Sorry! I did not buy seagulls for feelings!

Many people will use the words "feelings" and "patriotic" to express the reasons for their purchases. Feelings are inevitable, but it is impossible to reach today without two brushes.

As the first brand of domestic watches, Seagull is believed to be the enlightenment teacher who many people play with mechanical watches.

In 1955, China's first watch was successfully developed at the Tianjin Watch Factory. This watch was almost all trial-manufactured by hand. There are 3 gold characters "Made in China" on the dial, named "Five Star" brand, and later renamed "Dongfeng" brand. , Traced back today is the predecessor of "Seagull".

The first domestic watch

From the development of Chinese national brands more than 60 years ago to the present, it has become the pride of China's watch manufacturing industry, and even shows its determination to the world with technology. Nowadays, Seagull is no worse than some foreign watch brands.

Seagull "Odd Wing 1" ST8520 "Twin-Axis Tourbillon"

Seagull is famous for its movement. As the largest mechanical movement producer in China , it is one of the few companies that has the R & D and manufacturing capabilities of its own movement.

Reprinted version of the first aviation computer of the Chinese Air Force

The movements developed by Seagull are divided into five categories: ST16 series skeleton movements, ST25 series multi-function movements, ST21 and ST18 series main movements, ST19 series chronograph movements and ST3600 series manual movements , among which ST21 and ST18 series The main movements exported abroad.

The movement of a mechanical watch is just like the engine of a car. It was quite difficult to develop for the Seagull that had no basic research and development at that time. The early movement had to start with the imitation of the ETA movement.

As early as March 1997, Seagull designed its first-generation ST16 movement, the structure of which mimics the MIYOTA8205 movement of Japan's Citizen. Its single-calendar function is quite satisfactory, but it cannot continue to add other complicated functions, and it is abandoned because the travel time error is too large. The only remaining ST16 series is the skeleton movement.

ST18 series movement

However, by ST18, this is the second generation movement that Seagull began to imitate Swatch Group's ETA. In the last generation of ST25, Seagull successfully broke through the technical barriers and achieved the achievement of completely independent research and development of the movement.

Seagull Chinese Military One ST25 Movement

ST21 and ST18 series movements are our well-known flagship movements, which are copied from ETA's 2824 and 2812 movements respectively. Among them, Seagull ST2130 is superior in polishing and structural optimization, which is not inferior to ETA2824-2 and its price On the low side, the comprehensive attributes of the movement are not worse than any watch of the same price, and it is known as the " Conscience Gull ".

Seagull Basic Series 816.523 watch

Equipped with ST2130 movement

Despite its imitation, Seagull successfully localized it and added some of its own optimization schemes. With its low price, durability and relatively stable performance , it has been sought after by domestic and foreign watchmakers.

Equipped with Seagull ST-1812 movement

Italian niche brand OWC

Especially after the ETA purchase restriction, more and more brands gradually began to use the seagull movement as the basic movement.

Finally, we talk about the price of seagulls. I recommend buying seagulls to be controlled within 2,000 yuan . This range can be said to be the most cost-effective in seagulls, which can fully meet personal daily play and wear.

The development of Seagull movement technology is indeed very fast, and many technologies can also board the hall of elegance. Now it is also the world's top three producers of wool training movements. But it is still common to see someone black seagull, Tucao its finished product processing is too rough, travel time is unstable, the strap quality is too poor.

Indeed, this may be a problem that Seagull still needs to solve at present. I hope they can make persistent efforts and concentrate on making each watch, not being arrogant and letting domestic brands really go out of the world!

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