Author: The Gentleman

Has a love for watches, fashion, and all things interesting. Known to buying watches out of nowhere and making bad financial decisions.

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Audemars Piguet Watches

Testing Power Reserve of Audemars Piguet AP 15400 Royal Oak Replica TF V2

Ever wanted to know how long one of these replica watches lasts compared with the originals? Well you are about to find out.

 

In the video, I test how long the power reserve will last for the AP 15400 from the TF V2 factory (check out the review of this watch here, or the unboxing here).

 

The Test

To accurately test this, I first wanted to make sure that the power reserve is totally full.

What I did was that I wore the watch all day and walked around as much as possible. I even went bowling with this watch. Then after coming home, I wound the watch around 30 or so times to completely make sure that this watch was at full power reserve (as you can see in the video).

 

Then, I layed down the watch on a table noting the time that I dropped it down:  12:02 AM where the date just changed to the 26th. Afterwards, I continued to monitor the watch every couple of hours and every time I woke up making sure to check before 12 o clock and after 12 o clock so I can tell the difference of whether it stopped in the AM or PM.

 

The Results

Finally, the watch ran out of power at 9:48PM on the 27th.

So taken together, the watch was put down at 12:02AM on the 26th (midnight), and then ran out of power at 9:48PM on the 27th.

That means the total power reserve for this watch is 45 hours and 46 minutes if my math is right.

 

 

How it Compares

Compare this with the original AP 15400 power reserve of 60 hours, it is pretty good for the price. A power reserve of 45 hours means you can wear it comfortable each day knowing that it won’t stop on you, you can even alternate watches every other day. But, you can’t let it sit for two days straight because it will stop on you. A power reserve of 60 hours would have been great, but this is a fraction of the price of the regular AP so I can’t really complain too much about this.

 

I got this watch for around ~200ish not including the shipping and transaction costs. But, honestly, if I was to buy this again (for reasons listed in the review), I would go for the higher end AP models such as the V2J or V3 from the JF factory as those are top notch in terms of aesthetics.

 

The movement for this model that I got was the Miyota 9015.

 

I got this watch from a different trusted dealer, but I didn’t have the best experience with him as he kind of hid some stuff in the QC pics and I just felt like he didn’t care for me since I told him I was a newbie at buying replicas. But if you want to know where to get this watch, check out who I get my watches from now.

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Audemars Piguet Watches

Audemars Piguet AP 15400 TF V2 Replica Watch Unboxing

Here is an unboxing my first replica watch that I personally bought after starting to learn about trusted dealers and the intricacies of the replica watch market.

 

The first watch that I got is the Audemars Piguet AP 15400 Royal Oak. I got the V2 version from the TF factory.

 

Unfortunately, even when buying from the trusted dealers’ sites, you usually have to pay extra (which of course I didn’t do because I was cheaping out and testing out because it was my first replica purchase). However, I now know that it is not too bad not getting a case because the watch is the main centerpiece and what you will be wearing.

 

If you want to see a full review of this watch along with a video, check out my blog post which does just that.

Ever wanted to know how long the power reserve is on one of these replica watches and how it compares with the video, check out this video.

 

Check out Who I Get My Watches From.

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Preferred Sellers

Where I Get My Watches From

I currently get my watches from Andrew at TrustyTime. TrustyTime is a trusted dealer listed on RWI, RWG, and RepGeek so he is trustworthy to me and I got my Panerai from him and a couple of other watches that I am getting from him now.

To contact him, you can email him at trustytime101@gmail.com or go to his website: Trusty Time Website

Let him know that “Gentlemens Rep” referred you so.

 

For being a subscriber, I want to give you guys some discount codes:

If you only get 1 watch, you get $5 off using the code: TRUSTY2018-1W

Now if you get 2 watches, you get $10 off each (so total of 20 off): TRUSTY2018-2W

Now if you get 3 watches, you get $15 off each (so total of 45 off): TRUSTY2018-3W

Now if you get 4 watches, you get $20 off each (so total of 80 off): TRUSTY2018-4W

 

Let me know what your experience with him is and post pictures of the watch you got in the comments, I would love to see them!

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Watch Tutorials

How to fix your watch date changing during the afternoon

So you set your watch date and everything is all fine and dandy, but when you wake up the next day the date didn’t automatically change to the next day. You wait and wait, and after 12 o clock in the afternoon, it finally changes to the current day.

 

You get really frustrated and you stay up until midnight, get disappointed that the date doesn’t change automatically, so you manually change the date to the current date at mightnight, hoping that since you set it now, the watch knows to automatically change at midnight instead of the afternoon. You feel super accomplished and wake up this morning knowing your beloved watch got the date right, but as the day goes on, you look at your watch with anger because it changed the date forward once more at noon. Now you’re a time traveler and living one day ahead.

 

Although this is a slight inconvenience, it is really annoying buying a watch with a date feature, and then not having it work 50% of the time because it changes at the wrong time.

 

BUUUUUT, let me give you some hope and tell you that there is a really easy way to fix this:

 

 

See your watch has an internal mechanism that automatically changes the date every 24 hours. Basically, your watch doesn’t know the difference between AM and PM, and just automatically changes the date every other pass at the 12 marker. But right now, your watch does that in the afternoon, not knowing that it is 12PM instead of 12AM.

 

To not overcomplicate anything ,the best way to fix this is not by changing the date of your watch, but by changing the time of your watch. Fix the time of the watch and go forward until the date of your watch changes, now you know that it is 12AM according to your watch, and now you can just keep moving the the time forward until your current time.

 

For example, if it is currently 3PM in the afternoon, you would move the time forward until the date changes on your watch, then keep going forward, passing the 12 marker one more time until you get to 3.

 

Then, you can set the date accordingly and it will finally set the time at midnight!

 

Now you can sleep and wake up in peace knowing that you can always look down at your watch and find the right date. It is a truly useful feature once it establishes its credibility.