From my continued digging the best and probably only way to tell if it's gen is the letting is very small and very close to the corner of the buckle.
These gens use a very fine point laser to engrave them.
COOB, COQF, COND, COKL all seem to be uncopied. COPH seems to be the most copied, lest from the noob factory.
They still engrave the new ones. They didn't engrave them from 99 to about 2003/2004. Seems around the E or G series they did. I have another pair of oem thumbnails coming in tomorrow, off a L and M series. It'll be interesting to see what the letters are
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The 4 letter code is a model and date number. i've never deciphered it but I did start tracking what I have. I have a DLC thumbnail that's COND. I'll have to look my rep thumbnail is CONL or COPH. Usually not going to find much on Risti but you could look on PT's site as I usually do. Some of the older rep, and Gen thumbnails didn't have the letters. My Gen 61c's ti thumbnail didn't have it. And some release from HF didn't have letters on the buckle.
That's a rep buckle. Most likely the strap is a Noob as well as the buckle is from the 29m
Couple fairly well known scams on the gen forums involve a guy pretending to be someone from the forum, or some other well known watch guy, it happened quite a bit on Wus
I could swear I saw him contact someone either on TRF or VrF for something I was eyeing as well, the vintage-Israel thing was kind of a, wtf moment for me.
Wonder if they plan to fix that too. My Exp II that was supposed to have a fully cloned movement has a rotor, with old ass engravings, and the super lume on that is worse than the weak lume onmy v2 skyland.
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I have a Franken 49 for my wife, it's stunning, and in pieces currently. Mine is an old cartel build, case kinda sucks, strap notch was done by a drunk dude.