Comparisons
Orient Bambino vs. Seiko Presage: Which Automatic Dress Watch Offers More?
Two Japanese mechanical watches have become entry points into traditional watchmaking. We compare their movements, finishing, dimensions and price.
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Dress Watches
Slim cases, leather straps and dials that do one thing well.
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Comparisons
Orient Bambino vs. Seiko Presage: Which Automatic Dress Watch Offers More?
Two Japanese mechanical watches have become entry points into traditional watchmaking. We compare their movements, finishing, dimensions and price.
Comparisons
Orient Bambino vs. Timex Marlin Draper: Two Retro Automatics Near $300
Fourteen dollars separate a Japanese dress watch with a published in-house caliber and an American retro cushion case on a steel bracelet. Each one wins where the other is weakest.
New Release
Grand Seiko SBGW325 “Arabic Blue” Ships This Month in a 600-Piece Edition
A 37.3mm hand-wound Elegance model marks 25 years of the manual 9S caliber and brings back the Arabic numerals of the 2001 SBGW003.
Collector Culture
Why the Orient Bambino Still Matters
It is not rare, expensive or complicated. The Bambino matters because it lets people find out what a traditional mechanical watch is for less than $300, and because of what that price says about how it is made.
Collector Culture
The Quiet Return of the 38mm Watch
Nobody announced it. Makers simply started drawing their best watches a few millimeters smaller, and the numbers show it.
Comparisons
Orient Bambino vs. Citizen Tsuyosa: Which Makes the Better Only Watch?
One is a domed-crystal dress watch on a bracelet, the other an integrated-bracelet sports watch. If you can only own one, the specification sheet makes a clear case.
Buying Guides
The Best Automatic Watches Under $500
Five hundred dollars buys a proper self-winding watch, but rarely a perfect one. These seven get closest, and each comes with one honest compromise.
Comparisons
Orient Bambino vs. Tissot Everytime: Mechanical Character Against Swiss Minimalism
One is an automatic with a domed crystal and a movement you can watch. The other is a 7.07mm Swiss quartz watch with sapphire. They cost about the same and want very different owners.
Reviews
Orient Bambino Review: Still the Default First Mechanical Dress Watch
For more than a decade the Bambino has been the answer to a simple question about where to start with mechanical watches. The current 38.4mm version gives fewer reasons to look elsewhere.
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