While RWI was gone for beefing up its muscle, I post my first dealer review on RWG 1.1. Now I am posting this back to where it should be.
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Just received my very first rep watches today (1/27). I ordered these from Hont (I know he is not on the trust dealer list here yet, but I ordered from him because of good reviews on RWI when I joined RWI about a month ago).
The communication with Hont is in general satisfied. He normally responded to my inquiries within 24-48 hours time frame. The only exception was after I made the payment and he agreed to send me pictures of the watches before he ship them to me, that took him about 4-5 days to get back to me with pictures of the watches he sourced for me. I was a little panic but it turned out to be okay. So, the fault was on me not Hont.
I bought 3 watches from Hont :
-- 33mm white Chanel J12 Quartz w/full ceramic, and sapphire crystal
-- 38mm black Chanel J12 GMT w/A21J, full ceramic, and sapphire crystal
-- IWC 3717 w/A7750, and sapphire crystal
The credit card payment gateway Hont uses gave me a little trouble during payment, but I eventually sorted out with my Bank (a VISA card), to convince them it was NOT a fraud transaction, then I was able to make my payment to Hont.
Hont shipped out the watch on 1/22 and I received the watch today (1/27).
Here are the pictures for unpacking and watches.
Hont packaged the watches in this little foam box.
Inside, Hont put some bubble bags to protect the watches.
This is what's inside after taking out the bubble bags.
Voila, my watches!
Removed all the plastic bags. The watches look nice.
The IWC 3717.
The Chanel J12 GMT
The Chanel J12 Quartz
I hope my picture doesn't bore you and some of the shots look very similar but the focus points are sightly different to expose different part of the watches.
I would say I definitely won't hesitate to order from Hont again in the future.
As far as these watches, I like the IWC 3717 the most (and it certainly is more expensive than the Chanel J12), it will be on my wrist a lot, but I will probably get a softer strap later to replace the rep one came with it. I don't like the black leather strap much. Will try to match it with a Getat strap later probably.
The Chanel J12 looks very nice as well, and don't feel cheaply made either, they both have decent weight in my hand, but the crown quality might be the weakest part followed by the bezel. But the price is very decent for these Chanel. $80 for the 33mm Quartz and $140 for the 38mm A21J GMT. One more thing about the Chanel, the date window is actually quite tiny on these J12 despite from what you see in the pictures.
-- Edit --
Right off the bat (for like within 48 hours), the IWC keeps better time than the Chanel J12 GMT does. The IWC stays within like 5 sec comparing to my Citizen Quartz in 48-72 hours.
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Just received my very first rep watches today (1/27). I ordered these from Hont (I know he is not on the trust dealer list here yet, but I ordered from him because of good reviews on RWI when I joined RWI about a month ago).
The communication with Hont is in general satisfied. He normally responded to my inquiries within 24-48 hours time frame. The only exception was after I made the payment and he agreed to send me pictures of the watches before he ship them to me, that took him about 4-5 days to get back to me with pictures of the watches he sourced for me. I was a little panic but it turned out to be okay. So, the fault was on me not Hont.
I bought 3 watches from Hont :
-- 33mm white Chanel J12 Quartz w/full ceramic, and sapphire crystal
-- 38mm black Chanel J12 GMT w/A21J, full ceramic, and sapphire crystal
-- IWC 3717 w/A7750, and sapphire crystal
The credit card payment gateway Hont uses gave me a little trouble during payment, but I eventually sorted out with my Bank (a VISA card), to convince them it was NOT a fraud transaction, then I was able to make my payment to Hont.
Hont shipped out the watch on 1/22 and I received the watch today (1/27).
Here are the pictures for unpacking and watches.
Hont packaged the watches in this little foam box.
Inside, Hont put some bubble bags to protect the watches.
This is what's inside after taking out the bubble bags.
Voila, my watches!
Removed all the plastic bags. The watches look nice.
The IWC 3717.
The Chanel J12 GMT
The Chanel J12 Quartz
I hope my picture doesn't bore you and some of the shots look very similar but the focus points are sightly different to expose different part of the watches.
I would say I definitely won't hesitate to order from Hont again in the future.
As far as these watches, I like the IWC 3717 the most (and it certainly is more expensive than the Chanel J12), it will be on my wrist a lot, but I will probably get a softer strap later to replace the rep one came with it. I don't like the black leather strap much. Will try to match it with a Getat strap later probably.
The Chanel J12 looks very nice as well, and don't feel cheaply made either, they both have decent weight in my hand, but the crown quality might be the weakest part followed by the bezel. But the price is very decent for these Chanel. $80 for the 33mm Quartz and $140 for the 38mm A21J GMT. One more thing about the Chanel, the date window is actually quite tiny on these J12 despite from what you see in the pictures.
-- Edit --
Right off the bat (for like within 48 hours), the IWC keeps better time than the Chanel J12 GMT does. The IWC stays within like 5 sec comparing to my Citizen Quartz in 48-72 hours.
