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Leg, Borealis uses a Miyota 9015 owned by Citizen made in Japan, it's a fantastic movement and rivals ETA's 2824 that you find in the same mid price ranges.
If we are to talk about Seagull, here's the captivating story about the ST19 movement, originally the equipment to manufacture it was the original equipment from Switzerland's factories that built the Venus 175 movement. The same lovely movements that went into Breitlings and Vacherons
http://rwg.cc/topic/91877-lemania-2310-venus-175-seagull-st-19/ The Seagull hand wound 1963 is on my bucket list to get. http://terrychay.com/article/the-seagull-1963.shtml
The truth is we all have different tastes and sometimes watches are about fun and not everyone takes it so seriously. I've recently been looking at Porsche Design, Autavia's, Oris and am thinking I might go away from the thick 7750. There's a super cool brand Nezumi producing a mecaquartz for less than $400. Like Borealis uses the exact same dial manufacturing, anti reflective sapphire glass crustal, 316L cases the same as any $4,000 watch. That's the irony of watchies. It's not just the movement unless you are a hardcore watch guy. You can still get respectable watches that are respected, minus a Swiss movement. The highest example of this is the Seiko Grand. Look at the Seiko 007, one of the most legible, affordable, automatic, dive-tool watches on the market. In any case the movements mentioned are robust and probably a heck a lot easier to service than a 7750. And outside of my meca quartz mention can be serviced like any Swiss movement. Omega's and Rolexes are also common, they make and sell a ton of watches a year.
I'm like 90% convinced this is my next watch unless for some insane reason my wife allows me to dip into buying our next house fund to get a Breitling Transocean or Jaegre master thin, a man can dream though!
If we are to talk about Seagull, here's the captivating story about the ST19 movement, originally the equipment to manufacture it was the original equipment from Switzerland's factories that built the Venus 175 movement. The same lovely movements that went into Breitlings and Vacherons
http://rwg.cc/topic/91877-lemania-2310-venus-175-seagull-st-19/ The Seagull hand wound 1963 is on my bucket list to get. http://terrychay.com/article/the-seagull-1963.shtml
The truth is we all have different tastes and sometimes watches are about fun and not everyone takes it so seriously. I've recently been looking at Porsche Design, Autavia's, Oris and am thinking I might go away from the thick 7750. There's a super cool brand Nezumi producing a mecaquartz for less than $400. Like Borealis uses the exact same dial manufacturing, anti reflective sapphire glass crustal, 316L cases the same as any $4,000 watch. That's the irony of watchies. It's not just the movement unless you are a hardcore watch guy. You can still get respectable watches that are respected, minus a Swiss movement. The highest example of this is the Seiko Grand. Look at the Seiko 007, one of the most legible, affordable, automatic, dive-tool watches on the market. In any case the movements mentioned are robust and probably a heck a lot easier to service than a 7750. And outside of my meca quartz mention can be serviced like any Swiss movement. Omega's and Rolexes are also common, they make and sell a ton of watches a year.
I'm like 90% convinced this is my next watch unless for some insane reason my wife allows me to dip into buying our next house fund to get a Breitling Transocean or Jaegre master thin, a man can dream though!
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