Golden Bezel Big Dial Tourbillon Design Mens Watches Brand Luxury Stainless Steel Automatic Mechanical Wrist Watch with Calendar

Keeping in mind this is a low cost watch, it is extremely nice. It is quite heavy and well done. The watch band/bracelet used to be solid links but now, (although nicely done) are wrapped links. The links are adjusted easily and the rotating bezel has a stiff, smooth feel.

The media could not be loaded. Please note: there are at least two versions of this watch, a silver version and a black version. The silver version is reviewed here.Make no bones about it, the Jaragar (pronounced Ya-rί-ga) Big Dial Tourbillon Design Mens Watch is a cheap, Chinese watch at $42.00. But “cheap” doesn’t necessarily mean “bad.” It means that if you can’t afford to stick it in a drawer and forget about it upon receipt, don’t buy it. From what I’ve read, returning this watch is a big hassle and will cost you money, so returning it is almost not an option and Amazon will be of no help. Hence the “stick it in a drawer and forget about it” warning above, especially in light of the fact that this manufacturer has almost zero quality control. In addition, the manufacturer apparently will not accept the watch back if it has been worn. (YOW!)It’s difficult to lend any validity to the horror stories written about this watch because people who don’t usually write reviews about what they’ve bought on Amazon will copiously write reviews only if the item is horrible, doesn’t work, disappoints them somehow, or if they really love the item and it meets all their expectations.This watch is manufactured by the same Chinese company that produces Jaragar watches in addition to Forsining, Winner, Megir, and many other brands. It is part of the Guangzhou Ruixue Watch Company Limited, also known under the umbrella, “Forsining Watch Company Limited.” The movement used in this watch is often referred to as a “Tongji” movement and was developed in 1970s communist China as a part of the consolidation of their watch industry. The Tongji can be found in many watches by this company (and others) and can be likened to the “alpha” engine design developed by South Korea's Hyundai and used in many of their cars as well as other brands of cars over the decades.Firstly, please take into account that this watch has a 50mm case diameter. Unless you’re built like the Hulk, this is a very large-face watch. However, mere mortals can still wear this watch and look only a little wimpy. The watch has a very busy lower dial hemisphere and because the three hands (hour, minute and sweep second) are silver and very low in contrast, reading the time is difficult and can take a while (don’t try to read the time while driving). The face has two regions: the main dial and the bezel face. The main dial has a pale yellow color and the bezel face has a pale blue color to it. This would be a very pleasant combination if only the colors weren’t so pale. As is, they both just come off as being white.The left subdial shows the day of the week indication, while the right subdial shows the month. Only trouble here is that none of the weekdays or month names are shown…only indices and an occasional number. At the 12 o’clock position, you have the two “big date” windows (which are hardly big) and the numbers within them aren’t any bigger than a typical single date window at the usual 3 o’clock position. In case you haven’t gotten the memo yet: this watch is very hard to read.The numbers and indices on the outer bezel face and the perimeter of the main dial constitute a circular slide rule. The bezel face can be rotated to make computations possible by turning the bezel much in the manner of the bezel on a typical dive watch. However, there are many other numbers and indices on the face of this watch that I cannot account for. I can’t identify a tachymeter (tachometer) scale, so what these extra numbers and indices mean is anyone’s guess. Perhaps the manufacturer simply wanted to make the face of this watch even busier than it already was.And now for the elephant in the room. The “tourbillion” (pronounced tér-bi-yon) at the six o’clock position, is the main feature of this watch. Normally, tourbillion watches start at $4,000 and go up, up, way up from there. There are tourbillion watches that cost over 1 million dollars. So a $42.00 tourbillion watch? Have the Chinese pulled off a miracle? No, they’ve pulled off yet another flimflam. You see, the purpose of a tourbillion is to negate the force of gravity that plague mechanical watches and make them run slow or fast. In an “automatic” or “self-winding” watch, the natural, everyday movements of your arm are used to wind the watch. However, for the most part, the watch is still fairly stationary, allowing gravity to mess with the mechanical movement of your watch.To make your watch more accurate, the parts of a mechanical watch that regulate speed, are placed inside a “cage” which revolves so that gravity doesn’t get as much of a chance to affect the watch. When Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823) invented and patented the tourbillion in 1801, there were no wristwatches, only pocketwatches, which were even more affected by gravity. What started out as a practical way to improve timekeeping accuracy, eventually turned into a “complication” on wristwatches, considered beautiful, mesmerizing, highly desireable and expensive. In the 1970s, watchmakers began to realize that 1-axis tourbillions (like Breguet’s) could only correct for gravity in one dimension. Soon, double axis (or biaxial) and triple axis (or triaxial) tourbillions attempted to correct for gravity in two and three dimensions. Ironically, the tourbillion has never scientifically been proven to improve timekeeping accuracy.What this Jaragar watch has is NOT a tourbillion, but a flywheel (every watch—even the cheapest—has at least one flywheel) which the manufacturer has exposed to view and made to look like a tourbillion. Simply looking at this supposed tourbillion, reveals that there is no rotating cage containing other components animated inside it. Only the flywheel spins forward, then backward. This is a trick Chinese watchmakers use to make you think you’re buying an inexpensive, but real tourbillion. Many of these fake “tourbillions” litter the web pages of Amazon and many other online stores. Is Amazon liable for selling these fake “tourbillion” watches? Isn’t this like selling fake “Rolexes”? I doubt it. Amazon is simply offering watches they’ve been told by the manufacturer are tourbillion watches. How is Amazon supposed to know? Are they watch experts? No, of course not. But now that ignorance is no longer an excuse, Amazon should immediately take steps to correct this error.This Jaragar watch has a nice heft to it and the case is all nicely polished (shiny) stainless steel. The polished (shiny) stainless steel bracelet has an interesting and unique angled link design to it, but has a lot of looseness and play between the link components. It feels cheap and likely to fall apart very quickly. An aftermarket bracelet may be called for here. The lume? Forget it, it’s virtually nonexistent. If nothing goes wrong with it, this watch is pleasant enough, fun to wear, is a nice conversation piece and does catch the eye. I think I was lucky because so far, my Jaragar watch has shown no defects or malfunctions, but I've only had it a few days. I will post edits if something significant happens. However, my cheap junk drawer is halfway open and ready to accept this watch at a moment’s notice.

Nice watch but the band is pretty cheap.

Absolutely amazing time piece. I have the black and gold one. I like it So much that I had to get another one in a different color.