APS Factory published several models for this watch weeks ago, a reader commented on my blog to ask me to do a review on this watch, I can not give you a detailed comparison review side by side because I do not have the genuine watch, I will do a brief review later. Before that, I want to tell you a bad news, which is Clean Factory got raided in last week, I was about to announce this news on my blog but I thought you guys have known this, their warehouse was found, so, you know it will be very hard for them. I do not know if they will be back to this business, may be not, just like the raid happened on Noob Factory several years ago, and Noob did not come back. Some people said Clean will be back soon, some dealers on the internet said Clean is accepting orders now, this is not true, currently ordering from Clean is impossible. If they really are able to come back, I think it will be one or two months later. Anyway, it makes perfect sense if they are really getting out of the business, after all, they already have had enough money.
Back to the Audemars Piguet 26420 which APS Factory just published, there are four models, please check the pictures below. I only suggest you buy the stainless steel watch with black dial and the rose gold one, the other two have big flaws. The one with gradient dial has a different dial color, the blue watch is made with stainless steel, while genuine watch is titanium made. APS Factory made a big mistake, they made the blue one with stainless steel, this is not acceptable, every time APS Factory acted very fast but they do not work carefully as they used to. For example, in replica 15400 and 15500, more people bought the ZF version before, but APS Factory did improvements on both watches step by step, finally their AP 15400 and 15500 have a better quality than ZF and have become one of the best replica watches in this industry. I can not believe such a big factory made an obvious mistake on this AP 26420. Among so many factories in the market, Clean is the most meticulous in its work, they usually perfects their watches in one go, no major upgrades needed later, this is also the reason why Clean got raided, they make Rolex replicas too good.
For this Audemars Piguet 26420, in the past, APF made it, but they use a common Chinese chronograph movement and the watch it too thick. APS Factory uses a super clone 4401 movement and makes the watch with a correct case thickness, which is about 14mm. The case has a 43mm diameter, the bezel and the chrono pushers use black ceramic. The case has very good brushed finishing, the black ceramic bezel has brushed finish on the front and polishig on the side. The edge of the ceramic crown has rounded polishing, it does not feel sharp but very smooth.
The crystal of the APS 26420 has obvious blue AR Coating, while on genuine watch, the anti-reflective coating does not look that blue.
On the dial, there are big grids, each grid has fine vertical patterns in a close-up view, on the corner of each grid, there is “X” that connects with each grid seamlessly, even if you check carefully, there is no burr on the edge of every grid. While the axi of each hand looks slightly different from that on genuine watch, on genuine watch, the solid axis pin is small and looks more obvious.
For the date window, the gen-style deep recess is not that obvious on the replica 26420.
The band is easily removal because of its quick release system, however, APS does not offer extra leather strap for the watch, there is only rubber band on the watch.
The movement is a super clone 4401, currently only used by APS Factory. It is equipped by APS in the AP 26240 and 26420. The previous 4401 has some differences with the genuine AP 4401 Calibre, especially on the balance wheel, the APS 4401 has regulator and does not have weights. It is said the upgraded V2 4401 will come out soon, the regulator will be removed and weights will be added to the balance wheel, at that time, the 4401 will look much closer to the genuine AP 4401 Calibre.
By the way, the rose gold 26420 APS Factory has published has a very close gold tone to that of genuine.
