When people talk about Chinese watches, the first one they usually think of is Sea-gull, it is the pride of our national brand. Sea-gull has produced many watches which almost cover every type, including dress watch, military watch, diver’s watch, tourbillon watch and others, Sea-gull is one of the few Chinese brands that could produce all types of mechanical watches, it is also one of the biggest movement suppliers in the world, which offers movements for many Swiss brands since ETA does not supply movements for them. I have several Sea-gull watches and I am going to buy more.
This Sea-gull watch I am going to review is a new model that was published in 2022. It is a very big watch that meets current watch brand and has a bold design, the watch looks very handsome on my wrist. We can see a great creativity on the design of this Sea-gull watch, it is exactly the spirit which other Chinese watches need during their development.
The new Sea-gull watch has a tonneau-shaped case that is brushed and polished. The case is one piece formed, there is no bezel part, the case back is screwed down into the main case, thanks to this design, the watch has a better water resistant performance. Different finish on different part of the case gives me a strong visual effect. The entire case has a curved design so that it can fit your wrist more comfortably. By the way, the case has a diameter of 44mm and is 11mm thick, the watch weighs about 93 grams, which feels lightweight on the wrist. The crown is onion-shaped , which is more convenient for your finger to rotate, it features a sanded “S” logo on a polished face.
I like the dial, which is totally skeleton, we can see all working parts of the movement through the sapphire crystal. All hour markers, including the big Arabic numbers of 3-6-9-12 and the square markers, are filled with luminous material, so are hour hand and minute hand, at night, you can see a strong green lume light emitting from these places. White minutes markers are on the most outside track-style circle. “CHINA MADE” printings are on the track under big “6”. The skeleton design does not affect dial readability, I can easily read the time because of its big hour markers and long hands. Sea-gull did not add extra decorating plates and there are only movement parts on the dial, so the thickness of the entire case can be controlled to be less than 11mm.
The movement inside ia a Sea-gull ST2502, which consists of more than one hundreds of precise components. The Sea-gull ST25 is a very popular movement among a lot of Chinese watch brands, it has 25 jewels, 45-hour power reserve and 21,600BPH, the power reserve may vary from different batches of movement, but most can be up to 40 hours. At last, the watch is equipped with a brown leather strap, one free pair of nylon straps will be sent with the watch. There are two color options for this Sea-gull watch, stainless steel and pvd black, each has the same price.
