Jumping Hour anyone?

m4r10

It must be the weather (thanks peasant for the excuse, don't know if will be enough for the wife tough) but yesterday I bought a Chinese jumping hour watch. Although I like how it looks, I'm afraid will be too small for me (only 33mm without crown) as I usualy wear ABC watches which are notoriously big, but hoping to compensate in the lug to lug distance - 56mm. If it doesn't fit, watch the "for sale" corner .

Now the thorny part :eek:: the wife doesn't know yet but as I'm taking the kids to the grandparents next week and I'm staying with them for another 2 weeks, I hope the fury will pass by the time I'm coming back. If not, I'll just stay there indefinitely.

Here's a pic taken by the seller:

peasant

Took me a while to figure out what you where on about

I was expecting something like this:



Only after several glances at the watchface did it dawn on me

m4r10

Well, I should've said crazy jump hour.

Yes, the one in your pic is a jump hour as well, I had something like that in mind for a while now, but as they're somehow old (vintage?), they tend to be on the small size. I had a Citizen Promaster at 40mm and I sold because it looked too small on the wrist, that's why I'm wary about this one. I should find out in about 3-4 weeks

m4r10

Came back home on Sunday and the watch was home to my surprise. After wearing it a few times, I'm impressed by how it feels on the wrist: heavier that I thought and has more presence on the wrist that the size would suggest (33mm w/c). Even my wife likes it!!! All in all, I'm very happy with it and it is a keeper.

Here are some pics of the watch:

Bullseye1

Very cool with a Tourbillon movement.

m4r10

Although it says tourbillon, it's only a see trough open heart. Still cool though to see on the face the parts moving inside of the watch.

peasant

Wouldn't be my kind of watch but it does look pretty impressive and fairly well made.

Wear it in good health.