How Is This Royal Oak?

[bokkiebeh]

Hi Guys,

I'm looking at this Royal oak,

http://www.trustytime.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=600

I'd like to know how good it is.'

Can somebody advice me and maybe tell me who has the most accurate to the gen?

thx, martijn

[ubiquitous]

Picked this one up from Jos. I did a very slight mod by swapping the bracelet with one from a different Royal Oak with wider links to better match the case.

For what it's worth, this one has the thin 36mm x 8.5mm case, white metal bezel screws, and the best dial version I've ever seen on a standard 14790 rep.

[Craytonic]

From what I see the bracelet width is still really off on the new ones...

[ubiquitous]

This is how mine started... Notice the big difference from the case to the first link...

Now compare with my post-mod pics above...

[rbj69]

i did up mine almost two years ago and did a whole thread on it , got take a look and u will learn , here is pics of it and i just looked and my braclet is lined up nicely , it came from joshua i believe back then or it could have been king , hope this helps , i also made the back prettier as well , lol

imho it is still the best one u can get in this model and it is a tank, i also upgraded new thicker crystals in mine and to me it makes it heavier and mainly just looks better, i dont think it had sapphire in it even though it was said to because mine was chipping around the edges pretty bad on the back glass

[rek001]

yeah, it's a real shame, what's holding me back from acquiring one of the current AP ROs is the horrible fit of the bracelet to the end links. I don't have a spare bracelet to substitute either.

Why do they do that?

[ubiquitous]

I agree, Rima. Very odd that they would fit such a strange bracelet to an otherwise nice watch.

Perhaps they are simply pulling bits from the 'mixed parts' bin...

[bkdc]

I agree. The bracelet is the biggest problem with the 38mm Royal Oak. It's cheaply made. The endlinks need to be wider and the bracelet needs to be thicker. I really hope the bracelets from the upcoming RO chronos fit into the 38mm ETA RO.

[ubiquitous]

Case, when I measured mine, is 36mm across the 9:00/3:00 axis, without crown. That being the situation, the bracelet from the new, upcoming 42mm Royal Oak Offshore will not fit Too wide, and too thick; the ROO bracelet is probably going to be thicker than the Classic 14790's case alone. Not to mention, the endlink tabs will be far too big anyways...