Review of the 318's caseback: How many different is there?

[spboudart 0]

A few months ago I had a 318 from the H factory, loved that watch, but it got stolen pretty much at the same time they went OUT OF STOCK.

Luckily Sead was selling 2 he still had, I jump on the deal, got my new one and within a month the Noob factory came with his own 318....

I never knew if my new 318 was one of the last H or one of the first Noob...

Today as I visited 2 sale thread, one for an H and the other for a Noob I checked the caseback and went to compare with mine...

 

Here's a pic of my H:

Here's a pic of the H sold by CharlieUK:

They're perfectly identical except for the serial number.

Very easy to identify a H factory Caseback.

 

 

 

Now let's see the Noob factory's caseback:

Here's a pic of a Noob from another of CharlieUK's sale thread (he's the one selling both watch):

It looks very different from the H factory, looks like there're more details, everything looks cleanner.

Here's a picture of my lattest Sead's 318:

Even if we seem to be in the same quality of engraving, it's a different caseback.

Have you noticed the differences, let's point out some of them for you:

1- Engraved triangle on Sead, not on the Noob

2- Continuous line on noob, not on Sead

3- 'Bar graph' looking bridge pile on Noob, crossed line looking on Sead

4- 2 vertical lines on Sead, only one on Noob

5- Square windows and triangle in lower right corner of building on Sead, window drawed as vertical line and triangle looking to belong to next building on Noob

6- Horizontal line on Noob, not on Sead.

There're much more.

 

To finish this review a pic of a gen:

 

1, 3, 4 & 5 are same as Sead

2 & 6 are same as Noob

 

So at the end I still do not know what model mine is, but it seems to be the closet to the gen. Even if the H caseback seem to be a little less close to the gen, for having owned one, I can say that, that caseback was beautifully made at a pleasure to be looking at.

 

One thing for sure is that there's at least 3 differents 318 rep caseback.

 

What would be interresting is that any owner of a 318 post a pic of it's caseback.

[Member X 91]

Nice comparison

[Del 4,962]

My H-Factory version...

 

[spboudart 0]

Thanks Del for the pic, we need more to come.

[greg_r 107]

Interesting thread. Makes me wish I was wearing my 318 today so I could compare right now. I'll take a look later though

[jeffw69 0]

I see the little guy jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge in all of them.

[WebWind 1]

I see the little guy jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge in all of them.

[King 0]

Interesting thread. Another thing I just realized is that the CG pin on the H is essentially centered on the CG, while the pin on the Noob and Sead versions is placed closer to the top of the watch, as per gen.