Elegance! Guanqin Retrograde Day-Date Automatic Flywheel (GJ16009) c/o GearBest - Perth WAtch  

Guanqin definitely offer some great affordable watches. I have a gold automatic from them that I paid $20 for like 4 years ago and it still works and looks flawlessly.

Nowadays guy, it's not a matter of swiss or chinese watches, it's a matter of taste & style. It's about your pocket & how much you can invest on a fair watch to get time. Chinese do make good quality watches. It's all in our mind as when we hear the word chinese, it means for most of us that they aren't human! They are indeed intelligent and very good at making things. That the beauty of life.

Great review. This piece looks like exceptional value for money. Very interesting indeed. Keep up the good work.

Very sharp dial design, great review Perth Watch!

Thanks for the review...very interesting watch. I appreciate your channel!

Looks like the Chinese are getting seriously good at this. Thanks Ivan.

I got mine today from Aliexpress for about 55$ and am very pleased with it. Great review and photography, thanks.

Clever day date operativity by pushers system. Good realization and clear vid.

Wow, that is one beautiful watch. I may have to get one of those.

A LOT of watch for the money, very nicely styled as well!!!!

Very good review dude. Keep it up.

Nice watch, good price, excellent review. Cheers 👍👍

An update: I did buy this interesting watch, at a bargain price from GB a few years ago, less than 40Euros shipped. In black/gold it has a stunning appearance, and runs at an incredible avg.

I love a long sweeping second hand but who doesn't love that rotating, open heart. And! Sapphire crystal? AND I think it had some ar coating as well. Unless you were shooting under incandescent light. Outside light would be very blue but I'm guessing at in there. Amazing the cool axons that some of them don't even mention. Not crazy about the big round crown but not a deal breaker. I also like the different day, date styles. And, not a fan of leather or crock straps but I would like to try this new butterfly clasp. I ordered some to play with about 6 weeks or more and still waiting. Enough of me, cheers!

Very nice review.

The TY-2504 is a 33 jewel movement and has a rotor bearing cap, not a simple blued screw for attachment. This Guanquin has an inferior copy of the 2504. I've owned my Louis Bolle Solstice 18K with its TY-2504 since 2006. The movement has never been serviced and still runs like new, is well regulated and the watch looks stunning to this day. The two retrogrades are awesome. It has a sapphire coated crystal and a black patterened dial. I think it was $140. in 2006

The Seagull has numbers round the dial. It's extremely accurate. Hacks and handwinds.

Parnis makes a similar watch with a Seagull movement. Different dial but same open-heart with ornament and power reserve. Had it for five years. Beautiful. Probably my most accurate automatic too. Not sure about the Guanqin but the bands typically don't last. No biggie. Great value mechanicals. While I do like Seiko and Orient for lower cost automatics, the Chinese in the $50-low-100's (US) range beat them in terms of value. Also, don't wind all the way. Just wind it enough to start it. No more than a few hours. The hand-winding on my Parnis seemed to wear after five years. No longer hand-winds, probably because I wound it all the way. Watch is otherwise fine. Looks great with a brown leather NATO replacement strap.

There’s a guy who branded the exact same watch with his company name and I am considering buying one from him. You just helped me make my decision. Thanks bud 👍

Very good review sir!

I bought one I love it.

I have this watch for about 9 weeks now been testing it compared to my vintage OMEGA Seamaster chronograph and have to say accuracy is comparable. Also testing it against an OLEVS quarts that loses 2-3 seconds in just half the time....pretty good. Mechanical low cost China automatic compared to a low cost (30$ USD) quarts it is better. I paid around 88$ USD From Amazon. I dint Ike and will never like alligator bands so I changed that out to a ore rustic leather band and I think adds to it. To sum up the dial is very nice even under a loop. I know its a knockoff of a very high end watch, cant think of think of right now . For serious! its has semi blown my mind with its detail. I love looking at it, have many compliments...very cool even if it does die in a year or 2 its only 88$ and you get an awesome watch for that. It is everything said in the video

I have the Sea-gull flying wheel retrograde day date which is accurate to within a second a few seconds a day. Hacking and handwinding, domed sapphire. 50m water resistant. 42mm dial 13mm thick. 22mm lugs. Signed crown. It is the perfection that this Guanqin aspires too. My favourite dress watch. From £175. I bought mine from Sea-gull.com a few years ago. It says Sea-gull on the rotor. The legibility of this Guanqin however is pretty good, and the price is excellent. Put it on a timegrapher to see the accuracy if you have one.

Wonderful review, thanks. You inspired me to order one, I look forward to receiving it. It seems to be based on the Maurice Lacroix Retrograde, but is a damn sight cheaper.

Not quite for me, however they have some very nice pieces. I picked up one of their dress watches, Seiko movt, sapphire, really inexpensive, looks and performs great. Thanks Ivan.

Thanks nice one

I have their moonphase watch and it truly is a gem...

Hmm, china to dominate the watch world???? Does anyone remember the term “ cheap Japanese Watch” ? I think China will eventually dominate all markets once their quality is improved upon. This thing looks good on you mate, I like it.

So much for the money. That QOARTZ thing is funny as hell though

Got a $100 carnival watch with a flywheel (8730g) and it's the only watch I have in my collection that has that extra flywheel design and it is just SUPER accurate! I mean maybe 2 seconds fast a week! I think that flywheel is the reason. I have more expensive watches including 28800 seagulls and nothing can beat it's accuracy. Maybe lucky? Don't know what carnival did (maybe special regulating machines at factory) , but Wow! A Rolex 😄It's my favorite watch! Jolly good!

Haute horology on gearbest 😱! That 3rd compilation on the flywheel, I just happen to see it on watchfinder video on a Maurice lacroix mystery second.

is the qoartz in this case possibly referring to the crystal in the crown? its the only thing i can think of

Great review! I love the watch and that movement. On mine (I have the black dial version) the day/date arches are completely flat.

Just purchaded a watch like this a week ago nice watch but after a couple of washing of hands it got water in it any ideas

I want one how can I find them for sale. I bought a watch by this company 2 years ago. Love it lots of nice comments, very clean lines runs good the band is cheap and wears out fast. I bought a real good crocodile band.

Guangin are great

I think they have a quartz model of the same case design,thus the 'qoartz' wording in the back.This one you got is mechanical.Happens a lot in china,I think.Search for LIGE and you can see they have both automatic and quartz watches,visibly identical.Only difference is the automatics cost more.

Guan Qin 冠琴 (Champion piano ) Nice review.

Hello, the model GJ16009 you have reviewed is also available with black handles (hour, minute hand) on a white background. And I liked this watch very much. In my opinion, black handles on a white background are better and can be read better by contrast. But this watch, which is currently sold on Aliexpress and Banggood, is sold as white handles on a white background, I don't like it. Unfortunately, there are no black arms on a white background.

When the clock does not move (when we leave the clock on the table), how much time does it work ?

That is a very nice watch. Does it keep time? What does the watch run on?

Dear Does the day indicator advance alternately 30 and 31 every month?

I have an identical looking watch the Seagull 819 316 which was £150.

This may be a silly question but do the day of the week and month change at midnight? Or do you have to set it everyday? I ask because some cheap chinese watches I've seen have to have the day set each day manually. Great review btw ^^

Excellent review that flywheel is really cool but one thing I would like to know is if the rotor really auto winds the watch to keep up the power reserve. I have a few of these cheaper Chinese watches and I always find that I have to treat them as plain old wind up watches because if I don’t they stop overnight otherwise they really are pretty nice.

The packaging looks exactly the same as Lige watches except for the name (they even have the same winged logo with the company initial) - are they the same company? I got a Lige mechanical watch with tourbillon look with sun/moon phase. Leatherish strap with butterfly clasp and signed buckle (no signed crown) for around $20 .. looks good runs well so happy with it for the price so far.

this watch is fckin awesome!

Reminds me of a Maurice lacrosse watch !

It's a pity it's not on sale anymore. There is a similar Parnis version, but it's a bit different - it has power reserve indicator instead of weekday and it's around 60$. And for the @QOARTZ@ screw in case-back - just maybe they had a similar quartz model with screw-in case-back and just used the surplus of those case-backs to complete these watches. I know it's strange, but it's China...

Buying one..

Looks really nice. Absolute value for money. Will it last though?

Aloha from greece i just purchased one yesterday 24 hours have passed but did not see any movement on on day any ideas dose it need any kind of restart?

What material is glass made of?

To be honest I personally much prefer the actual Sea-Gull watches that movement is in, like the M172S (and I've heard that Sea-Gull after performing QC sell their B-grade movements to other companies, presumably including Guanqin, and save the better ones for their own branded watches).

Since I subscribed your channel yesterday, I have been pretty much viewing all of your watch videos to find a decent one but affordable as my dad's gift, can I say that this is the one? My dad is in his middle 50's. I would appreciate if you can comment on my question. Dr, Ivan. Great flawless reviews!!

I didn't hear you mention the accuracy of this watch, I last time I bought one, ie a Chinese watch is more than 1 min per day!

how many grams of the watch's weight? (Doesn't write on sales sites)

First: THIS is how a watch review should be made, thank you! Accurate, comprehensive, with knowledge of movements, a description of all features in detail. Sound and video quality are top, chapeau! As to 'quartz': most likely to be read in unison with 'sapphire'; I think they tried to say 'Quartz Glass' to describe the front and back window materials. Now is a 'sapphire' a 'quartz'?! In Germany one can find 'Mineral Glas', 'Saphir Glas' and 'Quarz Glas' as descriptors, all the same? Probably not. I own about 60 watches, several mechanical China models included. The GuanQin stuff appears to be a notch higher than the horribly made Jaragar, Sewor and Forsining automatics. Their big dates run '30-31-32...39-00-01', their rotor cannot maintain a sufficient power reserve, their hands are often badly aligned and need adjustment. This retrograde is on my current wish list, offered around $50 when shopping around. My biggest concern is about the date indicator being too 'narrow', not precise enough for reading the actual date. As much as I like retrograde motion, the angle is simply too small. Other issues I see: rather large case diameter why? Their big date full calendars are just 40mm!) and the cheap looking 'faux' leather strap, needs to be replaced by a metal one to really match the nice case. GuanQin also offers a 'fake fake' 7751 (GQ20022), mimicking the famous ETA 7751, albeit with a lot of design errors and shortcomings (wrong scale at 6, two affixed hands at 9, often misaligned minute counter at 12, to mention a few). So one should consume these cheap Chinese automatics from GuanQin with a grain of salt and caution. But their appearance, material selection and finishing is astonishing, esp. if compared to the way more pricy watches from Japan, Russia, Germany or Switzerland. BTW: I also have a "Carnival" (8730G) that appears to be a clone of my GuanQIn GJ16042, worth a review? A tiny full calendar movement with large date, running very precise at

One thing from aesthetic point of view is the two hands(hour and minute) fall short, literally.

Although I have that watch and I love it, the strap is NOT leather! Did you test the crystal? Sometimes they lie about the sapphire too...

Damn! you made be buy another watch...

How is the accuracy? Have you had any problems after a year of use?

All function works?

Recently I spotted it on sale again on Aliexpress. The price is ~55$, which is very nice for that kind of watch. I have my doubts about the crystal (doesn't really matter for me, but still) some buyers say they tested it and it's mineral, not sapphire. Also, all the watches are confirmed with that strange "Quartz" writing on the case-back. Nobody knows why. I quite like the watch and plan on buying one. My only complaint about it is these skeletonized hands (they hinder readability). Also, I can't get it why put lume (and poor one at that) on the hands of a dress watch?

I think they have misspelled/nonsensical words on the back of their other models, right? Look at it this way: not only are they able to produce decent interesting watches at amazing prices, THEY ARE ABLE TO DO IT WHILE BEING ILLITERATE!!!!!! That is obviously much greater achievement!!! 😂😅🤣😝😄😆 👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏

how's the durability of the watch?

hello,friend ,we are GUANQIN official shop ,could you tell us how to contact you .thank you .

I guess the quartz case back was placed incorrectly on an automatic piece, he he he

Does this watch keep good time ?

after 24 hours day date auto moving?

I have in Gold couleur

It does hack. The escapement doesn't stop, what stops is the seconds hand, and here you can see the flywheel stopping, which is actually a modified seconds hand.

Still working?

please use the watch for 1 month and let us know how it went. Please please please

Is this really tourbillion ?

From experience with Guanqin dress watches, the rotar noise is awfully loud. Aesthetically the watches are very pleasant, but practically they tend to be unwieldy and difficult to live with.

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The review focuses on the appearance of the watch, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But “does it look nice” is not the question everyone will be asking about this watch. The question is, “is it a cheap Chinese piece of crap” and, “am I throwing $50 - $200 away, when I can put it towards a better, less flashy watch.” My personal opinion is the answer to both questions is “yes.”

It would be a classier watch without stupid open heart.

Obviously, one thing the Chinese watch maker should improve is their English.

Don't worry everything are made in China 😁

It is a piece of shit I bought different types Only works 30 days Just don’t waste your money

Do you have to set the date every day manually?