Mon 2 Apr 2007
Absolutely AMAZING. This watch can be summed up into 2 words, and those are them!
I absolutely love this watch. From the moment I opened the package and laid my eyes on it, I was fixated. The dial is beautiful with it’s sunburst Guilloche pattern, blued steel hands, and applied blued steel arabics. The watch is very large for a dress watch… 44mm wide so it sits with prescence on your wrist.
The blue Crocodile pattern Sinn Strap is very well made, It is a bit stiffer than the leather straps from Breitling which I tend to prefer, but very palettable and quite robust. The Strap is calf leather with a Croc pattern on it, not genuine Croc. Watch sits at about 10mm thick, so it is not extremely thin, but not thick either.
Check out that Detail!!! The watch comes with a loupe so you can look at the movement and dial with it and see all the intricacies that Sinn has modified! Very cool watch. I always find myself looking at it and not able to look away! The watch also comes with a CD Manual, not a written one. The guilloche is nicely done tho the lacquered letters look a bit lost in the pattern sometimes.
The Unitas 6498-1 Movement that Sinn has modified is called the SZ 04. Sinn has modified it to a Regulator configuration and has tweaked it to perform at Chronometer standards. The watch is keeping time within 2 seconds per day since I have received it. Amazingly the watch is water resistant to 100m, even with the push-down crown. It uses Sinn’s new D3 system. The movement as you can see is decorated very nicely.
Movement: 9/10
Case/Crystal/Crown: 9/10
Dial/Hands: 9/10
Strap / Buckle / Bracelet: 7/10
Accuracy: 10/10
Comfort: 9/10
Packaging / Manual: 7/10
Overall Impression: 9/10
October 21st, 2008 at 6:15 am
Hi,
I really love this watch, the dial is amazing. I just have a question; Have you ever taken it apart and looked at the dial side of the movement?
I ask this because i’m about to modify a 6498 by moving the hour hand above the normal location just like this watch, because of the position of the barrel the only way to do this would be to add a small intermediary gear connecting the original hour wheel to a new hour wheel above that, then you can take the hour hand off the original hour wheel and put it on the new one. I’m just wondering if that’s how Sinn did it as well.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
Hi Paul, I’ve never seen the other side of the Sinn’s modified one, but I would assume they did something like that.