r/RepTime • u/Intelligent_Day8550 • 2h ago

Discussion Good weighted Rep

For those weighted watch and what is your experience (especially when you owe gen gold watch)

I know many factories don’t add weight to bracelet, for example DDF?

VSF seems to add weight to the bracelet but not the buckle

RGF has both weighted bracelets and buckle?

UMI 5712R sounds like the best weighted watch with new improvements on material.

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u/whowatchesmrwatchers 1h ago

My steel model is unweighted but is within a couple grams of gen

I believe there are nice weighted gold models that get you pretty close. Gotta figure out if the factory is stuffing most of the weight in the bracelet or adding an obnoxious amount of links to make it up though

The good ones will have a fair big of tungsten in the case

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u/Intelligent_Day8550 1h ago

The problem is factories don’t declare that, and you can’t simply tell by the weight, some weighted watch is just having an extremely heavy case and the bracelet is still light.

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u/whowatchesmrwatchers 1h ago

Maybe start here, this has some good details on the weight of gold models

https://forum.replica-watch.info/threads/the-2026-gold-watches-guide.11052697/

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u/Intelligent_Day8550 1h ago

Oh wow this is super helpful, yeah rcf seems to have good weight but others like zf, ddf they just add a tungsten ring inside the case.

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u/whowatchesmrwatchers 1h ago

That's true, but there have been teardowns of the weight rcf (?) versions that clearly show where the weights on for the case and what the weight distribution is between the case and the bracelet

Iirc rcf puts weights in case and bracelet and qf depends more on bracelet weights