Congrat on new haul, do share some pictures

Depend your size of your wrist. My 47mm is on the way

Is the Pam 3646/249 homage from Getat. Have tried the 47mm MM before, look ok on my wrist

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Added on January 16, 2010, 7:18 amNice sweet black PVD, and cool packaging as well
Thanks for sharing

This post has been edited by ck77: Jan 16 2010, 07:18 AM

Probably next week and I certainly will post some pics

The second clasp is nicer, IMHO

Ya is Pam3646/249 homage, sure will share pictures Hopefully can reach by this week

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Added on January 18, 2010, 3:08 pmThis post has been edited by ck77: Jan 18 2010, 03:08 PM

Price seems ok for a pre-owned PO. Went to their Bangsar Village outlet before but no deal. Perhaps you should pay them a visit there.
Good luck

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patryn33, show us some of your collection

patryn33, nice reverso Thanks for sharing

Daymon, Jaeger-Le Coultre Reverso is one the iconic watches in history.
http://basepath.com/watches/Reviews/JLCReverso/JLCreview.htm

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 Blog

Following 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

This post has been edited by ck77: Jan 23 2010, 03:08 PM

khopl, PM me if you want the link, I don't want to do free advertisement for his site
nando has explained the summary of homage. In another word, they are the copycat of certain manufacturers but won't put on their name. Very often they will go brandless or put on their own brand name, i.e. Orang Watch Company, Ocean 7, MKII etc.

Yea but not the accuracy

What movement is that? Not even regulation or servicing could help?
I don't expect top notch Swiss quality, what you get is what you paid. This is to me more like a wear-spoil-and throw away watch.

This post has been edited by ck77: Jan 23 2010, 11:01 PM

The watch is sent for regulating by my friend's watchmaker, let's see how it perform after that.
What you think about OWC, since they are using ST21 in their Mil Sub homage with a whopping price of USD299
Cheapest Swiss mechanical is definately Swatch, as far as the movement is concern. One can always swap the movement to other homage or modified watch

Yes, QC is totally depend on your luck. Not much complain based on price vs quality, but the accuracy is ridiculous

Hopefully after return from 'treatment', the watch could keep 'correct' time for few years

Apart from my simple review here, following are the detailed technical review by my friend.
http://tamhk.com/mwf/index.php/topic,761.msg6665.html#new
You can clearly see how good is the QC of Chinese movement

Update. Getat has refunded some cost to me, +1 to him

This post has been edited by ck77: Jan 25 2010, 02:52 PM

and do explain the functions of the watch, I am eager to know

Don't think it cover for poor workmanship. Try to bring to the shop and demand for an exchange.

My one and only G-Shock, standard DW-6900. My cheapest, toughest, most function watch