The reps today are definitely better than what was available 1 year ago and I am amazed at the quality that comes out of these factories but...
I hope no dealers get offended by me about this but I've notice that a few dealers are advertising their watches as 1:1. And my thing is, if these watches are really 1:1 then they should (technically) look and feel exactly like the gen cosmetically. Meaning no modding on CG, Dials, Hands, Pearls, crowns, tubes, crystal and etc.. That's what I assume 1:1 implies.
Naturally these watches are not going to be QC when they get assembled so you will get mistakes in assembly (misaligned hands, dials, crooked crystal, bad movement, noisy movement) but each part individually parts should still be 1:1 cosmetically. So while i can accept the fact that these watches may come delivered with issues of bad assembly at least the parts that make up the watch should be technically 1:1.
But from what I've seen no matter how 1:1 the watches are advertised as they're still not true 1:1 reps. One still has to mod the pearl, crown, crystal, dial, and etc depending on who you buy from. And you still may have issues swapping a gen part into a rep that's advertised as 1:1
Now i know some off you will say "well 99.9 percent of the people won't know the difference of the 1% difference", that is true but the point of buying a rep that's advertised as 1:1 should mean that the 1% of cosmetic difference should not be there. That I should be able to swap a gen part into a rep without modding
I don't mind paying 600-700 bucks for a rep that 1:1 if it's a true 1:1.