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Introducing Cheap Replica Mido Ocean Star Decompression Timer 1961 ‘Rainbow Diver’ (Live Pics & Pricing)

Stainless Steel Watch Copy Mido Ocean Star

In a recent comment, a HODINKEE Community member questioned the notion of a “summer watch” – and there is an argument to be made, certainly, that a good watch is not something that is bought for a season, but for the satisfaction it will bring over the years to its original owner, before it is passed down in the fullness of time to their beloved issue, who will never look at it without a softening of the eye as fond and imperishable memories crowd in, etc. etc. However, I like to think that there are times of the year when certain kinds of watches seem, not only more attractive than at other times of year, but positively irresistible. In that vein, I would like to put a thesis to you, gentle reader: the Mido Ocean Star Decompression Timer 1961, which no one can object to referring to as the Rainbow Diver, is one heck of a great summer watch.

This is probably one of the more hotly anticipated summer releases. The news that Swiss fake Mido has been planning on bringing it back has been out for several days, as of this writing, and so far, the consensus seems to be that Mido has hit a home run, and I see no reason to offer a counterargument (which would be difficult to sustain anyway). The original version of this watch was the Powerwind 1000, ref. 5907, from 1961 – it was part of the Ocean Star line, which launched in 1959, right about the time that recreational scuba diving was really taking off around the world. The watch was not in production for all that long, going out of production in 1965. As a result, the Powerwind 1000, whose name refers to its 1,000-feet/300-meter water resistance (this without a screw-down crown, apparently), has become a very popular collectible for dive watch enthusiasts. I don’t follow this particular segment of the vintage collectible watch market tremendously closely, but it looks as if these somewhat rare and very colorful vintage divers retail for close to the $10,000 mark these days – a considerable premium over most other contemporary Mido watches, it would seem.

The male fake watch has a black strap.
Black Strap Watch Fake Mido Ocean Star

The new version of the watch has some serious vintage-dive-watch street cred, but it is in other respects – especially technically – a modern watch. The case is stainless steel, 40.5mm, sans display back (naturally), although it does have the original’s Ocean Star starfish, in relief; there is a sapphire box crystal. There is a screw-down crown, one-way turning bezel, and 200-meter water resistance. This is a step down from the 300 meters of the original, which had a one-piece case; Mido offered an unconditional guarantee of water resistance at depth, which they proudly pointed out in the original instruction manual. 200 meters, of course, is more than six hundred feet, which is well below the depths usually reached in recreational scuba diving, so if you want to take a new Ocean Star Decompression Timer underwater, you’re more than covered.

The signature feature of the best copy Ocean Star Decompression Timer (and of course, its ancestor from the 1960s) is the brightly colored decompression table on the dial. The decompression timer is used to tell you how long a decompression stop you’ll need if you exceed the no-decompression limit of staying at 59 feet for 50 minutes. If you’re into dive watches, you probably know the reason you need to decompress if you go below a certain depth for more than a certain time. Recreational scuba divers breathe a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, and when you dive, you absorb nitrogen into the bloodstream. If you’re not down too far for too long, the amount absorbed will dissipate harmlessly topside, but if you stay deeper longer, enough nitrogen is dissolved into the blood and other body fluids that, if you ascend too fast, bubbles will form (just like taking the top off a soda). This can cause severe pain, which makes the body curl in agony, giving the disease its name: the bends. Bad cases can cause joint and nerve damage and even be fatal.

This is a bad business, but the solution is to stop at a certain minimum safe depth – 3 meters will actually do it, although from what I have read, it is common practice today, depending on your dive profile, to make more than one stop at different depths, as dictated by your dive computer. The whole problem is very interesting; if you make more than one dive per day, you still have to be careful even after you surface, because you have residual nitrogen in your body which must be taken into account when you plan your next dive. Dive tables assume (including the one on this watch) that your entire dive prior to ascent is spent at the indicated depth, but if you are using a modern dive computer, you can shorten decompression time, as going to sixty meters for only five minutes, and then spending the rest of your time at shallower depths, does not require as long a decompression stop as spending the entire dive at maximum depth.

The decompression table on the watch is extremely easy to use. Vintage models would sometimes show depth in meters, sometimes in feet, and sometimes in both; the new watch is calibrated for both meters and feet. Once below the no-deco stop depth limit, you simply look at the maximum depth you will reach – say, 95 feet for the green ring – and then read along the ring clockwise until you reach the point that corresponds to how long you will be at depth. For the 95 feet/30 meters scale, you can see that if you spend 35 minutes at depth, you will be required to take a 15 minute stop at 3 meters. You can also see that if you spend less than 20 minutes at depth, no stop is required as you will not be at depth long enough to absorb enough nitrogen to cause the bends – of course, this assumes, as does the entire table, a so-called square dive profile, in which you descend directly to depth, and then ascend directly from that depth.

The male replica watch is made from stainless steel.
Male Watch Replica Mido Ocean Star

For divers and non-divers alike, the presence of the colorful decompression tables offers rather more in the realm of cosmetics than in that of practicality, but it gives the watch a pop and dazzle that seems to incarnate the very notion of a summer watch – especially for anyone who remembers with fondness the elation of the bell on the last day of school that marked the beginning of summer vacation.

If the dial is charmingly anachronistic, the movement is quite modern; inside is the Mido Caliber 80, which has a power reserve of 80 hours. The movement is part of a general trend across the Swatch Group to equip its watches with balance springs offering better resistance to magnetism than conventional Nivarox-type alloys, and to offer longer power reserves as well (even the Swatch now comes equipped with a titanium alloy balance spring, made of an alloy called Nivachron, which offers superior performance as well). The movement is an upgraded version of the ETA C07.621 and is adjusted in three positions; it should offer good performance as well as somewhat better resistance to drifting on its rate than a watch with a standard alloy balance.

I have said that I think this is a great summer watch replica, but I think there is more to it than that. It’s a very striking timepiece which represents a larger part of the history of Mido, and it encourages us to reflect on the hazards inherent to exploration. Nowadays, much of the risk has been taken out of recreational scuba diving, and no sensible person would have it otherwise – especially divers, I am sure – but the somewhat seat-of-your-pants charm of yesteryear still has its appeal and recalls a time when a little risk was an exciting part of the equation, and when the dangers inherent in the activity were – within reason – part of the fun. Even in the dead of winter, I like to think that the aura of derring-do surrounding the era this watch represents will continue to provide satisfaction. After all, most of us will never dive, winter, spring, summer, or fall – and yet we may still wish to entertain pleasant fantasies of exploration and adventure in a brave new world beneath the sea. Why, just imagine what use a certain British naval commander moonlighting for MI6 might have made of one – perhaps whilst in the Bahamas, in the very year the watch debuted, on the trail of a sinister plot to blackmail the nations of the earth with their own atomic bombs – an operation code-named Thunderball.

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Hands-On Perfect Replica Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Chronograph Calendar

Male Replica Jaeger-LeCoultre Master

In all the years that I’ve been writing about best fake Jaeger-LeCoultre, I really thought that I’d seen everything at this point. Gyrotourbillons, ultra-thin watches, square Reversos (remember those? the Squadra, gone but not forgotten), lubricant-free high-tech concept watches (the Extreme LAB), complications of every description – well, the list is long. Apparently, however, there is one thing which I have not seen and which nobody else has seen either from JLC, and that is a complete calendar chronograph with moon-phase. Jaeger-LeCoultre says that they have never done one before, and they should know, but as Jon Bues wrote in his Introducing coverage it still comes as a surprise to hear it – if you’d shown me this watch without any introduction and said, “Hey, this is such a great watch and you’ve never covered it in all these years, what’s the deal?” I’d have blushed and felt as if I’d been both unobservant and derelict in my duties as a consumer journalist.

This is all by way of saying, and I mean this as a compliment, that the new Master Control Chronograph Calendar looks as if it has been part of the JLC lineup for a long time. There are reasons for that, of course: The general layout of the watch is very much one intended to appeal to traditionalists, and the combination of these two complications is a traditionalist’s favorite as well. Perhaps the best-known vintage implementation is the hand-wound Valjoux 88, which was produced, at least for a Valjoux chronograph movement, in surprisingly small numbers. The first impression you get of this watch, therefore, is of a timepiece that, if new as a complication to its maker (which I still can’t quite believe) is certainly not new to watchmaking or to wristwatch design.

The male copy watch has a brown strap.
Brown Strap Copy Jaeger-LeCoultre Master

The Master Control Chronograph Calendar is part of the hot copy larger Master Control Collection, which was relaunched this year with redesigned cases whose basic profile was derived from JLC’s flagship complication for 2020 (at least so far), which is the Master Grand Tradition Grand Complication. That watch debuted with a slimmer profile to the lugs, which had also been opened up (although not actually openworked) with recesses along their flanks, as well as the case middle. The result was a version of the watch that seemed both more in line with the vocabulary of classic watchmaking, as well as more light and graceful. The recesses in the lugs and case middle haven’t been carried over to the Master Control line, and this is all to the good as it would seem affected in the context of these watches, but the sense of subtle grace is still present, helped along by a crisper transition from case to lugs, and a slightly more emphatic sense of geometry overall.

If there is little or nothing to complain of in terms of overall aesthetics, there is also certainly nothing to complain of in terms of fit and finish. While Jaeger-LeCoultre takes a back seat to no one – and I do mean no one – when it comes to the high-end horological decorative crafts sometimes referred to collectively as metiers d’art, there is another, more accessible, and just as important side to its character, which has to do with unostentatious excellence in daily wear mechanical watches. The case details in the Master Control Chronograph Calendar are not an overt paean to the decorative potential of steel; rather, they are intended to form a frame which, while it does not distract from the functionality of the watch, at the same time offers a reassuring sense of solidity and attention to detail should you wish to inspect the watch closely.

I think the dial of the Master Control Chronograph Calendar is exceedingly beautiful and well organized. There are no tricks being played here, in particular – just good, solid, clarity of design. This could indeed easily be mistaken for a complicated gent’s watch from the 1950s, although one thing that gives away the modernity of the watch is the crispness and clarity of the printing and dial furniture, as well as the equally crisp starry background to the lunar disk on the moon-phase display. I think that the dial works as well as it does as much for what JLC decided not to do, as for what it decided to do. The only slight quibble I have with the dial overall is that against the white dial, the highly polished hour and minute hands can sometimes be slightly difficult to pick out, but I certainly didn’t find that to be a fatal issue in terms of on-the-wrist legibility and utility.

The urge to fiddle for the sake of fiddling is very often on display in modern watchmaking, and it seems to become more and more noticeable and less and less successful as prices increase. The problem has always seemed to me to be at its most acute in chronographs, which seem to have the ability to bring out the worst in watch designers like no other complication. In this case, however, the level of detail feels entirely appropriate to the overall identity of the watch, and contributes a great deal to the impression that it gives of something intended to be a daily companion, and not just another more or less static addition to a collection.

For a full evaluation of chronometric performance, we would have had to do a full Week On The Wrist (which I would very much like to do with this watch at some point; I think it merits it and then some), but there is no reason to expect anything other than excellent performance from the movement. The movement, caliber 759, has some new-to-the-collection features, including the use of silicon components in the lever and escapement, and is a column-wheel-controlled, vertical-clutch mechanism; it also has a freesprung, adjustable mass balance, which has become more or less the standard in modern high-grade movements. It looks quite handsome and sturdy through the sapphire display back.

The white dial fake watch has moon phase.
White Dial Fake Jaeger-LeCoultre Master

The watch overall boasts very wearable-sounding dimensions – the case is 40mm x 12.05mm and water resistant to 50 meters. You could, of course, object that this would be an even more historically resonant watch in a smaller diameter, but after all, 40mm is hardly a Brobdingnagian dimension, and the width-to-thickness ratio makes for a watch you’d expect to feel quite comfortable on the wrist.

And you would be right. This is an immensely pleasurable watch to wear, and I make no bones about it; I didn’t want to give it back. I don’t generally feel a terribly strong desire to actually own watches, largely because, for many years, it has been my privilege to experience so many of them; I suppose I am rather like a restaurant critic in that respect, who for all they are passionate about food may not particularly feel the itch to own a restaurant. But I think this would be a damned fine wristwatch to wake up to every morning, to look at during the day, to use to mark the passage of the months and moons, and to put down on the bedside table at the end of a long day and have its calmly purposeful, beautifully balanced countenance the last thing I see before lights out.

This brings us, inevitably, to The Unpleasant Matter Of The Bill; in steel, this is a $14,500 watch. I wish it were less expensive, but I think part of that may be because I have been around long enough to remember when, across the board, prices for fine watches from Switzerland were a fraction of what they are today, and I basically wish everything was less expensive. I probably ought to put my Zen Buddhism where my mouth is, though, and cultivate a spirit of, if not acceptance, at least resignation on that score; last I checked time’s arrow only points one way. However, even at that price, you are getting an awful lot: a watch with a handsome diffidence, which is rather rare these days, and which achieves an identity of its own without resorting to either rote aping of a vintage model on the one hand, or novelty effects on the other. Plus, you are getting a watch from one of the most important names in Swiss fine watchmaking, and one whose reputation is based on real horological content to boot – Jaeger-LeCoultre likes to remind us that the company is sometimes called the Grande Maison in Switzerland, but given the firm’s decades-long mastery of every kind of watchmaking imaginable, we should probably let them have that one.

I think the greatest compliment I can pay the Swiss copy Master Control Chronograph Calendar is to say that it does not feel like an attempt to broadcast affluence, or one’s good taste, or to pay homage to something in the glorious past, or to break new ground technically or aesthetically. It is not a showcase for some fantastically demanding craft kept alive through the dark years of the Quartz Crisis by a devoted few; it is not intended to be an Instagram trophy, and it will not (at least, I think not) produce years of frustration in its fans as they idle on waiting lists. Instead, it has a rare, sole ambition: It wants to be a watch, and a damned good one, and at that it succeeds admirably.

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UK Replica Breitling’s new Chronomat is a tribute to the watch that saved the company

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Following its own departure from Baselworld last year, Swiss fake Breitling has been using standalone ‘summits’ to announce its new collections. Now, alongside with the annual watch fairs themselves (due to start in late April) these too have had to be paused, to be replaced by digital-only reveals. First out of the blocks was a new iteration of its famous Bond watch, the Top Time. And now comes an entire new collection of its aviation-inspired Chronomat model.

Although widely credited with helping save the Breitling business when it was launched back in 1984, the Chronomat can trace its history all the way back to 1942, when founder Leon Bretiling’s grandson, Willy, started producing chronograph watches fitted with logarithmic scales to aid air-borne navigation. Not for the first time, the Chronomat (a portmanteau of “chronograph for mathematics”) would become the choice of aviators the world over.

After the war, Willy continued evolving Breitling’s chronographs, partly to maintain its primacy in the complicated watch market, and partly to ensure it stayed true to its own aviation heritage.

The stainless steel fake watches are designed for men.
Stainless Steel Fake Breitling Watches

However, the buffeting the brand would receive from the advent of quartz in the Seventies proved too much for Willy to withstand, and it was Breitling’s next owner, Earnest Schneider – himself a keen aviator – who was to fully exploit the potential of the brand’s aeronautical focus.

Although best watches copy Breitling had launched its own quartz models, including a ‘Professional’ series aimed at its aviation clients, one specialist group of pilots – the Italian army’s Frecce Tricolori acrobatic team – preferred an analogue display only to found at the time on conventionally powered timepieces. Schneider obliged, launching a ‘new’ Chronomat in 1984 in celebration of the company’s centenary.

Easily recognised by the four, glove-friendly ‘riders’ that sit on the bezel, the new Chronomat watches swiftly developed a cult of their own, helped along by the sprezzatura of its Italian origins. And whilst many quartz producers opted to go slimmer and dressier the better to ape traditionally made watches, Breitling’s trademark was to become the sizeable and thus ‘high-status’ mechanical chronograph.

Cut to the present day and Breitling, which recently re-set the standard for its aviation models with the launch of its new Navitimer 8 series has announced a new Chronomat collection, reflecting what it calls its “commitment to creating authentic, everyday luxury for men and women of purpose action and style.”

The stainless steel copy watches have green dials.
Green Dials Copy Breitling Watches

In keeping with the times, Schneider had opted to power the original 1984 Chronomat with the watch industry’s workhorse chronograph movement: the Valjoux 7750. However, since 2004, the brand has been producing its own, COSC-certified automatic chronograph calibre, dubbed the B01. At the time of its launch, the Chronomat was chosen to unveil the company’s first in-house movement and it is used here across the range.

Other signifiers included across the new collection: a highly recognisable stainless steel integrated “Rouleaux” bracelet, superluminova hands and the addition of two new interchangeable rider tabs at three o’clock and nine o’clock (allowing the wearer to opt between ‘count up’ and ‘count down’ functions).

There are four colour ways in the main collection (from £6,650), all of which feature the contrasting sub dials used to denote the use of Breitling’s in-house movement. Additionally, these share with all but a rather special ‘Frecce Tricolori’ model (featuring a blue dial with matching counters and the team’s insignia), the use of a striking red central seconds hand.

There is also a perfect replica new ‘Breitling for Bentley’ model (£6,780), a continuation of sorts of its standalone series (now defunct) featuring a tell-tale racing green dial, a handsome bitmetal version which uses 18K red gold accents for the crown and bezel, and – summoning the hugely popular Rolex Yacht-Master perhaps – an all-18K red gold iteration fitted with a black rubber strap (£15,950).

Commenting on the new collection, Breitling CEO George Kern says: “The 1984 Chronomat occupies a very important place in modern history. It was the watch that boldly proclaimed Breitling was staying absolutely true to its roots. When much of the industry focused their efforts and energies on quartz watches, the Chronomat reminded the world that Breitling had essentially invented the modern mechanical chronograph. The message resonated and the brand prospered.

“The Chronomat Collection replica is a fitting tribute to the amazing watch that, more than any other, put us back in touch with our heritage.”

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Distinctive UK Fake Rolex GMT-Master 16700 Watches With Black Dials

Practical Rolex Imitation Watches

In 1999, the GMT-Master 16700 was suspended by Rolex, aiming to focusing more on the GMT-Master II. Therefore, the perfect copy Rolex GMT-Master ref.16700 became the last edition of GMT-Master.

The blue and red bezel is attractive and eye-catching.
Oystersteel Bracelet Replica Rolex

In fact, the GMT-Master ref.16700 as two different editions with two kinds of luminous materials. At the end of the 1980s, the GMT-Master 16700 launched was coated with the tritium. You will find there is “SWISS T<25” at 6 o’clock position of the red and blue bezel fake Rolex.

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Practical Rolex Imitation Watches

Till the end of 1990s, Rolex gave up the tritium. Instead, it adopted the LumiNova. So you can find two different ref.16700 with two luminous materials. The eye-catching imitation watch became a watershed for Rolex in different eras. It marks the end of an era, meanwhile, it also bridges the future. It may not be a collective work, but it is a classic product without any doubt.