Mako has run down him some lunch - won't go hungry today... or maybe it was yesterday.
Some fish tins from Portugal and the watch of the day itself which is one of my newer additions to collection - my Mako XL.
And the tins are quite fancy, especially the one bearing the name of 1943 and quoting a collection of some selected events that took place in 1943 (a very eventful year obviously) - Portugal ceased a base to the Allies and Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison and Robert De Niro were all born in 1943.
It seems I am on a roll as regards adding (affordable) timepieces to my collection, and here is a 2018 Limited Edition Orient RA-AA 0007A09A Mako III aka Kamasu!
As per usual, this post is heavy on pictures and light on words... just turn on your visual perception.
After unboxing... however I should say upfront the box is not a Limited Edition box, just what the store had.
The reference... which is RA-AA 0007A09A
Limited Edition!
Only 2000 in the world and only 70 in Russia! ... and only 1 in my collection!
The blue dial is something special... mother of pearl (MOP), I believe.
Differences from other Kamasus in the series include: the mother of pearl dial, different hands, bezel, sapphire crystal, made in Japan and, of course, the limited edition inscription and a number out of 2000.
The gold-plated bezel looks good also... means you can wear the watch with gold rings on the same hand without committing a style crime (as in combining stainless steel watch and a gold signet).
Here is finally a new addition to my collection, which happens rarely nowadays, and it is an Orient Mako XL.
A couple of years back there was a trend in oversized watches - and I remember it well and have a couple of 45 mm case diameter watches myself - and Orient came up with this version of the Mako - the Mako XL.
This is not a Mako I, not a Mako II, it is specifically a Mako XL, the largest of all Makos!
However it is powered by Orient's famous 469xx movement which, it has to be said, is strictly automatic, i.e. no hand-winding option which is good for a diver's watch and for reliability and longevity in general (as there are fewer operations that are required to do with the watch by the user) but it also loses something in convenience of use, especially where you have many watches and rotate them and for this reason don't wear, say, this one often enough for it to maintain enough auto wind reserve - which is a well-known inconvenience with purely automatic watches lacking hand-wind.
On the other hand it also has a pusher which changes day of week... and which also somewhat defeats the purpose of a diver's watch as it has no screw-down crown but the main crown is screw-down.
But well I knew all of that before I bought the watch; I just wanted to have my first Mako and with the 469 caliber specifically.
Here it is side by side with one of my other 45+ mm watch - the Zlatoust Retro Military which turned to be one of my most successful watch purchases as it consistently kept good time and there were no major problem in about a year of wear.
But now it goes to its box to give way to the Mako which will be my main wearable watch at least until my next watch purchase.
