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Nice Rep Seiko turtle just in

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Genius

Found this through another thread on here about rep seikos and thought at £85 delivered was worth a punt, considering using it as a base for a soxa mod 

Build quality seems better than the gen ice monster I bought recently particularly the case and bracelet finishing although not as good as my samurai, lume is ok too but not normal nuclear Seiko, guess that's probably the only tell on this

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from here if anyone else fancies a dabble

https://www.wish.com/product/5ca4d851553c63435bd7d974

 

 

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NCRich

What is the movement on this?

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Jasonbaylee

Looks smashing.


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Enthusiast88
7 minutes ago, NCRich said:

What is the movement on this?

I’m also curious. 

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Genius
19 minutes ago, NCRich said:

What is the movement on this?

Just had a look, claims to be a 4R36A, but it isn't :rolleyes:

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Guess that puts the soxa mod plan out of the window 

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NCRich
8 minutes ago, Genius said:

Just had a look, claims to be a 4R36A, but it isn't :rolleyes:

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What is it?  Could you turn the rotor so I can see the keyless area?  Sorry to be a bother but I'm intrigued.

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ShovelnTC

Something wrong about a Seiko Rep for me, probably as don't hold Seiko in the same view as all of the "luxury" brand corporate ripoffs, just the peasant in me I guess.

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Genius
12 minutes ago, NCRich said:

What is it?  Could you turn the rotor so I can see the keyless area?  Sorry to be a bother but I'm intrigued

No bother, looks like a pretty bog standard DG type

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Jasonbaylee

Nice if a decent grand Seiko can be repped


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NCRich
36 minutes ago, Genius said:

No bother, looks like a pretty bog standard DG type

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Yeah, wonder what number has day date?

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Genius
9 minutes ago, NCRich said:

Yeah, wonder what number has day date?

Not sure either? This is a bilingual day as well same as gen seiko

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3 minutes ago, NCRich said:

Yeah that one is bilingual too 

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RussP

Another tell is the red hour hand.

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Khronos

The day font is completely off, too thin. And the Seiko engraving on the caseback is not too good either. 

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dfq23

although the bezel alignment looks to be better than on the gens!

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cvp3

Another WISH.COM  SFEIKO . Use code NEW10 to save 10% (best code I could find)

Vintage-ish Seiko 5. $56 +$12 shipping minus 10% = $61 

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Land Monster-ish. $95 + $12 s/h minus 10% = $96

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2019 Edition PADI L/E-ish. $80 + $12 s/h minus 10% = $83

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BONUS Tevise Breitling colt-ish homage. $29 + $9 s/h minus 10% = $34. Figured what the hell. 

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And yes of course.....bought all 4. $279 delivered. Hoping the delivery experience is better than DHGate. 

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G_sus

Plenty of models on there if you look:-

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Prestige with a buyers picture,  another monster type and a familiar SKX looking fella

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CollieWobbles

Are these reps or gen?

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G_sus

Reps

Im tempted to take a punt on the ‘Batman’ Padi...

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wowsasb

Interesting thing is that case back "seiko" script is engraved. On my SRP it looks worse IMO haha

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Waspy

Oh boy, I can see my credit card getting a right beating.

The Japanese will not be happy, time to invade China again!

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Wriggles

Thats the end of me buying Seikos online from anywhere other than legit shops ....

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LightGeek

I come back after a while... and see this. Why? Luckily, it still translates into the $100 mark in Canadian so I'm not as apt to whip out my CC...

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cvp3

Two of mine came in. No, not the STO turtle. That's for comparison. Nothing much to add. 

1) Both are way heavier than I expected. The solid bracelet and actually well made cases are definitely the culprit. 

2) The lume is on par with Seiko initially, but fades very quickly versus the real thing that seems to hold on forever. 

3) The "SEIKO" logo on the dials and bracelet look pretty darned close. The turtle may be a little thin, but not by much. 

4) The Turtle case is really well finished all the way around. 

5) The bracelet is solid, including the end links, so for that alone I'd actually say it's better than Seiko. In fact, you may just buy the watch for the bracelet. 

6) Not so good? As you can see the turtle is a total shit-show on alignment. The bezel and chapter ring is way off. Stupidly so. No surprise, but so easy to get it right, why not just do that? The bezel is loose as well. Against my better judgement I tried to pry off the bezel, but it won't budge. Oh well. I've definitely had worse. 

BRACELET - 10, actually better than Seiko in every way

DIAL - 8, orange sunburst is a little weak

LUME - 6, can play the part for a few seconds, but not really

CASEBACK - 7, thankfully no misspelled words, but the SEIKO font could be better

BEZEL - 4, too loose

ALIGNMENT - 0, for fucksake, just take 2 seconds to align the fucking chapter ring. You get a zero when you don't even try.......and you didn't, did you, you fuck. 

VALUE - 7, will fool most, but only worth your time on L/E Orange turtles that are still north of $600. Not worth it on $200 beater Seiko's. 

OVERALL - 6, it's just math. 

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NCRich

Nice write up.  Easy fix on the chapter ring.  Bezel probably has a wire retaining ring.  Have to take the crystal and the insert off to get the bezel off.

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