Locman Stealth

This is a Locman Stealth Watch. It is very comfort to wear.  You can see the design of the case is very similar as Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 39mm Jumbo design.  Quartz Movement, a style with a touch of sport as the dial is somewhat carbon fibre look. The Sapphire Crystal was made by CNC cutting to make the Cyclops magnifying glass as Rolex's design.
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Prototype Miyota Watch

Miyota Watch Website

http://www.citizen.co.jp/miyota_mvt/index.htm

Miyota is a Subsidiary under Citizen watch Japan, specializing in the watch movement manufacturing.

Their mechanical watches are assembled in Japan.

Attached is the sample prototype watch for sending to Miyota customers, nothing is on sales for this type of watch,  The number indicates the movement being installed in the watch.

The Watch has 21 jewels, 21,600 vibrations per hour , running time 40 hours. Accuracy from their catalogues ois -20 - +40 seconds a Day, but the actual time keeping accuracy should be much better than the specification.

New Technology

What's SHOCK DETECTION?
The new IC is designed for detecting external shock, and blocking second hands from skipping.

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Haurex Italy San Marco

Haurex Italy San Marco Mens Watch 1A311USS Black hard Anodized Stainless steel case with a rubber bracelet. Fixed stainless steel bezel. Black dial with luminous hands and stick hour markers, Arabic numerals at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock hour markers. Minute markers around the outer rim. Luminescent hands and dial markers. Month displays above the 9 o'clock position. Three sub-dials displaying: 24 hours, date and day of the week. Quartz movement. Scratch resistant mineral crystal. Stainless steel engraved screw case back. Case diameter: 48 mm. Case thickness: 14 mm. Deployment clasp. Water resistant at 100 meters / 330 feet. Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, month-day-date, 2nd time zone. Retail Price USD$500.00. HK Snob

Audemars Piguet Thin Automatic men's Dress watch

This is an AP thin Watch, automatic winding with date, That may be installed with the famous movement 2120 as the first generation of Royal Oak used. 12 facet back cover screw in type, perfect for a men with a lot of sweat in Summer time of HK! Friend of mine asking me for HK$27,800.
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Rolex Ref 16030 Datejust

I had bought a Rolex Ref. 16030 intended to give my daughter for her daily use, Ref 16030 is all stainless steel, Even the bezel is stainless steel, not white gold as on Ref 166234. It is very sturdy as it is stainless steel. I bought this watch with HKD$2,500.00
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Cortebert 1968 manual Winding Watch

Cortébert has a very poorly documented history. The brand name is currently owned by Italian watch manufacturer Perseo, and production under the Cortébert brand name has stopped in the mid-1970s. Cortébert used to be one of the highest regarded premium watch brands, manufacturing their own movements, supplying movements to other brands such as Rolex and introducing the jump-hour arrangement. When the quartz crisis hit the industry in the '70s, the majority of prestige brands ceased production including Cortébert. Others have already been resurrected (Baume et Mercier admits, while most companies like to pretend their production was continuous) and today Cortébert is the only remaining brand that has potential to be restored to its historic status.

This is one of my Cortebert I got from the HK Watch Guru Kiu Tai Yu in 1986, this is a gold bezel watch, manual winding watch, I have not been cleaned this watch over the last 28 Years. I have not wiped this watch and I seldom wear it.. or hardly wore it at all.

This is one of the Old good watch that brand has gone with the wind… it brings me only memorial and sweet story of my life back into 1980! This is a re-conditioned dial, funny part of it is the Chinese wrote it : "unbreaxable Sping!" Wrong spelling!!

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Glashütte Spezimatic

Glashütte is a town in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Free State of Saxony, Glashütte means “Glass House” in English…This is situation at Eastern border of Germany, which was the birthplace of the German watch making industry. The city has a population of about 7,139 in Dec 2010.. Historically it was first mentioned in a document around 1445. In January 2008, the former municipality Reinhardtsgrimma was merged into Glashütte.
Watches currently made in this location include:

• Glashütte
• A. Lange & Söhne
• Bruno Söhnle Uhrenatelier Glashütte
• Glashütte Original
• Nautische Instrumente Mühle
• NOMOS / Wempe Chronometerwerke
• Union Glashütte

Attached is a 1961 Spezimatic 26 Rubies watch, gold plated version. That was almost the most extravagant version with plated gold n the early Eastern Germany monarch.

However German engineering is so good and preow any cise, the watch is so accurate…

• I have another Chronometer, and that is evenr more accurate… if you open , you may shut: Oh ,… an simple polished finishing watch as it does not show any shinning glister of the latest A Lange & Sohne is used to have.. in fact, A Lange & Sohne was started in this Glashütte factory.

So sometimes, branded watch is good to have, but unbranded watch does not mean the watch is no good, in fact there are so many unnamed good watch being made in the last Century! This is one of them, note the design of the hands that echoes with the white indexers. The big thick sturdy design, the watch is about 39mm, no big and massive.

It is Not easy to find one with good condition now.

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Oris

Oris is situated in the picturesque village of Hölstein in the North-west of Switzerland. The location was chosen by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian, watchmakers from Le Locle, when they founded the company in 1904. Oris is the name of a brook and valley close to Hölstein. It has its origins in the Celtish ‘Aurisa’ and Roman ‘Orusz’ meaning watercourse.
Orsi is still making their watches in the same building, which has expanded to accommodate the growing company.
Attached is a 1992 Oris Automatic watch, that size is too small as seen from eyes of Today, but it is a durable watch, never been serviced after 20 years, It was only HKD$1,200 at that time.
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Direct Translation

This will tell the time, but there may be problem for those who may not read English. Well, think of it for the Mechancial Watch display in this manner!? How Do They Do it?
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Audemars Piguet 18KT gold for my daughter

This was the very first lady watch for lady I bought in Bangkok World Trade Centre during 1997 Asian Financial crisis. As on that few days I remembered Thai baht dropped from three Baht to 7 Baht Vs one HK dollar in three days, I bought a few watches in one day. One Rolex Datejust lady two tone with diamond on Red dial. One Cartier Santos two tone auto and this lovely Audemars Piguet in 18KT gold… At that time I was prepared to give this to my elder daughter when she would grow up a bit.. and I just ttook back for cleaning in HK. This is a small, Elegant yellow gold watch with a touch of Art Deco design pattern on the perimeter, extremely fine manual winding mechanism, silent, and accurate.
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PS Audemars Piguet produces an average of 30,000 watches a year with a team of 450 staff in Switzerland nowadays.