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WATCH WINNER REVIEW: Tissot Heritage 1936 Mechanical Fake Watches With White Dials

In October of 2016, the monthly giveaway watch on aBlogtoWatch was a Tissot Heritage 1936 Mechanical watch. The winner was Dan T. from Springfield, Missouri, USA, and after enjoying his new Tissot Heritage 1936 timepiece (retail price $995), he has given a watch winner review for us to share with you —— the aBlogtoWatch audience. Thanks to Dan and all the other watch winners who share experiences with the world. Here is Dan’s review:

Hello, fellow aBlogtoWatch readers! I was super stoked to hear that I won one of the elegant Tissot Heritage replica watches giveaway. Tissot has been a brand I’ve had my eyes on for some time —– specifically, the vintage-inspired pieces with that fantastic retro Tissot logo on the dial. The watch arrived alongside some awesome Tissot swag, and an interesting, nearly 300-page book on the story of the company.

It even pictures a Tissot pocket watch circa 1923 that this design clearly draws some inspiration from. Seeing the connection between Tissot fake watches with brown leather straps and a model from nearly a century ago allows me to truly appreciate the history of Tissot whenever I put the Heritage 1936 on.

So for those who aren’t familiar with this watch, I’ll provide a quick primer. This design celebrates a historically significant point in timepiece history —— it’s modeled after some of the first wristwatches ever made. Trench watches, as they were called, gained popularity during WW1, and rapidly accelerated the shift from pocket watch to wristwatch. These trench watches were essentially pocket watches with wired lugs soldered on, and when you look up images of them you clearly see the resemblance in a lot of the design elements. This nod to the past is big for me —— I very much gravitate towards Tissot copy watches with Swiss mechanical movements with a story.

So now that the history lesson is over, let’s just get straight to the elephant in the room —- the size of the noble Tissot Heritage fake watches. It’s not only the width —– coming in at a modest 45mm —– but it’s also the thickness (13mm) that makes this a beast of a watch. These numbers would typically scare some away, but the watch really doesn’t feel (or really even look) that large, and I have a relatively small wrist. Something about the wire lugs and the narrow (18mm) band make the size of the case size look right and not feel over-the-top, which is important for a vintage-inspired piece.

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Traser P67 Officer Pro Gun Metal Lime & Orange Replica Watches As Reviews

At Baselworld 2017, Swiss Traser introduced a “trendy” tactical watch with the Traser P67 Officer Pro Gun Metal in bright Lime and Orange lumed dials. The delicate Traser fake watches are not terribly expensive and show a more lighthearted side of the brand which is mostly known for being the in-house brand of MB-Microtec who produces glowing tritium gas tubes.

I think there is an appeal to wearing “tactical” watches without always wanting to look too tactical. Of course, not everyone will be into lime green or bright orange on their wrist all the time, but at least for a fun-looking timepiece such as this you don’t need to spend more than $500.

The Traser replica watches with Swiss quartz movements already had black-dialed versions with lime green or orange hour numerals. What is different for 2017 is that the collection now includes these models with dials that are entirely lime green or orange. When mixed with the gun metal-style PVD-coated steel cases and the matching straps, it makes for a neat look. I have a soft spot for functional watches that are more about being a bit loud in style, so I do appreciate stuff like this.

Traser copy watches with black hour markers are 42mm wide with AR-coated sapphire crystal and are water-resistant to 100 meters. The straps are orange or green, and Traser makes a point to indicate that they are “Italian-made natural caoutchouc” straps. For a more discreet look, Traser also sells NATO-style straps in black, with a lime green or orange stripe down the middle.

The dials combine Taser’s typical use of Tritium gas tubes, with Super-LumiNova for darkness illumination. There are gas tubes in each of the three hands, as well as the hour markers. Also note the two gas tubes in the logo under 12 o’clock. Traser says these are used to help orient the position of the dial in the dark so that you can more easily read the time. The rest of the dial is painted in green or orange Super-LumiNova.

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Hublot Big Bang Replica Watches Techframe Ferrari 70 Years Tourbillon Chronograph Of Good Quality

In 2017, with Ferrari design objectively at one of its all-time highs, Ferrari has finally conceived its first ever wristwatch. They have done so in partnership with – you guessed it right – Hublot, and the result of their collaboration comes in the unusual form of Hublot Big Bang fake watches with black rubber straps. They are the watches that, by definition, have tested the horological prowess of the designers and engineers of one of the world’s leading car manufacturers.

Conceived by the Ferrari Design Center in Maranello and built by Hublot, the excellent Hublot Big Bang replica watches (initially covered here) give a fresh twist to the seemingly ever-lasting cycle of the usually extremely stale “[watch_brand_name] asks for attention by partnering with [car_brand_name]” collaborations by letting the eggheads in Maranello have their go at making a watch.

What do $295 quartz beaters, Movado, Cabestan, Panerai, Girard-Perregaux, and Hublot all have in common? They all have legally made watches with the Ferrari logo on them. However, to be fair, Hublot has far and away made the most of its partnership with Ferrari (review of the Hublot Big Bang Ferrari here, for example) who, in all likelihood, must have enjoyed the idea of working with a partner actually interested in dedicating separate, well-developed, versatile collections to the prancing horse, as opposed to just name-dropping Ferrari.

If you’re a long-time watch enthusiast, you are at this point more than familiar with the versatility as well as strict limitations of watch design. But when I first heard about the reliable Hublot fake watches, I did wonder what the process was like for Ferrari in understanding the spatial, technical, functional, and technological limitations (and possibilities!) that lie in watchmaking.

Both Hublot and Ferrari are adamant about Hublot copy watches with Swiss mechanical movements having been primarily designed by Ferrari. And as such, under the leadership of Ferrari Head of Design Flavio Manzoni, the Hublot Techframe Ferrari 70 Years Tourbillon Chronograph’s unlikely looks were wrapped around Hublot’s (ex-BNB Concept) tourbillon monopusher chronograph “engine.” We’ll work our way from the outside towards the innards of the Hublot Techframe.