I always wanted to buy a tourbillon watch, for me, the tourbillon device is really beautiful, however, a tourbillon watch is a lot of money, in order to buy one, I already have saved money for two years, but still not able to buy a Swiss brand tourbillon watch, whose price is too high, so I chose a very popular Chinese brand Sea-gull, which is also my most favorite Chinese watch brand. I know Sea-gull a little, it is one of the biggest movement manufacturers in the world, Sea-gull also makes complicated watches like tourbillon, minutes repeater, moon phase, perpetual calendar and chronograph, as an independent watch manufacturer, I think Sea-gull will place more and more important rules in the world’s watch industry. By the way, this is my first tourbillon watch, I love it.
This is a classic Sea-gull tourbillon watch, polished stainless steel case with 41mm diameter, which is a size most people are fond of, the case is also slim, only 13mm in thickness, considering the automatic tourbillon movement inside, the case thickness is acceptable. The entire case, including the round bezel and curved lugs, is totally polished, the case finish feels smooth and has a solid texture. The big crown has flutes with a “S” logo in sanded finish. The watch has a weight of about 99 grams, very light. The sapphire crystal is installed perfectly, it is in a correct position, not too high above the bezel like on some other Chinese watches.
The white dial is a combination of classic and simpleness. All my focus is on the tourbillon device inside the window that is opened at 6 o’clock, it is a real tourbillon, some Chinese brands like Binger opens a window on the dial to show the working balance wheel and claims it is a tourbillon, Sea-gull won’t do like this, Sea-gull is a big brand and it is our proud. The way the tourbillon works is attractive, I can watch it all day, touch the crystal face on your ear and listen the working sound of tourbillon, this makes me excited. The watch has rome hour markers in black that look classic, there is also a small arrow-shaped marker corresponding to each of these rome numbers.
Seeing from the crystal back, the movement inside has beautiful fish-scale patterns decoration on the auto rotor and plates. The movement is ST8002 from Sea-gull, you can see the golden engravings “CAL. ST8002” on the plate. This tourbillon movement has 27 jewels, 42-hour power reserve and 21,600VPH. Sea-gull claims that the inaccuracy of this tourbillon movement is controlled within twenty seconds, I just received the watch two days ago, it works fine, for accuracy and stability of the movement, it still needs time to be tested. I trust Sea-gull’s quality. By the way, I love this pair of black alligator leather straps, the crocodile texture makes the watch look more luxury.
Two models available for this tourbillon watch, one features this Rome hour markers, the other has long stick hour markers that also look very elegant.
