When there is enough time, I want to make a summary of the top-selling Chinese dress watches in the market, Sea-gull must be in this list and it should rank on the top. Sea-gull deserves your attention because they really offer high quality watches at very reasonable prices. I have several Sea-gull timepieces, they are my most favorite wrist partners when I go out with my friends, each is with the in-house Sea-gull movement, I trust their quality more than other brand watches made in China. Among all Sea-gull watches in my collection, I have diving styles, vintage pilot’s watches and regular small-second model, but that’s not enough, the most common dress watch in full stainless steel is lacked, so I decided to buy this Sea-gull watch several days ago, also to prepare the top-selling list article I am going to write soon.
I received the watch in a blue hard leather box, with a manual book and link remove tool, there is no extra leather band offered. Sea-gull offers three dial color options, black, white and blue, I chose the black one. I also like the blue dial, but I found there are too many blue watches in my collection, the black is a very calm color and looks more classic to some people.
The watch has a case diameter of 40mm, it is about 10mm thick, a very ideal size and thickness for such a dress watch. The case has a very classic design and the narrow bezel makes the dial look large, a wide round dial is a common feature of this type of dress watches. Two ends of the bracelet are perfectly integrated with the case, which looks seamless. The case side has a beautiful streamlined arc shape, together with the slightly curved lugs, to ensure a very comfortable fit for your wrist. On the edge of the case back, there are engravings such as case material, water resistant depth and watch reference, the central crystal shows an engine inside, which is a ST2130 automatic movement that features golden Sea-gull logo on the auto rotor and gorgeous fish-scale decoration on the plates.
I love the design on the black dial, everything looks simple but classic, the radial dial finish is completed delicately, the completion of hands and hour markers are superb, looks high end, the hour markers at 3, 6, 9 and 12 are thicker, there is a very thin groove in the middle of these four markers. Slender second hand is sweeping across the wide dial smoothly, you can not feel the “stop” or “tick” on the top of the hand. Square date window with silver frame has a black font in white background, the date is easily catchable. Printing “SEA-GULL” looks official, while the “Automatic” below has a more elegant font.
The bracelet feels very comfortable, the edge of the bracelet is smoothly polished with no sharp corners, the five-link bracelet looks more stylish. By the way, the sapphire crystal has a very important feature, it was added with anti-reflective coating so the dial still has a very high readability even under the sun light.