San Martin SN021G Explorer Homage Watch 36mm Vintage Sapphire Glass PT5000 Automatic Mechanical Watches for Men

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This review will be focusing on San Martin watches. San Martin is a brand that many may not be familiar with. They are a Chinese watch brand. Their watches are comparable to brands such as Seiko, or Invicta. Conclusion: it is an extremely attractive Explorer 1016 homage, and better finished than any other Ali Express watch I own. However, I had higher expectations for it. If you are satisfied with our products and services, please don’t forget to give us a 5 star rating. Beat error correction is something that i leave to others. Hah! What am i saying? Even minor speed regulation i outsource. Mind you, i have colleagues that are watch nerds and can be bribed with suitable malt beverages. Kindly Note: Due to weather, customs or holidays, etc., delivery time may be slightly longer, please be patient.

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This is San Martin’s Homage to the Seiko Tuna SBBN015. Definitely a lot cheaper than the original! I also like that the San Martin Tuna comes in various different color variations for the dial. The red especially is quite striking! That being said, we will be looking at these watches from a perspective of dive watches. The goal here, is to see if San Martin watches are equal to, or better than, similarly styled watches. We’ll start by looking at the build quality. Positives: it is an extremely attractive watch. I love the vintage Explorer 1016 dial. The finishing, build quality and quality control are all excellent for an Ali Express watch. The crown is now signed with the same logo as the clasp. It came with a very high quality NATO strap for no additional charge. The box hat crystal is gorgeous. I got an excellent deal on it in the 11/11 sale and it costs a fraction of a percent of what a Rolex Explorer 1016 costs. It will keep me amused until my Rolex AD calls me to let me know my 124270 has arrived.to summarize my impressions: awesome watch, just buy one already! Actually buy 2, because I’m sure that Tiffany Blue is amazing in real life, too. I added “Chinese” because their PT5000 movement (clone of ETA 2824-2 according to the internet) is purely Chinese. Given that and China now makes many high-quality products, I felt it right to display the watch’s country of origin. I removed the =330 for the simple fact many wearers of automatic watches know the approximate length/depth of 100 meters. Given that is the watch’s water resistance, most of us will never take our watches close to that depth. The best I can free dive on the rare snorkeling adventure is 30 feet. In fact, I swam laps today with my SN021-G, and it did perfectly well.

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For their bands, San Martin watches usually have stainless steel, rubber, or even leather bands. And lastly, the water resistance of their watches are going to be rated for a depth of up to 200 meters or more, usually.

San Martin watches will have that all too familiar look that you know and love in diving watches. There will be variations on this design, but you pretty much know what too expect: coin edge unidirectional rotating bezels, luminous hands and markers, and a date window. This will be the basic outline for most of the San Martin diving watches. Note: The links near the sides of the clasp are not removable. If you need to adjust the size, please remove the middle links in the bracelet

San Martin SN021G Explorer Homage Watch 36mm Vintage Sapphire

Obviously an advantage of the timegrapher is unambiguous and rapid positional measurements. It is quite another thing to judge what to do about them. i do not fancy myself a watchmaker and all i really know about positional errors is that, while beat error correction may help some of them (or not) practically any other steps delve into the obscure dark arts of balance wheel poising, staff/bearing correction, etc.

Whatever else Orient movements may be -- and the YN55 is theirs, not Seiko's -- difficult-to-field-regulate is not one of them. i have two and i believe that there should be no problem getting yours down to under 5 s/d (or COSC compliant) if you are careful . . . particularly if you have access to a timegrapher for positional comparisons.