It’s been a long time since we last heard from ZF in the replica Audemars Piguet space. The last time ZF made waves in the AP replica market was a few years ago with their widely popular AP 15400. However, after APS released the super clone 3120 movement, ZF was thoroughly outperformed. In the years that followed, there was almost no news from ZF in the AP replica field. Meanwhile, APS thrived and essentially dominated the entire high-end AP replica market. Unfortunately, APS was shut down last month after being hit by a crackdown. Now, this could be ZF’s only chance for a comeback.

The watch is ZF’s latest 15500, equipped with a free-sprung 4302 movement. Could it be that ZF has directly taken over APS’s free-sprung 4302 movement? After all, this movement was first introduced by APS. A few months ago, facing competition from VS, APS rushed to release a free-sprung 4303 movement. Now that ZF has taken over the free-sprung 4302 movement, just heard that ZF has also taken over the super clone 4401 movement that was owned by APS before. The question is whether they can also take over APS’s super clone movements in IWC replicas.