u/snidetime

Done properly this time. Enjoy. Appreciate all the support over the whole error I made.

VSF from Miro.

Hi all. My name was dragged through the mud over on reptime for a huge error I made with my recent video(s!) - and I'm owning it and apologising.

Basically - the watches I used for comparison are not mine. I borrowed two watches, one which was presented to me as gen, the other as a VSF.

When looking at the watches, I discovered one of them was heavily beaten up, and I assumed that it was an old beaten up VSF. So I bought a brand new VSF from Mirotime (not gifted, BOUGHT!) for the comparison, as I felt it wasn't a fair comparison to the shiny, new looking 'gen'.

I filmed the whole video, thinking the good quality one was the gen. When I opened them up, I found that the movements were identical. This confused me so much.

I had a back and forth with the people we borrowed them from, and I grew suspicious about the whole thing. Was I being tricked? They knew I was going to open them up on video so what was going on?

It was brought to my attention that perhaps the gen movement was in the wrong watch. I so opened up the beaten up looking watch to discover the gen movement, with obvious freesprung movement. So I filmed that section, and put it into the original video.

Uploaded again. THEN it was pointed out that the 'gen' watch I was presenting you all with was in fact a VSF. It turns out that the mistake was that they'd put the gen bracelet on the VSF, and the rep bracelet on the gen.

All very embarrassing. I'm not a watch expert - that's now very evident, and I should have been one hundred percent certain about what I was showing, and the differences.

I've put the gen bracelet back on the gen watch. (the beaten-up looking one) and have remade the entire video.

The video is processing now, and will be uploaded today. You'll see that it is 100 percent gen against 100 percent VSF. I want to apologise for the whole thing - it was never my aim to deceive or confuse. I'm being called a scammer and worse - which I'll accept given its the internet and there's so much deception online. I've been doing real vs fake content for many years now, and only recently have started doing watches. Never once have I presented something disingenuously (what would be the point? I hardly make any money off the channel, it's literally just my fun hobby, not my job - why would I try and deceive everyone for pocket money from monetisation!? I have a full time career, I just do this for funsies. I don't get free watches from sellers, I'm nowhere near big enough in the rep watch scene to enjoy such things.

This is the first and last time I'll make such an error. I'm man enough to admit my grave mistake and fully accept how silly I look from it all.

I hope you enjoy the new video, and forgive me for making an amateur's mistake. Sorry guys. I've learned a hard lesson here, and not one to be repeated. They can keep calling me names etc, no worries - reptime is full of such characters; I'm not one of them.