Parnis is one of my most favorite homage watch brands, in the initial stage of development, Parnis completely copied designs of other Swiss brands, they made many homages at that time, now, they changed direction and began to use their own designs on the watches. It is Parnis that lets me know homage watch, many people talked this brand before in a lot of forums, now, Parnis seems to be not as popular as some new niche brands like STEELDIVE and San Martin. Anyway, as one of the earliest Chinese brands in homage watch field, the quality of Parnis has been recognized already, I have bought several Parnis watches, I love them all.
Today, the watch I am going to review is a pilot watch from Parnis, I have several pilot watches now, this Parnis pilot watch is very similar to the one I bought from Heimdallr before, but this one has a 24-hour display on the dial. The watch has a black case and brown leather strap, which seems to be a very regular match for a pilot watch.
The case is 44mm in diameter, it is about 12mm in thickness, which is more acceptable to me than those casual watches up to 13mm. The case is made with solid 316L stainless steel and has black pvd coating, the middle case with extended lugs that are naturally curved, the line of each lug is smoothly polished, it feels good by hands, no scratch feeling. Like the case back, the crown is also screwed-in, to ensure a good water resistance.
The dial is black, it is a classic pilot watch’s dial style, with a big triangle mark at 12 o’clock, I saw many pilot watch has this feature. Although there is a small round 24-hour indicator at 9 o’clock, the entire dial still has a symmetric beauty. The inside circle with 1-12 digits is showing hours, the outer numbers from 5 to 60 are minute markers. By the way, those numeral minute markers are applied with superlume material, so are hour hand and minute hand, they will emit a strong green lume light in dark conditions.
From the crystal back, we can see the watch is powered by a Japanese Miyota movement, the specific movement model Parnis claims is a Miyota 8217 automatic. I always trust the quality of Japanese movement, its stability is better than most mechanical movements made in China. In most Parnis watches, the engine is Japanese Miyota movement, so I think this is the main reason why many people still buy from this homage watch brand. Parnis offers three models options for this watch.
