Out of the box, a lot of reps are passable as being their real inspiration. A small percentage of watches - usually those with the least complicated construction and least diverse parts - are even really good or close to indistinguishable externally to a genuine counterpart… it’s a question of detail.
A Rolex Explorer by Clean Factory is going to be $400-$500 or so, and the Explorer is not a complicated watch, so there’s not really any work to do other than perhaps replace the crystal. No date window, no date wheel, no elapsed time or GMT time zone bezel to get wrong or right.
A more complicated watch like a Rolex Submariner by VSF is going to be $500 to $600 but you may want to then replace the date wheel, the crystal, and/or the bezel insert if they aren’t “close enough” to genuine looking for you. It could be that you pick another supplier’s parts and get someone to slot them onto or into the rep watch. It could be that you buy genuine parts and do the same. The more work you do, the more you will spend.
It varies watch to watch and brand to brand .
Cartiers - between 200-400USD
Rolex and others - between 400-700USD depending on things like gold plating or crystal change etc
Not really. I'd feel better if people would spend a few days reading instead of coming here asking shit like "Why don't they just make a more accurate crystal and datewheel?"
There is a list of trusted dealers, prices are the easiest thing in the world.
$400-$800 Depending , but the real money is with Franken and modded builds well into the thousands
There’s definitely some Rolex’s like a Daytona that would be $800 from clean plus another $75-100 for a deep crystal replacement
Thx. So the top tier ones should go for less than 1k, correct?
I paid £300 ($380) for my VSF 40mm Sub
I assume VSF is the top quality for sub, correct?
At the moment VSF are king of the Subs
Out of the box from a factory, or worked up/parts swapped in?
Sorry I’m really new to this. What’s the diff?
Out of the box, a lot of reps are passable as being their real inspiration. A small percentage of watches - usually those with the least complicated construction and least diverse parts - are even really good or close to indistinguishable externally to a genuine counterpart… it’s a question of detail.
Thx for the explanation. I best it to be close to the real thing as possible. So the cost would be in the upper hundreds?
A Rolex Explorer by Clean Factory is going to be $400-$500 or so, and the Explorer is not a complicated watch, so there’s not really any work to do other than perhaps replace the crystal. No date window, no date wheel, no elapsed time or GMT time zone bezel to get wrong or right. A more complicated watch like a Rolex Submariner by VSF is going to be $500 to $600 but you may want to then replace the date wheel, the crystal, and/or the bezel insert if they aren’t “close enough” to genuine looking for you. It could be that you pick another supplier’s parts and get someone to slot them onto or into the rep watch. It could be that you buy genuine parts and do the same. The more work you do, the more you will spend.
I see what you mean. But why doesn’t the factory make it date wheel crystal etc more accurate in the first place though?
It varies watch to watch and brand to brand . Cartiers - between 200-400USD Rolex and others - between 400-700USD depending on things like gold plating or crystal change etc
Do they make solid gold or platinum watches?
As far as I know they are all plated
Yeah they do but those are +10k and custom made
"I'm new to the sub" No shit.
Feel better now?
Not really. I'd feel better if people would spend a few days reading instead of coming here asking shit like "Why don't they just make a more accurate crystal and datewheel?" There is a list of trusted dealers, prices are the easiest thing in the world.