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Win it: The Orient Bambino Automatic

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Orient Bambino – $182.00 with code fall2012 ($270)

The code also gets you the Orient “freebie” package, which includes a quartz watch of Orient’s choosing, a 2012 desktop calendar, a lanyard, and their catalog.  Instructions on how to win the Bambino are at the bottom of this post.

All class.  The Bambino is one of Orient’s best-selling watches and it’s no secret why.  A clean, simple, well proportioned (read: not enormous) dress watch is a foundational piece to any guy’s wardrobe.  Just look at the J. Crew Timex 1600.  They’re slinging that blanketed-in-fluffy-language sterile quartz for almost $200.  The Bambino not only costs less as an automatic (with the code), it also comes out of the box looking like an heirloom.

Instead of an ice-rink flat piece of glass, the crystal on the Bambino is domed.  It slants up from the stainless case for a few millimeters before rounding off at an edge and flattening out.  That makes for a timepiece with some visual depth.  It’s unusual and it’s the kind of detail that makes those of us who usually gravitate towards more complicated dials pay more attention to this simple one.  All it says about the makeup of the crystal is “domed crystal glass”… so be wary of scratching this thing.

The case diameter is 40.5mm without the crown and wears a little smaller than that.  Also available in a black dial version, as well as two rose-gold plated options that run $20 more at retail.  Water resistant to just 30m, but this is the kind of watch you wear dressed up.  So take it off before you wash the dog.    The leather band is a deep brown with some reddish hues, very similar to the band that comes with the Orient Explorer.  Come to think of it, if you had an Orient Explorer in your collection for those times you wanted something with a busier dial, and this for the times when you wanted to keep it simple… then you’d be set.

Awfully lucky and set.

UPDATE:  Congrats to Dustin B. who won the random drawing for the Orient Bambino.  Thanks to Orient once again!

Here’s how to win the Bambino seen here: Send your first and last name in an email to contests@dappered.com with the subject: Orient Bambino.  One entry per person. Deadline for entry is 11:59 pm ET on 11/7/12.

Comments

  1. Just a tad more than I like to spend on a watch, but it is a beaut. Glad to hear the strap is brown.

  3. Oh dang. Whether or not I win this one, the black and rose gold might just be my graduation present.

  4. Very clean, just the way I like them. On another note though, you may want to considering pitching your photography services to Orient. Their watches shown on your site, present and former, look cleaner, crisper and quite frankly more attractive. Perhaps to be attributed to the rich background verses their generic white. None the less, great job, great looking watch and as always, great giveaway. Best luck to all.

  5. Bought it! Got the last silver with white. The freebie package was enough to put me over the edge.

  12. I LOVE this watch. It would be the prefect replacement for the Seiko Sportsmatic that my father brought back to me back from Vietnam in 1972 and which was my daily wearer from about 1982 until last summer when it was last serviced. On the advise of my watch guy, I had to relegate it to special family occasions due to age, wear and the incumbent fragility. Classic design. It may have been why my wife agreed to our second date. I need this watch!

  13. If it had a blue dial version it would be perfect for the Frakenwatch discussed in the threads. No weekday!

  16. Love the look of the watch. Quick question: I realize that at 40.5mm, its not too big. However, for a supremely classical looking watch, does anyone else wish it were just a tad smaller to reflect the true size of actual vintage era timepieces (36-38mm)? Or is that just too small for today’s watches?

  18. I bought this watch as my first ‘nice’ watch and I absolutely love it. It’s classic but still stands out in a good way. Can’t tell you how often I get compliments on it.

    As far as the domed crystal getting scratched, I’ve banged it against my desk or a wall several times (I’m quite clumsy) and my golden retriever has gaumed it up – still looking great!

  20. I’m getting one soon. The only thing I’m not too high about the Orients are their leather straps that are often too stiff and don’t last too long.

  21. Vintage watches would actually tend towards 34-35mm. I personally wish this actually was anywhere between 33mm-36mm. There’s nothing Bambinesque (childlike) about 40.5mm. But I agree that this is a spectacular classic looking watch. The domed glass puts it over the top in my book. Anybody know of an option around that size and price range in this style without going vintage?

  28. We’ve had a few people on the forums post their winnings. But if you don’t believe it, don’t enter; I don’t think it’s going to hurt you anyway.

  30. Such a nice looking watching I have been looking at Orients lately looking at the mako for my first step up everyday watch.

  32. I just got the email about being selected as the winner – I can post a picture later if you like!? As someone said below…don’t enter. How can you complain about not winning something that is being given away?