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Benyar

Benyar BY5177 Explorer Homage Watch Review

We all know that Benyar is a watch brand registered under Guangzhou Pagani Design Watch Company, so it is the sub-brand of Pagani Design, this has been widely recognized in watch forums, both come from China and are being sold very well abroad. Pagani Design watches are very cheap and are targeting low-end watch market, while their Benyar watches are even cheaper than Pagani Design, that’s crazy, do you know how much I spent on this BY5177? Only $25, that’s unimaginable, because for most automatic watches, even made in China, it is difficult to buy at such a low price.

How is the quality of this watch? If they sell this watch at $30 and include shipping fee, then you can buy one to try, do not pay express shipping like FedEx or DHL, not worthy, and do not expect too much on this watch. I do not know how to say, however, sometimes such type of low-end automatic watch can surprise you because it can last for a long time. If you want to pay only $30 to get a high quality or middle quality watch, then this Benyar watch must be not your choice.

After receiving this watch, I was surprised that it came with a black box that contains everything inside, you know many watch brands do not provide these accessories, like the Beijing watch I bought last time, which does not include a manual book inside, this is not normal, because Beijing is one of the big threes in China. The first impression the Benyar watch gave me is it is too thick, later I measured, almost 13.5mm, the case diameter is 41mm. And later I felt the entire watch is too rounded, I mean, its case does not have angular sense, entirely polished case with simply brushed stainless steel bracelet, there is an obvious gap between the lug and the end link, the gap also exists between the bezel and case body, if you can accept these obvious shortcomings, that’s ok. Although the watch does not have good polishing and brushing on case and bracelet, it is surely made with solid stainless steel, because the watch has a weight of 150.6 grams.

Fortunately the watch comes with a see-through crystal back, the movement inside is a G2666Z, which is a very low-end automatic movement made in China, nowadays, even the cheapest fakes do not use this movement, with this movement, do not expect that your watch can keep a very accurate timing, by the way, you need to wind your watch at least once each day to gain enough power.

For this Benyar BY5177, my conclusion:

It is a watch that can just tell you a basic time.

Cheap finish on case and bracelet, which is worse than that of its brother watch Pagani Design.

Benyar Black Box
Benyar Black Box Inside
Benyar Paper
Benyar Watch with Accessories
Benyar Watch in Box
Benyar Watch Explorer Homage
Benyar Black Explorer
Benyar Explorer Homage
Benyar Explorer Black Dial
Benyar Explorer Case
Benyar Explorer Crown
Benyar Weight
Benyar Explorer Bracelet
Benyar Explorer Movement
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Beijing Watch

Beijing Watch – a good source to get quality mechanical watches with affordable price?

Every Chinese knows Beijing watch, while it seems like they are not as popular as those micro brands, I do not see too much talking about Beijing watches in watch forums and Reddit, those watch fans seem more likely to buy micro brand watches to enrich their watch collection. However, not every micro brand watch has a trusted quality, after all, most people are attracted by their more affordable prices. While the big three watch companies in China, including Sea-gull, Beijing and Shanghai, have already established a relatively good reputation in watch industry. There are a lot of watch brands in China, if classified by level, Beijing should belong to the highest tier 0 level, while I think their high-end tourbillon watches and enamel watches make the greatest contribution to make Beijing have such a high position in Chinese watches industry, and our watch fans, whether in Italy, France, UK, USA or other countries, are more familiar with the dragon dial watches and tourbillon watches from Beijing. But there are also some good quality watches with cheap prices and good styles from Beijing, just like this watch I just bought from them.

It is a full stainless steel made watch, I bought it because of its Bauhaus dial style and they said they will also send me a free leather band, but they did not, and in the box, which is hard to draw out, there is no manual book. On the card, all information such as purchasing date is empty. These information sometimes are important to our watch fans, they shouldn’t ignore this.

This Beijing watch has a round polished case that is 40.1mm in diameter, 10.9mm in thickness. The weight of the entire watch is about 90.1 grams, not heavy for a full stainless steel watch because it has a hollow mesh bracelet. Its dial has a very simple and easily readable design with black hour markers and minute markers in white dial background. For Beijing watch, making it different from other micro brand watches in China is that they do not have compromise in the finish of some tiny places, for example, on this watch, the Beijing logo on the dial is tridimensional, the date window has layered silver frame, the clasp has a more secure locking method, these are tiny details, which may not be well finished on some micro brand watches, but are finished perfectly on this Beijing watch.

This watch is sold at less than $100, it comes with a see-through crystal back with an automatic movement that looks like Citizen 8215, well, the watch has been on my wrist for three days and still keeps a very accurate time.

Beijing Watch Box
Beijing Watch Box 2
Beijing Watch Box with Accessories
Beijing Watch in Box
Beijing Watch Mesh Bracelet
Beijing BG051011
Beijing Watch Silver White
Beijing Watch Silver White Dial
Beijing Watch Crystal
Beijing Watch Crown
Beijing Watch Flat Crystal
Beijing Watch Stainless Steel Case
Mesh Bracelet

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Baltany

Baltany 1926 Oyster Retro Watch Review

Baltany is a micro brand that produces watches in Dongguan, Guangdong of China, I did an introduction of Baltany in my previous articles, today, I want to talk more about this brand by introducing a new watch I just bought from them, because I love Baltany more after reading “About” on their website. Here I posted two screenshots I took from the “About”. From the first picture below, we can know the type of watches Baltany is producing, yes, they are redesigning and making the vintage watches that had appeared in old time, I appreciate this because this is also the thing which I have been wanting to do. I want to create a micro brand and remake these retro watches, is there anyone here interested in this project, we can do together. From the second picture, they said they are a small company in Asia, actually in China, they are honest, not like some other micro brands in China that like making up a false Swiss watch-making history. By the way, Baltany also accepts custom-made watch orders.

Baltany Introduction
Baltany Introduction 2

Now I will introduce the watch that was just bought from Baltany. The watch came to me very fast, I received the package three days ago, opened the package and found a draw-out box, there is a brown leather packet and an envelope inside. When I opened that brown leather packet, I was surprised, because the small hand is still working and the watch keeps an accurate time. Inside the envelope, there are white cloth, card, manual book and screw driver. I like the brown leather packet, it is the most beautiful watch packing, and compared with the box of other micro brands from China, this leather packet is more in line with the watch production DNA of Baltany.

Baltany Black Box
Baltany Brown Leather Packet
Baltany Box with Watch Packet
Baltany Watch with Box
Baltany Accessories

It is a small watch with a cushion-shaped case and looks like the old Rolex watch with first Oyster case in 1926, you can see keywords “1926”, “Oyster” and “Tribute” on the product title on their website, which mean Baltany redesigned this watch to pay tribute to the first Rolex Oyster watch made in 1926. The watch is small, its case is measured to be 39.5mm in diameter, including the crown, you can see the big threaded onion crown without trademark. The case is about 11.4mm thick, including the crystal. The width between the two lugs is 18.1mm. The watch adopts fully mirror polishing finish, the threaded bezel is the fluted bezel feature on modern Rolex, it is in golden color that has the same bright polishing finish as the case.

Baltany 1926 with Packet

The black dial is under the protection of a domed sapphire crystal, the hour markers have been applied with the luminous material that has the same color as the golden bezel, small second hand is running on the subdial at 6 o’clock, three hands have polishing finish on the edge. The track-style minute scale looks very classic.

Baltany 1926
Baltany Watch Retro 1926
Baltany 1926 Black Dial
Baltany Domed Crystal

The Baltany watch is equipped with the Sea-gull ST1701, which is automatic, not manual winding. ST1701 has a power reserve of about 40 hours, 20 jewels and beat frequency of 21,600 bph. Any way, the watch still keeps an accurate time within this week, only several seconds faster.

Baltany Black Leather Strap

The watch has a black leather strap, which has a smooth leather on the front side and calfskin grain on the other side that contacts your skin. The leather band is fitted with a polished golden pin buckle.

Conclusion:

In my opinion, Baltany is a micro brand that is more creative than the others in this field. Its price will look more reasonable if they can offer one extra band for free.

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Binger

Binger Watch Company Down

About Binger, actually I do not know too much about this brand, just do not buy from this watch company now, I saw all watches on their website(https://bingerstore.com/) were sold out, means they do not sell them now. Also on their aliexpress site, there are only four watches left. I guess that they will quit the watch industry, too many niche watch brands have appeared in recent years, they can not compete.

Like other niche brands, Binger also made up a watch-making history, they said they came from Switzerland, this always can not cheat people who are outside of China, but works for some customers in China who know little about watches. At the beginning of their business, that’s about more than ten years ago, Binger used good sapphire crystal face and has good finish, their watches were more well-known in China than in other places. Well, people are now more acceptable to those homages than the watches that look like Binger, that’s the main reason why they can not run their business now.

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Guanqin

Guanqin Watch Review

Guanqin, about this Chinese brand, I already have introduced its watch-making history in one of my previous articles https://www.bobswatchstore.com/2022/04/08/guanqin-tonneau-shaped-watch-the-skeleton-beauty-of-mechanical-watch/, Guanqin is not old or very new, it has some customers in China, but not too many. Besides, the customers of Guanqin do not have a young age now, most of them are over 40 years old, or even older, and many customers who have bought Guanqin watches are not well educated, people here who have graduated from college won’t choose Guanqin watch. That is my opinion, I do not know how you think of this brand.

Does Guanqin succeed in Chinese watch market?
Yes, their watches are accepted by a small group of customers, and prices are very affordable. In recent years, many niche watch brands appeared in China, but none of them have succeeded like Guanqin.

Does Guanqin have boutiques in China and in other countries?
No. They have an office in Guangzhou and online stores in Taobao.

My advice:

If you want a mechanical watch from Guanqin, just choose the best seller with a very affordable price, the fewer functions the watch has, the better finish the watch will have, the watch will also be more stable. Just like this Guanqin I show below, it is the cheapest automatic watch from them, works very well, case and bracelet have moderate finish. Overall quality is acceptable.

Guanqin Black Watch
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Shanghai Watch

Shanghai 962 – a must have to be elegant

How about the popularity of Shanghai watch? I do not know how popular it is in your country, maybe you have not heard of this brand, but Shanghai watch had been very hot during a period in China, I still remembered when I was a child, there were two Shanghai watch in a drawer in my father’s house, they have elastic stainless steel bracelet, look like couple watches, later I know they were purchased when my father and mother got married. At that time, in China, every couple will buy Shanghai watches when they are getting married. I think Shanghai watch was even more popular than Sea-gull.

I like to collect watches, I have several pieces of Shanghai watches, and this silver white is my third Shanghai watch. I seldom wear Shanghai watch in my daily life, I will choose to wear it when I go dating in a restaurant. This silver white Shanghai watch is not for every one, but I think it is a very good gift for your father, young people may not like this watch, because it does not look sporty and does not have a bold design, all you can see from the watch is its elegance.

This watch has some similarity to one of the Longines watches I have seen, its case is measured to be 39mm in diameter and thickness is about 11mm. Stainless steel case and bracelet are polished, with round and smooth bezel. All details on the dial just show you how elegant the watch is. There are artistic Arabic numbers in black to be used as hour markers. The lattice on the center enhances the elegance of the entire watch. Hour hand, minute hand and second hand are blued stainless steel. Minute markers are on a beveled inner bezel, which adds the space sense of the dial.

The watch has functions of hours, minutes, seconds, date and week. The crown is not screw down, you can directly wind the watch, pull out the crown to the first position to adjust the week display, and then adjust the date by rotating the crown in another direction. Pull out the crown to the second position to adjust time. Through the crystal back, we can see the movement, do you know where this movement come from? It seems not to be developed by Shanghai Watch Factory.

The watch keeps time accurate, I have had the watch for one week, its inaccuracy is about 13 seconds each day. There is also a two tone model for this watch, it is really a good watch for those people who want to know better about Chinese watches.

Shanghai Silver White Watch
Shanghai 962 Watch
Shanghai Watch Transparent Crystal
Shanghai Watch Blue Hands
Shanghai 962 Crown
Shanghai 962 Case
Shanghai 962 Crystal Back
Shanghai 962 Movement
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Giveaway Synoke

Fist Giveaway

It is the first giveaway on my blog, but there will be more in future, you can add my blog to your bookmark, or subscribe my youtube channel, which is @ketriciaferguson5957.

There are three rules for this giveaway:

1.Please share one post of my blog to reddit.com, or to any other watch forums.

2.Subscribe my youtube channel @ketriciaferguson5957

Contact me via email berrymoon86@gmail.com, in email message, please send me the link you have posted and tell me your youtube. One winner will be chosen on November 30. Random choose.

Very simple. Easy to get a watch.

The prize will be one digital watch, brand is Synoke, this watch is cheap, but it is the toughest digital watch I have ever seen, if you have seen the three tests I made on it in the past, you will know how high quality this watch is. Please check the test videos again below.

Watches pictures:

Synoke Black Tough Watch

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Sea-gull

Sea-gull 6066 – the cheapest Sea-gull automatic watch

There are good quality watches made in China, do you want to buy any watch from China? I do not know which watch you mostly want to buy from China, but Sea-gull is indeed a good choice. Besides Sea-gull, Beijing, Shanghai, Fiyta, there are also many other niche brand watches that are sold at cheaper prices, you can read reviews on the internet about many watches made in China, especially in Reddit, many watch fans are talking about them in the community, but it will be more helpful if you have a contact in China that can buy watches for you, sometimes, it is much more cheaper when you order a watch from Taobao, and I can check the quality of the watch more carefully before shipping.

Today, I want to introduce a Sea-gull watch I bought from Taobao, I have done a research on all mechanical watches made in China, and found this is the most famous watch whose price is under 500 yuan, which equals to 69 USD. Under this price, there are only several watches from China that worth purchasing, this Sea-gull 6066 is one of them. There are stainless steel, gold and two tone style for this model, I chose the one with silver dial and black leather band.

The watch has a 41mm case diameter but not look that big on my slim wrist, the case thickness is about 11mm, I thought it would be too big, but actually it is a perfect size for my wrist. Maybe because I chose the one with a leather band, if with a steel bracelet, I will need to remove several links on each side. For slim wrist, I always think a watch with leather band is more suitable. The entire case is polished, the two crown guards have a certain degree of slope design that can be perfectly mixed into the case, the crown has a Sea-gull “S” logo in satin finish that forms a high contrast with the polishing background.

The watch is equipped with a ST16 automatic movement that is also used in many Sea-gull watches whose dial is skeleton. ST16 has a power reserve of 36 hours, I have had this watch for about two weeks, now it gains 15 seconds every day. From the crystal back, we can see this movement has beautiful engraved decorations on the plate.

Sea-gull 6066
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Farasute

Farasute Watch Review

This Farasute watch was bought by one of my friends in the United States, I helped him to buy the watch from taobao website, he loved the watch and shared some photos with me.

He asked me to buy this watch for him in January, I paid the money on January 18th on taobao, and then the watch is being customized. And it took almost twenty days to customize before being shipped out, I remember that I received the watch on February 5th, then I immediately shipped the watch to him. He received the watch several days later, he said he love the watch very much, just a few days ago, he shared these pictures.

I do not know too much background or history information about Farasute, but they are doing things that are greatly different from other watch companies in China, I have seen many niche brands in China, they are just simply copying the designs of many famous Swiss watches such as Submariner, IWC Pilot, Omega Seamaster, but I can not find the original watch which this Farasute watch copies from. It looks like a custom-made model from ADG, the bezel is sapphire, the watch is powered by a SL-4801 movement produced by Dandong movement factory, but is this a movement with uni-directional winding? I can not find details listed on the internet. But the auto rotor of the movement is modified, it looks a flower and very beautiful. In the beginning, he said the watch inaccuracy is only 2 to 5 seconds, I do not believe, last time he set the watch, and 5 days later, the watch gained 1.5 minutes, that’s a normal inaccuracy for a Chinese watch with such a Chinese chronograph movement.

Farasute Chrono
Farasute Black
Farasute in Box
Farasute Bracelet
Farasute Bracelet
Farasute Clasp
Farasute Movement
Farasute Clasp Extension
Farasute Wrist Shot
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Sport

Cheap Sport Digital Watch for Children with Transparent Rubber Band

Last time I made a summary about the top ten G-Shock digital watches made in China, are you interested in one of these watches? In the next a few weeks, I will do some researches on those cheap sport digital watches for children, absolutely also made in China and with no brand. Sometimes it is always a good idea to buy your child a cheap digital watch first when he or she asked you to buy one watch for him. I will only recommend those who have a cheap price but also have a good quality, I will do some tests on the watches and show you the results.

This is one of the cheapest digital watches sold online, it is sold on many shopping platforms such as aliexpress, amazon, I bought it at less than $1, I think you will not hesitate to buy one for your child. The watch is not big and it is a youthful timepiece, very suitable for child or even men who like fashion and simple items. I like the case and bracelet on the watch, which is see-through transparent. The watch has all several functions for daily use, including time display, week display, alarm and chrono, it is very easy to adjust these functions by following the instruction on the paper they sent. When I tested its toughness by knocking its face with a wooden hammer, the face not broken and the watch is still fine, after that, I pull its straps hard and one strap is broken. That’s strange, because I also did the same test on the straps before using the hammer on the face, the straps were not broken. So I did not do water resistant test on the watch, but I ordered another same watch from the company, I will do several tests once it arrives to me. I will show you the results.

Sport Digital Watch Transparent