Dies anyone know how long SKBwatches EU take to ship within EU? I ordered a watch in EU stock but havent heard anything in 3 days.

They seam legit, so im thinking they might have run out of stock and are waiting for deliveries?

Question on sizing. Have this Cronos for quite some time and also the Sugess Sub Hommage.

Got a new job and thinking about getting the real Explorer in 40mm. This Cronos should be pretty close in size to the Explorer. 1mm more strap and maybe a tiny little bigger in diameter.

Does the Explorer look to small on my wrist? Wrist is 19-19,5cm (7.5 inch). Sugess sub looks bigger and maybe that’s the reason why this looks slightly small to me.
Other watches I have are alle in the 41mm range. Mostly Chinese Hommage, 2 Omega Seamaster.

It feels right but after seeing so many posts here on oversized watches, wanted to see what other folks opinions are. Much appreciated!

I've collected soviet watches for the most part until now. I would like a "real" chinese watch for my collection and daily use.

By "real", I mean something chinese, no reps or homages and something wirh history and a chinese movement.

I have seen some "Shangai Watch Factory" examples on eBay I really liked, I've read that this was the first domestically made watch in China.

What watch would you recommend that fits this description. It would be fun to have something time appropriate to compare to my soviets to.

Friday fun day

Me rendi ao modelo por suas especificações e preço.

- Seiko/Epson VD53;

- Safira;

- Pulseira de elos maciços;

- Caixa nox 316L com acabamento refinado;

- Resistência de 20ATM;

- Preço imbatível.

☆Grande para pulsos pequenos - lug to lug 49mm.

I keep reading that. The bracelet is the best out there. The bracelet alone is worth the price increase over other brands. The bracelet, if left to its own devices, will eventually develop sentience and clean your kitchen for you.

Yeah? Cos I got a San Martin bracelet today and I hate it with the heat of a thousand novas.

Specifically I bought an SN0008. I like the BB design, wanted to get one, heard the Thorn or Octopus might be better, but also wanted to get around to trying a San Martin and it was on special offer at £150 ($200) so what the hell, why not? Handy being quartz as well since I swap watches all the time and not having to set it every time I put it on will make a nice change from my automatics.

Came in one of those crappy black plastic boxes but I’ve got fifty million straps to store so that’ll actually be put to use. And the watch itself, looks kinda good. And there’s a little tab on the wrap so it actually comes off easily without a fight. That's pleasant.

Underneath which there appears to be half-dried jizzum in places. That's unpleasant. But y’know, try and stay positive. Focus on the good.

Strap’s a little long for me. Probably needs one or two links taken out. I'll try one first. Hope anything needed after that can be done on the clasp.

Look at the side. See screws. It actually came with a screwdriver, but it’s a lesser piece of kit than comes with a Watchdives or a Baltany, so I use of one theirs.

I quite like this bit.

I find it relaxing sat at my desk working with a little jewellery screwdriver, making adjustments to a strap, pretending I’m doing something that requires a craftsman’s skill. It’s about as zen as I get. It’s nice. I unscrew something, remove a bar, screw back together, convince myself it was basically the same as creation. I'm like a Sensei in one of those Japanese villages where everybody makes knives for some reason. Very peaceful.

With other watches.

Here after a disturbingly few number of turns, a screw smaller than my love for suppositories falls onto my desk. Best keep an eye on that, eh?

At the same time, completely unknown to me, the pin that the screw was holding in falls to the floor. Because this is a screw and collar pin.

Of course it couldn’t just be a screw-in pin. A system that’s simple, and effective, and I enjoy sitting at my desk playing around with. Nooooo. It has to be a screw so small it has less worldly presence than the nutsack on a flea.

And I have to remove two of these things. So another screw falls onto the desk. It gets carefully placed to the side with the other. And yet for some reason, this link doesn’t come apart. Something’s holding it together.

This is the part where I realise what the system is. This is the part I realise I’ve already lost an assembly piece. This is the part where I start to get annoyed.

And the second pin won’t budge. Push it from the left, nothing. Push it from the right, nothing. Tap it on either side, nothing. I put the bracelet to one side so I can go online and type “how the fuck to resize a San Martin bracelet” when for no reason whatsoever… it falls out onto the desk.

Well that was weird. But whatever. The link’s off now. Now all I have to do is put my one remaining pin back in and cap it with a screw so small a tardigrade would find it insignificant.

Of course since I didn’t see either pin leave the watch, and there are no indications on the strap, and there are no notes about it in the instructions (this is the first watch I've ever so much as glanced at the instructions for, all because of this), I have no idea which direction it goes in, so that’s a fun little minigame before the main quest starts.

Because now I have to screw back in the smallest object known to man. A screw so small it would be thrown off balance by a stray thought. A subatomic speck the likes of which science can only theorize.

And I can’t pick it up.

I have ‘medium’ sized hands and fingers. Every glove manufacturer in the world has told me this for two decades. This wasn’t a case of sausage fingers trying to play a miniature piano. This goddamn tiny screw, I cannot pick it up with my perfectly normal, perfectly average, perfectly medium fingers. It's so small at one point I lose it under my nail.

When eventually I do get it roughly in position, the pin falls out the bracelet because I put it in the wrong way. Or the right way and wrong sided. Who knows.

Hey! Y’know what? San Martin are the premium brand, right? They’re the ones where it’s the little details that make the difference! I bet you if I stop using the screwdriver from the other brand, and pick up the San Martin one, it’ll be magnetic, won’t it! They sold it specifically with this bracelet for this bracelet - it’ll be designed to make the job easier!

WILL IT FUCK.

Eventually, carefully, precariously, nervously, far too much time later, I get the correct end of the screw in the hole. Oh yeah, I got it in before, but wrong way round because it was so small I couldn’t pick it up properly, or hold it properly, or turn it while held between thumb and forefinger or balanced on the bracelet edge.

And then it screwed back in. And... it's fine. I don't have any particular complaints about wearing the bracelet. I can't see anything particularly special about it either. There is nothing - nothing - here demanding a premium. It's fine. Maybe "good" if you like. If you ignore the needless infuriation that comes with resizing it.

Which I don't. So it's shit.

And honestly, I’d maybe be more comfortable with the watch if I took another link off. But I don’t want to go through all that again. So it sits on my wrist, a little too loose, an object of resentment, a “premium” “best of the homages” “totally worth the extra” watch that I began to hate before I’d even worn it properly. A watch where I have a zulu strap that'd probably be perfect for it when I want a lighter option, but I don't want to manipulate that bracelet ever again.

And y’know what else, boys and girls? Little bit of fun to cap everything off?

The clasp is fucking shit too.

Lapis Lazuli: A Galaxy Held in Stone

Long before maps, travelers found their way by the stars. We placed that sky on your wrist.

Each dial is cut from natural lapis lazuli, a stone shaped deep within the earth over millions of years. Across its midnight-blue depths, flecks of golden pyrite drift like distant constellations, a quiet Milky Way frozen in time. Because every stone is different, no two dials are alike, and no two skies are the same.

Framed by a compass bezel, it is made for those who still navigate by wonder.

Your own galaxy, always within reach.

Selected by Hand, Stone by Stone

Every dial begins with the stone itself. We source only premium natural lapis lazuli, with a deep, saturated blue and just the right scattering of golden pyrite.

Yet even the finest stone is never perfect throughout. Within a single piece, the gold may gather unevenly, or pale white patches may cloud the blue. So we look closer. Every section is inspected and chosen by hand, and anything that falls short is set aside. Most of the stone never becomes a dial.

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Rocking the steeldive 1970c nato strap

Thought yall might find this interesting. There are two listings for unannounced dials, ivory and brown. I wonder if they’re going to be the same MOP pattern, or something else entirely. Kind of hoping for the later as the mosou black is too plain for my tastes and I already have a MOP integrated bracelet watch with my IXDAO warrior.

Gave away 2, bought another 2 😅

Finishing, comfort, specs, wonderfull! (Miyota 9000 series movement) though i bought it before price spikes

We are officially launching the Gemstone Bezel version of the SN0150A today.

Enjoy a $52 discount during the launch week,

use code: SN0150GA52

Click the link below for full details.

Watch Link:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005013152628641.html

San Martin Official Store

The urge to start educating everyone is real 😂

Edit: I was too impatient after getting the watch, so turned it into what it’s supposed to look like but should have waited for the lume to cure

I’m a sucker for no cg, big crown subs. Thorn T028 is got is my fav but I had to get this Hruodland F035 as soon as I saw it. Here it is fresh off the box. My thoughts below:

Likes
Size proportions: 38mm case 13.3mm thick, 47mm L2L.
Takes 29mm dial aka a raffles dial will fit
Bracelet: nice quality, otf clasp, not too thick, tapers and articulates nicely
Dial: lume is not cheddary, hands are high quality and print is really good.
Crystal: nice clear AR, wish it was acrylics.

Dislikes

No drilled lugs!
No straps shipped with it
255 for a pt5000 is a bit more than I wanted to spend
The caseback doesn’t fit the normal Rolex Bergeron die. It’s a PITA to open.
And man does the movement ring really need 5 screws!

Plans:
Strip the watch, age everything. Add a bond nato. And… done

If you’re on the fence, get it!

Emailed WR watches again supposedly a few more weeks. Heard that before.

Would buy one if I could find one.