I never thought that I will publish reviews about Shanghai watches on my blog, because there are Chinese words “上海” on every Shanghai watch, many people do not like this, however, I just noticed that Shanghai Watch Factory opened a store on Aliexpress, they also want to open the overseas watch market, I do not know if there are many people buying Shanghai watches in the United States and European countries, but now I feel it is necessary to give introduction of some Shanghai watches on my blog, after all, Shanghai watch has a very rich history in Chinese watch industry, it is also one of the biggest watch factories in China. In the 60s and 70s, Shanghai watch was very popular, it was said that every newly married couples will buy one pair of Shanghai watches at that time, and another two necessory items for marriage at that time are one bicycle and one sewing machine, in my memory, when I was a child, I found two Shanghai watches in one drawer of the wardrobe in my home. We have moved to a new home, the old Shanghai watches were lost, some people said that these old Shanghai watches could be sold at high prices, because some persons like to collect.
Today, I want to introduce the first Shanghai watch on my blog, please look at the pictures, does it look like Longines? Yes, a bit, but this stainless steel watch is the the type most people are going to buy as the first watch. Other watches like Pilot watch or diver’s watch are usually not their first choices. This Shanghai watch looks elegant, not only because of its classic combination of stainless steel tone, white dial and black numeral hour markers, the blued steel hands enhance the elgance of the entire watch. The watch is made with 304 stainless steel, the case is polished with a smooth round bezel, the case is not big, only 39mm in diameter, most watches in this style have such size, it is only 11mm in thickness, the crown is big, which offers a great convenience for the wearer to pull out and rotate. The watch has a crystal back to show the machine inside, I do not know which automatic movement, but it was said that many Shanghai watches using Miyota 8215 from Japan.
There are two places on the watch I do not like, it does not use a sapphire but a mineral crystal, and I do not like this bracelet, even though the bracelet has a good finish, while I think the three-section-link bracelet looks better on this watch. The dial is indeed a a good selling point, due to the oblique minutes inner bezel, the tridimensional visual effect of the dial is obvious. The font style of numeral hour markers is exactly in line with that of the Chinese words “上海”. And the hands on the center is in blue color, not painted, it is specially processed. It is exactly the blued steel hands that highlight the elegance of the entire watch. By the way, the factory also offers one pair of black leather straps for this watch.
