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Good catch! These happen more and more as the reps are so close to gens.

Thanks! The movement needs some work to make the DW fit on top of the rep DW. I have some pics @RWI.

@flyr: I love your watch! My favourite gone watch was SOH 46 with a genuine dial. I miss the dial the most, impossible to find any more and it was only around $200! At the moment my favourite is IWC 5002 with a genuine dial, DW and strap.

Happy feet logo, we really need to get V2 out soon! Just kidding, they look nice but maybe too toyish?

Nice! Really cannot say if its gen or rep.

@ cougar: completely understand your point on this. Something that has been easily made well in the past and now they fck it, that should not happen. But with this watch it seems that every detail gets extreme criticism, I suppose next qc pics will be rejected based on the feel that the shine on the bracelet seems different than in the gen pics, or the crystal diameter seems to be 0.1 mm off. As said, some realism into this discussion. @ redmond: great, enjoy your super watch!

I am really getting tired of this watch. I was interested to see how it comes and apart from the flaws on the dial these are smoking hot. Bezel insert, pearl placement, crystal clarity, wow, they are so well made compared to old PO that had a shitty pearl, shitty placement of the pearl, foggy crystal with completely wrong AR compared to a genuine. Bracelet was ok but not good. 45.5 mm model has still wrong date window edge, logo is high or low, twisted or looses, crystal is not even double side AR coated etc. And now I see decent reps being rejected because 1 and 2 are not 100 % on the same level. I totally agree if the logo is tilted or the numbers are tilted. But I have a genuine CR PO 45.5 mm and really, its 1 and 2 are as bad (or good) as in some rejected watches. Sorry for this post but hey get some reality into this.

+1 No paint will change the fact that the gen insert is grayish, current rep is black. I have a pretty good rep-gen watch comparison as I own both. I bet Noob will make it more gen like.

I have a genuine watch, sorry for misleading I think gen bezel/insert is not available.

Hah, I have a genuine and it will not damage from rubbing! Rep on the other hand will too easily. Mine is 1 month old and no problems but need to be careful with it. Inser printings are way too thin, base color can be seen through them so anyway it is badly done. Waiting for noob update...

Looks great bro!

Rep vs Gen Battle:

Genuine dial, DW and strap!

I loved BOB strap from Ebay, around 30 euros and felt like my genuine BP strap!

Still trying to like this after 5002.

A little spark for the Friday evening!

I would say your AD is selling reps.

It was sitting too high on the insert so I took the insert off and reglued the pearl to sit just a bit higher than insert top surface. As you can see, it is not 100 % centered to the triangle but you cannot do anything for that.

My 45.5 mm says hello! New double AR crystal from UPO and pearl reseated: Also genuine XL PO crystal will fit.

Next to your UPO, Cr looks like genuine!

Very nice job you have done with it! Looks like new again!

Good pics, first time I see the inner AR!

Do you have pics of the finished watch mate? Mine says hello, got a gen croc strap some time ago and loving it!

+1 When they get the pearls centered, we will have a winner! But until that, all are just like the onw on the QC pictures. So take it, wear it, love it.