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Jord JHLS32 Movement

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#1 ·
I was looking at the highly rated Jord brand wooden watches last night. I love the look of the Meridian model watch. The watch has a dual wheel movement [1].

I contacted their support asking them who makes their movement. The associate says that the movement is in house. Does anyone have any insight on this dual wheel movement? Their specs say +/-45 seconds which seems quite a lot.

[1] https://www.woodwatches.com/materials/movements
 
#6 ·
In-house - as likely as I'm really James Bond. Best guess it's chinese PTS Resources made movement (JHLS 15, or 32, or 33).
These movements are often used in cheaper watches trying to look like ersatz tourbillons or in Breguet knock-offs.

45 jewel and the look - definitely thinking JHLS32, and indeed Jord calls it inhouse, but uses PTS Resources (chinese movt) caliber designation
http://www.ptsresources.com/download/catalog/PTScatalog.pdf

Frankly, I would not trust Jord to be transparent or honest about stuff. Their website (in OPs lync) claims Seagull mechanical movts with +/- 3 sec/day accuracy - yeah right :(

Here is another watch using same movt
 
#11 ·
Far as I know, wood dials are few and far between, with mechanical movements. Hublot perhaps. No one else really comes to mind. Oh...take that back. Corum did one I think, a couple years ago.

And, yeah. 45 SPD is terrible. 8200-series Miyotas do better than that. And dual barrels on a 3-hander is commonly for power reserve, unless they're doing full-scale regulators with twin escapements...and *that* is the kind of feature that brings you will into the middle 5 digits. So a 40 hour PR? Joke. 47 jewels also seems farcical. "Must-have for any collection" is the kind of lying BS that translates to about 10 red flags.