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Month: November 2019

Powermatic Movement Tissot Replica Watch

Powermatic Movement Tissot Replica Watch

The new replica Tissot gentleman is an outspoken timer. The basic idea behind it is very simple, to do a versatile, looking at a wallet is very direct, you can make it, give it some additional technical features that make it different from other watch price ranges, and use design cues more expensive watches are not so simple and easy from a very well-known company.
In regards to the amazing watch, there will be black, blue, and white dial models, and it’s going to be provided on both a steel bracelet with polished center links and on a strap. The movement is the 80-hour Powermatic movement with silicon hairspring, which should offer much stronger resistance to interference from magnetic fields than a conventional Navarro-type alloy.    
Tissot replica has extensively and actively used Powermatic sports. And the extended power reserve and non-magnetic balance spring represent a set of technical features usually associated with much more expensive replica watches. The original version of the gentleman watch, introduced last February, had a slightly different phone and a cross dial with a two-tone watch in solid gold. The gold frame has been replaced by polished steel in the new model, the crosshair is gone, and the original alpha hand is now a little square.
Interestingly, this special version of the Gentleman did already exist, before the Powermatic version was announced – however, those are priced at a cheap price on a bracelet and have quartz movements, so if you happen to visit Tissot online and see a Gentleman with this design, at that price, it’s one of the quartz models.
However, the cost is so totally different that I find it difficult to begrudge the Gentleman its borrowing of design cues. The fake watch is going to be available at the end of October and the statement from Tissot says the retail price at launch will be $775 for bracelet models.
It may be perfectly true that the Gentleman is based on a vintage Tissot watch – I always wish, when a brand says there’s an original upon which a fashionable design is based, that they’d specify which one and provide images, but I don’t doubt that there was something in Tissot’s production in the 1960s to which the Gentleman bears a resemblance. In any case, the price is low enough, and the value offered high enough, to make it an interesting proposition in its own right. Its design may pay homage to an instantly recognizable watch from another company but the price sure doesn’t. Of course, the Gentleman is not equivalent to a Rolex in other important elements – to pick just one, Rolex is doing what I think is the best bracelet in any price business now; The list goes on and on. But if you want a snazzy watch that costs less than dinner for two and two theater tickets, you may want to get to know this slightly derivative but still attractive gentleman better.