Magrette Moana Pacific Professional Watch
Our favorite New Zealand-based watch company Magrette is back with a new watch model called the Moana Pacific Professional. FEBRUARY 2013 UPDATE: See the end of the article below for links to new images of the finished watch. In addition to a slightly new design flavor and more sporty attire, the Moana Pacific Professional finally uses the well-received Japanese Miyota 9015 automatic movement that we actually covered back here. This isn't the first watch I've seen with a 9015 movement, but I know Magrette has been waiting to get their hands on these. The caliber 9015 is a high-grade automatic movement from Citizen-owned Miyota meant to compete with the Swiss ETA 2824 - and we hear really positive performance results with watches containing the caliber 9015.The Miyota 9015 movement is a 4 Hz automatic with hand-winding and a hacking seconds hand.. It has the potential to really fill in the gap where ETA movements used to go now that ETA is severely restricting sales of their movements t

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After a week off, enjoying one last day outside...
Took a week off between job changes. This is my last day off. I should have took 2 weeks off. Weather is near perfect in the midwest.Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend like I am.