Hey all! I just got my watch from the mail today and thought I'd share my experience with people. My TD was Ryan from InTime and service was first class.
19th Dec - Ordered on a Friday.. Not the most efficient thing to do. Things started moving on Monday, so 3 days wait.
27th Dec - QC took quite a while, 8 days. When I did receive it, I asked for close up pictures on the 15, 30 and 45 markers in case of bad paint. InTime (TD in question) replied saying the 45's paint wasn't good and went ahead and exchanged the unit without me asking. A good gesture though, absolutely appreciated.
29th Dec - Next set of QC surprisingly took only 2 days and again I requested more pictures of the dial.
30th Dec - Received more pictures and extremely happy - everything was approved and shipped. Oh and again this was a Friday.
4th Jan - Received tracking number, tracked at local courier website and surprisingly already cleared customs and in the middle of delivery! But I wasn't in town.
7th Jan - Picked it up at the post office, unboxed.
IMPRESSIONS - Why is it so small.....?
Some of you may have read this sticky over at the general discussion section and it is absolutely true. I was spending WAY too much time being concerned with all the little things. You wouldn't be seeing half the things in person, at all.
This is also my first "luxury" watch so I've never had any high end gens and I can't say how close the rep is to the gen or how close it feels to a gen but it does feel pretty darn good. I've also never handled an automatic watch, ever been beyond visually interested in watches until the past month nor cared about what people had on their wrists.
THE WATCH - Weighty!
Again, never actually owned/handled anything like this watch before this so I felt like it was pretty heavy. I've had 2 other digital watches and a really thin quartz on bracelet.
- Bezel: Turns nicely, minimal play in between clicks but I believe this is normal. I half expected the clicks to be higher pitched but this is a more "tough" clicking experince.
- Lume: Good. I've not timed how long the lume sticks around for but it charges up pretty quickly and is plenty bright to see in the dark.
- Construction: It's where it should be as said on RWI for a V6/KW version. Superb build quality, poor knurling and wrong case. The knurling quality is obviously much too small to observe without a loupe but the rough machining is actually quite easily seen when light reflects from it. Again, not a huge issue.. just a thought. Dial batons are nice, so are the hands, subdial, pearl, CG lever action, crown winding and all.
- Movement: An A7750, I have less than 24hr experience with this but it's OK, no major issues. BUT...... I caught the watch stopping for no reason once. I shook it a little and it started up again. The watch lags 5 and 10 mins twice when I looked at it but it looks to be running fine. I'm guessing the lag may be because of the watch stopping. I'll update again in a few days, I hope it doesn't crap out on me. I have no resources for service movement and I'm not sure I want to spend that much for a service.
- Rotor: Yes, you can hear it. Doesn't bother me though.
- Strap: Rubber accordion strap is cool. I'm on the last hole and it's still not as tight as I'd like to it be.. I'll be getting a leather strap to go with this baby. Suggestions? Maybe something up to $60 at most, I can't justify the spending for a $100 strap. How are Panatime straps anyway?
- Misc: The watch came packed well, plenty of foam to keep it from getting knocked around too much and a rubber casing around the bezel and CG like all Lum Subs come in. A rep Panerai strap changing tool came with it too - I did not expect this.
Anyway, I hope this helps clear things out for first time purchasers and on to the pictures! Pardon the dirty crystal and bezel :laugh:
QC pictures:
^ Tracing, beat error and amplitude all looked VERY good to me despite +8s/day. But nothing a little regulation won't fix right?
A little disclaimer for those who don't know, timegrapher pic comes only AFTER approval of QC pics as has been in practice for InTime.
Any thoughts? How did it look on the wrist? Thanks for reading!
19th Dec - Ordered on a Friday.. Not the most efficient thing to do. Things started moving on Monday, so 3 days wait.
27th Dec - QC took quite a while, 8 days. When I did receive it, I asked for close up pictures on the 15, 30 and 45 markers in case of bad paint. InTime (TD in question) replied saying the 45's paint wasn't good and went ahead and exchanged the unit without me asking. A good gesture though, absolutely appreciated.
29th Dec - Next set of QC surprisingly took only 2 days and again I requested more pictures of the dial.
30th Dec - Received more pictures and extremely happy - everything was approved and shipped. Oh and again this was a Friday.
4th Jan - Received tracking number, tracked at local courier website and surprisingly already cleared customs and in the middle of delivery! But I wasn't in town.
7th Jan - Picked it up at the post office, unboxed.
IMPRESSIONS - Why is it so small.....?
Some of you may have read this sticky over at the general discussion section and it is absolutely true. I was spending WAY too much time being concerned with all the little things. You wouldn't be seeing half the things in person, at all.
This is also my first "luxury" watch so I've never had any high end gens and I can't say how close the rep is to the gen or how close it feels to a gen but it does feel pretty darn good. I've also never handled an automatic watch, ever been beyond visually interested in watches until the past month nor cared about what people had on their wrists.
THE WATCH - Weighty!
Again, never actually owned/handled anything like this watch before this so I felt like it was pretty heavy. I've had 2 other digital watches and a really thin quartz on bracelet.
- Bezel: Turns nicely, minimal play in between clicks but I believe this is normal. I half expected the clicks to be higher pitched but this is a more "tough" clicking experince.
- Lume: Good. I've not timed how long the lume sticks around for but it charges up pretty quickly and is plenty bright to see in the dark.
- Construction: It's where it should be as said on RWI for a V6/KW version. Superb build quality, poor knurling and wrong case. The knurling quality is obviously much too small to observe without a loupe but the rough machining is actually quite easily seen when light reflects from it. Again, not a huge issue.. just a thought. Dial batons are nice, so are the hands, subdial, pearl, CG lever action, crown winding and all.
- Movement: An A7750, I have less than 24hr experience with this but it's OK, no major issues. BUT...... I caught the watch stopping for no reason once. I shook it a little and it started up again. The watch lags 5 and 10 mins twice when I looked at it but it looks to be running fine. I'm guessing the lag may be because of the watch stopping. I'll update again in a few days, I hope it doesn't crap out on me. I have no resources for service movement and I'm not sure I want to spend that much for a service.
- Rotor: Yes, you can hear it. Doesn't bother me though.
- Strap: Rubber accordion strap is cool. I'm on the last hole and it's still not as tight as I'd like to it be.. I'll be getting a leather strap to go with this baby. Suggestions? Maybe something up to $60 at most, I can't justify the spending for a $100 strap. How are Panatime straps anyway?
- Misc: The watch came packed well, plenty of foam to keep it from getting knocked around too much and a rubber casing around the bezel and CG like all Lum Subs come in. A rep Panerai strap changing tool came with it too - I did not expect this.
Anyway, I hope this helps clear things out for first time purchasers and on to the pictures! Pardon the dirty crystal and bezel :laugh:
QC pictures:
^ Tracing, beat error and amplitude all looked VERY good to me despite +8s/day. But nothing a little regulation won't fix right?
A little disclaimer for those who don't know, timegrapher pic comes only AFTER approval of QC pics as has been in practice for InTime.
Any thoughts? How did it look on the wrist? Thanks for reading!
