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Pagani Design Rolex Day-Date Homage Review

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Post date May 19, 2023
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Among so many niche brands appeared in Chinese watch market in recent years, Pageni Design is one of the fast growing watches, they have a lot of watch fans abroad and have accumulated a good reputation, people seem to have recognized this brand even though all watches they made are homages, and Pagani Design seems to walk the same development road of its former Parnis, you know how popular Parnis was at that time, and the downfall makes people almost forget this brand. I am not sure if Pagani Design will have the same result, but completely copying the Swiss watches is not a good idea for Chinese brands, the brands like STEELDIVE, Proxima, Octopus and Pagani Design, their main purpose is to earn money quickly, so they find this way to copy, but if they make innovation in future models, I think they will be finally accepted by us. At current stage, I did a search on reddit and found many positive feedback about watches made by Pagani Design, which is more accepted than other Chinese homage brands.

The new Pagani Design watch I am going to introduce today is a homage of Rolex Day-Date, the watch has a 36mm case diameter and is measured to be 13mm in case thickness. I love Pagani Design mainly because its case and bracelet have a super finish. The polishing on the lugs, the alternative polishing and brushing on the bracelet makes it look more high-end, just like the luxury brand Rolex Day-Date, for a low price level, with such a good finish, I think it is worth to try. The 36mm size is ok for me, but if they make a 40mm version, I want to buy one. The dial is ice blue, except black, it is my most favorite color on such type of dress watches. The dial is finish in a high-end level, even the watch is sold at a low price, but the finish of every element on the dial does not look low, the texture of the ice blue dial has a delicate sunray finish, when you swing the watch slowly, you will find the dial has a strand of reflected light, the stainless steel Rome hour markers and Pagani Design logo are all finished in tridimensional, you know, to save cost, many brands not willing to use a three-dimensional brand logo on the dial. In a word, the finish of the watch too deserves its price. At last, the watch is equipped with a Sea-gull ST16 automatic movement, that’s really nice, sold less than $100, for such good finish on case and dial with a Sea-gull movement, it already has beaten 98% of homage watches created in Chinese market.

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Sea-gull Ocean Star Pro 300m Frozen Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date May 18, 2023
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Besides Parnis, Sea-gull is my most favorite Chinese watch, I have bought several timepieces from them and want to buy more in future, Sea-gull is also the Chinese brand whose watches’ design have close styles to that of Swiss watches, whether the dress watches or diver’s watches made by Sea-gull, you can always see similar designs that could be found on Swiss watches. I like diver’s watches and I have some from Sea-gull and other Chinese homage brands, but I think the best-looking diver’s watch is from Sea-gull Ocean Star, it has a good name, by the way the watches also look nice, it refers to the design of Swiss diving watches but also add their own features in the watch, that’s one important factor that makes Sea-gull more popular abroad. Today, the watch I am going to review is a new model from Ocean Star made by Sea-gull, it is white and blue color, with a special ice crystal dial, I think it will be a very nice timepiece for you to wear in a snowy weather, or wearing it when going skiing.

I introduced one Ocean Star diver’s watch before, it is a blue model, many people shown their interest and asked me the price. Now this new model is a white snow one, it is a diver’s watch but does not look that tough like other diving-style models, do you like this style? But I like its color and the dial display, as a diver’s watch, it is 300m waterproof, that’s a big depth, well, it you want to make it look more tough and like a diver’s watch for men, you can change a smooth black calf leather band on, the watch still looks nice on a black leather strap.

The case is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a diameter of 44mm and measured to be 13mm in thickness, a little thick I think, but for a diver’s watch it is acceptable. The watch comes with a white box, absolutely it is customized by Sea-gull for this special edition watch, look at the lugs, its arc shape is very nice for the wearer and the finish has brushing on the front and polishing on the edge, this finish not only gives the user a strong visual effect, but also feels more comfortable to wear. The bezel uses a sapphire crystal cover, the blue and orange markers under are not luminous except the big “N”. I like the design of crown guards, they have delicate finish of brushing and polishing, and the crown is totally under the protection of the guards.

The dial is the most unique place of the watch, it has a special texture that looks like the ice crystal, not like other diver’s watches, the lume on this watch not only appears on the hour markers and hands, but also applied on the main dial, the blue lume light looks beautiful in the dark. The dial has a very good readability, not only because of its strong lume light in the dark conditions, but also the blue and orange color usage forms a high contrast with the main white background. The inner minute-scale bezel is a little straight, the entire bezel will look better if it is a little oblique.

The watch is powered by a ST2130 automatic movement, which is independently developed by Sea-gull Watch Company. The movement beats 28800 times per hour, it has 28 jewels and 42-hour power reserve. The watch comes with a white nylon band, but the stainless steel bracelet version is also available. At last, I think the dial lume is a little too strong and too much, this slightly affect reading time from the dial.

Tags Ocean Star, Sea-gull, ST2130

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Sea-gull Dongfeng 21 Zuan Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date May 15, 2023
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I am always deeply attracted by the history of Chinese watch industry, this pushes me to buy more China brand watches, there are so many amazing mechanical watches from these traditional watch factories in China like Sea-gull, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and so on, some not only design nice watches, but also have fascinating history. Compared with their watches, I more love reading the stories behind these traditional watch factories. The main difference between these Chinese traditional watch factories and new rising homage brands is that the former has their own movements, and Sea-gull is one of the biggest movement suppliers in the world, while a few new homage watches still making up stories to pretend as Swiss brands to cheat customers. The Sea-gull watch I am going to review today is a special model made to pay tribute to the first vintage Dongfeng watch in history of Tianjin Watch Factory, the watch looks nice and it is the best-looking casual watches in my collection.

The Sea-gull watch has a small size that is 38mm in case diameter, this is a size I like, with a small crown, it is very comfortable to wear, and the polished case is only 12mm in thickness. It has a solid case back that has the relief of “东风” and waves in polishing finish, in a sanded background. The entire watch is polished and has arch-shaped lugs that naturally extended from the case to fit your hand in a more comfortable way, I choose the watch with a black leather band, but I could not wait to change the nylon strap on, the nylon band looks better on this watch that has a little vintage flavor.

The silver dial is under the protection of a sapphire crystal that has a arched face, the old Dongfeng watch used acrylic face, on the new model, the sapphire crystal can not only prevent scratches, but also is more clear and has a higher transparence to let you read the dial. The arched sapphire crystal face is a distinctive feature of the watch. The silver dial has simple design but it still looks beautiful to me, check the pictures, the radioactive sunray finish is fine and when you shaking the watch slowly, you will find the unique reflected light on the dial, this is really amazing design for such a Chinese watch, I saw few homage watches can do this. There is no date window. On the top of printings “ZhONGGUO TIANJIN”, there is an unique logo.

The watch is equipped with a ST16 automatic movement, which is independently developed by Sea-gull, the movement beats 21,600 times per hour and has a 36 hours power reserve, I have received it for three weeks, now the watch gains about eight seconds each day, I think this accuracy is acceptable to most people.

Tags 21 Zuan, Dongfeng, Sea-gull, ST16

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Sea-gull Pilot Chrono Watch 6156 – a tribut to H-6 bomber aircraft

Post author By Bob
Post date April 24, 2023
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Sea-gull is the first brand you should think of when going to buy a Chinese watch, they are the most powerful watch manufacturer in China, also one of the few movement manufacturers. I have bought several Sea-gull watches, some are simple casual watches, some are pilot-style models and some are diver’s watches, I like them, not like most other homage watches made in China, these watches have their own designs, some have historical origins with Chinese military watches whose Chinese elements designs really attract me. Today, I want to introduce a new Sea-gull watch, this is s Pilot watch that has chronograph function, the watch is designed mainly to pay tribute to the H-6 bomber aircraft.

The watch is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a black bezel but is not made with ceramic, the red color usage on the silver dial enhances the readability of the whole dial, but also brings life to the boring stainless steel black watch. The watch is a little heavy, about 201 grams.

The case has a 44mm diameter and is measured to be 14mm in thickness, for a manual-winding watch, such case thickness is acceptable, the case is brushed, while the edge of the lugs has a smooth and mirror polishing finish that forms a high contrast with the brushed front, this gives the wearer a visual enjoyment. The screw-down crown has a “S” logo in sand finish, the other two buttons locked by screws are used to control the chronograph.

The dial looks more like silver, with delicate sun-ray finish, two small dials in black just like the two eyes of Panda. Small seconds hand works smoothly on the subdial at 9 o’clock, the subdial at 3 o’clock with a red hand is used as a 30-minute chronograph counter. Besides a polished Sea-Gull logo at 12 o’clock, there is an unique logo at 6 o’clock, above the black letterings “Chronograph”, this logo was firstly used on the Pilot chrono watch 304 that was produced by Tianjin Watch Factory, now this new Sea-Gull watch just paid a tribute to this oldest Pilot chrono watch in Chinese watch-making history. The red number “6” has a special meaning that is related to Hong 6 bomber aircraft.

The case back is see-through crystal, the beautiful machine inside is a ST1901 engine from Sea-gull, it is said that the movement is independently developed by Sea-gull itself, but I see it is very similar to another manual winding movement Venus 75. Sea-gull said the movement has a 42-hour power reserve, I have used the watch for 4 days, now it still keeps an accurate timing, will lose 7 seconds each day. I am going to buy an extra nylon band for this watch.

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Parnis Lume-Master Handwind Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date April 21, 2023
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Parnis was a very popular homage watch brand in the past, it was liked by a lot of watch fans, Parnis has a very similar development path to the replica watch industry, when I just entered this field, Parnis watches were widly discussed in watch forums, but now this brand’s hotness has decreased a lot, just like replica watches, their prosperity has become the past. Parnis Power Reserve was a very hot watch before, it is the first homage watch I know and it is exactly Parnis that lets me know the meaning of homage watch. In the early development of Parnis, they made a lot of Panerai homage watches, now it is hard to find a store that still sells these homages, today, the Parnis Lume-Master watch I am going to share here was bought from China, I asked one of my Chinese friends to buy for me, I like its shape and design, very similar to Panerai pro-type.

The case is made with 316L stainless steel, it has a diameter of 44mm, it looks big but not thick, only 13mm, this thanks to the manual winding movement it is equipped with. The case is polished, the bezel seems to be screwed down into the middle case and has a brushed front, angular lugs have been polished and arc-shaped to provide the wear a good wearing comfort, the big crown is screw-down and is very convenient to rotate, there is a big “P” lettering in polishing.

The black dial has a sandwiched structure like Panerai, the plate on the top has skeleton markers, including skeleton hour markers and the markers on the subdial at 9 o’clock, the plate on the bottom is then applied with luminous material, so in the dark, you will see a strong green lume light emitting through these markers. I like sandwiched structure lume system, the lume material won’t fall straight off the markers, and it is also easy to maintain. The track-style hour hand and minute hand as well as the small hand at 9 o’clock use dark blue frame, the lume light on them is slightly different from that of the markers. The word “HANDAUFZUG” in Germany means Manual Wind, the “LUME-MASTER”, you can consider it is a series name of this watch.

Through the crystal back, we can see a mechanical movement inside, which is ST36 hand-wind engine made by Sea-gull Watch Company, sometimes such hand-wound movement gives us another kind of fun. Many high-end replica Panerai watches with manual winding movement like PAM 111 and PAM 005 use ST36 as a base movement. By the way, the brown leather band is made with calfskin leather, it looks very nice on this Parnis watch.

Tags Lume-Master, Manual Winding, Parnis, Sea-gull, ST36

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Sea-gull “Wuxing” Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date April 19, 2023
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Sometimes, a lot of Swiss brands will re-produce the models that were published in old times to pay tribute to these great works, so will some Chinese watches, and Sea-gull is one of them. Sea-gull has a long history in Chinese watch-making industry, they also have a gorgeous and repectable past, the biggest contribution made in the development of Chinese watch industry, absolutely belongs to Sea-gull, there is no doubt. I have some Sea-gull watches in various styles, including dress watches, diving styles, pilot’s watches and even a trourbillon model, they all look great, perhaps Sea-gull is not my most favorite brand, but it must be the most reliable Chinese watch I trust. Today, I want to introduce a good-looking watch from Sea-gull, it is a very classic watch to pay tribute to the first batch of watches made by Tianjin Watch Factory in the past, the watch may look new to you because there is no “SEA-GULL” brand name on the dial, and it is hard to buy this watch online, I asked my friend in China to get it for me.

The watch is only limited to 1000 pieces, it has a special meaning to those watch fans who really love Chinese watches. The watch has a stainless steel case that is measured to be 38mm in diameter and 11mm thick. The polished case has a round smooth bezel, both case and bezel are molded into one piece with curved lugs, so the entire case has a very natural arc shape when you checking from the side, it can fit your fit your wrist in a more comfortable way. The screw-in crown has a arched high-glossy face. The most special place on the watch lies in its case back, which is screw-down and has unique engravings in Chinese, they are the names of Sea-gull watch designers.

The white dial is extremely simple. There is a silver five-pointed star at 12 o’clock, also called “Wuxing” in Chinese. Hour markers are combinations of Arabic numbers and arrow-shaped markers, the central hour hand and minute hand are sword-shaped with multi-cutting face that look three-dimensional. The Chinese words “17占防水表” and “中国制” mean “17 Jeweled Water Resistant” and “China Made”. The date window is opened at 3 o’clock, there is thin date font in black on the white background. The dial looks nothing special, but those nostalgic people who have a special feeling on the Chinese watches made in the old times will be interested in.

The movement is the standard Sea-gull ST2130 automatic movement, which has 26 jewels, 36-hour power reserve and 28,800VPH. The movement is developed by Sea-gull and has been used by a lot of other brands abroad, I trust its quality, the stability and accuracy of ST21 series movement from Sea-gull are better than the average.

Tags Sea-gull, ST2130, Wuxing

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Sea-gull 362 Black Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date September 15, 2022
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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.

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Hands-on Parnis Power Reserve Date

Post author By Bob
Post date August 18, 2022
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I have a special feeling on Parnis, no other Chinese homage watches can not be compared with Parnis in my heart, no matter how good and beautiful they are. Parnis is the first homage watch I knew, before I saw many people talking about this brand in the forums, and they also said the quality is acceptable at the price point, which is very affordable for a lot of people. For such a homage watch with low price and real functions, Parnis is ideal for you to choose, having been in the homage field for more than ten years, Parnis has been recognized by most homage watch fans, they are willing to buy watches from Parnis even they know it is a Chinese brand. The only thing I feel pity is that now Parnis seldom publishes new models.

Stainless steel case with leather strap, white dial with small subdials, I like the watch with such features arranged in this way, it looks so elegant and immediately draws my attention when I found the watch online, so I have already made several decisions because of this, all of the watches like this type I own, I love them very much, after all I am an office worker, I feel very happy when going to work every day wearing a different brand dress watch.

The watch has a big case, which measures 43mm in diameter and has a thickness of 14.5mm. The case is polished with a mirror-like bezel that is thin and narrow, the white dial looks larger due to such case design, it seems like all elegant dress watches have this common feature. The screw-in crown looks special, it has flutes on the surface and a “P” logo on the front, there are no crown guards, and because of the flutes, the crown is very easy to pulled out and rotate. The mineral crystal set in the bezel frame does not stand high above the bezel, but it is exactly the bezel structure that increases the thickness of the case.

The white dial looks elegant because of its color and has an asymmetrical beauty. There are two subdials on this purely white dial, one is positioned at 5 o’clock, it has a small hand indicating remaining erengy of the movement. The other subdial is positioned at 9 o’clock, it has a small seconds hand in blue color. Both subdials are not symmetrically displayed on the dial, but I like this irregular design, it is also this design that leaves space for the date window, which is displayed with white font in background at 3 o’clock. There are no hour markers on the dial, only track-style minute markers with numbers 05, 10 to 60.

The crystal back shows you an automatic movement, which is said to be a Sea-gull ST2530. I do not know if it is a real Sea-gull movement, but according to its finsh-scale finish on its auto rotor and movement plates, it is like Sea-gull movement. Actually many Chinese homage watches like this Parnis at this price point do not use Sea-gull movement, they usually are equipped with a very common automatic movement made in China, which is not as good and popular as Sea-gull, so I feel very happy that this Parnis uses a Sea-gull movement. By the way, the black leather band on the watch feels ultra soft to wear.

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Sea-gull Diver’s 100m Green Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date July 27, 2022
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Unfortunately the green bezel insert is not ceramic made, I think many people will decide to buy this watch if it uses ceramic to make the green bezel. Now, a ceramic bezel is a necessary feature for many modern diving watches, perhaps to save the cost, Sea-gull did not decide to use a ceramic bezel on this watch. Ocean Star is a diver’s watch series from Sea-gull, but I am not sure if this watch is from its Ocean Star series, because I do not see a star logo on the dial. This Sea-gull is the diver’s watch I have owned with the most simple designs. There are only hours, minutes and seconds display, there are even no date, it is ok for me, simple things always keep in fashion.

I received the watch three days ago, the seller sent me one pair of black rubber band and one wrist band as a gift. Like the watch, the Sea-gull box looks more high-end than those niche brands from China.

The watch has a big case that is made with solid 316L stainless steel, the case diameter is measured up to 44mm, which is bigger than most diver’s watches in the market, the case is about 13mm in thickness, together with the solid stainless steel bracelet, this big watch feels a little heavy on my wrist. The bezel tooth has a similar design to that of Submariner, the bezel is uni-directional rotating, there is a “S” logo in satin finish on the crown face. The first link of the bracelet is perfectly connected with the case head, and keep in the horizontal line with the curved lugs, so the entire case can fit your hand more comfortable.

The dial is simple, but it has all necessary conditions that make it a good diver’s watch. Big hour markers, wide hand design and strong lume. And we can read from the dial that the watch is water resistant to 100 meters, so you can wear the watch when swimming, surfing and diving. The green dial looks special, it is not pure green, it looks a little black on the edge of the dial, while greener on the center. The lume on the hour markers hand hands is green in dark conditions, so is the triangle bezel marker at 12 o’clock.

We can see the movement through the crystal back, it is a ST25 automatic movement developed by Sea-gull, there are beautiful fish-scale decoration on the auto rotor and movement plate, words “SEA-GULL” and its logo are also engraved. Sea-gull claims the movement has a power reserve of 45 hours, 25 jewels and 21,600BPH, after 3-day wearing, the watch is about 10 seconds faster each day, well, this is under the inaccuracy range of the movement. The stainless steel bracelet has a different finish from that of other watches, the middle links are brushed, while the links at both sides are polished, the contrast in finish is strong. The bracelet has a great quality, first it is solid made, second, the gap between each section of links is very small. Well, I like the watch to be fitted with the rubber band, it is not that heavy.

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Sea-gull Multi-function Rose Gold Watch Review

Post author By Bob
Post date July 12, 2022
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I am very glad to share my new watch with you guys, two days ago, it was my birthday, I received this special gift from my wife, it is a really beautiful watch, I love it very much. Actually I was looking for such a watch before with multi functions like month, date and week, I bought a Guanqin watch that also features a lot of functions, but after receiving this watch, I realized that Sea-gull has a much better quality than some other niche brands from China. Sea-gull is a traditional big watch factory in China, it is the most famous Chinese watch brand because of their movement and watch-making technology, Sea-gull is always my first choice when I am considering a watch made in China.

The Sea-gull watch has a black pvd case with a rose gold bezel, it looks nice, I like this color combination, black and gold, it looks better than the one with black case and stainless steel bezel. The case has a big diameter, which is up to 44mm, it is measured to be 13mm in thickness. The crown is black with a “S” logo in sanded finish. The case back has a see-through crystal on the center, the rim features a 12 holes, I do not know what purpose these hole are used for, maybe for a special tool to open the back.

The black dial shows each function clearly, I think you has noticed the window opened at 6 o’clock, it is not a tourbillon device, we can see a working balance wheel inside, the entire is fixed by two blue steel screws on the dial, so that the movement can have a better stability. Each hour marker and all hands on the black dial are in rose gold tone, which is exactly in line with the rose gold bezel. The month is displayed on the small dial at 9 o’clock, the week from MON to SUN is shown on the subdial at 3 o’clock, the date is displayed in two separate windows set at 12 o’clock, with black font in white background, very easy to read.

The movement inside is a ST2625 that is developed by Sea-gull themselves. The movement beats 21,600 times per hour, it has 29 jewels and 45 hours power reserve. About accuracy, still needs to be tested, because I only got this watch two days ago, and it is only about 5 seconds faster. By the way, ST2625 has a hacking mechanism.

About the buttons on the case, each of them has different purpose. The pusher at 10 o’clock is for date adjustment, the pusher at 8 o’clock can be used to adjust month, the button at 4 o’clock is for week adjustment.

Tags Rose Gold, Sea-gull, ST2625

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