If you have spent any time on watch collector forums or amongst budget-minded watch collectors, Orient watches are going to come up. They are a well known brand making affordable and reliable watches for a wide range of styles competing at the Seiko/Citizen range. We previously reviewed the CEM75001B and its smaller brother the CEM65001B (in conjunction with our twitter contest), but thought the Mako XL needed the video treatment. Here is a refresher:
- Movement: Orient 46943
- Power Reserve: 40 Hours
- Crystal: Mineral
- Case: Solid stainless steel
- Size: 44.5×13.3
- Dial: Black
- Bezel: Black, 60 click uni-directional
- Lug Width: 22mm
- Water Resist: 200m/660ft
- Retail: $250 (use the promo code watchreport50 to get 50% off that)
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Not only do we have a review of two Orient watches today, they’re also yours to win on on Twitter contest detailed below. What we have here are two versions of Orient’s mechanical dress diver with automatic movements, day/date, dive bezels, and quickset day. The differences are in the style details, and overall appearance.
Some specifications to get us started:
- Orient models CEM75001B (Left) and CEM65001B (right). The second is already nicknamed ‘Mako,’ and the first is the ‘New Mako.’
- Water resistant to 200m (660ft).
- Oyster-style bracelets with solid links, hollow end links, pushbutton latch, and fliplock. 3 micro adjustments on the clasp.
- Stainless steel case and bracelet.
- Screw-down crown and caseback.
- Mineral crystal.
- 60-click bezel.
- Lumed hands and indices.
- Available online for $190 and $250 MSRP, but if you enter “watchreport50″, you get 50% off!
Please read on for the full review and contest details.
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In a first for Watch Report, today's review is of the Orient CDD00001W0 pocket watch. As in the kind that you wear in your pocket, and have to wind every day. Updated with modern materials and movement, this is a new take on an old standard. Let's see how they did. First, the specifications:
- In-house mechanical movement, Orient 48C40, made in Japan, 21 jewels, 21,600 vph.
- Hacking center seconds (very unusual in a pocket watch).
- 40-hour power reserve with power reserve complication at 9 o'clock.
- Stainless steel case and sapphire crystals, front and rear.
- Shock-protected movement. (Balance staff and other key jewels have springs on them, unlike vintage movements.)
- 40mm by 11.5mm case, waterproof to 30m (100ft).
- Stainless steel chain with belt clip included.
Please read on for more.
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by admin on February 7, 2009
in Orient
View the Orient CFT00004B Photo Gallery.
The Orient CFT00004B is a handsome, semi-dressy sport watch which incorporates Orient's own 46R40 self-winding automatic movement. It has a great looking polished case and bracelet, a power reserve indicator, a slide rule, and an "open heart" skeleton dial that shows the balance wheel and the crown and stem assembly.
The Case
This is a well balanced watch with a 43.7mm case that sits 12.1mm off your wrist. The case is polished and has a pleasant shine to it that compliments the fixed bezel and the nicely shaped dual crown system. The 9 o'clock crown is for setting the time while the 4 o'clock crown operates the internal slide rule. As a side note, before you decide to buy a watch with a slide rule, I recommend that you read up on how to use it, and make sure it's something you really want. They are complicated and difficult to use, and tend to make the dial much busier than a simple dive-style timing bezel. The slide rule on the Orient CFT00004B is unique in that it's internal (below the crystal) which means it's operated by a crown rather than rotating it directly. Internal rotating bezels, or reflectors, are usually reserved for dive watches since you don't want the bezel to get bumped and inadvertently adjusted; this is the first time we've seen one one a pilot style watch.
The dial and movement are sandwiched between twin sapphire crystals to give you a view of both the time and the technology behind it. The dial is cluttered but easy to read, thanks to the exaggerated arabic markers at the twelve and six o'clock positions as well as ample markers and long, wide hands. All the markers and hands have decent lume that lasts long enough to be usable, but don't quite give Seiko or Ocean7 a run for their money. The Orient CFT00004B does not have a date feature which is one of my few complaints.
This is the second Orient I've owned. The first was the "Red Beast", a boisterous diver that crowded your wrist and screamed out with its bright red face and massive hands. The CFT00004B seems to be more accurate than its diver cousin, and bears less resemblance to the Miyota automatics found driving Invictas and automatic Citizen divers. This is a nice watch with an asian movement that keeps better time then one might think, given the price.
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