forum thread Posted by BuckeyeJamMan ā¢ May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024 12:22 PM
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forum thread Posted by BuckeyeJamMan ā¢ May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024 12:22 PM
Shinola Men's Runwell 47mm Watch - Sams Club, ship only - $332 after $143 Off
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Uh huh. Or Shinola. I can't tell.
I do think it's a lot of money to spend for a Ronda 715 quartz mov't.
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$300 for quartz is pretty bad, to begin with.
For about the same price you can get a Hamilton or a Glycine automatic, with as good or better quality, and Swiss automatic movement. There are some Orient and Seiko automatic watches that are in this range, as well.
For far less money, there are a couple of Chinese manufacturers that are very reasonably priced and make surprisingly very good quality timepieces for the price. A dozen or so $50-60 Pagani watches come to mind.
Tandorio makes a few pilot watches like the lead one, some with stainless, and some like a Zenith-style pilot in cusn8 bronze that's shockingly nice, and available without a logo on the dial, which I generally prefer. Many of these use a base level Seiko-made movement, like the NH35, or a Miyota movement.
In my opinion, the handful of good quality Chinese manufacturers, like the ones I mentioned, are at the point they're about as good as any mass produced Swiss watch in the 80s-90s, when most of the low level autos were using bare bones commodity ETA or Sellita movements, which the NH Seikos are at least as good as those now.
I think at this point in time, I would put an auto Pagani or Tandorio on the wrist of someone that wanted to try a mechanical and see what they think. I have done this with a lot of the people in my family, many of which still daily wear the one I gave them, and some that caught the bug and own something nicer, some of them a lot more watches and some of them a LOT nicer.
I like the sapphire crystals on Shinolas, which is a nice upgrade over mineral glass.
Otherwise it's a fairly well built quartz watch watch.
At this price range of $300-$400, I would personally look at automatic offerings from Japan or China. Citizen Tsuyosa small seconds is a fantastic watch to cross shop this deal.
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Like others have already said there are much, much better offerings for the same money or less.
If you are after this style of face just save yourself the headache and get a $50 timex weekender
If you're looking for a watch made in the USA this isn't it but it is "built" in Detroit. Yeah right, can someone please move the wool from my eyes...
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