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 Posted: Tue Nov 17th, 2009 09:02 pm
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stew77



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 Well...many have seen this in the daily wrist shot section over the last couple of days, but thought I should go ahead and post it here.  I got this one from Brice (aka Jeep99dad)...he ordered a Parnis Pilot and this Cali Dial knowing that he would flip one of them, and well, I picked this one up!!!  By the way, Brice is a great seller and all around great guy as well...a real straight shooter who is a pleasure to do business with!!!!  Thanks Brice!!

This one arrived with plastic still on the front and back as Brice only took the front plastic off briefly to snap a brief pic himself.  These are really fun watches for very little $$...nicely built actually with an unexpected decorated movement visible through the display back...not bad!!! 

As Brice had already pointed out to me when we were discussing me catching his flip, the strap on this particular one is nothing to write home about...stiff and just sort of blah...I am in the process of picking up a strap that will be suitable with the main goal of not putting a $100 saddle on a $50 horse if you know what I mean. 

This particular one was running WAY fast when I got it (gaining 30 seconds every hour :shock:...yes I said every hour), so I took my first attempt to "regulate" it using the very visible indicator on the movement...it's currently running at -4 sec/day over the last couple days and I may tweek it a little back the other direction to at least get it to run on the + side like I prefer.  Not bad for the first attempt IMO.

In the realm of Chinese watches, these Parnis' seem to be making a pretty good name for themselves...at least with the feedback I have seen/read, people seem to be overwhelmingly happy with them for the small $$ invested.

Some pics:






Last edited on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 09:06 pm by stew77