For the year of Dragon, Sea-Gull first limited edition dive watch series Dragon King~

[arktika1148]

Very nice !!!
and good to see a flat back, and what a great looking back.

Sorry to say no dosh at the moment, and a pity so much extra to get over the pond

[bug tongue]

Just purchased this watch as my first Sea-Gull! I don't have any divers in my small collection, so this watch fills that spot nicely. Looking forward to receiving it in the mail soon.

[AlbertaTime]

Hey bug tongue, WELCOME to the Chinese Mechanical Watch forum!! We look forward to photos of your new Sea-Gull...yup, photos...that's the ticket!!

[Oilers Fan]

If they are pressure tested to 200m, I am pretty sure they will survive 35m.

[dkbs]

Impressive, and ST2130 seems fixed all problems ST18 ever has. I have limited 51 with ST2130, has been running with less than 1.5 sec error per day for more than 100 days. Can beat any watch in terms of accuracy and stability.

Maybe sometimes, Seagull should produce some chronometer level Sea-gull watches, just with little bit more patience on adjustment/assembly and quality control.

Sorry guys for answering all the question in reply.
1. I am not sure the dragon king it is ISO certified or not. However, every single Dragon King watch is individually checked and tested (both accuracy and resistance rating) Confirmed numberous times with the production manager in Sea-Gull .
2. As for WUS discount, the retail price is $412 and usseagull price $299, dragon king cost more to build (the bracelet on Dragon King is the most expensive one among other seagull models) and we decided to sell it at $259. I am very sorry guys, for usseagull limited watch, we really dont have that much room to offer additional discount.
3. Lume
1. first prototype, bad lume, returned to the factory
2. second, better, but still returned to the factory
3. The 3rd one is the brightest, it match up with Seiko' lume (compared side by side with walter's Seiko). But the dial turn out to be very ugly, we prefer white markers instead of green ones. As you can see, this one still has silver bezel which we changed later on.
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4. The last one is final product. It kind falls in between, it is not as bright as Seiko, but brigther that other Sea-Gull models and the frist & second prototype.


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Regards + have a good weekend!

Kevin
please send email to admin@usseagull.com instead of info@usseagull.com if you guys have any further questions.

[Pawl_Buster]

#42 is on it's way

This will be the only watch I have paid more than $100 for.
Apart from really inexpensive watches like Soki, Artron and Alpha; this will also be my first new watch purchase.

I am kind of stoked that my first 'real' watch is 100% Chinese made and designed by a couple of loyal WUS CMW forum members

While I was really,really tempted by the Wuyi and the beautiful forum watch; this one simply could not be ignored

[seagullfan]

Number 18 is also on its way.

Onto an earlier point in regards diving and diving watches - 200m water resistence does not mean you can actually take it down to 200m. 200m wr usually means the watch could be kept in stationary water at 200m for X amount of seconds/minutes. In real use 35 metres could exert more forces on the watch than 200 in testing (that I have no idea about).

I take my 50m WR omega swimming (their brochure states that surface swimming will be fine as long as you ensure the seals are fine by checking once a year). Others would be horrified to take any watch less than 200m WR into watch.

But maybe this sea dragon can be my beater swimming watch now ;)

[seagullfan]

Nice watch although i wish the date was at 3 or 6 or not even there. Even white on black would've been better to blend in more.
Still thinking about it :)

I'm almost the opposite - I would love to have seen a day/date in there like with my Citizen dive watch (which also has the day in "Chinese"/Japanese - always gets a comment from people who notice it).

[obsidian]

Onto an earlier point in regards diving and diving watches - 200m water resistence does not mean you can actually take it down to 200m. 200m wr usually means the watch could be kept in stationary water at 200m for X amount of seconds/minutes. In real use 35 metres could exert more forces on the watch than 200 in testing (that I have no idea about).

I take my 50m WR omega swimming (their brochure states that surface swimming will be fine as long as you ensure the seals are fine by checking once a year). Others would be horrified to take any watch less than 200m WR into watch.

lysanderxiii has a great post over on the Public Forum in which he uses science and math to bust myths about water resistance, hot tubs, gasket failure, etc.

Sigh, Myth Busting.... again

Quote:
"There is much confusion about water resistance in the mind of the consumer, but from an engineering point of view, it is cut and dry......

Doing the math, you can see that in order to raise the pressure by 1 atm the watch must be traveling at 14.25 m/s. That's about 51 km/h or 32 mph.
If you can get your arms to move that fast under water, please see your local Olympic committee, you are a due for some swimming medals this summer in London.
If you are at normal scuba diving depths (50 to 60 meters) you will have to be moving faster than a nuclear submarine to exceed the depth rating of a 100 meter rated watch."

My reply to his post:
"Let's face it, the dynamic pressure myth isn't a myth-- it's a scam! Perpetrated by the watch companies so they can con you into buying a "better" watch.
If a company sold you a 100m watch that can take any abuse and outlast you, you'd have no need to buy a second watch from them. They'd lose out on your repeat business and lose the ability to attract new customers who already owned a 100m watch from a competing company. No, they need to convince you that 100m isn't enough-- you need 200m... or to be safe, 300m... no, make that 500... no, 1000m!"

[johant]

That looks impressive! I hope this watch will succeed in the marketplace.

Unfortunately my watch budget is zero right now ...