like2watch Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 My ongoing reluctance to purchase a TT Sub was significantly weakened following By-Tors pictorial review of Eurotimes offering. I hassled my usual collector who, despite not having it on his list of usual offerings kindly agreed to source one for me. First delivery was the traditional offering, TT wrapped sub and when I opened the package I just couldn't get over how purple the dial was.... Looked at By-Tor's pics, the watch, the pics and thought "hmmmm this is not good"! Yes, the rehaut, winding crown and gold colour were not what I expected but I just couldn't get past the dial colour!!!! Took the band off and the magic F serial wasn't there- arrrggghhhh!!! Quick call to the collector who confirmed wrong watch sent- 4 days later and the noob is with me :-) It's hard to see in the picture but indoor lighting really shows how good the noob offering is, 2836-2 inside. Rotor was loose but I almost expect that. There is also a BIG difference in the band endlinks, non noob version has rounded lumpy finish and gold section is obvious plating- noob looks like seperate peice in centre with very clean edges like gen. Heavy scratch test on spare link (VERY deep gouge) revealed 14K+ gold content. Not saying links are solid (I don't know) but likely to be very durable! Quick WD40 followed by car wax on the band, silicon gasket treatment and I am VERY happy! Thank you By-Tor!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Oh yes that one on the left is nasty! just look at the SELs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 You're welcome. But who the hell sold that left one to you as "Noobfactory" Sub? They have killed people in Iraq for lesser crimes. That's outrageously horrible wokky piece of sh*t. The Noob TT Sub really is very nice. Better than MBK, imho. My review watch already went to a new owner, and he's extremely pleased with it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
like2watch Posted July 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 You're welcome. But who the hell sold that left one to you as "Noobfactory" Sub? That's outrageously horrible wokky piece of sh*t. They have killed people in Iraq for lesser crimes. The Noob TT Sub really is very nice. Better than MBK, imho. My review watch already went to a new owner, and he's extremely pleased with it too. Pretty convinced there was no deception in the transaction- collector quickly advised he had forgot to advise his runner that I was after the noob-TT, the website order was for the standard TT and I requested the noob version by seperate e-mail. By-Tor did you have to repost that pic? Arrrrrgghh!! ;-P You have encouraged me to try and take a better one now....... ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfire Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Oh man... I think I'm inching closer to this one... Oh yes that one on the left is nasty! just look at the SELs Shoddy paint-job, imo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakemaster Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 I'm with BT. The MBW is way overhyped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 The rep on the left scared the neighbor's cat so badly that I had to shoot it in the head & let the parakeets skull fukc it down from my window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
like2watch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 The rep on the left scared the neighbor's cat so badly that I had to shoot it in the head & let the parakeets skull fukc it down from my window. Nice one Freddy.... I'm guessing you can imagine how much better I feel with the Noob factory offering given the opportunity to handle both. I'm gonna have a go at some more photo's shortly to show the SEL's (seems to be most peoples favourite part). Are we talking 60% lighting and 10% photoshop? Cheers, Jimmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Vanguard Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 You're welcome. But who the hell sold that left one to you as "Noobfactory" Sub? They have killed people in Iraq for lesser crimes. That's outrageously horrible wokky piece of sh*t. The Noob TT Sub really is very nice. Better than MBK, imho. My review watch already went to a new owner, and he's extremely pleased with it too. Yup, thats me. I bought the MBK and noobfactory and the noob is quite possibly the finest rep imaginable. Links really are hollow, with a thin gold sleeve constituting the link, but the section really is solid gold. the end links are also SOLID gold... the crown is wrapped, so I'll look into replacing that with a gen crown at some point when the gold starts to run out... As for the bezel, I believe that could be solid too...we'll see as time goes on. Movement on both watches is phenomenal. But the noob wins. One tiny advantage of the mbk is the "rolex" engraving around the rehaut, and thats it. Although the mbk has solid links, it does not have real solid SELs, which i think is just as important as the links themselves. The alignment of the mbks crown is off, the date magnification is too strong, bezel rotation isnt as smooth as the noob, god, the list just goes on and on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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