11.11 - How many watches do you have in your shipping cart?

🥳 It’s that time of the year again! 🥳

11.11 is a major shopping day in China, and all your favorite Chinese watch brands are having a mad sale on Aliexpress. 🛍️ I’ve already added about a dozen watches to my shopping cart and I’m eagerly waiting for the sale to go live. 😎 However, I’m planning to purchase only between 3 to 5 models.

Who else is participating in the sale? 🤔

Which watches are you interested in?⌚

And which Aliexpress watches have you already purchased? 🛒

Let’s discuss it below and if there ain't photos, it ain't happened 👇

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Am I the only one whose never heard of 11/11 shopping day? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I purchased a Pagani Design PD1701v3 "Speedy" homage last February from AliExpress ... love it! But don't have any immediate plans to buy anything during the 11/11 sale

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Not my cup of tea, but good luck hope you get what you want 👍🏻

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DH_NYC

Am I the only one whose never heard of 11/11 shopping day? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I only learned what it is from Jody's recent video.

I do like the San Martin original design GMT.

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Only thirteen in my cart! 🤣 San Martin, Baltany, Boderry, Tandorio, and Pagani Design.

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None this year.

I really don't see any decent bargains this time around and I'd rather spend by I'll begotten gains on smaller, independent brands such a Zelos, Lorier and Farer.

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Well...I've got a Zelos Swordfish 38 I'm still waiting on and I just pulled the trigger on a Nezumi Aveira GMT NH34

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casiodean

I have one so far, and I've forgotten what it is. LOL I think it was an Addiesdive for £49 but I have no idea what model it was now. I also have a Benyar (the tiffany blue OP homage) which I'm still debating about.

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That AddiesDive is the best "value" watch I've ever purchased. I absolutely love it! The bracelet is a very pleasant surprise, it's great.

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Have this Sugess Seagull-powered chrono on the basket. It looks like a fun piece! Don’t know if I’ll pull the trigger on it yet. Will decide on Saturday.

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This is what I'm talking about! YES!!!

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DH_NYC

Am I the only one whose never heard of 11/11 shopping day? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I work for a large music instrument manufacturer and this the most important sales day in China. That's why I learned about it several years back.

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LongmoorCopse

None this year.

I really don't see any decent bargains this time around and I'd rather spend by I'll begotten gains on smaller, independent brands such a Zelos, Lorier and Farer.

I'm trying to decide on whether I should buy 3 to 1 Pagani Designs or a San Martin, respectively speaking. Looking at GMT's right now and both have a good selection.

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casiodean

I have one so far, and I've forgotten what it is. LOL I think it was an Addiesdive for £49 but I have no idea what model it was now. I also have a Benyar (the tiffany blue OP homage) which I'm still debating about.

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I repurchased the Benyar in Yellow after gifting it to a friend. The lack. Micro adjust is annoying, but the watch I had was great. I ordered it a week ago since it was back in-stock (they sold out) since the 3 Euro difference wasn't worth the potential wait.

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Exactly…0.

Aliexpress is a horrible platform.

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OMG, my wife is going to hunt you all down after she finds out you let me know about this sale. Shopping now. Beware that light tapping on the door post 11-11, she may be tiny but she packs a punch!

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MistaMin

I'm trying to decide on whether I should buy 3 to 1 Pagani Designs or a San Martin, respectively speaking. Looking at GMT's right now and both have a good selection.

As someone who owns watches from both these companies, I would buy one non-homage San Martin GMT timepiece over three copycat watches from Pagani Design.

San Martin have some attractive GMT models with colourful bezels. The finisihing looks quite nice and the bracelets punch well above their weight.

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DH_NYC

Am I the only one whose never heard of 11/11 shopping day? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nope! I'm dumbfounded also.

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I don’t want a fake Chinese watch.

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casiodean

Buy a real Chinese watch instead then. 😁

Do the fake Chinese watchmakers make fake Chinese watches?

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No complete watches, but enough parts to build one.

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My short list includes:

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Ooh, nice. Guessing one of the bottom two

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Looking at this one while trying not to fall to temptation. There's a cheaper one with a ST1701 small seconds complication that's even more faithful to the VC 1921 American Historique.

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skydave

Think of it as Black Friday or Prime Day but for the Asian world that doesn’t have Thanksgiving nor celebrate Christmas.

It's called Singles' Day in China.

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MistaMin

It's called Singles' Day in China.

Ouch. For the imagery of four 1's standing side by side or because there's another reason?

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Many don't know what made I. Switzerland really means. Of course a Patek, an Audemars Piguet and a Rolex are a different league, but anyone that says a Swatch or a Tissot is leagues above a Sea-Gull doesn't know enough about the watch industry.

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So, I'm super excited about making an order tomorrow... Actually I'm kind of bumbed out since I saved up enough to get a Zodiac, but the wife wants to buy a couch (and she damn well deserves it, that woman does everything for me).... So I'm feeding the urge by getting some cool watches for cheap.

Here are the current Aliexpress watches I own, one of which I accidentally broke when swapping the pinions and for which I had to buy a new VK63.

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TalkingDugong

Ouch. For the imagery of four 1's standing side by side or because there's another reason?

It was thought of as an Anti-Valentine's day holiday for single people and yes the 11.11 is supposed to show people being single and not in a relationship.

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Any suggestions on decent, but reasonably priced 36mm women's dress watch for a wife who wears nothing but her smart watch! #aliexpress #christmas

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time_is_ticking

Any suggestions on decent, but reasonably priced 36mm women's dress watch for a wife who wears nothing but her smart watch! #aliexpress #christmas

Check out the Pagani Design PD-1752 Date Just Hommage or the Spect & Söhne SP0011 (though this one is 37 mm).