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It's out - just ask your TD for the price and pay them! Will probably be the same price as previous R8 tourbys
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Updated Royal Oak Tourbillon by R8 Factory are out
- Thread starter THXuk
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It's out - just ask your TD for the price and pay them! Will probably be the same price as previous R8 tourbys
True, and also the reason why I don’t wear Rolex despite owning quite a few of them lol.
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Exactly no one knows anything about watches ... wear it with cinfidence and it's going to be ok
Yes E you understand completely.
Replicas of tourbillons, repeaters and high end grand complications are mostly fun novelty watches and their detail accuracy shouldn’t matter at all. These watches are rare enough in gen and owned and worn typically by the guys who have the millions in the account and most of the time, several other luxury watches in their collection. It is quite meaningless for the average guy to be spending a few hundred on such reps and start worrying about details of the watch, forgetting that the wearer in 99% of these cases are the main tells.
There is nothing wrong for anyone to buy any of these reps but these are watches one should just buy and wear for fun rather than saying that this or that detail isn’t accurate to gen. It takes a credible owner to pull off these watches convincingly. Even if the replica watch is 1:1 on the wrist, or even if the gen is worn, it is not like it is like the quotidian and ubiquitous Rolex Submariner.
The main tell of such watches is always the wearer. It is ironical that if one is not able to afford the gen of these reps, then he will be the weak link in the ownership credibility and not the watch.
These watches can be worn for fun of course but I feel that there’s no need to discuss accuracy of the details in such rep models.
LeonTiersan
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Turns out this is R8F as well
https://puretimewatch.io/royal-oak-...orked-ss-skeleton-dial-on-ss-bracelet-v2.html
Anychance you guys think they can match the same tourbillon balance wheel the same as the other R8F?
considering the newer gen model has it in Silver tourbillon wheel? or is it possible to have it modded?
https://puretimewatch.io/royal-oak-...orked-ss-skeleton-dial-on-ss-bracelet-v2.html
Anychance you guys think they can match the same tourbillon balance wheel the same as the other R8F?
considering the newer gen model has it in Silver tourbillon wheel? or is it possible to have it modded?
I'm pretty sure the power reserve isn't functional. I don't speak Chinese, but Google Translate sorta works on the subtitles, and it looks like the person presenting the watches says that the power reserve indicator is an "imitation" which I take to mean "non functional".
Google translation worked horribly in this case, but you are right, the power reserve indicator is faux and not working.
I am a native Mandarin speaker and must say that the narrator described the features of the watch very comprehensively lol.
I've been asking my TD (Andrew at Trusty Time) if he can get these and his reply was "It will take some time to source for them"... I know in theory all TDs are able to source all the reps from different factories. But in practice I've noticed that certain TDs do/don't list certain factories (e.g. Andrew is so far the only TD to list the new subs from RF -- as far as I know). Does anybody know if there's a TD who has a good/close relationship with R8F?
GGEuroHEADSHOT
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Reviewing the pics it seems like only the first is from the new batch hence the tourbillon. And the other ones from old batches? (gold tourbillon?)
To be honest I much prefer the first caseback. The middle ones (watches with rubber straps) have a decorative plate with cut outs that don’t have gears under them. In theory this is the more gen-like back plate because the gen movement would have wheels in the gaps, but without those gears it just looks weird. A backplate design that was a hybrid of the top and middle would be best. The tourbillon bridge of the middle ones with the radial pattern backplate without the gear holes cut out would look best to my eye. Will post a pic of what I mean later when I’m not on mobile.
