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Parnis

Parnis Submariner Starbucks Homage Watch Review

Parnis Starbucks

It is really good to make a lot of friends in the world, I have some friends in China, so sometimes I will ask them to buy some fake watches and fake handbags there and send to me, these items are fakes but have top quality, I can not even see any difference between them and my genuine Rolex. In recent months, I am collecting homage watches made in China, I am deeply attracted by them, some have amazing designs and good prices, Parnis is the one I love most, it already has a long history in this area, but you can not buy Rolex and Panerai homages which Parnis makes in other countries, now the only way is to buy them from China, my friend Sam bought on Taobao, it is a very good place to find a lot of homage watches.

Parnis Green Sub Homage

This is a great homage watch, I thought it would not come with a ceramic bezel, but the watch manufacturer installs a green ceramic bezel for it. The watch also equipped with a Japanese citizen 8215 automatic movement, that’s a really reliable movement and also accurate, you can not buy such a good homage watch with a low price from other places. The latest Submariner Starbucks from Rolex has a 41mm case, but this Parnis is 40mm, whatever, this is a size more suitable for my wrist.

Parnis Green Submariner

The case is not thick, it even has a close thickness to a real Rolex Submariner, which is 13mm, the watch has brushed finish on the case and bracelet, the crown guards protecting the crown are polished, there is a Parnis logo “P” letter on the face of the crown. The bezel is a close immitation of the green ceramic bezel used by green Rolex Submariner, there is a lume pearl set at 12 o’clock, it has a green lume light in dark places, like the hour markers and hands on the dial. The rotatable bezel has a crisp clicking sound, and it is very comfortable to rotate the bezel.

Parnis Sub Bracelet
Parnis Sub Clasp

Under the sapphire crystal, the black dial has all necessary features you can find on a Submariner’s dial, except the engravings on the inner bezel, on this Parnis, the inner stainless steel bezel is empty without engravings. Hour markers are standing on the black dial with white lume material filled in, it is said to be Swiss-standard lume material, the dial lume is indeed strong, but I have not tested if it can last long.

Parnis Sub Lume

The bracelet also made with solid 316L stainless steel like the case, it has a pressing deployant clasp that features “Parnis” engraving on the buckle. I like this press-style buckle, it is easy to open. Overall, for this Submariner homage watch, it has two big selling points, green ceramic bezel and Japanese movement, I almost forgot its price, which is also very reasonable and even very cheap, the quality exceeds my expectation at this price level.

Parnis Sub Wrist Shot
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Parnis

Parnis Rolex YachtMaster Rose Gold Homage

Parnis YachtMaster Homage

This is another homage watch from Parnis, it has a similar appearance to Rolex YachtMaster, too many watch fans bought Rolex homages from Parnis before, it is exactly Parnis that lead the homage trend in China at that time, they made the first homage watch of Rolex and Panerai, now a lot of watch companies here in China are following the development path of Parnis to make homages, I do not know if this is the correct development for Chinese watch industry, but I would like to pay much less on a good quality watch that looks like a Rolex or a Panerai.

Parnis Rolex YachtMaster Homage

The watch has a rose gold case that is made of 316L stainless steel, I did not see a Rolex homage watch that uses 904L stainless steel, but some good super clones of Rolex are made with 904L stainless steel in replica watch market. The rose gold case is polished, with arched design of lugs to fit your hand more comfortable, the big screw-down crown features a artistic letter “P” in polishing. I was a bit surprised that the bezel insert is ceramic made when I received the watch, with markers in high-gloss finish.

Parnis YachtMaster Crown

The dial is black with white “PARNIS” and red “AUTOMATIC” printings, on the hour markers, hour hand and minute hand, there is white lume material being applied, the lume light on the dial is not too strong, yes, I noticed that many homage brands such as San Martin and Proxima have very strong dial lume on their diver’s watches, but on this Parnis, the dial lume is not that strong, this is ok for me, and the lume light on the dial does not last the same long time as Rolex YachtMaster. There is a date window at 3 o’clock, featuring a black font in white background, there is also a magnifier above the window on the sapphire crystal, this design is very like Rolex’s cyclops, by the way, the ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal and Japanese citizen movement are three big selling points of this Parnis homage watch, I can not believe the watch can still be sold at such a low price.

Parnis YachtMaster Case Back

The watch has a black OYSTERFLEX rubber band in a default size, if you have a big wrist size, maybe need to buy an extra band. The rubber band feels soft to wear and it does not have a bad smell, the clasp is also in rose gold, it is easy to remove the band from the watch if you need to replace it.

Parnis YachtMaster Bracelet
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Parnis

Parnis Rolex GMT-Master II Pepsi Homage Watch Review

Parnis Blue Red GMT

It seems like every Rolex watch has a nickname, especially like GMT-Master II and Submariner, for example, Submariner 116610LV is Green Hulk, GMT-Master II blue/black bezel with Oyster bracelet is Batman, GMT-Master II blue/black bezel with Jubilee bracelet is Batgirl, the newest GMT-Master II with black/green bezel is Sprite, while this Parnis watch, which is a homage of GMT-Master II blue/red bezel, is known as Pepsi GMT. Many people think that such watches that just totally copy the designs of Swiss watches are replicas, but they indeed have a brand name and offer watch fans a much cheaper option. This Parnis GMT-Master Pepsi homage watch has a great outlook, but it is only sold at less than $100, I think many of you guys will consider to buy one.

Parnis GMT-Master Homage

There are too many homage watches made in China, some are top quality and worth buying, in future, I want to wrist articles about the lists of top best homage watches on my blog, for example, the top five Submariner homage, top five IWC Pilot watch homage, they will be good guides for you who are really interested in Chinese homage watches.

Parnis Pepsi Rolex Homage

The Parnis watch is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a brushed case that is measured to be 40mm in diameter and 13mm in thickness. The side of the case and crown guards are polished, the crown is screwed into and you need to unlock before pulling it out to adjust time and date. The bezel has a blue/red aluminium insert, it is not ceramic made, a homage watch with ceramic bezel can not be sold at such a low price. The flutes on the edge of the bezel are well manufactured, they are smoothly processed, I do not feel scratches when touching them with fingers.

Parnis Pepsi Crown

The dial is black with “PARNIS” in white printing and “GMT” in red, the GMT hand has a red stem and arrow-shaped tip with white lume material being filled, the GMT hand can be adjusted through the crown, it has a real GMT function that can indicate the time of the second time zone on the bezel. The date window is a copy design of the cyclop of the Rolex. The finish of the hour hand and minute hand is good but still has room to improve, because you will find metal burr on the edge by checking with a magnifier.

Parnis Pepsi Case Back

The engine behind the solid screw-down case back is a Mingzhu DG5833 automatic movement, which beats 21,600 times per hour and has stop-seconds feature. Mingzhu movements were widely used by cheap replica watches about ten years ago, now they become the ideal choices of many Chinese brands that make cheap homage watches.

Parnis Pepsi Bracelet
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Sea-gull

Sea-gull Pilot Chrono Watch 6156 – a tribut to H-6 bomber aircraft

Sea-gull Pilot Stainless Steel Watch

Sea-gull is the first brand you should think of when going to buy a Chinese watch, they are the most powerful watch manufacturer in China, also one of the few movement manufacturers. I have bought several Sea-gull watches, some are simple casual watches, some are pilot-style models and some are diver’s watches, I like them, not like most other homage watches made in China, these watches have their own designs, some have historical origins with Chinese military watches whose Chinese elements designs really attract me. Today, I want to introduce a new Sea-gull watch, this is s Pilot watch that has chronograph function, the watch is designed mainly to pay tribute to the H-6 bomber aircraft.

Sea-gull Pilot on Box

The watch is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a black bezel but is not made with ceramic, the red color usage on the silver dial enhances the readability of the whole dial, but also brings life to the boring stainless steel black watch. The watch is a little heavy, about 201 grams.

Sea-gull Pilot Chrono Watch

The case has a 44mm diameter and is measured to be 14mm in thickness, for a manual-winding watch, such case thickness is acceptable, the case is brushed, while the edge of the lugs has a smooth and mirror polishing finish that forms a high contrast with the brushed front, this gives the wearer a visual enjoyment. The screw-down crown has a “S” logo in sand finish, the other two buttons locked by screws are used to control the chronograph.

Sea-gull Pilot Fuke
Sea-gull Pilot Hong 6

The dial looks more like silver, with delicate sun-ray finish, two small dials in black just like the two eyes of Panda. Small seconds hand works smoothly on the subdial at 9 o’clock, the subdial at 3 o’clock with a red hand is used as a 30-minute chronograph counter. Besides a polished Sea-Gull logo at 12 o’clock, there is an unique logo at 6 o’clock, above the black letterings “Chronograph”, this logo was firstly used on the Pilot chrono watch 304 that was produced by Tianjin Watch Factory, now this new Sea-Gull watch just paid a tribute to this oldest Pilot chrono watch in Chinese watch-making history. The red number “6” has a special meaning that is related to Hong 6 bomber aircraft.

Sea-gull Pilot Movement

The case back is see-through crystal, the beautiful machine inside is a ST1901 engine from Sea-gull, it is said that the movement is independently developed by Sea-gull itself, but I see it is very similar to another manual winding movement Venus 75. Sea-gull said the movement has a 42-hour power reserve, I have used the watch for 4 days, now it still keeps an accurate timing, will lose 7 seconds each day. I am going to buy an extra nylon band for this watch.

Sea-gull Pilot Wrist Shot
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Parnis

Parnis Lume-Master Handwind Watch Review

Parnis Lume-Master

Parnis was a very popular homage watch brand in the past, it was liked by a lot of watch fans, Parnis has a very similar development path to the replica watch industry, when I just entered this field, Parnis watches were widly discussed in watch forums, but now this brand’s hotness has decreased a lot, just like replica watches, their prosperity has become the past. Parnis Power Reserve was a very hot watch before, it is the first homage watch I know and it is exactly Parnis that lets me know the meaning of homage watch. In the early development of Parnis, they made a lot of Panerai homage watches, now it is hard to find a store that still sells these homages, today, the Parnis Lume-Master watch I am going to share here was bought from China, I asked one of my Chinese friends to buy for me, I like its shape and design, very similar to Panerai pro-type.

Parnis Lume-Master Hand Wind
Parnis Panerai Homage

The case is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a diameter of 44mm, it looks big but not thick, only 13mm, this thanks to the manual winding movement it is equipped with. The case is polished, the bezel seems to be screwed down into the middle case and has a brushed front, angular lugs have been polished and arc-shaped to provide the wear a good wearing comfort, the big crown is screw-down and is very convenient to rotate, there is a big “P” lettering in polishing.

Parnis Lume-Master Crown
Parnis Lume-Master Case

The black dial has a sandwiched structure like Panerai, the plate on the top has skeleton markers, including skeleton hour markers and the markers on the subdial at 9 o’clock, the plate on the bottom is then applied with luminous material, so in the dark, you will see a strong green lume light emitting through these markers. I like sandwiched structure lume system, the lume material won’t fall straight off the markers, and it is also easy to maintain. The track-style hour hand and minute hand as well as the small hand at 9 o’clock use dark blue frame, the lume light on them is slightly different from that of the markers. The word “HANDAUFZUG” in Germany means Manual Wind, the “LUME-MASTER”, you can consider it is a series name of this watch.

Parnis Lume-Master ST36

Through the crystal back, we can see a mechanical movement inside, which is ST36 hand-wind engine made by Sea-gull Watch Company, sometimes such hand-wound movement gives us another kind of fun. Many high-end replica Panerai watches with manual winding movement like PAM 111 and PAM 005 use ST36 as a base movement. By the way, the brown leather band is made with calfskin leather, it looks very nice on this Parnis watch.

Parnis Lume-Master Buckle
Parnis Lume-Master Brown Leather Strap
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Ebohr

Ebohr Explorer Knight Stainless Steel Watch Review

Ebohr Explorer Box

Both Ebohr and Fiyta are two of my favorite Chinese watches, Fiyta is a more popular and powerful watch company, the watches from both watch companies have modern design beauty that has been recognized by more and more people. I bought one Ebohr watch before, it is a diver’s watch from the Explorer series, the watch looks good and still works accurate, many Chinese watches now refer to the design features of Swiss watches, both Ebohr and Fiyta have done a good job at this, I have seen most watches from these two brands, they indeed look more modern and attractive than other traditional Chinese watch brands such as Shanghai and Beijing, so, to develop the market, some old Chinese brands started to seek cooperation, for example, the cooperation between Beijing Watch Factory and Fiyta is a reflection of this trend. Well, talk too much about the Chinese watches, we have seen a big development occurred in China watch industry, hope these brands can bring us more surprising timepieces in future.

Ebohr Explorer Knight

Today, I want to introduce another Ebohr watch that comes from Explorer series also like my first Ebohr diver’s watch. Ebohr has two versions for this watch, stainless steel and black pvd, I chose the stainless steel model, which has a more regular look for daily wearing and looks more classic. I love the styling of the watch, it is fully stainless steel made with a stainless steel bracelet that seamlessly integrated with the case, the watch has a similar outlook to the Chopard Alpine Eagle.

Ebohr Explorer Black Dial

The stainless steel case is 44.5mm in diameter and measured to be 11mm in thickness, not thick for such an automatic watch that looks strong, but the watch is a little heavy, which is almost 180 grams. The case shape is like a reduced version of the Royal Oak of Audemars Piguet, the front of the case and bezel have the same vertical brushing finish, while the beveled case edge is polished, which forms a high-contrast visual effect. The bezel screws are H-shaped and definitely refer to the design of screws on Hublot Big Bang. The screw-down case back has a crystal on the center to display the engine.

Ebohr Explorer Bracelet

The dial is black with stereo bar-shaped hour markers, there is a white round lume dot next to each hour marker, central hour hand and minute hand refer to the hand design of Hublot, one half is skeleton, the other half applied with white lume, there is a green lume light on the two hands and round dot markers in dark conditions. The date window is trapezoidal with a silver frame, black date font is exactly in the middle of the window in white background, easily readable.

Ebohr Explorer Movement

What I love most on the watch is the stainless steel bracelet, which is seamlessly integrated with the case, the watch looks very uniform in styling. The bracelet and case head have a very seamless connection, it looks like the bracelet is a natural extension from the case. And about the bracelet finish, it is totally brushed, except the polishing on the edge of the links, just like the finish on the case. At last, the Ebohr watch uses a Japanese automatic movement, I have had it for almost two weeks, now it works 12 seconds fast each day, I know the quality of Japanese movements is trusted. There is no extra leather band offered for this watch, well, I think not needed.

Ebohr Explorer Wrist Shot
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Sea-gull

Sea-gull “Wuxing” Watch Review

Sea-gull Blue Box
Sea-gull Wuxing in Box

Sometimes, a lot of Swiss brands will re-produce the models that were published in old times to pay tribute to these great works, so will some Chinese watches, and Sea-gull is one of them. Sea-gull has a long history in Chinese watch-making industry, they also have a gorgeous and repectable past, the biggest contribution made in the development of Chinese watch industry, absolutely belongs to Sea-gull, there is no doubt. I have some Sea-gull watches in various styles, including dress watches, diving styles, pilot’s watches and even a trourbillon model, they all look great, perhaps Sea-gull is not my most favorite brand, but it must be the most reliable Chinese watch I trust. Today, I want to introduce a good-looking watch from Sea-gull, it is a very classic watch to pay tribute to the first batch of watches made by Tianjin Watch Factory in the past, the watch may look new to you because there is no “SEA-GULL” brand name on the dial, and it is hard to buy this watch online, I asked my friend in China to get it for me.

Sea-gull Wuxing Watch

The watch is only limited to 1000 pieces, it has a special meaning to those watch fans who really love Chinese watches. The watch has a stainless steel case that is measured to be 38mm in diameter and 11mm thick. The polished case has a round smooth bezel, both case and bezel are molded into one piece with curved lugs, so the entire case has a very natural arc shape when you checking from the side, it can fit your fit your wrist in a more comfortable way. The screw-in crown has a arched high-glossy face. The most special place on the watch lies in its case back, which is screw-down and has unique engravings in Chinese, they are the names of Sea-gull watch designers.

Sea-gull Wuxing Fuke

The white dial is extremely simple. There is a silver five-pointed star at 12 o’clock, also called “Wuxing” in Chinese. Hour markers are combinations of Arabic numbers and arrow-shaped markers, the central hour hand and minute hand are sword-shaped with multi-cutting face that look three-dimensional. The Chinese words “17占防水表” and “中国制” mean “17 Jeweled Water Resistant” and “China Made”. The date window is opened at 3 o’clock, there is thin date font in black on the white background. The dial looks nothing special, but those nostalgic people who have a special feeling on the Chinese watches made in the old times will be interested in.

Sea-gull Wuxing Case Back

The movement is the standard Sea-gull ST2130 automatic movement, which has 26 jewels, 36-hour power reserve and 28,800VPH. The movement is developed by Sea-gull and has been used by a lot of other brands abroad, I trust its quality, the stability and accuracy of ST21 series movement from Sea-gull are better than the average.

Sea-gull Wuxing Wrist Shot
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Geya

Geya Customize G-Max AP Royal Oak Skeleton Homage Review

Geya G-Max in Box

Geya Customize, I rarely follow this brand, I do not like its name, like a brand specilizes in producing watches for women, but I found that most of their watches look big and are full of masculinity. From its name we can tell Geya is a brand that mainly produces custom-made watches, but I saw many of them are homages of current hot models from Swiss brands, perhaps this has become their development stragegy, not customizing watches with their own design ideas, but to copy the designs of popular Swiss watches. Well, I do not care, because a lot of watches in my collection are such type of homage watches, I will continue to buy as long as their quality is acceptable. I already have one Geya watch, it is a forged carbon RM35-02 homage, which is my best carbon watch in my collection, and the watch is my most favorite one to wear out with my sports suits. Today, I want to introduce another watch I got from Geya Customize, it is also a big guy and looks sporty, and absolutely a homage.

No need to say, the watch is a homage of an AP Royal Oak, the shape of the case and bezel is completely the same as that of AP ROO. I know this AP watch, it has a skeleton dial and the watch is very popular in fake watch industry, now, many micro brands in China have also published the homage of this watch. The case is 42mm in diameter and has a thickness of 12mm, it is a classic angular AP case, the case is totally brushed, the edge and corner of the case looks sharp, but they are processed very well, so you won’t feel scratches when the watch on hand. The octagonal bezel is also brushed on the front, while being polished on the edge around. The crown has a big “G” letter engraved.

Geya G-Max AP Homage
Geya G-Max Case

The skeleton dial is under protection of a sapphire crystal. The skeletonized structure of the dial is slightly different from that of the dial of AP. We can see some movement parts through the blackened frames on the dial. The beveled inner bezel with white dotted hour markers and white minute scales on enhances the stereoscopic effect of the entire dial. Dotted hour markers, central hour hand and minute hand are applied with SuperLumiNova, the blue lume light is long-lasting.

Geya G-Max Watch
Geya G-Max Movement

The movement is also full of mechanical sense like the dial, it has a skeleton auto rotor. I do not know which manufacturer the movement comes from, maybe another Japanese movement, the watch still works very accurate even I have had it for three weeks, the watch will gain 8 seconds each day, such accuracy is very rare, all my other Chinese watches can not achieve such a high accuracy, it is my luck. The watch is equipped with a black rubber band, while Geya also offers a stainless steel bracelet option, just pay a little extra and you can get both.

Geya G-Max Wrist Shot
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Beijing Watch

Beijing Pilot Watch Review

Beijing Pilot Chrono Watch
Beijing Pilot Chrono Case Back
Beijing Pilot Chrono Wrist Shot

After seeing my watch bought from Beijing Watch Factory, my friend Rahul showed his interest in Beijing watch, just three weeks ago, he bought one, it is a Beijing watch made with bronze material, the watch looks nice, it is also the pilot watch I like, the watch has a big case that also features large crown and chrono buttons. It has a similar outlook to the design of Zenith Pilot, I like the big 5-pointed star decoration on the band that looks a little old, he told me that the watch uses a Swiss ETA 7750 movement, I can not believe, that’s crazy, but the watch cost is also a little high.

Beijing Pilot Watch Unboxing

His watch is so impressive and I can not hold back my the urge in my heart, so I bought this pilot watch from Beijing, it is a standard pilot watch and does not have chronograph function, the watch has a big case, but it is not as big as my friend’s watch, my watch only has a 41mm case diameter, not including the crown, the case is also much thinner, which is 11mm. The entire case has pvd black coating processed in matt finish. The screw-in crown is big and in pumpkin shape, which somewhat refers to the crown design on Zenith Pilot Type 20, so does the hour hand and minute hand. You can see a five-pointed star logo on the crown and on the band in black, it seems like Sea-gull and Beijing Watch Factory are very like to use the five-pointed star logo on some of their pilot watch and diver’s watches, I do not see there is a necessary association between their watches and Chinese Army.

The dial is not that black like the case, it looks like dark gray more, there is The Tian’Anmen Rostrum in silver at 12 o’clock. There are big Arabic numeral hour markers and big hands that are applied with white lume material, the hour markers and hands are big and wide so that they can be applied with enough lume material, so the lume light can keep strong and long-lasting. By the way, the yellow color usage on 60-minute marker, date window frame and second hand tip enhances the readability of the entire dial. On the top of the second hand, the small yellow airplane tells you what purpose the watch was originally made for.

Beijing Pilot Watch
Beijing Pilot Case
Beijing Pilot Buckle

I did not open the case back yet, so still have not known its engine manufacturer. But from the cost of the watch, I guess it is a Japanese automatic movement. My watch can work about 36 hours without break once I give it a full winding, now it gains 10 seconds every day, I guess it is a movement from Citizen.

Beijing Pilot Lume

The brown leather band features brown stitching and has a black pvd pin buckle, the band has an old and rough face, but still feels soft and comfortable to wear because the leather on the back is smooth. Beijing Watch Factory claims that the watch is 50m water resistant, the watch was shipped in a black and red hard paper box.

Beijing Pilot Wrist Shot