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New Orient Makos

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We are excited to bring you the Mako USA, the newest version of our popular Mako diver. It’s been slightly redesigned with feedback from the watch community in mind. It now includes:
- a sapphire crystal
- solid endlinks
- drilled lug holes
- 120-click bezel.
- The dial also glows more bright with Nemoto LumiNova®, a top-of-the-line lume pigment.

The Mako USA is now available for presale in Jet Black, Stark White, and Royal Blue, and is expected to ship July 1, 2015. Only available here at orientwatchusa.com!

Sapphire crystal now! Man, the white dial is calling my name.
 
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Looks like Long Island Watch signed a deal with Orient. They are now the exclusive distributor of the Mako USA watch now. Pre-order pricing in effect for $159 for black models and $169 for the blue and white models. Pricing is only good until February 22nd.

http://www.longislandwatch.com/Orient_Mako_USA_Watches_s/1952.htm

Long Island Ships worldwide. Read post last night. Ordered 10 minutes later. White dial. $169.00
Never owned an Orient, know little about them except what I read here. :)

For this price, well, can't go wrong(?) I'll soon find out!
 
#21 ·
I like Orient and have the Ray which gets a lot of wrist time. From what I understand the auto-wind mechanism has less moving parts than other brands. If fact I find the Ray winds more easily than my Seiko 009.

Great looking Makos.
 
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I've visited the link and briefly browsed through the comments. A deviation of one second a WEEK with the Orient movement versus 5 to 7 seven seconds a WEEK for Swiss movements? While the COSC standard is -4/+6 seconds a DAY. Even if day/week were mixed up this is baloney :D And if not, Orient must have gold in their hands with a $30 movement that beats even the Kew Observatory Chronometer standard!
 
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You are so right, I fell for that obvious trap myself. There's a big difference between being taken over by another brand or being bought by the owner of that other brand. All those brands that are now part of the Swatch Group for instance still operate mainly autonomous and kept their identity. Like Orient.
 
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Yes, there's link in this thread. US$ 179 and 199. You're one day late, yesterday they were 159 for the black version and 169 for the other colours. Only the black ones are still in stock. The list price is 225.
 
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