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Win it: The New, Vintage Look Orient Bambino

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Orient Bambino FER2400BW0 – $156.00 w/ EARLYBLACKFRIDAY ($260)

Code is good for 40% off and free ground shipping through today, Monday 11/25/13.

Like an inheritance piece without the unfortunate demise of a relative. There are plenty of instances in the men’s style retail world where a brand has something terrific, they try and tweak it, and it ends up a mess. This is the exact opposite of that all too-often “it wasn’t broke but we fixed it anyway” scenario.

The original Bambino is still in production, and it hits all the right marks for a minimalist timepiece. A clean dial, sharp looks, and a domed crystal that gives it a bit of a vintage feel while still remaining modern. The new Bambino styling turns the clock back by a century, while almost certainly pushing their sales ahead even further. They took something that was great, and made it better in the eyes of plenty, all without abandoning the previous design in the process.

That appears to be a win-win-win. Win³.

Orient Bambino Vintage Close

The logo, date placement, case, crystal, & movement are all the same. Just some of the window dressing has been changed. 40.5 mm case diameter that wears a bit smaller. More intricate looking minute markers + arabic numeral indicators every 5 minutes busy up the outside ring of the dial. Roman numerals replace the geometric indices on the even-numbered hours, with “I” showing up the odd number hours. That’s a bit different, but Scout’s honor… I didn’t even notice all the extra “I”s until BA pointed it out in the comments over here. The hands have been thinned down quite a bit, and gone is the plain crown of the original Bambino, and instead there’s a nicer looking onion shaped crown at 3 o’clock.

Orient Bambino Vintage Domed

They’ve made four case + dial color combos in this new vintage-look, with the blue-hand / cream dial once again selling out this past weekend. Up for grabs here is the white dial, silver case, and rose-gold accent option. Usually $260 retail, ($182 with the usual 30% off), now a steal at $156.00. Or, plain old larceny at “free” if you win the random drawing…

Enter here to win The Orient Bambino FER2400BW0. One entry per person. Deadline for entry is 11:59 pm ET 11/26/13. Thanks to Orient for providing their newest model. Good luck!

UPDATE: Congrats to William H. who won the drawing for this Bambino. Thanks again to Orient!

Orient Bambino V Win It

Comments

  2. beautiful watch. brand new with a vintage look. if i am correctly recalling what the last version looked like, i’d say this newer version looks even older.

    because i enjoy guessing the backdrops, am i correct in saying that is the console of an Audi in the last pic?

  5. Code isn’t working, fyi. At least not at shopping cart stage prior to entering all of your information.

  6. “win-win-win. Win³.” I seriously laughed out loud!! Love it!!
    Thanks for another awesome giveway!

  7. Beautiful Orient. The only Orient I own is a Ray and the build quality is superb for an automatic under $200. Orient makes some of the best watches in this price bracket along with Seiko. Thanks for the opportunity to win this piece, a Bambino would make a fine dress timepiece.

  14. I purchased my first Orient watch last week. I choose the Esteem semi skeleton with rose gold and brown leather band. I must say it looks quality. Its just beautiful. I like it so much I’m going to get the same model but in yellow gold with black band… unless, of course I win this one 🙂

  15. Too bad you didn’t have the cream/blue combo up for grabs but this would be a suitable runner up.

  17. Aside from it looking like it’s 1 o’clock more often than usual, I like it! A very classy looking timepiece.

    I think the “wears a bit smaller” dealio works well in this *case* (doh). A dress watch that wears too large can look a little odd to my eyes. Divers, aviators, (some) chronos? Sure… size-up. But I think dress watches tend to look cleaner, classier and well… *dressier* when their size is kept more in check.

  22. Got mine. Thanks, Joe! I have the Orient Blue Ray and have been really pleased with it over the last 10 months. I’ve been looking for a nice white-dial dress watch and here it is!

  25. Any idea when this will be for sale again? I wanted to scoop it up after work and the gym today.. then poof… gone.. what a drag…

  28. Ahh… See I thought the fellas were just not digging the extra white space along the outer edge of the dial. But I may have stopped reading somewhere in there and missed the issue with the markers; in the thread I *think* you’re talking about, that is.

    The dial edge doesn’t bother me at all. All of those “I”-looking markers? … Maybe a little, but it still looks like a really classy watch with a vintage vibe to me.

  33. Just got mine last night, exact same model. It’s beautiful and feels really well made. Love the new crown and it wears a lot smaller than the specs indicate. Only thing I’d throw out is that the band is really, really dark brown – from a distance, it looks black. The gold accents with the stainless case, though…awesome. I have no gold, I wear no gold, I like no gold…but this is just right.