NOOB V3 116500LN announced! Whats new?

[drgjsi]

Only thing that is changed from V2 to V3 is bezel. V3 bezel is platinum and they claim won't fade. He didn't say it's the same as CF but when I asked him if they could source CF bezel my dealer said there no need to change

 

[drgjsi]

The Chinese text posted also mentions a new and improved 4130 movement. Not sure how.

 

[ginopino]

Great news boy.
Thank you for the answer !!!
Now we have a killer watch.

But is the CF one or a Noob updated bezel?

 

[ginopino]

Only thing that is changed from V2 to V3 is bezel. V3 bezel is platinum and they claim won't fade. He didn't say it's the same as CF but when I asked him if they could source CF bezel my dealer said there no need to change

Ok great!

 

[xartan]

The movement is the same one that came last year

 

[M Scott]

The Chinese text posted also mentions a new and improved 4130 movement. Not sure how.

Maybe they clean and properly oil them now?

 

[mari115]

Do we have a winner or ARF is still better? I don’t care using chrono functionality

Arf has never been better

 

[mari115]

The Chinese text posted also mentions a new and improved 4130 movement. Not sure how.

how can you improve something that is already 99% like gen? maybe they improved the balance bridge

 

[M Scott]

looking at it, to me is possible that Noob is using the CF bezel, but we need confim.

Anyway: I saw hundreds of photoshopo for millimetric subdial check, and no one did it with the HQ V3 pics posted in this thread.... this could be useful to check with CF bezel.

You really won't be able to truly confirm that until some member of this forum compares them side by side, and in person.

The QC pictures that I have seen so far in this thread are not very high resolution, so the photoshop comparison of the bezels is not very accurate.
.

 

[M Scott]

Do we have a winner or ARF is still better? I don’t care using chrono functionality

The overall quality and detail of the ARF Daytonas is still better, especially if you want a Black Dial or a 116520.
A newer, serviced a7750 modded with the correct rotor can be as reliable as a Chinese 4130.
If you never use the minute and hour chronograph dials, the quality of the ARF is a good deal.


If the ARF had the 4130 movement at the same price, guess which one everyone would want?

 

[mari115]

The overall quality and detail of the ARF Daytonas is still better, especially if you want a Black Dial or a 116520.
A newer, serviced a7750 modded with the correct rotor can be as reliable as a Chinese 4130.
If you never use the minute and hour chronograph dials, the quality of the ARF is a good deal.


If the ARF had the 4130 movement at the same price, guess which one everyone would want?

details? you mean the fact that ARF's chrono pushers are way longer than gen, the pushers sit at a wrong angle and the watch is thicker than gen?
Oh, also, it's not a chronograph.

if you wanna go for a 116500 v2.2 black dial, noob is already amazing OOTB, the grey dial 116519 from noob is basically a super rep except for weight.

If ARF went up and priced the same as the Noob, everyone would want to get the noob, since most people are attracted by ARF's relatively lower price and try to close an eye about the whole chrono problem and thickness.
If noob's price went down and costed like ARF, people would still get the noob because of a vertical clutch column wheel movement for under 500 bucks

 

[ginopino]

You really won't be able to truly confirm that until some member of this forum compares them side by side, and in person.

The QC pictures that I have seen so far in this thread are not very high resolution, so the photoshop comparison of the bezels is not very accurate.
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Well, that’s not a bad point to start from, thank you.
to me, from this comparison, is not the CF due to different font...

 

[Hidenjoy]

CF still look better in typo

 

[M Scott]

details? you mean the fact that ARF's chrono pushers are way longer than gen, the pushers sit at a wrong angle and the watch is thicker than gen?
Oh, also, it's not a chronograph.

Actually, ARF recently revised the chronograph pushers and they are now the correct length.
The Noob is also thicker than Gen, by about .3 or .4mm. Both can be modded to Gen thickness.
I believe everyone knows that the ARF is not a fully functioning chronograph, that is why the Noob costs 40% more.

if you wanna go for a 116500 v2.2 black dial, noob is already amazing OOTB, the grey dial 116519 from noob is basically a super rep except for weight.

The Noob Black Dial may look good to you, but the V2.2 sub-dials are still thicker than Gen and still much too shinny.
The new V3 Black Dial pictures that I have seen so far appear to be the old, even thicker shinny sub-dials.

If ARF went up and priced the same as the Noob, everyone would want to get the noob, since most people are attracted by ARF's relatively lower price and try to close an eye about the whole chrono problem and thickness.
If noob's price went down and costed like ARF, people would still get the noob because of a vertical clutch column wheel movement for under 500 bucks

I am afraid that you misunderstood the question my previous post...

The biggest difference between the ARF and the Noob is the 4130 movement, which Noob currently has the exclusive rights to.

So my question was... If the ARF had the same 4130 movement as the Noob at the same price, guess which one everyone would want?

 

[Bobi01]

details? you mean the fact that ARF's chrono pushers are way longer than gen, the pushers sit at a wrong angle and the watch is thicker than gen?
Oh, also, it's not a chronograph.

if you wanna go for a 116500 v2.2 black dial, noob is already amazing OOTB, the grey dial 116519 from noob is basically a super rep except for weight.

If ARF went up and priced the same as the Noob, everyone would want to get the noob, since most people are attracted by ARF's relatively lower price and try to close an eye about the whole chrono problem and thickness.
If noob's price went down and costed like ARF, people would still get the noob because of a vertical clutch column wheel movement for under 500 bucks

Yeah but thicness difference you cant see on the wrist, when on noob v2. 2 bezel is instant tell, and the clasp,... Arf is more genlike on wrist... Now you will tell that arf isnt chrono and it ia fake ok both of them are fake even that a4130 is fake and you wear it and know it
But on the wrist overall arf looks more gen like

 

[reptime101]

wrist shots anyone?

 

[M Scott]

wrist shots anyone?

Too new, QC pictures only so far...

 

[drgjsi]

Will post some wrist shots after I get the white dial V3, but since I just ordered I'm waiting on QC

 

[Genera74]

US$688... Wow Noob is really upping their game in the pricing department

 

[Tobel]

US$688... Wow Noob is really upping their game in the pricing department

Yep, unfortunately it seems that it's the only department where they're upping their game :/