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Perrelet Seacraft

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#1 ·
Just received today. Amazing watch. Very well made. ETA 2892 Decorated by Perrelet. Has a awesome ratcheting clasp for the perfect fit.



















 
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I'm wearing my white three-hander right now and it's grown on me a lot since I got it in December. The movement is actually a Perrelet-modified Soprod A10. As Soprod is owned by Festina, which also owns Perrelet, it's a semi-in-house movement. Great watch!
 
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Just received today. Amazing watch. Very well made. ETA 2892 Decorated by Perrelet. Has a awesome ratcheting clasp for the perfect fit.
Actually, it's Soprod, not ETA. The Festina Group owns both Soprod and Perrelet. The Caliber P-261 used in this Perrelet Seacraft is based on the Soprod A-10, which is similar to the ETA 2892, but unlike the ETA clones made by Selitta, is engineered from the ground up by Soprod. It's reputed to be a very high quality movement, as good or perhaps better than its ETA counterpart. Perrelet has a reputation for using highly decorated movements, which makes it a little bit of a shame that there's no see through caseback on the Seacraft.
 
#14 ·
That's a great looking watch! I like the looks of many Perrelet watches. I think this is a brand on the rise.

I just don't get the silly claims for the 'inventor of the automatic watch' coming from a new watch brand... Somehow I can forgive them these misleading claims due to the watches they are putting out. It is a beautiful watch.
 
#15 ·
That's a great looking watch! I like the looks of many Perrelet watches. I think this is a brand on the rise.

I just don't get the silly claims for the 'inventor of the automatic watch' coming from a new watch brand... Somehow I can forgive them these misleading claims due to the watches they are putting out. It is a beautiful watch.
Perrelet, a new watch brand? Their fondness for "777" is a reference to date of their founding, 1777. Abraham-Louis Perrelet is said to have made the first self-winding watch in the 1770's.
 
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Congrats! Looks amazing:-!
 
#21 ·
They are great watches. I have to resist because I know at 42mm I will not like the small size. It's one of the watches that make me wish my wrist was smaller.
 
#22 ·
If you like the look, the chrono is 45mm and looks to wear every millimeter of that.
 
#26 ·
Didn't see the Seacraft on the official web site.

Amazing history. From Wikipedia:

Abraham-Louis Perrelet, (9 January 1729 - 1826), born in Neuchâtel in Switzerland, was a Swiss horologist.
Perrelet invented a self-winding mechanism in 1770s for pocket watches. It worked on the same principle as a modern wristwatch, and was designed to wind as the owner walked, using an oscillating weight inside the large watch that moved up and down.
The Geneva Society of Arts reported in 1777 that fifteen minutes walking was necessary to wind the watch sufficiently for eight days, and the following year reported that it was selling well.[SUP][1][/SUP] Perrelet is thus widely acknowledged as the inventor of the basic movement known as 'automatic' today. This hypothesis has been recently challenged, as we do not know precisely what was the movement he created. It was pointed out that the first drawing and accurate description of an automatic watch has been created in 1778 by the watchmaker Hubert Sarton fr:Hubert Sarton and that we cannot be sure that the Perrelet watch was actually based on a rotor principle (some others watch makers are also known to have created automatic watches in the 1770s). In 1780 Perrelet created the first pedometer, measuring the steps and distance while walking.
 
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