A new watch has arrived.

Hi guys.
Today I’m showing you this watch that I’ve never seen before.

It’s a 英雄 (Yingxiong) from Hangzhou Watch Factory. My colleague Zhang showed it to me and I couldn’t resist buying it. I was looking forward to a watch from this brand, I’d seen them with both ST5 from Tianjin and SB5 from Beijing. The surprise was when I saw that it has a signed BS-2, but I don’t know what the signature says. The polishing of the movement is like the Beijing one.
If…

A new watch has arrived.

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Sugess Quality?

Does anyone have any experience with the quality of the Sugess brand? My only personal experience with Chinese mechanical watches has been with several Seagull watches, which have very favorably impressed me. I’m intrigued by the idea of buying a Chinese tourbillon, and Sugess has a wider variety of more interesting (to me, at least) designs than Seagull. The Sugess products run about $600-700, which is awfully cheap for a tourbillon, but pretty expensive for a Chinese watch, so I’m…

Sugess Quality?

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ST1901 Chronograph movements — Reliable or Not?

I’ve found an online deal for a chronograph watch and I very much like the design. HOWEVER, It has the Chinese ST1901 mechanical movement. I ‘m leery of the movement because I was burned a couple of years. ago. I ordered a new ST1901 movement watch and it would stop cold about four hours after winding every time I put it on. I returned the watch and the company sent me another one. The replacement watch had the exact same unexpected stopping behaviour as the first one. I returned…

ST1901 Chronograph movements — Reliable or Not?

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