/fa/ - Fashion

>>15651534
>a note about german watches
A mixed bag, really. Mid-level brands like Junkers or Junghans use swiss Etas or Rondas, so consider yourself warned. Nomos claims to make 95% of their work in-house. Sinn uses swiss Valjoux, which have a pretty good reputation. Stowa uses swiss Etas. Then of course, the really high end ones like Glashütte Original or a. Lange do everything in-house
>a note about british watches
they're dead, Jim
all of them
>a note about China
all of this really gets us back to China and to how good they may or may not be at making movements.
And the answer is : they are good but they are also really shit.
There are a handful of really legit factories making quality movements. The Sea-Gull movements are solid, rugged automatic movements that many use. The Beijing Watch Factory once made some good movements but their main line, the Chinese Standard Movement has seriously declined (used by Invicta, among others). However if you're willing send them specs, they can give you a quality movement like the Celadon-Grade Caliber. That thing has a 120h power reserve ffs.
However at the end of the day, most chinese quartzes will be pretty shit and the bulk of chinese movement production is no-name stuff shoved into fashion watches.

>>15646868
Blessed chinaboo.
The Yu Fei is so gimmicky, it's beautiful.

>>15553552
The red Imperial is pretty great too but yeah, the Peacock and the full-on Sun-Tzu autism watch are top-tier.

>>15466040
That was a limited run by Maison Celadon, your go-to provider of classic Chinaboo watches. Sadly, that was a run of just a few dozen watches each in the $2-3000 range so good luck finding them now.
Their regular production is still pretty nice though and they make their movements in-house.
The Yue Fei has all of its hands based on ancient chinese weapons and an engraving of the Great Wall on the caseback.
The Imperial is based on Ming era embroidery (although the dial is not actual embroidery, sadly) and has calligraphy on the visible movement.
Seriously considering getting one eventually. Not sure which. If they do another run of silk dials, I'm in.