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What would you pay? Carucci Automatic Watches

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Carucci Watches via Gilt: $119 FINAL SALE

These have been popping up on Gilt in the last few months… but nowhere else.

A little bit of digging on the interwebs seem to have produced the following information:

  • Some of these may use Japanese Miyota movements, some use Chinese movements.
  • Gotta think they’re assembled in China
  • They appear to be based in Germany, but they have a US site too.

 

Carucci regulators

 

And while some of their styling is pretty loud, they do make some awfully sharp looking regulator/regulateur watches (read: the minute + hour hands are on different dials). Some of their watches even have power reserve indicators. Not necessarily a sign of quality, but an extra feature you don’t always find on cheap autos.

Sold through Gilt and all of these appear to be final sale. So no returns. Not that Gilt has a friendly return policy even if they were up for returns. Anyone own one? Thoughts? And what would you pay under these circumstances?

What would you pay? Carucci Automatics

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  6. My wife was doing business in China and found an “IWC” Portuguese Chrono automatic at one of the street vendors. Before anyone starts: 1) I know it’s not real, I’ve compared it to the genuine article and there are things that are off; and 2) no public lashings for supporting the fakes market, eh? But I’ve got to say it both looks good (I would swear a majority of the parts, incl. the guts visible from the caseback window, are real IWC) and keeps impeccable time (provided I shake it occasionally between wearings).

    My “IWC” gets lots of looks, lots of compliments… and cost under $50. Respecting that not everyone will have the opportunity to get over to Shanghai and pick up an “IWC” or “Tag” from the street vendors – or would necessarily want to support that style of “shopping” – I’m making the point that you can come by a nice automatic for less than you might think. Though I guess I took a while to get to that point (sorry…).

  7. I’m thinking that the hours are actually shown in what most of us would consider the “date” window. Usually on regulators the hours are shown in a subdial, but yeah, that doesn’t seem to be the case here on the bookends.

  10. I think there’s far too many nice non-final-sale watches in that price range to justify dropping $119 on an unknown Chinese watch brand. I’d rather just buy an Orient or something.

  14. The only Regulator I know is Warren G. And there ain’t now way Warren G is telling his peeps: “Hey guyz, it’s a quarter to 55. We gotta get going.”

  17. I occasionally see these watches on the Shark Stores site in the $50-75 range.. Currently they have some Tissot watches (nice quality) starting at $214 or so. However, they are mostly women’s Tissot watches

  19. Carucci had several watches on SharkStores.com for $99. Well worth it in my opinion. I have 3 of their watches and have yet to have a problem with them. I do not believe they are worth full retail, but for $99 or less they are great.