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Are there any preferred movements between the various Orient watches? Are the OStar watch movements any more accurate than the Orient? I've been reading and watching the Orient line lately and for some reason, have the feeling that Orient/Orient Star is a value line. To me, that means a reasonable level of quality for a reasonable price. I know there are many others out there that would also fall into that category, but for whatever reason, Orient has my current interest.

I wish to move from quartz based movements back to automatics, just for a change. As I grew up, I watched my dad dive into the innards of his watches and tweak them until they would run extremely accurately (using WWV as a time base). That is something I plan to do as well so having a hacking movement is important to me, as is ease of getting into the watch case and finding the trim screw or whatever it's called that adjusts the regulation of the watch.

I wish to stay inside $500 US for this venture (not list, but actual selling price) and tend to prefer a SS case and bracelet with a white dial. I kinda like the Polaris GMT, but am not crazy about the blue hands and the size might be a bit large for my 6.75-7.0 inch wrist.

I really like the looks of the Orient Star Vintage Power Reserve, but haven't been able to find one.

Any thoughts for an Orient/OStar watch that might meet my criteria? Is this a bad time to be looking? Most of the watches I'm interested in seem to be out of stock.
 
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You posted back in May, have you made a decision yet?

Orient does make a good quality watch. They don't get as much love as Citizen and Seiko for Japanese watches, but owning examples of all three, I think Orient is similar in quality when spending a similar amount of money (and on the cheaper watches, Orient is probably a tad better).

As for movements, not all Orient movements have hacking and hand winding. All Orient Stars use a movement with hacking and hand winding (there are at least two versions of the OS movement). Moving to their standard watches, the older ones were neither hand winding nor hackable. They have been putting a new movement in their standard line watches. The Bambino Gen 2 watches have it. Some non-Bambino watches have it, some don't. If it has the old 46B40, it is not hand windable or hackable. If it has the newer F6222 or F6724, it is both hand windable and hackable. Given the watches the two newer movements are found in, I think the F6222 is a higher end movement, but that is just a guess.
 
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Funny you should ask! Indeed, I bought an Orient Star WZ0291EL (40N50) and love it! And then the Triton came along at a good price so about 4 weeks after buying the Orient Star Classic, I bought a blue Triton RA-EL0000A (40N5A). I also love it and just a few minutes ago swapped out the OS for the Triton.

And yes, I still have the hots for the Polaris GMT and actually like the blue hands now. But as a bracelet fan, wish I could get it on a bracelet instead of a strap. Then again, there's the Orient Star Seeker.... but it's quite a bit more expensive than the Polaris... so I'm kinda holding out for a deal on the Polaris.

My baseline requirements are hacking and sapphire crystals, and all the above meet that criteria. So far, I'm a huge Orient fan.

I haven't had to reset them to reference in months and they're currently running in the range of +3/-10 seconds w/r/t reference time. I was fully prepared to open up the case back and make adjustments as needed, but so far, have simply been using positional adjustments (12 up, 6 up, 9 up, etc) on the resting watch while I wear the other one. Any significant gains/losses from resting are corrected in a few days. Otherwise, they seem to run very accurately while worn on the wrist... something like +2 to +3 spd max and often less than +1 spd. They are much more accurate on the wrist than they are at rest or on the winder!
 
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