Ever since we went our separate ways, we had lesser chance to meet one another since we're so tide-up with our commitments.
When we reach the restaurant, all attendees were given a door gift by one of the platoon mates, who's also the organizer for the gathering.
When each attendees opened their box, they're surprised on what they see.
The most common questions asked are... "How much is this?" Obviously all of us do not expect a watch of this "fine" quality is given.
Here's a link to the exact watch now selling on a mainland china website. Scroll down the website's page to look at the respective functions of the buttons.
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From far, this watch looks like those multi-complication watches from ChronoSwiss or others with multiple dial displays.
Look closer, the watch is neat and smooth, with complementing bracelet that is polished at the side.
However, when i start to play with the buttons, i realised that-
the upper button- adjust only the month, located at position 12.
the lower button- adjust only the day, 2 step pressing to shift the needle from one day to another, located at position 9.
The crown is comfortable to grip with 2 fingers, not too small to turn. Pull out one step to adjust the date by turning anti-clockwise. Pull out 2 steps to stop the seconds needle movement, adjusts the time. 24hr indicator at the position 6 moves as well while adjusting time. When i adjust the time to 2345hrs, the date indicator starts to move, jumps to another date at exact 12am. The day indicator will only starts to move at 0130hrs, till a full change at 0300hrs.
The dial indicators are in ROMAN, painted with shiny blue paint. Which is also applied on the needles. This creates a high contrast against the white dial. All the small lettering are clear to read, without being too big that might disturb the layout.
After the dinner, i used it for couples of hours... couldnt really comment on the accuracy. But resting it side by side with my SANDOZ Submariner for 6hrs before passing it for my mum(for her to use as a dress watch, because of the larger indicators, to ease her sight), shows not much discrepancy, not even 1 sec to talk about.
As for power reserve, i would not expect the chinese mechanicals to be as competant to the japanese mechanicals as well as the swiss. So i would not really care that much.
Winding up feels a little rough... again... i wouldnt expect the chinese mechanicals to be that "smooth". Perhaps, i should send this piece to a watch service for some addition of lubrication.
Several days later, this watch really exceeds my expectation.
I initially do not have any high hopes on it's power reserve. Got the watch fully wounded and let it run undisturbed since first mid-night from 0230hrs. And it's was 0030hrs on 3rd nite, and the seconds is still ticking. 40hrs and still going on!
Time gain over these 40hrs- approximately 2mins.
What i like...
From far it looks like a high end watch, despite numbers of weaknesses that is existence on the built quality... such as the most important stuff like water resistence.
What i don't like...the seconds needle? with a cheesy and familiar end that looks a lot like the Mont Blanc logo...
Good buy?
It is a gift to me... hence, nothing to really comment on. But to others who maybe interested...you decide... base on the price listed on the website... i wonders if it really worth USD$36 or so to you...
Without further ado... let the pictures do the talking...
Pcitures taken 2yrs ago...
Pictures taken today...
