Great watch. Manual wind makes for a nice thin mechanical chronograph.

Wearing the reverse panda gemini now! Other watches feeling neglected.

I signed up on the waitlist for this and the new falcon. Not sure what I’m going to get but I’m leaning towards the Gemini. I don’t mind waiting until the fall for it so...decisions

They did a special edition with W&W and it sold out in 8 seconds....

Great looking watch, good review Rob, thanks 👍🇬🇧

Good lord this is nice. The one I want. They also releasing some new versions of their Neptune diver and falcon sport watch and they are absolute 🔥

@Billeh556

2 жыл бұрын

A year later and I’m wearing one in the wrist, panda dial. Also have had their Falcon v2 for almost a year now too, both amazing watches!

I love me a panda-dial ... but I made the mistake of checking the other two colours and that blue version looks stunning, too. Good thing this watch isn't available right now or it would confuse me even more in my quest for a mechanical chrono. :)

Thanks Bobby🤘🏼

very beautiful! i lost interesting in Lorier because every single time they release a watch I'm ready and never get one. Gratz to them for being the king and queen of micros tho they deserve it!

@jimmyelectric

4 жыл бұрын

Escapement & Watch sorry what

@mariog7213

4 жыл бұрын

They changed their system. Now you get ok a waiting list as they tell you approximately when you’ll be receiving yours. I’m scheduled to get mine the first week of June. Check out their website. Happy hunting

Been on the waiting list also for the white dial since May hopefully August or September I get one 🔥🔥🥴

I’m on the waiting list for the next batch of white dial. Beautiful watch, perfect size, great look. Only concern is the Chinese made movement, but good luck finding a manual wind, relatively thin, mechanical chronograph for $500 with a Swiss or Japanese movement.

Thank you for your review and support RR!!!

Plexiglass crystal is actually more expensive for them bc it's not standard and harder to make water resistant. They do it on purpose for the better optical quality, vintage vibe, and distortion. Easy to polish in a few minutes at home once or twice a year.

You won’t get a domed and boxed sapphire at this price point on a mechanical watch. And if they used a cheaper flat sapphire, the watch would lose a lot of vintage charm which is the whole point here. So they’d probably have to charge more to get a boxed sapphire and it wouldn’t look exactly the same anyway since plexi has a different affect on light and distortions than sapphire.

I like the dual register chronographs the best. Nice symmetry.

How do Lorier's compare to Christopher Ward? If the fit and finish is as good, I'm interested

I really like the look of their watches. I know they’re going for a certain look and found it with plexi but at that price I’d expect Safire.

@Emaratilfy

4 жыл бұрын

That's fine but the glass isn't proportional with quality. You can get new Omegas with plexiglass. It's easy to maintain and it doesn't shatter in thousand pieces - unlike sapphire.

@ilmostro16

4 жыл бұрын

The price isn’t the issue. Like Emaratilfy just said, a new $4000 Omega Speedmaster moon watch comes with a plexi because that’s the vintage design and style. But that being said, you might only get a flat sapphire crystal at this price point. You will not get a mechanical watch with a very domed and boxed sapphire (its not just domed but also has raised curved edges) as that is a more expensive piece of glass. If they used a flat or only very slightly domed sapphire, you’d lose a lot of the charm of this piece. For example, the Christopher Ward Trident watches have a boxed sapphire crystal (not very domed though) and they cost north of $800. Yes they have ETA movement, but non chronograph at that price either.

@Random14599

4 жыл бұрын

Yup I have a hesalite moon watch. The domed sapphire just ruins the vintage appeal. It has a milky ring around the dome and it's kind of body. Domed acrylic is superior on any vintage reissue pieces. The price isn't going to matter unless your buying like a seiko. Where i would choose pieces with sapphire instead of hardlex.

They make such a beautiful watch. Looks great

What company makes the screwdriver and where to find them?

It's pretty attractive, but my biggest issue is that I don't really care for chronographs. I used to; back when I didn't know much about watches a chronograph kind of seemed like a swiss army knife of watches (I mean, look at all those dials, they have to do something I thought), but as I've learned more I don't really care about the features of a chrono to, say, a watch with ABC features. I like watches on a steel band to have clean, unobstructed faces with perhaps a date window being the only thing marring it up. As far as chronos go this is a beauty though.

@mariog7213

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the Neptune and falcon

The only no bs no nonsense micro brand i can get behind

@trevillyan5515

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@jamesg4670

4 жыл бұрын

Fairly priced,no marketing b.s.just a nice couple that liked vintage watches and wanted to start there own brand..classic traditional attractive design,not a homage,clever and unoffensive branding and logo

@ZombiesOnDrugs101

3 жыл бұрын

I like Straton too

Hi folk's can any of you good people please tell me where these watches are made. Thanks Neil.

@RandomRobReviews

4 жыл бұрын

China. Almost every watch you ever see is made in China or used China parts. Facts

Same movement as Seagull 1963

Lighthouse?

Seagull 1964

plexi suits the style MUCH more than sapphire

St19 movement and they decided to hide that beauty, that's a bummer

Sapphire crystal and display caseback and I'd be sold

@Billeh556

4 жыл бұрын

RayFitz won’t ever happen they choose plexi on purpose. Looks like you won’t ever get one (or buy polywatch and 30 seconds later crystal is brand new)

@1SaG

4 жыл бұрын

@@Billeh556 Not saying you're wrong re polywatch, but I wonder ... should you have to worry about that for $500?

@tippykaffu4047

4 жыл бұрын

@@1SaG should I really worry about scratches in plexi? Cause I dont really care

I really dont get why laying the bracelet flat on the back is such a big deal. literally all bracelets can do that with or without fixed centerlinks.

@RandomRobReviews

4 жыл бұрын

On wrist comfort is just better based on my experience with over 1000 watches tried on wrist.

@JimBeamRulz

4 жыл бұрын

@@RandomRobReviews I understand that having foldable centerlinks is more comfortable. thats a fact. but even a bracelet with fixed centerlink can lay flat on the back so that is not a real indicator of comfort.

WIHA is high-quality durable tools not just for watches! :D Ido love them in my hobby working.

Nice watch but over £500? That's what gets me about this community, a micro brand releases a watch for this price, which is fine but Seiko bring out an updated (debatable) version of the Alpinist for £600 and everyone loses their minds....... Puzzling🤯

@Ilestun

4 жыл бұрын

Because it mechanical chrono. It's kinda hard to find affordable mechanical chronograph watches. However I see nothing really wrong with the new alpinist (except that cyclop which keeps me from buying it).

@mariog7213

4 жыл бұрын

People complain because they re released the same watch they just took off the market with an added logo that nobody likes and they come with a misaligned chapter ring and a dated movement

If this were mechaquartz I'd be all about it

Nice!Just don't like the hands

Sizing is good not keen on looks of it though

Sapphire is overrated if you ask me. Plexi is just fine, and it's more durable. People act like sapphire is the be-all and end-all, it's not. It's nice, but for fucks sake, it would NEVER be a deal-breaker for me on any watch.

Beautiful watch!!!! Shame that this is the bezel type...

@stuartcole4845

3 жыл бұрын

Emanuel Avrahami what bezel type should it be?

Nice looking watch, but why are so many microbrands seemingly terrible at designing appealing looking logos?! This really spoils the dial - doubly so since it's way bigger than it needs to be

Would have bought it if it was Quartz :(

Looks nice enough, but where are these made and assembled? I'm guessing China at that price point in which case it would be a hard pass from me.

@eyeheartsushi2212

4 жыл бұрын

todoroki I believe the parts are made in China and they are assembled in Hong Kong or Singapore (one of the two).

@todoroki

4 жыл бұрын

@@eyeheartsushi2212 Yeah I thought so. Carefully hidden by the Lorier marketing team of course.

@stuartcole4845

3 жыл бұрын

todoroki what marketing team? It’s two people and yea, they are trying so hard to mask its origins they put the most famous Chinese movement in it.

It's a shame to have a seagull st19 on the watch and not be able to look at it just cause there is no transparent case back, most people will go for a "seagull 1963 AliExpress replica" just cause of the see thru case back.

Name/logo is not very good .

@Thesupermanning

4 жыл бұрын

What do you suggest they use instead for name / logo?