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You might wish to visit the Shanghai Watch Factory Add?No. 201, Yulin Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China Zip Code?200082 T?86-021-65350055 FAX: 86-021-65411728 Foreign Trade? T?86-021-65459520 FAX:86-021-65458352 If you look around, you can get to an English section of this website: www.shanghai

Certainly, the watches are impressive (especially at the prices) just as they are, but I admit that I am also very impressed with Jorge Schauer's business model and commitment to his customers. There's a phrase: "but the seller before you buy the watch" and I've bought the seller...now I'm saving

...but they're somewhat difficult to find. Quite a bit easier to find on the usual major online auction sites are the ST5 models (The most desirable mechanicals have a nicely hand decorated movement as shown below). I own 3 watches with ST5 19 jewel mechanical movements, plus one variant with a 29 j

I have a newer model on the way--the Sea-Gull M185SP, which is a classic three hander with hanzi day and numeric date, containing the ST16 movement, which movement is evidently the ebauche for the Claro-Semag 888, and I also own the re-issue of the 1963 Chinese Air Force ST19 chronograph which is ba

...that good basic engineering and design coupled with appropriate part specific finishing (gears, jewels, springs) is more important to accuracy than overall fancy finishing. There's nothing rough about the gears or the micrometer, for example, in the ST7. A poster on another forum noted that Chine

An EMS package arrived yesterday morning from a newer Taobao contact and I am now the very proud owner of a quite rare Tianjin Sea-Gull 28 jewel day/date auto ST7 from roughly 1975 or so, and obviously strongly influenced in appearance by the ever (and justifiably) popular Rolex date-just models, al

Earlier this year the The Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle, in association with the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC), the Besançon Observatory and the Haute Ecole-ARC in Le Locle staged the 2009 International Chronometry Competition, but--even with the combined resources of all four agenc

Sunboro ( a Chinese maker of watches totally aimed at the kids, tourist and gift market). The Chinese PLA has even given this brand of watches to personnel as gifts on on special events. They are *totally* not meant for any sort of real tactical use--but they are big-time entertainment . This one is

Hi: This is my best understanding, but I think accurate... Liaoning was the factory where the movements (and the entire watches) were made. Hongqi or "Red Flag" was essentially a "brand" of the Liaoning Factory just as Kongque (or Peacock) was another Liaoning factory brand. It is thought that Shizh

both the Shizhi are prototypes...one likely worn by employees for testing and the other likely provided to government officials for production run approval. Although I don't have a general production run SL-2 Hongqi in my collection... yet , one later general production model of Hongqi (with a stand