What changed, when, and what it means for the reference you want to buy. Every post is dated and tied to the factory reviews it draws on.
Clean Plus surfaced in April 2026 as Clean Factory's Rolex lineup went quiet. Here's the timeline, the reference overlap, and how to tell which one a listing actually is.
A dated, source-by-source status check on every 2026 shutdown, raid and rebrand report — and why watches from 'closed' factories are still shipping.
The V7F shutdown, the August 2026 A7F rebrand, and how the IW328901/902/903 Ingenieur builds compare against ZF and the rest of the IWC field.
PAM1312, PAM1565, PAM127, PAM000/005, PAM382 and the older PAM111/312 — which factory makes the reference point for each, and where the 'superclone' label is earned.
Who RWF is, what the JH3235/JH3285 free-sprung movements actually are, how its Bruce Wayne and green Datejust compare against RICH, VSF and ARF, and what's still unproven.