Initial Impressions & Pics of Orient Star 200m WZ0351FD "Revolver"

[Jamie]

Great watch and thanks for the review,


I am wearing the yellow 300 today and looking at it and your photo's and I think the hands on the 200 are the nicer of the 2.

[Jockinho]

Looks very good but unfortunately I´m one of does person that has something against the bezel so I prefer the 300m version. Exept for that it seems like a great watch Thanks for sharing

[TLex]

Gets my vote mate! Cool piece!

[ezcheese]

Nice review and pictures. Alot of nice points on that one and same caseback as the OS300. Seems like the winding is more efficient on the 200 than the 300 -- it takes me about 3 or 4 minutes to take the power reserve meter from "0" to "40" hours on the 300. But it also sounds like they must have used a lower lume on the 200's because the 300's blow away any Seiko I've ever seen. The Sawtooth comes the closest to matching the 300 in the lume department, but still less intensity.

I'll have to check the lume against my Tuna. I'm gonna take some comparison pics this afternoon.

Would you describe the bezel tension as much tighter than a Seiko? Or, about the same? Thanks for the review.

The bezel feels about the same as my Tuna and BFK bezels. Action is easy and smooth. After owning a Mako, I was expecting the bezel to be harder to operate, but it's silky smooth.

[Stevepodraza]

Love this watch, want to add it to my collection. question, I want a little more heavy duty bracelet, any suggestions? will a Swiss Army dive master SS bracelet fit on here, I know the dive master is 22mm.
Thanks guys, great forum!

Steve

[OldeCrow]

Steve the divemaster is a fitted curved link bracelet so you would have to find some custom solution to getting it to fit on the Orient. Any decent straight end will look great on it though, I put the OS300m bracelet on mine and really like the look but those watchadoo bracelets should fit it too.

[Jamie]

If the OS 300 braclet fits then a watchadoo would work. It looks good on the OS 300.

[ezcheese]

A watchadoo would look pretty good. It looks great on Tuna too.

[ezcheese]

As promised, here are some wrist shots as well as a side-by-side with my Tuna. Backdrop graciously provided by Chino watch with my order.

First up: wrist shots. This watch sits really high on the wrist. I tried to capture that fact in my photos, but I don't think I quite captured how tall it actually is.

This may be an optical illusion caused by the contrast between the watch case and the thin bracelet.












Next up: Tuna time!

Here's some side-by-side lume action. Of course I had to screw these pics up. When I turned the camera back on to take these, I forgot to kick in macro mode, so the lume shots are blurry.

The first shot was taken about 15-20 seconds after both watches sat under a lamp with a special "daylight" bulb for about a minute.

Tuna on the left, Revolver on the right.



This next one was taken about 15 seconds later. You can tell that the Revolver lume is already starting to wear down quicker than the Tuna.



Now let's get some daylight in here:













That's a good lookin' duo!

[jason_recliner]

Is it just me, or is the finishing of the case and bezel not the best? On the case, between the lugs doesn't look quite right in some pics. And the dark bits on the bezel don't look completely uniform. Is this right?