What a letdown - immediate tell from across the Pacific Ocean! UNWEARABLE... :fuelfire:
SELs trash?
Good luck buying a gen in that case.
Furthermore, if you're expecting better tolerances on a $500 fake than this $3,500 gen then you're on a different planet.
This is my take as well. Launch threads have always gone a similar way to this.
The best thing to do is usually abandon the thread and stop feeding the trolls.
Absolute let down by ZF. 2 of their recent Marquis releases - The Hulk and the AP 15202 are both throw aways. Well, the search for a "good" ootb Hulk continues, until then I will enjoy my modded builds...
To start off: This is a prime example of when a watch fails to live up to the hype.
SEL’s in the TD photos are BAD.
The clasp still has the huge gap that Angus said the factory would fix prior to release.... they did NOT.
The datewheel looks like a kindergarten student wrote the numbers
There seems to be a gap between the bezel and the case.
The crystal appears to be a typical rep crystal with the blue hue cyclops (they were supposed to have an awesome BH crystal that was very close to gen)
Sadly this is a letdown in my book. Good news is: there are lot of other releases coming!!!
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I think the ZZF V2S + a gen crystal ,is your best "out of the box" hope. I mean I know it's a further 300 euro on the crystal + modding it... but I think it's the absolute best we're going to get for quite sometime. We'll see what V3 brings but who knows when that comes out and it could always be worse!
Or do you already have a modded hulk?
Wait for the dark horse, the VSF LV. This is a story with many twists and turnsAbsolute let down by ZF. 2 of their recent Marquis releases - The Hulk and the AP 15202 are both throw aways. Well, the search for a "good" ootb Hulk continues, until then I will enjoy my modded builds...
And also a huge thing was the disappointing hype that was brought forward.
Well, to be honest, that's more your problem. Everything gets hyped.
I think the ZZF V2S + a gen crystal ,is your best "out of the box" hope. I mean I know it's a further 300 euro on the crystal + modding it... but I think it's the absolute best we're going to get for quite sometime. We'll see what V3 brings but who knows when that comes out and it could always be worse!
Or do you already have a modded hulk?
Well, to be honest, that's more your problem. Everything gets hyped.
I don't know about you but i've never heard of a TD telling us that we won't have to hope anymore for a good crystal with BH and Halo effect like for this release. So this really looked like the time we didn't need to double the cost of a rep just to add 350$ worth of glass.
The ZF had the most hype thus far and might end up being the worst of all the new releases. We won't know more until we see pictures of a consumer product - personally I won't be taking the plunge, but someone will - hopefully they'll be nice enough to share their experience.
RXF/VSF have proven to be do nice work for a reasonable price. They did great with the LN, how well they do with the LV (harder to rep) only time will tell.
I think there is hope for the ARF v4 - in my opinion their metalwork is great on some of their reps.
ZZF had a fantastic release with their hulk, so I think their V3 release has potential as well.
The key is simple: be patient. Wait and see the actual products, then decide. Hype doesn’t matter, end results do!
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Step back from the edge dude. It's a only a fake Submariner.
Step back from the edge dude. It's a only a fake Submariner.
How are people really asking for a 500 dollar ish rep to be a gen 1:1. I can guarantee that if one of these reps was show cased at a Rolex autherized dealer and was made to appear as gen no one here would be able to see that it was a replica.
Now think of this coupled with the fact that its going to be on your wrist. No one will ever know its a replica. In fact, it is such high quality rep that even if you were to give to someone to hold or try on they still would not be able to see its a rep
Lmao, it's not a ZF vs GEN problem, it's a ZF (3 years of development for this watch) for 558$ VS all the other rep factories who made an equal/better job for less than that and years ago.
PS, using extremes as examples is a flawed method in a conversation, i'm sure you can find extreme trash SEL in gens as well, but that's not the problem.
The problem is seeing those shit SELs after all the time they took to make it and after Puretime told them that they are trash, after all the other factories make a similar/better job for less money.
This is the problem.
Especially since it was hyped that much.
And bruh, that blue hue is disgusting
Now think of this coupled with the fact that its going to be on your wrist. No one will ever know its a replica. In fact, it is such high quality rep that even if you were to give to someone to hold or try on they still would not be able to see its a rep
Oh and yeah, if you wanna use that logic any other release of the last 2 years works perfectly, for around 200$ less than this disappointment
FINE Ill use a different logic then. THE BIGGEST TELL OF THIS REP IS YOU!
Do you know why?! BECAUSE A WISE MAN ONCE SAID:
"What's the biggest tell in a rep?"
"You!"
Sound familiar