Month: January 2025

Sea-gull Vintage TV 1051

For most watches made in China, they are just copying the designs from the Switzerland, but Sea-gull is the only Chinese watch on which sometimes I can still find creative designs, take this 1051 models as example, this is a watch Sea-gull launched in 2024, but it soon caught a lot of attention after being released in the market because of its unique dial design. The most outstanding and popular 1051 model from Sea-gull is the one with colored blocks on the dial, please check the first picture shown below, but this time I chose the ice blue dial version, which will be more like a watch I can wear regularly.

Check the first picture, the watch’s dial will remind many Chinese people of their childhood, especially the happy time in the generation after 80s, watching TV is a very happy time when they are childs, but the TV will have a maintenance time on Tuesday each week, I think most of them will remember this event. So, Sea-gull absolutely adopts the maintenance scene of the TV as the dial design of the watch.

This Sea-gull watch with an ice blue dial also looks amazing, its case shape is very similar to that of the old TV, actually there are other brands that have already adopted this idea on the case of their watches, this is not originated from Sea-gull. However, the TV scene on the dial is a very creative Chinese element Sea-gull added. The case is 36mm in diameter, with this ice blue dial, I think it will also be a good watch for women. A silver dial option is also available for this watch, with more obvious sunburst finish on the dial. The case is not a frame with sharp edge design, but looks more round on every corner, which guarantees a very comfortable wear. The round bezel has a polished finish that looks contrast in visual with the brushing on the case. Just like the contrast finish on the stainless steel bracelet.

The ice blue dial has long stick hour markers, day and date window with stainless steel frame is set at 3 o’clock, they do not look crowded on this small dial. Besides the TV dial, ice blue and silver dial, Sea-gull also offers a lot of other dial colors for this watch.

The watch is equipped with a Sea-gull ST2100 automatic movement, which beats 28,800 times per hour and has 28 jewels. The accuracy will not be bad if you remember to keep winding a bit every day. However, its price is a little high, for Chinese customers, they won’t mind spending a bit more on such a empathy timepiece.

Tags Sea-gull, ST2100, TV

Farasute

A Very Bad Experience with Farasute

Post author By Bob
Post date January 19, 2025
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Last time, in another post(https://www.bobswatchstore.com/2024/05/11/farasute-watch-review/) I said I bought one watch from Farasute for a friend in the United States, it is a good-looking watch, although the watch gained one minute and fifty seconds later, I thought he still loves it, and more importantly, this last shopping experience with Farasute is good, because I was normally treated as a customer. But the shopping experience with them, which just occured one week ago, was very bad. This is What Happened:

One reader saw my review about the first Farasute watch I mentioned above, he asked me to buy one for him, the following pictures show the watch I bought, it looks great, I think some of you guys will also love this dial. When I placing the order on taobao for this watch, I did not mentioned with the seller that this is a watch ordered for a friend in the United Kingdom, after receiving the watch, I was not satisfied with the watch. I paid the same money as the last one, but the movement decoration on this one is terrible, it is just a naked movement. And the box looks ugly. My UK friend did not want it.

My problem is I paid the same money, why I got a watch that looks lower quality for the second purchase, because I did not mention this is an order from UK? They treated Chinese customers and foreign customers differently.

The first Farasute I bought, very good-looking movement and box.

The following pictures show the second Farasute watch I am not satisified with.

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Benyar

Benyar BY5177 Explorer Homage Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date January 12, 2025
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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.

Tags Benyar, BY5177, Explorer, Pagani Design

Beijing Watch

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

Post author By Bob
Post date January 5, 2025
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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.

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