New Lorier

Another day another new chronograph release, this time an updated Gemini from Lorier for 500 USD. I'm not sure how I feel about the shade of blue they've used for the second hand. 🤔

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https://www.lorierwatches.com/products/gemini-sii 

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Personally like the new hour hand - I know it won’t be for everyone. Looks like another solid panda option! 🔥

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The yellow dial is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚨

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Not deep enough? 

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Cmon you didn’t show the yellow one…😉 

saw that yesterday I was like damn it!! Another yellow watch shoot!! Very tempting!!

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Ichibunz

Cmon you didn’t show the yellow one…😉 

saw that yesterday I was like damn it!! Another yellow watch shoot!! Very tempting!!

The Racer? Oh no, the black subdial makes it look lop-sided.

I‘m not entirely sure where I sit on these, I think they look ok but I’ve never really been one for panda dial racers. I think the blue seconds hand is ok, but I can see what you mean.

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bevelwerks

Personally like the new hour hand - I know it won’t be for everyone. Looks like another solid panda option! 🔥

Part of me thinks that it's great pop of colour 🤩, the old grumpy part thinks 'kids toy'😒

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Ichibunz

Cmon you didn’t show the yellow one…😉 

saw that yesterday I was like damn it!! Another yellow watch shoot!! Very tempting!!

Do it. Buy it. It's been ages since you've treated yourself. 🤗

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Porthole

The Racer? Oh no, the black subdial makes it look lop-sided.

I‘m not entirely sure where I sit on these, I think they look ok but I’ve never really been one for panda dial racers. I think the blue seconds hand is ok, but I can see what you mean.

It reminds me of Studi0underdog’s watches … well I think they share the same seagull movement hence with goofy subdials… 

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Porthole

The Racer? Oh no, the black subdial makes it look lop-sided.

I‘m not entirely sure where I sit on these, I think they look ok but I’ve never really been one for panda dial racers. I think the blue seconds hand is ok, but I can see what you mean.

I like blue, but the particular shade they've used just doesn't sit right with me. 

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DeeperBlue

Do it. Buy it. It's been ages since you've treated yourself. 🤗

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Ok! I will! I need to spoil myself from time to time… or all the time 

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Ichibunz

Ok! I will! I need to spoil myself from time to time… or all the time 

I hope you are feeling better too ❤️

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DeeperBlue

I hope you are feeling better too ❤️

Thank you! ❤️🙏

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Ichibunz

It reminds me of Studi0underdog’s watches … well I think they share the same seagull movement hence with goofy subdials… 

It reminds me of a wasp, but I’m not strapping one of them to my wrist anytime soon

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DeeperBlue

I like blue, but the particular shade they've used just doesn't sit right with me. 

It looks cheap-plasticy right?  

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Ah...Lorier. Now all I need is to find a good AR double coated sapphire crystal to swap and we're golden. 

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Really seems like a great price for a manual Chrono. May have to look into this

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I will swim against the tide here and say that I like it (not the yellow, which is a shame).

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I love it. Makes my trigger finger itch.

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Porthole

I noticed that, but I thought it was a nice gesture. I forget how many people are spoilt nowadays with their sapphire crystals and AR coatings. If I had a tube of Polywatch every time I bought a watch with an acrylic crystal I could bathe in the stuff. Oh how shiny I would be!

Well that's an interesting image seared into my mind forever.

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DeeperBlue

Well that's an interesting image seared into my mind forever.

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Polywatch 

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Porthole

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Polywatch 

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I like it! I do like the changes they made, like with the blue accents. Unfortunate that they are only making a single color for each of their core series, however, I understand. The last time they offered many colors ways it came back and bit them in the rear. Manufacturing issues caused many headaches for them. 

I am looking forward to the Hyperion Skyward. I was refreshing their insta feed every day in November.

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DeeperBlue

They obviously know it's going to look tatty pretty quickly, so give you a tube of polywatch in the package 😆

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Not good enough. I bang, scrape and dent my watches (and my dad's and uncle's watches that they let me wore) to seriously scratch acrylic crystals. Mind you at least I didn't crack/shatter them (which would tell you just how accident prone my uncle was). 

Hell, if somebody developed those steel bumperguards like those for G-Shocks but for regular watches I'd buy them. 

I like this a lot. The Gemini is one of the nicer Seagull chronos in my opinion, with a good size, useful 12 hour bezels, and classic styling. Everything Lorier has done with the update is something I like - the hour hand without the goofy arrow head, the lumed hesalite bezel, and shorter lugs better suited to straps. 

I'm looking forward to seeing the updated blue model. That was my favorite of the previous versions and the updates will make me like it even more.

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Generally the new handset is better.  The blue is awful though. Strange choice. 

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I'm waiting to see the black dial version, as that's the one I've been waiting for.

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I wish this colorway (gorgeous, to my eye) had the normal subdials. I really don't like those vague 4 quadrant ones like this has on the left. What's it measuring? A "racer" should combine form and function in my mind.

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Looks good.  Comes with the Chinese ST19 movement which is, I think, the only game in town if you want a mechanical chronograph that is small or less than $1000 (or both).  

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It allows the use of a blue strap. ;) kind of like the splash of color.

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Love the blue chrono hand. Like the new hand style better but the new hour hand is a little too short.