Today, except these big Swiss brands, there are also a lot of other micro brands in watch industry, when searching on the internet or browsing watch forums or reddit, you will find many niche brands, many of them are created by a small team who have contacts in China to help them find factories to make watch parts, well, among these niche brands, a lot of them are making diver’s watches, yes, many are sub styles, I have to admit that I have been tired to see these watches, the sub-style homage watches are everywhere, especially these homage brands made in China, now I feel boring when see these watches, no creativity, no imagination and only replicating. So, sometimes you will feel so fresh when see a good-looking casual watch, which is considered to be a necessary model for every brands. If you need a casual watch and want to buy from China, the first option I recommend is those traditional watch factories in China, for example, Sea-gull. Today, I want to introduce a new model from Sea-gull, it is ref. 6165 with a frozen dial.
Whenever it is, the best-selling watch of every brand must be those casual watches, I do not know how to call them, or watches that can be worn with mens formal business suits. Well, I do not think this Sea-gull watch is good for formal occasions or to match your business suits, the watch has a ice floe dial, it looks unique and I still have not see any watches using this texture on the dial, but for formal watches, a purely clean dial is more popular, I also introduced good-looking Sea-gull formal watches on my blog before. The watch has a stainless steel case that is measured to be 40mm in diameter and 10mm in thickness, that’s a very good case for a casual watch, the case is polished with a round thin bezel, so it makes the dial looks larger than it should be, the arched lugs are also narrowed down so that they won’t affect the aesthetics of the entire case design. The crown has a letter “S” logo in satin finish. The dial has an ice frozen effect, but not obvious, that’s good because this won’t affect dial readability, everything on the dial looks perfect, especially hour markers and hands, they are perfectly cut and have perfect bevelling. Square window is small enough to show the grande dial design. By the way, the watch has a see-through crystal back, I love the crystal back more than a solid one, the movement inside is a ST2130 that is independently developed by Sea-gull. There is a Sea-gull logo in gold tone on the auto rotor and beautiful fish-scale decoration on the plates. The watch has a stainless steel bracelet, but you can also prepare one pair of black alligator leather band, which will look nice on the watch.
