Good morning gents from Spain. Yesterday I received my VSF 126610LN with serial 2R52X458 and my VSF 126610LV with serial 2R92X258 and both clasp codes 1LQ.
First of all my acknowledgement to Li from Jtime for a professional and smooth transaction.
Both watches were sent on the same package and took them a month to arrive by 2PX delivery. Well package and protected.
Here I send you some pics of them with my ARF 116610LN next to them for comparison.
As you can se in the photos, not much difference with the 112260 model in size or brazalet wideness.
All looks good to me, rehaut is well aligned. Date window is well aligned and font is perfect and well centered.
The Sels are almost flushed whit the endlinks, might be just a thiny hair recessed meanwhile on the ARF the recesion is a bit more pronunced. (No complains as im not an expert and the fitment is perfect) with no play at all.
My ARF bracelet transmit a bit more quality, and a bit of lest rattling not much and almost unoticeable difference.
Cristal is same good as ARF.
Cyclop has no distorsion.
Black hole effect is the same than ARF.
Crown is well centered, smooth to screw and unscrew and winding is smooth as in ARF. (in this there is no difference at all with my ARF except on the winding which I would say is smoother on the VSF but my ARF is almost 3 years old and never was serviced as it runs perfect except the date adjustment which It can not be set manually as per the commonly known problem of the pinion getting out of place and needs to be fixed).
One thing to point out is the bezel action, on the VSF LV is good, on the LN feels a bit cheap with the clicks beeing more rough. From the three of them the bezel action on my old ARF is the same as the VSF LV but the LV has a bit of more pitchy noise click and the ARF a bit more deep sound when turning it. VSF LN needs a bit of lube but nothing that bothers me.
Bezel quality and engravings are very good on both VSFs. On my ARF faded a bit, but I never cleaned it out and used it very often.
Overall although I am very happy, have to say I am a bit disapointed due to the expectations created to me in the forum. Very good watches but not impressed, could be because my ARF 116610LN with SH3135 is so good.
My expectations for those watches were really high and I was expecting to be shocked by the quality but as I mentioned before, as the quality of my ARF is so good, not much of a difference, in fact and not been an expert I would say the three of them are on the same league so no step up for me.
My two cent, and sorry if due to my ignorance i am missing something or missjudging this two beauties.
Have a good day u all.
I
