A week ago I was more or less sure of what will my next PAM be, a lovely good quality Radiomir. I've never had one and I thought it was about time to change that fact. My two finalists were the H factory 380 and the KW Seagull 388 V2. The 448 qualified as the third choice. And those were the good days...
Had too much time and accidentaly found the 441 review by Polonus..what a mistake. My strong determination on buying a Radiomir got weaker and weaker by the minute and I got drawn into the whole new ideals on aesthetics. Those ceramic cases are somehow magically beautiful, there's something about them that speaks to me. I was a little bit worried that they would be too lightweight, but I believe they can't be that bad, the movement adds some grams and so does the crystal.
And there's a Seagull version that has a very reasonable pricepoint at 300$. Kinda liked the 438 Tuttonero too, but it was too expensive for my taste. And here we go, Sead posted a new thread yesterday, that he has the Seagull version for 369$:w00t: That's 69$ more for the ceramic bracelet and the blackened movement. But I'm not sure if I'll love the bracelet, since I've never cared for PAMs on bracelets, like the 299, there's something wrong with that picture to me. On the other hand I can still put it on an Asso if I don't like it, but that's 69$ out the window...My other concern is that I won't like any of these two in person, because of their similarity to the 359. I loved it in the pictures, but there was something about the dial that just didn't do it for me, it was kinda dull in person ( the sausage dials kinda pop out more ) and I couldn't tell the time in various light conditions because of the extremely poor AR. Maybe that's different with the black case and there' more contrast..I hope so anyway, the AR seems as shitty as with the 359.
To make things even more interesting we have a third contestant that became available at a very good price this week and that's the new Seagull KW 508, Sead sells it for 349$:
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/215141-pm-508kw-full-ceramic-seagull-movement
I loved it from the introduction at SIHH, but was put off by the crappy reps we had in the past. But I've read the review by kilowattore:
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/...8-Ceramic-review-PICS-HEAVY?highlight=pam+508
and I believe this is much better now. The pearl looks kinda poor in his review, like a piece of candy glued to the bezel, but the one from Sead seems to be a bit improved and more uniform with other colors on the dial and the bezel. What do you guys think? Or am I just imagining things? My main concern with this one is the size ( 47mm ). My wrist is 18 cm ( about 7" ) and my 243 is just about right at 44mm, this is what it looks like:
If anyone has a similar sized wrist and has experience with watches of this size please chime in, your opinion is of a great value. I'm really wondering if I can pull it off without looking like an idiot with a wall clock on his wrist
I'm posting another two wrist shots with a Ploprof ( wears abnormally comfortable for its size ) and a 47mm Steinhart, which of course is a completely different watch and it looks bigger because of the thin bezel:
I know these are similar in size to the 508, but different types of watches with the same diameters usualy wear completely differently. I've had that experience with the Longines diver watch which looked ridiculous at 48mm. And the Plop is OK..dunno..Anyway, comments are more than welcome
Had too much time and accidentaly found the 441 review by Polonus..what a mistake. My strong determination on buying a Radiomir got weaker and weaker by the minute and I got drawn into the whole new ideals on aesthetics. Those ceramic cases are somehow magically beautiful, there's something about them that speaks to me. I was a little bit worried that they would be too lightweight, but I believe they can't be that bad, the movement adds some grams and so does the crystal.
And there's a Seagull version that has a very reasonable pricepoint at 300$. Kinda liked the 438 Tuttonero too, but it was too expensive for my taste. And here we go, Sead posted a new thread yesterday, that he has the Seagull version for 369$:w00t: That's 69$ more for the ceramic bracelet and the blackened movement. But I'm not sure if I'll love the bracelet, since I've never cared for PAMs on bracelets, like the 299, there's something wrong with that picture to me. On the other hand I can still put it on an Asso if I don't like it, but that's 69$ out the window...My other concern is that I won't like any of these two in person, because of their similarity to the 359. I loved it in the pictures, but there was something about the dial that just didn't do it for me, it was kinda dull in person ( the sausage dials kinda pop out more ) and I couldn't tell the time in various light conditions because of the extremely poor AR. Maybe that's different with the black case and there' more contrast..I hope so anyway, the AR seems as shitty as with the 359.
To make things even more interesting we have a third contestant that became available at a very good price this week and that's the new Seagull KW 508, Sead sells it for 349$:
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/215141-pm-508kw-full-ceramic-seagull-movement
I loved it from the introduction at SIHH, but was put off by the crappy reps we had in the past. But I've read the review by kilowattore:
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/...8-Ceramic-review-PICS-HEAVY?highlight=pam+508
and I believe this is much better now. The pearl looks kinda poor in his review, like a piece of candy glued to the bezel, but the one from Sead seems to be a bit improved and more uniform with other colors on the dial and the bezel. What do you guys think? Or am I just imagining things? My main concern with this one is the size ( 47mm ). My wrist is 18 cm ( about 7" ) and my 243 is just about right at 44mm, this is what it looks like:
If anyone has a similar sized wrist and has experience with watches of this size please chime in, your opinion is of a great value. I'm really wondering if I can pull it off without looking like an idiot with a wall clock on his wrist
I'm posting another two wrist shots with a Ploprof ( wears abnormally comfortable for its size ) and a 47mm Steinhart, which of course is a completely different watch and it looks bigger because of the thin bezel:
I know these are similar in size to the 508, but different types of watches with the same diameters usualy wear completely differently. I've had that experience with the Longines diver watch which looked ridiculous at 48mm. And the Plop is OK..dunno..Anyway, comments are more than welcome
