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oagaspar wrote:OldeCrow wrote:New troublemaker! worthy of a new arrival thread but it's too dark and stormy to take pictures...looks awesome Chris...5517 homage?
Kind of... 16610/5517/? it's really nice! There is a really nasty thread about this one over on "that other site" in the dive watch section, the watch snobs adamantly disapprove so it must be awesome!It's a really respectable homage, not loosely inspired or vaguely familiar but dead on homage to the best parts of a couple different sub models...
I've had it for three days now but it's been so dark and icy and snowy and stormy I haven't been able to take decent pictures of it!
stew77 wrote:OldeCrow wrote:
New troublemaker! worthy of a new arrival thread but it's too dark and stormy to take pictures...
Congrats on the new arrival Chris!
Looks awesome in your pic!!!
I could barely make out the brand name "Ginault", which is a completely new one to me. A quick google search reveals a pretty serious effort, at least according to their marketing (and this is a true in-house movement???). Hmmm, very interesting, and I see the dial is stamped "Hand Built In America"...interesting indeed. Will definitely be interested in your thoughts and impressions.
The advertising hype is very "flowery" it is an in house ETA copy, not sure of it's origin my guess is Chinese based on the the shock protection but a quick lap on the timing machine shows it's running well within chronometer spec so it very definitely was built here by someone who knows what they are doing because the Chinese simply can't make an ETA clone run this well. The inside of the presentation box says "Hand built in America" too, the caseback says "made in usa".
Flowery marketing indeed...ETA copy makes sense...when I saw a pic of the movement on Ginault's site, it looked like a dead ringer for the 2824 for sure. Great to hear that on your timing machine, the movement is turning out fantastic performance! Flower marketing or not, the case looks very well machined (at least in the pics) and the lume looks really great, even if you have to go to the ends of the earth to source it...
.Again, great to hear that your initial impressions are favorable.