The First 904L Stainless Steel Rolex Rep with Slim A7750 Movement
"Holy Sh!t!" - It was my first reaction to this watch when I saw it today.
The gen parts are still in the parts factory so I cannot comment based on gens, although I have been in this business for more than a decade, you guys are still more familiar with this than I do.
It is the first 904L Rep in the market, Daytona with Slim A7750 comes first, this is going to be a huge impact to the Noob SA4130 which still needs about 12 months to release (if the movement is stable).
The 904L steel is silky, solid and brighter than the 316L, the production process of 904L parts is different from the 316L steel, the factory had some problems with the productions when dealing with the 904L steel, but they have now fixed it and in the future, they will release a lot of Rolex replicas in 904L steel including the SD43, SubC and others.
Thickness, the watch is engined by the traditional A7750 movement (from the movement factory which makes the SH31xx movements) with the date module removed to reduce its thickness by 2mm, the replica watch is 13.2mm where the gen measures at 12.2mm and the old rep is 15mm, this is a huge step forward and you cant easily see the thickness difference without a gen aside. The movement can be even thinner without the movement decoration but it will be only like 0.2mm thinner so the maker still decide to add the movement decoration due to some customers like decorated movement even it is a closed case back watch.
The watch will be tagged under a new maker name "AR" and I believe many of you already knew who he is but I am sorry I am not allowed to say who due to the intense situation here in China, we both want to stay low profile, I just want to say this maker makes the best watches and you have no worries to click the "Add to Cart" button :)
The watch will be delivered by the end of August so you can place your order now and I will ship according to the order number sequence, first come first serve.
Only black dial 116520 will be available at the moment, white dial and other variations will be released in the future (no ETA at the moment).
OK, the price tag, the thing that you guys care the most about :D, it will be definitely more expensive than the current 316L version. The maker told me the material costs him much more than the 316L steel and the slim A7750 movement is also more expensive than the traditional one, he was asking more but we finally agree to price the watch at the US$458 which is US$100 more than the old A7750 thick 316L Daytona, I think it is still reasonable seeing it is made using 904L Steel and with a new movement, and everything is remade according to the forum members requested in the past few months. Like the rehaut is more shiny now and the SEL fit is perfect.