About VS factory

In the past months, I have told the stories of some watch manufacturers such as Clean, APS, ZF, OM and 3K. Some readers showed interest and asked me to introduce the VS factory as well. Having been in this industry for many years, I know some things about VS, but not much. So today I will write down what I know for you to read.

First of all, some readers are still asking where they can buy Noob watches. As I mentioned in my previous articles, Noob has closed for good; They will not return to this business in the future.

As for VS, it is a really big factory and has a longer history than any other watch manufacturer on the market, including Clean and ZF. Actually VS is more famous worldwide than ZF and Clean. A long time ago, someone went to the Zhanxi watch market and saw that the replica Panerai PAM 111 and PAM 005 models made by Noob were popular. Then he decided to make and sell better replica Panerai watches; Believing that automatic models would be more popular, he started to produce the first replica PAM 441. The Panerai replicas they made in 2015 were sold under the name KW, and the other name they used to sell Cartier Ballon Bleu replicas was V6. Those Panerai replicas they originally made used the Shanghai 7750 movement, which had the chronograph feature removed; some said it is Dandong 7750, I don't know. This movement had extra plates added with decoration similar to the original P.9000 movement. The release of this movement was a big surprise at the time, and the Panerai replicas made by KW became very popular; I think it was even more popular than it is today.

Movement and Caliber Performance

At the end of 2016, the first generation super clone P.9000 movement was born, but it was missing an important feature: its hour hand could not be adjusted independently. Still, the first generation super clone P.9000 was a huge advancement in the field of fake Panerai at the time. In 2017 they decided to use a new name, VS, so VS was officially born. The first batch of replica Panerai watches with the Super clone P.9000 movement—including PAM 441 and PAM 661—became bestsellers as soon as they were released. During the same period, Cartier Ballon Bleu replicas of the V6 were also selling very well. They made a lot of money. Later they opened another branch called XF to make VC 2000V and AP 15202.

Then VS decided to make Omega Seamaster; Replica Seamaster 300m Omega watches came out first, I don't know what year it was. These Seamaster 300m replicas from VS are equipped with the Asia clone 2824 automatic movement, dressed in the Omega 8800 caliber. The first batch of Omega Seamaster 300m replicas immediately won many customers thanks to their superior quality and clean assembly; because the VS factory had already switched to fully automatic production and assembly at that time. In the same year, the second generation super clone P.9000 movement was also released.

I don't know when the Noob factory started using the Dandong 4130 movement in the Daytona, but in the same year the VS factory introduced many Omega replicas including the Seamaster 150m and 600m and also the De Ville using the clone 8500 and clone 8900. From then on, Omega-loving customers bought replicas only from VS, because they had the best super clone 8500 and 8900 movements. As for Panerai, all super clone P series movements come from VS.

In 2020, VS introduced two important movements: one is the Dandong 3135, used in the VS 40 mm Submariner, and the other is the Dandong 3235, used in the VS 41 mm Submariner and Datejust. They began to capture the share of the replica Rolex market. Later, the second generation Shanghai 3135 movement was born, which other factories used, but it still could not compete with the VS 3135; This is why Clean gave up on this and chose Dandong 3135.

Then came the raid; many factories closed. VS closed for a while but is finally back. During its closure, we witnessed the rapid rise of another factory—namely, Clean. Without that dominance, I think VS would be holding the largest share of the super clone Rolex market today. Do you agree? Because of that incident, VS now delivers much slower than before. You should feel lucky, though, because VS is still in business.