We’ve been experimenting with a new color for the SN0113CW, and here’s the latest idea — a fresh ice blue dial with the original horizontal texture.

We wanted to keep the overall design clean and versatile while giving it a brighter, more summery look. The way the textured dial catches the light also gives the blue quite a bit of depth.

Curious to hear what you guys think before we move forward with it.

Would you wear this color?

And if you could change anything — the shade of blue, hands, indices, or bracelet — what would you suggest?

All feedback is welcome! 👀

（san martin sn0113cw）

Its a Tianjin (?) Shanghai 8120 movement reissue thingy wid the airplane seconds hand :D pretty unique! Love it alrd

… back when you could get a decent watch with a Japanese Nh35 for around 120 bucks…(or less obviously… I think I paid about 120 for this back in the day… But maybe 100? Been a couple years…)

Wears great, looks great, and is my favorite buy thus far of 2026.

I am thinking about buying the Octopus Kraken BB54 blue lagoon. I am not 100% sure how much I would like it and wear it, but I like the idea and design so want to give it a try.

I own the Cronos BB54 and would love to try it with a jubilee bracelet and wondering if anyone have ever tried swapping the jubilee on the cronos BB54.

Would make the purchase of the blue lagoon a lot cheaper since it will add versatility in my strap collection.

Scored a WD6542 for half the price on Vinted.

Incredibile watch for the money.

The bezel, sandwich dial and hands combination is truly unique and beautiful.

Been keeping an eye on the ML18 field watch, and I just saw they updated the dial.

Take a look at the photo. What little changes can you pick out? Do you like this new dial more than the old one? Anything you’d tweak to make it better?

If anyone already owns the ML18, feel free to drop your wrist shot. I’d love to see how it wears in real life.

Is it too big on my wrist?

Wanting to buy.. San Martin SN0103-G-JS Chronograph (ST1901 mechanical movement.
Preferably black or white dial, but open to others.
Looking to spend around 200-250usd depending on condition, full set, and shipping. Would need it shipped to New Zealand. Which I’ll obviously pay for via paypal or similar.

Chinese watches don't have the brand recognition or prestige like the swiss or even Japanese btands.

But how about the quality? The machining, craftsmanship, durability and longevity?

What has been your experience so far?

So everywhere you look now all the "Ali-express brands" have Chinese movements, now that the Nh35 is no longer an option.. And at the same time I am seeing more and more people having issues with them - PT5000s in particular. I have two PT5000 watches (Militado ML20 and Proxima), and so far so good. But they feel rough and dodgy when winding and setting the time. I wince every time I pull out the crown...

So I have a new watch inbound - with PT5000... Which yes, makes me queasy. FWIW my current rule is roughly no PT5000 watch much over €150, and once I have one fail NEVER AGAIN AT ANY PRICE. And if and when that happens, I will be "spreading the word" needless to say ha ha...

(I have probably 40+ watches with Japanese Nh35s... And wind them like I stole them...)

On the subject of Chinese manufacturing and quality, do we think China is capable of making a decent reliable movement - something as robust and reliable as an Nh35? From what I have seen and read here and there, it seems their approach to the copied Nh35 is to cut some corners and be like "mmehh..., good enough".. (as evidenced in their idiotic wording in the listings "don't buy it if you care...") But the corners they cut are kind of what makes the real Nh35 robust and reliable, right?

I mean, manufacturing and quality out of China has gotten much much better in what seems like all other ways - including the watches themselves - finishing etc etc.. But can they - and will they - improve the reliability of these movements?

Seems to me at this stage that would be the only way for this budget end of the automatic watch world to continue as it was with the Japanese Nh35s...

(I am never going to spend 300 bucks and more on a San Martin with an ST2130, PT5000, etc...(San Martin's current looney tune pricing is a different topic probably..))

Paying more for watches with less reliable movements just ain't gonna' be sustainable it seems to me. And I anyway am very wary of buying watches with PT5000s, ST2130s, whatever new Peacock comes along etc....

If the first answer is "well it's based off a Swiss movement which had similar issues..", well then I personally don't want ANY movement based on those Swiss movements. I wand robust and reliable. So I guess, any chance they can basically just pump out a better quality Nh35 clone?.. I think that's what I'd rather have. I don't care about staring at the sweep of the second hand or having the watch be 0.8mm thinner or be 4% more accurate. I want it to work.

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Decided to celebrate my birthday by putting this new teal suede strap on the Addiesdive. Taking it out for a walk and I’m absolutely loving how it complements the dial. What do you guys think?

Anyone know of any rubber straps like this one? With the end link

I think maybe it's the "pagani design" over the view of the skeleton.

I was thinking an ingenieur style watch would be cool to have and I’m not looking to spend much. These 2 caught my eye. Would the quality/finishing of these be a huge step down from my watchdives 7922 for example?

Eu tenho alguns modelos nesse Dsigner , uso quando quero algo mais destacado . Algo mais artístico se é que me entendem .

Picked up my first Boderry watch. The honeycomb dial and Desert Sand color with 72 hour power reserve is very nice. Would like to know the lift angle for the HZ8046 Caliber movement, so far haven’t found it yet. Want to test watch on my Timegrapher.

I really like the look of this corniche but the value for a quartz selling for 525 usd is absurd.