Unfortunately the green bezel insert is not ceramic made, I think many people will decide to buy this watch if it uses ceramic to make the green bezel. Now, a ceramic bezel is a necessary feature for many modern diving watches, perhaps to save the cost, Sea-gull did not decide to use a ceramic bezel on this watch. Ocean Star is a diver’s watch series from Sea-gull, but I am not sure if this watch is from its Ocean Star series, because I do not see a star logo on the dial. This Sea-gull is the diver’s watch I have owned with the most simple designs. There are only hours, minutes and seconds display, there are even no date, it is ok for me, simple things always keep in fashion.
I received the watch three days ago, the seller sent me one pair of black rubber band and one wrist band as a gift. Like the watch, the Sea-gull box looks more high-end than those niche brands from China.
The watch has a big case that is made with solid 316L stainless steel, the case diameter is measured up to 44mm, which is bigger than most diver’s watches in the market, the case is about 13mm in thickness, together with the solid stainless steel bracelet, this big watch feels a little heavy on my wrist. The bezel tooth has a similar design to that of Submariner, the bezel is uni-directional rotating, there is a “S” logo in satin finish on the crown face. The first link of the bracelet is perfectly connected with the case head, and keep in the horizontal line with the curved lugs, so the entire case can fit your hand more comfortable.
The dial is simple, but it has all necessary conditions that make it a good diver’s watch. Big hour markers, wide hand design and strong lume. And we can read from the dial that the watch is water resistant to 100 meters, so you can wear the watch when swimming, surfing and diving. The green dial looks special, it is not pure green, it looks a little black on the edge of the dial, while greener on the center. The lume on the hour markers hand hands is green in dark conditions, so is the triangle bezel marker at 12 o’clock.
We can see the movement through the crystal back, it is a ST25 automatic movement developed by Sea-gull, there are beautiful fish-scale decoration on the auto rotor and movement plate, words “SEA-GULL” and its logo are also engraved. Sea-gull claims the movement has a power reserve of 45 hours, 25 jewels and 21,600BPH, after 3-day wearing, the watch is about 10 seconds faster each day, well, this is under the inaccuracy range of the movement. The stainless steel bracelet has a different finish from that of other watches, the middle links are brushed, while the links at both sides are polished, the contrast in finish is strong. The bracelet has a great quality, first it is solid made, second, the gap between each section of links is very small. Well, I like the watch to be fitted with the rubber band, it is not that heavy.
