AP River GEN vs REP strap

[Riverking2]

I was able to source 2nd hand AP Diver GEN straps and I can't tell the difference just by looking at them. Someone said OEM feels a lot more harsh but they feel the same. 

 

I am starting to think if the seller sold me REP as oem strap.

[Tinitonsi]

Post some pics, maybe someone could help you

[sgtguk]

Yep def need some pics mate   there has been a few comparisons done already, will try to find them for you....... 

[chronoluvvv]

it is getting dangerously close

my Diver's rep strap is as soft and comfortable to wear as my ROO's gen strap

 

... if not for the texture I would be conned easily

[panerai153]

Some of the rubber straps are really, really closer to the gens. I don't think the rep Hornbacks are even close to gens, at least not the ones I have seen. Having said that out here in the sticks where I live, nobody but me would ever know, because most folks wouldn't know a Hornback from a turtle back unless it was someone around here who was a gator hunter, farmer or someone who works with gator hides. They could probably look at a Hornback and tell you, "that don't look like anything I've seen on a real gator" but the chances of  that would be about the same odds as being struck by a piece of space debris!!

 

The rep rubber straps have gotten better and better and are getting harder and harder to tell apart. I can't remember which brand it is, but it seems like the only way to tell the rep from gen was the gen didn't attract dust and the rep did. Not sure which it was though. I'm sure the rep manufacturers have solved that puzzle as well though.

[Riverking2]

False alarm guys. It's GEN. 

 

It came with the packaging and I noticed that GEN straps are a bit darker than REP ones.