Hard Decision

[fredrik m]

I need a little help in a decision.

What do you guys recommend?

Two watches with Asian 21J for 100$ or one with ETA for 200$ .

The watches I have bean looking at are standard watches, no GMT or anything extra except date.

Pleas advise me

[mums-mums]

I need a little help in a decision.

What do you guys recommend?

Two watches with Asian 21J for 100$ or one with ETA for 200$ .

The watches I have bean looking at are standard watches, no GMT or anything extra except date.

Pleas advise me

I am not a recommender......................

Just wondering........... Two Asian 21J for $100 ? Or two at $100 each ?

[fredrik m]

$ 100 each

[Highflyingclive]

Two Asians.

[AMK000]

well .... everything in the rep world is a gamble.

If the dealer replaces a defected watch , go for ETa if not go for Asian.

[hambone]

Two Asians, a Swede, and three Irish.

[Admin]

If this is your first purchase, I would go for the 2 asian. Nothing less satisfying thatn having only 1 watch to wear Jokes aside: The asian watches are usually a great place to start and usually gives you a lot of "bang for the bucks"

[fredrik m]

How difficult will it be to replace the 21J with an ETA later on?

Is it the same hand size?

[CY0811]

1 ETA all day long IMO...only asian I will buy is a modded chrono.

[Pugwash]

Two watches with Asian 21J for 100$ or one with ETA for 200$ .

That would depend on the watches.

Two decent $100 Asians beat one average $200 ETA.

[crystalcranium]

How difficult will it be to replace the 21J with an ETA later on?

Is it the same hand size?

The hands are not interchangeable.

The Asian 21j is something of a workhorse. Its' reputation is sound. The only limiting factors are reparability, (but at $100, it's a disposable watch) and second hand smoothness. It does beat slower than the ETAs in our watches. This might be an issue for you as some see a 5 beat/sec second hand vas an 8 beat/sec movement as a fatal rep flaw.

And just to get this out of the way for you. The Asian 21j and the Swiss ETA you are debating over are both Chinese manufactured movements. ETA has it's movements produced in China before they shine them up and perform the requisite amount of post manufacturing handeling to legally call them "Swiss Made" We get access to them prior to this final transformstion. Everything I've read suggests this is nothing more than a formality to satisfy the legal requirements for a "Swiss Made" trademark and does not affect performance but don't have any fantasies your "Swiss Made" ETA was produced in Switzerland.

[fredrik m]

The watches I am thinking of is either this two ones

http://www.trustytime.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=257 and

http://www.trustytime.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=586

or either one of this

http://www.trustytime.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=985

http://www.trustytime.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=256

What do you guys think?

[fitmic]

Go for 2 asian watches instead!