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Hello I have been part of the rep community for a good while and am finally ready to pull the trigger on an Insane rep I’ve been looking at for a while and would like anyone’s thoughts
Daytona 126599TSA 40mm Silver Sheen
Obsidian Blue Sapphire Sapphire Bezel MOD
RWI.Life
vsf base watch gain weighted V3 $798
Silver Sheen Obsidian Blue Sapphire Dial $298
Sapphire Bezel $328
lug inlay - mossanite $198
gold plate $280
deep crystal $60
install $80

$2,052

I live in Korea and I am looking for OP36 Yellow-dial. It is very hard for me to find any opportunity to buy. Second-hand or new does not matter to me. Can anyone help?

Hello, this is your favorite watch reviewer / moderator of this sub r/RepWatchForum. Over the past year, I have noticed some toxic behaviors here on reddit and wanted to address it now so that we can have an agreed upon set of rules to handle future happenings. The thing I want to address is “misinformation”.

First of all, I’m not talking about malicious rumors. If there is a clear ill-intent behind a comment or a post, I have no problem dealing with in accordance with forum rules (banning that person and erasing the contents). But not all rumors are malicious. Some are just people trying to share what they know, and I get that.

However, when a person truly believes in wrong information, that’s when things get out of hand. After all, it’s not what you don’t know that hurt you, it’s what you think you know. Having spent a year running a sub on reddit, I realize doing due diligence is not really a thing here, but I think one should check the facts, accept the limitations of their sources and state things in a way that would not lead people to misinterpret the situation.

We all have our sources. And when it comes down to the world of replica watches, most, if not all, of our sources are some Chinese dude (or gal). And I understand that it’s human nature to grant more weight to familiar sources than not. However, we all have to accept that our source of information has its limits and that it’s not absolute.

<<What I have witnessed>>

There was a dude who had Chinese wife or something like that. And one day, he wanted to get into the rep watch game. So he asked his wife to do a little research, sent her down to the watch market in Guangzhou or what not. He discovered that the prices she was offered by local sellers were way cheaper than what he found on reddit. Naturally, he made a reddit sub calling all the sellers on reddit “scam” and everybody fools for shopping at their EXPENSIVE online stores.

Of course, this guy was new to the game and had no ability whatsoever to tell if a watch was really from VSF (with right movements and so on) or from a copycat factory. Unfortunately, he went after everybody. Chased down TDs in other forums, and even came after me at one point for one of my reviews. Well, I don’t waste my time checking up on people who are hard to watch so I don’t know what happened to him but I don’t see him being mentioned anywhere anymore.

The thing is, this guy really believed that he was absolutely right (and everyone else was stupid). He really did. There is an old saying in Korea that goes something like “you only see as much as you know”. He knew very little that he saw so little. But he was enough to cause a lot of people minor pain in their butt. Some of you are probably laughing at him now as you are reading this post, but it was just that he was really loud about his convictions, not that he is a special outlier. I see something like this happening all the time.

<<On a small-scale>>

As some of you know, I have been running the biggest online replica watch community in Korea for about a decade now. Much like r/RepWatchForum, I used to write a whole bunch of comparison reviews and people started settling down next to me, making themselves comfortable, reading my reviews, and ordering their watches according to the information they gathered. It was so much fun watching a community form like that, matter of fact, it was so much fun, I moved here on reddit to do the same thing!

Because I have been doing this for quite a bit (not replica watches but running a community), I came to make a lot of friends in the industry. I have direct connections to a dozen major factories (well, usually the same owner owns a few factories so some of the different factory names you know all come from the same place even though I can’t tell you which are own by whom) so although my information is still not perfect, it was dependable enough for me to the first one to break the news about most new movements and releases on reddit.

Even with all the sources I have, I realize that my information still won’t be 100% correct. After all, I’m not Chinese (I’m Korean) and I’m not a seller but a regular hobbyist just enjoying myself. So when I post or comment on things, I try my best to convey that by clearly stating my sources, how I arrived at my conclusion and how much of that he/she should take away. For example, I would say something like “my movement source who first gave me the news about JH free-sprung Rolex 32 caliber told me that Dandong is already developing their official version of Rolex free-sprung calibers but I wouldn’t hold my breath since there is no definite date of the release”.

Recently, I posted a lot of stuff about CNC manufacturers like Prime Mod Studio, Best CNC Factory and etc., I personally believe that this is where the replica watch industry is headed. With heightened risk posed by increased inspection and dwindling sales of Rolex replica watches due to overheated competition, many factories are turning their attention to higher quality and higher margin models like CNC of Patek, AP and VC. And, as usual, I like staying ahead of the game by posting relevant stuff before everyone starts researching them.

Then I was appalled by the some of the comments left on these posts. When I posted stuff about 5711, people were quick to jump on it and say stuff like “your prices are wrong, my dealer says he can get it to me for a lot cheaper”….well, good for you. I deal with people I trust and I was dealing with the factory representatives and their designated dealers who were the first to introduce me to the product and got me the sample so that I can review them against my collection.

More polite and mannered people sent me DMs (instead of posting them as facts) to ask me politely “my dealer says he can get it to me for 000 but I’m not sure if it’s the same product. Would you tell me what you think of it if I send you photos of what he’s offering?” Which I did (I do nice things for nice, likeminded people since that’s what people do) and they all turned out to be builds other than PMS or BCF.

Last week, BCF released 5712 and their factory representative asked me if I could put the word out for them as I did for their 5711. I accepted their request and said I will go ahead and pre-order one for myself since I loved my BCF 5711. So I had the factory send my watch to a friend in China who runs a photo studio and had him send me the watch afterward. This way I can have all the nice photos before I could post my comparison review. I then shared those photos with Korean sellers (like Q from QuickTime) as I always have done so they can promote them in Korea.

So, the photos I posted were of REAL ACTUAL PHOTOS OF MY WATCH (and no, I haven’t received the actual watch yet, it hasn’t even been a week lol) and the information I have shared with the photos were directly from the factory. But sure enough, in the comments of one of these 5712 posts, some wrote “I talked the factory and they don’t produce like these photos no more” to almost every inquiry made by other members. To this, I asked something along the lines of “Why are you saying this to everyone? Who is your source? Why would a factory that just released their new product not produce them anymore? I talked to the factory representatives directly and they don’t know what the heck you are talking about.”

Then this guy proudly posted a capture of a seller named “B***” saying a lot of stuff that he clearly doesn’t know anything about. Poster added “I bought many watches from China through this guy”…so that’s supposed to make your guy the absolute authority on the matter?

There are many, and I mean many Chinese sellers both on reddit and everywhere else, and I’m sure that he built a good relationship with his guy. But him telling the rest of the world what he heard from him as absolute truth and nothing but the truth is just ridiculous. You see only as much as you know, and you, my friend, shouldn’t be this confident or eager about spreading what you think you know.

This got me thinking though. What do I do to with this guy? He’s clearly spreading rumors but he doesn’t mean anything bad by it (at least I don’t think). He just really believes in what he’s been told by his watch guy. But regardless of his intentions, he shouldn’t be spreading uncertain (and wrong) information in a forum. I finally banned him when he decided to abandon his manners and told me to “chill the f*** down” but I think there should be a general guideline for me to handle this kind of thing as a moderator.

<<Suggestion>>

I propose that regardless of one’s intentions, one should be careful when sharing the information received by their “Chinese watch guy” and exercise basic manner of 1) clearly stating the source, 2) taking a careful tone that acknowledges the fact it might be wrong and lastly 3) being open-minded about what others say in response. I think if we stick to these basic rules, we can avoid whole “my almighty Chinese watch guy is right and your nobody Chinese watch guy is wrong” fight. We all have friends. It doesn’t mean they are always right.

From this point on, if I find any posts or comments that don’t follow these basic manners, I will ban and remove the poster and the post (I will be linking this post in the community guidelines post).

For a post so simple, this turned out longer than I expected. Thank you for reading it and for keeping this community healthy and clean.

Do most rep watches have enough links for 8" wrists?

I always thought I had slim wrists but apparently 8" is a large wrist.

If not, is it easy to get extra links that match?