Received my first homage watch on Thursday 20 January 2010 from Getat.
Watch was ordered and paid on 24 December 2009 and the shipment was stuck in HK post office for some times due to some issue. Communication via email was ok but reply often delay by 2-3 days, he is trying his best to answer all my quiries.
The spec:-
Movement: Asian Unitas 6497 manual winding
Case: 47mm without crown 316L polished steel with doom plexiglass, California sandwich dial.
This homage watch is base on Pam3646 and Pam249.
For more history and story, please refer to this link (great blog by the way):-
Jake's Rolex Watch BlogFollowing are my simple review and impression.
Outter box
Inner box secured by bubble wrap (+1)
Simple watch case with bubble wrap and plastic to protect the watch (+1)
The watch, look good? Read on,
Back view (6497 or 6498 movement?)
My finding,
1. The most importantly thing is accuracy test. I do not have professional training (like William Hung
) and any tools to measure. As a simple measurement, I set the watch same time with my Astro decoder's time and wait for it to run for an hour.
The watch is running approximately +4 minutes faster
I thought the movement need some times to 'break-in' or 'run-in'
Patiently I waited for it to run 24 hours and ridiculously it ran +1 hour 30 minutes faster
This is absolutely unacceptable.
I don't expect the accuracy to be perfect for mechanical watch and -1 or +1 minute per day is ok for me, but not until such variant.
2. Uneven paint on 4,5,6 o'clock indexes, especially number 4
3. Bad lume
4. Hard to screw and unscrew the screw-in crown
5. Movement is loud
6. Strap is good, I can smell the genuine leather smell (+1)
6. From the clear back, I have noticed it is a 6498 instead of 6497 as listed on his website.
This is the 6497 shown on his site.
I can accept other flaws in view of the price I've paid for, but not for the accuracy. The most basic function of a watch is to tell corret time, 1 minute variant per day for me is ok for any mechanical watch.
I've email him the above issues and he replied that the watch might be magnitised during the shipment (is it possible?
) and he agreed to return and refund for me. I will get the watch to regulate and maybe demagnitise by local watchmaker and to ask for reimbursement from him.
What a bad experience for my first online purchase watch
Lastly, wrist shot.
Thanks for reading
Hey ck77 just wondering how is your watch doing? Did you managed to get it fixed since it was running unacceptably fast as you mentioned when it first arrived?
Did you also managed to confirm if the movement (6497 or 6498) is the correct one as you ordered?
I saw a 45mm at getat that I quite like but I'm now having some doubts after your experience with them...what do you think?
Feb 18 2010, 10:12 PM
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