The Orient Watch Thread

[Carl_Manchester]

After Orient decided to use Sapphire glass, tweak the faces and the colours, what can i say, my hand was forced.

I have picked up a Pepsi and the Special edition for 205 GBP each delivered. I would like to say that I won't buy the other two colours but, I would be lying. I have also picked up a cheaper 125 GBP divers watch with a rubber strap which, I plan to mod as a bit of a hobby job.

You can install ceramic or sapphire bezels into these, fully lumed. I am not convinced either are better than aluminium but someone, somewhere will have a moan about aluminium and the lack of bezel lume, you can change that if you want to.

You can also get wide variety of straps for these, I am going to see what the OEM ones are like before thowing them out of bed.

Here is the 2022 lineup:









I will post updates in this thread, are there any more Orient owners out there?

[pistonheadforum]

Great watches - the alternative Seiko.

The gamble was purchasing them I always thought. Where are you getting them from?

[Carl_Manchester]

creationwatches, they are listed as Mako III under the Orient section.

very professional experience so far, they were shipped by DHL about 6 hours after placing my order.

[r159]

Long Island watches have done a video on YouTube today on Orient dive watches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhE9TcXrTmE

[Kneedragger95]

Bought myself this Orient a little over 2 years ago. The build quality is very good and attention to detail is very good, it has a nice weight too, feels very solid.
I'd definitely buy another in the future.

[Barchettaman]

^ what is that? Looks lovely.

Anyway I’m delighted with my humble Bambino. Only £60 very lightly used.

[Kneedragger95]

Barchettaman said:

^ what is that? Looks lovely.

Its an Orient Sun and Moon, version 2 I think.

The original strap was a bit too plasticy, so that was swapped for an Aliigator strap. .

A great watch for around £200.

[Carl_Manchester]

First Orient arrived today, this one will be a beater and I paid £125.

As a previous owner of a UN Chrono Diver I am surprised by the quality. Chuffed would be an understatement.

Edited by Carl_Manchester on Friday 15th April 14:16

[Carl_Manchester]

The Orient pepsi has arrived today and very nice it is too.

[UnclePat]

My Orient Mako is one of the few watches I’ll never part with.

It’s been my exclusive travel watch for a decade.

From swimming with turtles in the Caribbean, and a submarine base in Crimea, to Hitler’s mountain top ‘Eagles Nest’.

Gouged badly in the South Bank whilst ‘tired & emotional’ at Euro 2016, to protecting my left wrist by sacrificing itself and going flying upon a losing fight with gravity & concrete steps in Switzerland.

The sunray blue dial has also by far made it my watch most commented upon by total strangers.

The newer versions are superior but I really miss the idiosyncratic pusher at 2 o’clock to change the date.

An ‘in-house’ movement, too. Never serviced, just patched-up and still reliably going strong.

Just great value.

[Carl_Manchester]

The limited edition brown and red version arrived today. Number 18/2000.

[WayOutWest]

I do like these.

Does the one on the rubber strap wear bigger than the others?

Was looking at this Triton variant
https://www.timeshop24.co.uk/orient-ra-ac0k03l10b-...

But the 43mm models are a tad large on lug to lug length for those lacking chubby company director/stair-dominating grade wrists.

So your pepsi is a good trade off for size, spec and price for more spindly wristed IT geeks (think that one is same size as Ray 2/Mako 2?).

[Carl_Manchester]

WayOutWest said:

I do like these.

Does the one on the rubber strap wear bigger than the others?

Yes, the one on the rubber strap is much larger and has a mineral crystal, this is the pepsi I have, Orient do a few variants but this is the one with the Sapphire Crystal in the OP:

https://www.creationwatches.com/products/orient-au...

It wears much smaller than the 43mm diameter implies and would wear fine on a smaller wrist.

[tedmus]

New sailcloth arrived yesterday from Bradystraps which I've fitted to my Kano.

[Carl_Manchester]

Nice work. I have just fitted my Zulu strap, I have a blue one as well.

[Drooles]

These all look very interesting. I know very little about Orient but I’m about to do some research…

[Carl_Manchester]

Strapcode bracelet arrived today and I have slapped it onto the Orient project watch. Seriously impressed by the bracelet, I don't recall my Rolex bracelets being much better.

[ZesPak]

Thread revival! Can attest, strapcode really elevates these watches.

Just got a couple of these in for posterity.
LOVE the quality on them, crazy they can put them out for that money. No wonder they have such a staunch following.

[blue_haddock]

Despite being a seiko fanboy i've never had an Orient but i'm seriously considering adding one to the collection.

https://orient-watch.com/Collections/ORIENT/Sports...

[ZesPak]

Mike9199 said:

ZesPak said:

Thread revival! Can attest, strapcode really elevates these watches.

Just got a couple of these in for posterity.
LOVE the quality on them, crazy they can put them out for that money. No wonder they have such a staunch following.

Love both of them!

Thanks. My little boys picked them out themselves, although they thought I was inquiring for me.
The eldest (8) loves roman numerals, although he is very disappointed that he can't seem to find a watch that says IV instead of IIII.
So if anyone has a mod where I could "fix" that dial, he'd be ecstatic .