force to do it as it did mine.
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Just fell off my hand. No force. I'll probably repair it instead of sending it back. Do you know where I can find a replacement spring.

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ramzy2001 said:
So all I have to do is just to glue it back in! Using rubber cement...its different mechanism from the gen

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Glue or use 3m on insert. Your bezel assembly came off. You probably need a new plastic ring or just push it back on
 
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Vvvlllooo said:
KSwatches

make it happen from those greedy fockers--we need this part..lol..pictures courtesy of Kj2020

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Is that duct tape?
 
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Hazing said:
Is that duct tape?
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It's a piece of sleeve from a syringe. Both ends of the broken spring were inserted in and epoxied. Fix was attempted by member merlix I never heard back from him on whether or how long it held. I was going to try it, but I found that epoxying the upper and lower parts of the GMT wheel together (which ties the GMT wheel to the hour wheel through the intermediate date wheel) is a "better" solution because it shouldn't fail or break again, plus it permits the additional mod of restoring the quickset date feature.

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...-why-the-chs-gmt-movements-are-failing/page12
 
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KJ2020 said:
It's a piece of sleeve from a syringe. Both ends of the broken spring were inserted in and epoxied. Fix was attempted by member merlix I never heard back from him on whether or how long it held. I was going to try it, but I found that epoxying the upper and lower parts of the GMT wheel together (which ties the GMT wheel to the hour wheel through the intermediate date wheel) is a "better" solution because it shouldn't fail or break again, plus it permits the additional mod of restoring the quickset date feature.

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...-why-the-chs-gmt-movements-are-failing/page12
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Do you think the failure is just the type of material used or the construction itself
 
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It’s too bad too because I’ve been looking for a reason to pull the trigger. But every time I do, I’m reminded of this issue and I let logic take over and I talk myself out of it.
 
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Vvvlllooo said:
Do you think the failure is just the type of material used or the construction itself
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The design of the GMT wheel with the jumping hour click spring is ingenious. To have the two halves of the GMT wheel work in unison sometimes to move two hands with different periods of rotation, and separately at other times to move only one hand, is a truly amazing adaptation. Then they go and throw it all away by using cheap weak parts. The spring needs some expansion flexibility to allow the cams to slide over the next tooth and the hour hand to jump, but with this high a failure rate, they really do need to reinvent the wheel! There isn't room in there to add vertical thickness but there's plenty of room to add lateral thickness. Or just use a stronger metal. IDK bro, it's probably a punch and die part, seems to me it could be easily corrected. These movements are more and more prevalent with ICHS movements becoming less available. You would think the market would drive them to make a better product.

BTW a member had a VR3185 fitted into a Noob V10 case. BOOM!

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...083-vrf-batman-released?p=8437204#post8437204
 
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KJ2020 said:
The design of the GMT wheel with the jumping hour click spring is ingenious. To have the two halves of the GMT wheel work in unison sometimes to move two hands with different periods of rotation, and separately at other times to move only one hand, is a truly amazing adaptation. Then they go and throw it all away by using cheap weak parts. The spring needs some expansion flexibility to allow the cams to slide over the next tooth and the hour hand to jump, but with this high a failure rate, they really do need to reinvent the wheel! There isn't room in there to add vertical thickness but there's plenty of room to add lateral thickness. Or just use a stronger metal. IDK bro, it's probably a punch and die part, seems to me it could be easily corrected. These movements are more and more prevalent with ICHS movements becoming less available. You would think the market would drive them to make a better product.

BTW a member had a VR3185 fitted into a Noob V10 case. BOOM!

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...083-vrf-batman-released?p=8437204#post8437204
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Nice, but best to wait until Batman or Pepsi comes out in vrf or ARF at this point. As far as that part..it’s a shame...such a small little part.
 
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Not a lot of people probably know this but the GMT has a compass complication as well.

Check the last part of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jTaFmy38xM

HOW TO USE YOUR ROLEX GMT MASTER II AS A COMPASS.
https://www.miltonsdiamonds.com/news...-as-a-compass/

"A compass bearing can also be taken using the red 24 hour hand (the 24 hour hand must be set to LOCAL time, not GMT). When the watch is laid flat with the 24 hour hand pointed in the direction of the sun, the 12:00 marker on the dial will point to the north in the northern hemisphere and to the south in the southern hemisphere."

You can use it to get home after happy hour.
 
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Kalev007 said:
Not a lot of people probably know this but the GMT has a compass complication as well.

Check the last part of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jTaFmy38xM

HOW TO USE YOUR ROLEX GMT MASTER II AS A COMPASS.
https://www.miltonsdiamonds.com/news...-as-a-compass/

"A compass bearing can also be taken using the red 24 hour hand (the 24 hour hand must be set to LOCAL time, not GMT). When the watch is laid flat with the 24 hour hand pointed in the direction of the sun, the 12:00 marker on the dial will point to the north in the northern hemisphere and to the south in the southern hemisphere."

You can use it to get home after happy hour.
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Lol
 
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