Return of the classic?

[By-Tor]

Hey... who still remembers my ancient review (from 2005) of the legendary plastic crystal Speedy Broad Arrow?

Read it here.

I went to the dealers' sites looking for the new stuff and found this from the Silix site.

Note that the first pictures are of the much nicer plastic crystal version that I reviewed. The last 3 pictures on the lower right corner, however, are of the disappointing new version which has a sapphire crystal and overall much less impressive presence.

My review watch wasn't accurate replica... that's not the point. But it was hell of a nice watch. If Silix can really source the old classic version for $250, it'd be quite cool.

Or perhaps the first photos are just very old photos and they don't see the difference between these 2 versions? Wouldn't actually surprise me at all.

Just curious...

[andreww]

Id assume those are just old pics BT. If you look in the description it is described as Sapphire.

[By-Tor]

Maybe you're right. Bummer.

That watch is SO nice... my brother owns my old watch and I would have purchased another. This used to be very sought after rep, but I'm not sure if it'd be that today (in the age of all these "super reps").

[andreww]

I hear you brother. I would love to have more of these Seagull ST19 movement based watches in my collection. Very solid, and beautiful movements!

[trailboss]

I doubt the current mob at Silix would know the difference BT.

Col.

[hackR]

just picked up this elusive, classic watch in a FS this weekend!...

it arrives tomorrow..................................

one of my early reads on RWG was BT's tremendous review of this watch... i have since been looking...and lo and behold, one finally shows up....

when it arrives, i'll be showing it off...

ever notice how time passes slowly when a piece is in transit?!...