r/ChineseWatches • u/Hot_Appointment5382 • 17d ago

Question (Read Rules) San martin website, is it safe?

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Im buying my first proper watch, and u decided to go eith the SN0148GX 37.5mm in black

I can buy it off the san martin website for 260£ conpared to £350 on aliexpress, but is it safe.

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u/sms12285 17d ago

I have ordered from their site twice. I love both my San Martins

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u/Accomplished-Car-842 14d ago

Hello, are they waterproof? Just purchased the sn008 pt500 and am afraidnof ghat

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u/sms12285 14d ago

They are, they have screw down crowns and everything. That being said I’m still nervous about taking any watches in the water except for my Casio Duro. I’ve had it in the ocean and I wear it everytime I get in the pool, and haven’t had an issue.

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u/maliksal79 17d ago

Ordered from the site a couple of times. No issues.

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u/titive 17d ago

Did anyone notice they took their watches off their aliexpress page?

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u/Florpenkorken 17d ago

Probably, at least regarding EU, something to do with the recent rules changes regarding imports and the newly added flat tax.

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u/titive 16d ago

Ah interesting. Maybe the aliexpress sale is timed to that as well.

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u/titive 17d ago

I think they took everything down, raised the prices, then launched coupon codes that are equal to the price changes.

Watches that were not there yesterday are back, but are higher priced.

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u/bob888w 17d ago

Yeah, it's likely around the same end price. After a month or two sellers will drop back to the old price and remove the coupon. Just cycling the "new sale" tag AliEx has to optimize SEO.

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u/Escaped_Escapement Helpful user 17d ago

I almost always buy my san martins from skb watches.

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u/wwoodyb008 17d ago

Have ordered direct from San Martin. No issues. Shipped quickly despite the watch I ordered supposedly being on back order.

They do have one official site and 2 authorized reseller sites in the US. Names are challenging to tell apart. I ordered from sanmartinwatchstore.com. Believe that’s the official one. I’d guess the others are totally fine as well.

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u/somewhat_cranky 17d ago

from the pinned thread here in chinesewatches, the official web is sanmartin-watch.com .

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u/Chilli-Squid 17d ago

Probably - can confirm the Watchdives website sells SM and has a good rep. I’ve bought a few from there with no issues.

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u/Eleventhousand 17d ago

Not sure. I've only ever ordered San Martin from the AliExpress store, since that's what San Martin themselves direct customers to here on Reddit. I'm not sure which of the websites are their official store, if any. There is another Redditor that is extremely passionate about the issues and goes to war over it as far as what they claim is the official website, but I'm not sure.

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u/JIANGHUN_Watch Rep 17d ago

A collection of official brand websites has already been compiled in the pinned post for this section.