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Seagull automatic tourbillion movement.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000...16301802hQpLDk
Last edited by calypso; 23rd March 2023 at 16:44.
Blimey.
Don’t leave it there ….!!!!
I have a few lunch time pints once a week in the Manchester Yates .. would be great to have the first Tourbillion in there ..!
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For foreign friends , Yates is where clients barred from the Millstone go ..
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Pics and review when it arrives please ?Originally Posted by calypso
I can just about see myself wearing that.
Makes you wonder how they can possibly do it for that kind of money.
maseman
Will be interested to see what it really looks like.
The images are small or renders.
I can't help thinking that the appeal of a tourbillion is its exoticness.
Take that away (as this does) and it's just a rather pointless complication (in both senses of that word).
It doesn't mean I won't buy one if it looks good though
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Last edited by snowman; 23rd March 2023 at 20:04.
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Usually the people barred from the Millstone go to a cell…..
Or why others charge what they do!.
But those Celebrities need to be paid somehow I guess.
I bet that open heart balance will start rotating if you drink enough.
They do make real ones too though: https://www.seagullwatchcompany.com/...nical-movement
I know this watch has definite limitations but the price makes a total mockery of the absurdly overpriced tourbillion models some manufacturers knock out!
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the full advert?
It’s a business watch - so essential for tying shoes, drinking a cream brûlée or having a shave.
It’s a fashion watch - so essential for a white tie event or sitting on a beach in a suit whilst wearing a jumper.
Lastly it’s a true Seagull movement stamped with the ETA logo.
Finally a watch for every man.
It’s should be noted the balance is in a different position in the pictures showing the dial side and the display case back.
It is a real one and yes, it does rotate.I bet that open heart balance will start rotating if you drink enough.
They do make real ones too though: https://www.seagullwatchcompany.com/...nical-movement
Different model, same Seagull movement.
See here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gAh...nnel=TimeDrops
Last edited by calypso; 23rd March 2023 at 22:07.
Why Chinese things are cheap:
1. Very few civil or human rights.
2. Low pay.
3. No holidays, loooong hours, no sick leave, inhuman working conditions for many.
4. Child labour force.
5. Slave labour force. Sorry. "Re-education Camps"...
6. Negligible health & safety regulations.
7. Ignore foreign patents, copyrights, trademarks, &c = negligible R&D costs.
8. Indifferent materials qualities, barely adequate tolerancing, and haphazard assembly.
9. Just lie about and exaggerate everything. No-one's checking. No-one's enforcing.
10. QA? Let the customer do that! THEY have no consumer rights. AliExpress DGAF!
11. Tax? What's that?
12. Pollution? Environmental standards? What are those?
13. Loss leaders - undercut the whole World and just wait for their businesses to die...
14. World's biggest domestic market = huge economies of scale.
15. Just fake it - let other people blow £$£$£$£$£$'s on advertising!
. . . &c, &c, &c, &c . . .
It isn't, the balance cage does not rotate around an axis, the decorative piece atop of it spins, that's it. This is how this is supposed to work:
https://youtu.be/abVqj2OE3po?t=33
(Also the movement is not the same)
This ^^^
It's just a standard movement with a spinny thing over the balance to imitate a tourbillion.
Notice the jewel at 10 o'clock - that's for the pallet fork pivot and if it was a real tourbillion it would be rotating but isn't. Just like every movement that's not a tourbillion.
Need to spend about 3x as much for an actual Tourbillon.
￡201.70 69％ Off | Super AESOP Flying Tourbillon Watch for Men Milky Way Star Sapphire Dial Luxury Steel Band Male Mechanical Wrist Watches 1963
https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ezsr423
I’m actually tempted by that.
That is quite nice!
I agree not a bad looking thing - even in the actual review pictures.
Very Moser-esq, I reckon if it was actually made by Moser it would get a fair bit of internet coverage
It is not tourbillion. Sorry.
I was thinking the same. A handy watch to shave in
That is a carousel.
THIN is the new BLACK
Thank you. my mistake.
Last edited by calypso; 24th March 2023 at 17:37.
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