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Quick Review of Clean Factory New Daytona 116500 Black Ceramic Insert vs. Gen

botsyboy

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Noob Arf Clean the perfect combination
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Beautiful work buddy!


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How hard is it to change swap the bezel of a 116500. I’m happy with just a bezel swap, but don’t want to send the whole watch all the way to a modder? Is there a tutorial video anywhere? Can it be done by an amateur like myself?
 

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How hard is it to change swap the bezel of a 116500. I’m happy with just a bezel swap, but don’t want to send the whole watch all the way to a modder? Is there a tutorial video anywhere? Can it be done by an amateur like myself?

Already asked and answered in the other related thread
 
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Just received my watch back from the resident dragon legend and holy smokes, I can't be anymore happier. He has helped me re-brushed, polished the sharp noob bracelet, replaced the bezel with clean's and serviced the movement from +12 s/d to +1s/d...amazing. The man is so knowledgeable about horology. It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with him.





 

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Just received my watch back from the resident dragon legend and holy smokes, I can't be anymore happier. He has helped me re-brushed, polished the sharp noob bracelet, replaced the bezel with clean's and serviced the movement from +12 s/d to +1s/d...amazing. The man is so knowledgeable about horology. It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with him.

Nice - that clean factory bezel really makes all the difference.
 

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The "N" in units, looks so bad. It's like UNITS. The backslash looks so wrong and thick. Heres a little illustration of what I mean when I say backslash --> | \ |
 

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I think it's pretty obvious, just like the hOur on the noob.

I'm agree with you. Also the "R" in the noob is sooooooooooo tiny and need a loupe to be seen... but is a major problem for, almost, everyone
 

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If I had a dollar for every pixel in this comparison, I’d have $0.50

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So it's a choice between the serif and the O in HOUR on the noob, the thicker and in my eyes too paler coloured font on the ARF, or the N in UNITS on the CF. A lot of this will probably insignificant when seen at real watch size and not blown up. Overall the CF is most gen-like in my eyes and will be the one which I will order when i get a bit of spare cash .....
 

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You can clearly see the difference with a scanning electron microscope too. No way I’m gonna risk being called out over something so obvious

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even CF is totally inaccurate under electron microscope, id rather get gen at this point
 
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The Alchemy Index

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You can clearly see the difference with a scanning electron microscope too. No way I’m gonna risk being called out over something so obvious

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Great comment.

This right here is why I’d rather spend $25k on a gen instead of $700 on something that is 95% gen...????

Obviously I kid. My Daytona with CF bezel should be in the next few days


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