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Six brand guides, checked in October 2026. Each guide lists the factory that the May 2026 r/RepTime guide names for each model, the movement it lists, and what changed in 2025 and 2026.
Brand · Est. 1905
Rolex has 76 model rows in the May 2026 r/RepTime "Who Makes the Best" guide, more than any other brand. VSF is named as the best pick in 33 of them, including the Submariner 126610 and the steel Daytona. ARF leads the 16610, the 116710LN and the Explorer II. Clean, once a leader, was reported raided in July 2025.
Brand · Est. 1848
Omega has 25 model rows in the May 2026 r/RepTime guide, and VSF is named as the best pick in 14 of them, including the Seamaster Diver 300M with an 8800 clone. Members say that this clone is not a true Co-Axial movement. The Speedmaster rows use Asian 7750 or Lemania-type bases.
Brand · Est. 1875
Audemars Piguet has 29 model rows in the May 2026 r/RepTime guide, and ZF is named as the best pick in 11 of them. The free-sprung ZF leads the Royal Oak 15500, VSF leads the 15500 with the standard 4302 clone, and DDF leads the 4401 chronographs. APSF was reported raided and closed in May 2026.
Brand · Est. 1839
Patek Philippe has 49 model rows in the May 2026 r/RepTime guide. For the Nautilus 5711 with a 324 clone the guide ranks DDF, BBF, then 3KF. 3KF leads the Calatrava 5227 and 6007, and ZF leads the Miyota-based versions. The guide notes that no tourbillon replica from the front exists for Patek.
Brand · Est. 1884
Breitling has 11 model rows with a pick in the May 2026 r/RepTime guide, and some of them are old: two Superocean rows still name Noob, which closed after the 2021 raids. GF/GOF leads the Superocean Heritage II and GF the Avenger II GMT; V7F/VSF leads the Navitimer 1 41 mm and the Transocean.
Brand · Est. 1868
IWC has 28 model rows in the May 2026 r/RepTime guide, and ZF is named as the best pick in 9 of them, including the steel Big Pilot with an A23J movement and the Portugieser chronograph. Three rows still name APSF, which was reported closed in May 2026.
