Clean Factory was a replica watch workshop best known in the community for its Rolex line. Community reporting places the end of the original workshop's production in mid-2025, after which the name was picked up by a different workshop selling as "Clean Plus". In the RWI 2026 Submariner comparison the two appear as separate entries: Clean is absent and CPLUS scores 291/340, which is consistent with two different operations rather than one factory continuing.
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Is Clean Factory still making watches?
The original workshop stopped production in mid-2025 and has not resumed. What is sold today as "Clean Plus" / "CPLUS" is a different workshop trading on the name. This profile carries 1 reported brand line, 2 signature references and 2 cited sources, with 3 open questions listed below.
What is Clean Factory known for?
This page records 3 points of note for Clean Factory, alongside 1 reported brand line and 2 signature references, while what the trade repeats without a dated public document is kept separate further down the page.
- Rolex — community assessments generally credit its case and bracelet finishing
- Having been one of the two or three names buyers asked for by name, and the name was reused after production ended
- Google autocomplete for "clean factory" surfaces closed / shut down / raided as the top continuations, which is itself evidence of how the question is asked (checked 2026-09-28)
Which brands does Clean Factory build?
The trade associates the Clean Factory label with 1 brand line, listed below; the source for the mapping is cited at the foot of this page.
- Rolex — reported as the widest single-brand coverage before it stopped
Which models is Clean Factory known for?
This profile lists 2 signature references for Clean Factory, seen across 3 model familys in a snapshot of 121 listings, each resting on a listing observation or a cited test, with its basis noted beside it and its sources at the foot of the page.
Model families under this label in the listing snapshot (121 listings): Daytona 57 · Datejust 14 · Submariner 12
- Rolex Daytona — The label dominates Daytona listings in the snapshot — 57 of the 121 CLEAN-labelled listings checked (Factory labels and model families observed across 1,285 listings at one Japanese dealer, snapshot 2026-09-23)
- Rolex Submariner 126610LN — Historic speciality; the label is absent from the 2026 test, which lists CPLUS instead (RWI forum — 2026 Submariner comparison (ref. 126610))
Which references carry the Clean Factory label?
In the 2026-10-01 listing sample, 12 references priced on this site carried a CLEAN label. They are listed below only as references that appeared under that label in the sample: a label is what a seller writes on a listing, and it does not certify who built a watch. Each link opens that reference's asking-price range, its sample size and its date.
- 126000 (Oyster Perpetual · 20 listings)
- 126334 (Datejust · 17 listings)
- 124300 (Oyster Perpetual · 15 listings)
- 116518LN (Daytona · 14 listings)
- 116509 (Daytona · 13 listings)
- 116515LN (Daytona · 10 listings)
- 126300 (Datejust · 9 listings)
- 126508 (Daytona · 9 listings)
- 116503 (Daytona · 8 listings)
- 116508 (Daytona · 8 listings)
- 126234 (Datejust · 8 listings)
- 228239 (Day-Date · 8 listings)
Which name gets confused with Clean Factory?
Commonly conflated here: Clean Factory and Clean Plus / CPLUS, separated by the checks in the table below, whose sources are cited at the foot of this page.
| Name | Name it gets confused with | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Factory | Clean Plus / CPLUS | Community threads and the RWI 2026 comparison treat these as separate operations. A listing that says "Clean" today is usually CPLUS; ask the seller which one and when it shipped. |
What has not been verified?
The following is commonly repeated about Clean Factory in the trade, and none of it is documented in public, so this site leaves it as unknown. 3 points are carried below as open questions, each one waiting on a dated source before it can be stated as fact:
- Whether any stock of the original workshop is still circulating, or how much
- The exact shutdown date — what exists publicly is community reporting and contradicting second-hand accounts, not a dated statement from the workshop
- What happened to its tooling or staff
Sources on this page
This profile rests on the 2 sources listed below, dated and linked where an original exists, and any claim about Clean Factory without a dated public source is carried above as an open question.
- third-party review · 2026-06 · RWI forum — 2026 Submariner comparison (Clean absent; CPLUS listed at 291/340)
- search behaviour · 2026-09-28 · Google autocomplete for "clean factory" (observable, not a document)
Reviewed 2026-10-01. If a source here is wrong or has been superseded, the correction is published on this page. See About.