Showing posts with label Gorilla Watches. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Blue Demon

From Gorilla Watches -

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

This is the second of two new releases.

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

The Blue Demon is part of the GT Fastback collection and continues the evolution of this series.

Here are the pertinents -

CALIBER
Miyota 90S5, self-winding, 4 Hz, stop seconds, exposed balance wheel, personalized oscillation weight

FUNCTIONS
Hour, minute, sweeping seconds

CASE MATERIAL
Layered forged carbon case, ceramic bezel, anodized aluminum pinstripe, screw-down titanium crown for improved water resistance

CASEBACK
open titanium caseback, engraved, sapphire crystal

DIAL
Anodized aluminum, applied numerals filled with Super-Luminova™, anodized aluminum flange, hands and hour markers filled with Super-Luminova™

CRYSTAL
Scratch resistant sapphire, anti-reflective coating on both sides

STRAP
Bi-color Viton™

BUCKLE
Titanium pin buckle

CASE DIMENSIONS
44 mm case diameter
48.5 mm with crown guards
13 mm case thickness
57 mm lug-to-lug

WATER RESISTANCE
100M/330FT/10ATM

Thursday, November 11, 2021

The Legacy: When FOMO Is A Reasonable Response

From Gorilla Watches -

Courtesy of Gorilla

FOMO. It's a term we hear bandied around quite a it. It speaks to the anxiety or fear of missing out on something when you have the opportunity to get it, but you worry that your decision making paradigm might not be efficient or quick enough for you to take possession of that which you truly desire. And for some watch collectors this can be worse than a failed relationship. As the old saying goes, there are plenty of other fish in the sea (yes, in today's climate change reality even that old chestnut is debatable), but missing out on the Original Gorilla Fastback has haunted me far worse than the unrequited love I had for a certain girl growing up in Northern Ohio in the early 80s.

With all that being said, allow me to acquaint you with the Gorilla Legacy. And I say this without fear of contradiction - this watch IS THE SHIT THAT KILLED ELVIS! (that's good).

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

It's Déjà vu all over again!

The Legacy looks completely different, yet hauntingly the same. Go figure!

The case's vital statistics are as follows:

44 mm case diameter
48.5 mm with crown guards
13 mm case thickness
57 mm lug-to-lug

But it's not just about the dimensions, but rather the dimensions explored with the materials used to make said case:

Layered forged carbon case and bezel, anodized aluminum pinstripe, screw-down titanium crown for improved water resistance

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

The case back is of titanium.

The movement is, as you've come to know and expect, a Miyota. In this instance it is the 8215 (self-winding/automatic).

The price is reasonable - refreshingly so at $980 which if my reading is correct will include shipping.

Here are all the pertinents, straight from Gorilla HQ:

CALIBER

Miyota 8215, self-winding, 3Hz/21.600 vph

FUNCTIONS

Hour, minute, sweeping seconds

CASE MATERIAL

Layered forged carbon case and bezel, anodized aluminum pinstripe, screw-down titanium crown for improved water resistance

CASEBACK

Titanium caseback, engraved

DIAL

Forged carbon, anodized aluminum, numerals printed with Super-Luminova™, hands and hour markers filled with Super-Luminova™

CRYSTAL

Scratch resistant sapphire, anti-reflective coating on both sides

STRAP

Bi-color Viton™

BUCKLE

Titanium pin buckle

CASE DIMENSIONS

44 mm case diameter
48.5 mm with crown guards
13 mm case thickness
57 mm lug-to-lug

WATER RESISTANCE

100M/330FT/10ATM

Thursday, August 5, 2021

My Opinion Is Fact - The Phantom Black

From Gorilla Watches is the BEST sub $900 watch this year -

Courtesy of Gorilla

It sucks to be an independent watch brand.
There's no point in beating around the bush. When you own it, it's your time, your money, your vision. It's even more than your blood, sweat and tears. All of those you can replace.

Courtesy of Gorilla

It's actually an extension of you - at least if you're doing it right. And the guys at Gorilla have been, are doing, and if I am any sort of a judge of these things... will continue to not only do things right, but do them far better than most. I have spent time, drunk wine and talked shit with the folks at Gorilla, and it has always been time well spent.

It has been an interesting (nearly) two years. More than 18 months in which character and the true, sometimes more base nature of some have been laid bare. Several prominent denizens of Watch Town have been revealed to be what they have always been, and that is...lacking.

To perhaps better sum up, I am going to hand my closing off to that other great commentator on the watch business, Henry David Thoreau -

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet

desperation."

Well, that's as may be, but not for the folks at Gorilla.

Friday, November 13, 2020

Spectre!

From Gorilla -

Courtesy of Gorilla

Or known by its full nom de course automobile -The Fastback GT Spectre.

And yes, gentle reader, I am slightly biased towards the brand that Messrs Garcia and Gopp launched not-so-long ago. But in fairness, to quote the young lads who shod their feet at Bodega in Boston -

Shamelessly Borrowed from the world-wide infoweb

The Spectre is sooooo drip!

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

For those of you not up to date on the vocab, here is a primer from the Urban Dictionary, courtesy of wetgodflex -

drip

lingo started around jersey city early 2014 to describe ones outfit or overall demeanor

ADJECTIVE
adjective: drip;

3rd person present: drips;

past tense: dripped;

past participle: dripped;

gerund or present participle: dripping

1. flex hard or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid.
"my nike air force ones won't stop dripping"
synonyms: dribble, leak splash wet More

• (swagger) falls in small drops.
"water dripped from his clothing"

• cause or allow (designer) to shed rain drops.
"the designer was dripping water down one side"

• display a copious amount or degree of a particular quality or thing.
"Forrest Guap was dripping with gold and diamonds"

NOUN
noun: drip;

plural noun: drips

1. Enormous amount of a swag.
"she put the bucket underneath the dresser to catch the drip"
synonyms: juice, swag, steez, swank, splash

• the action or sound of flexing and finessing.
"the drip, drip, drip came from the leak in the roof"

• short for dripstarr.

dry girl- you saw the aqua pack?

dry boy - yea they're splashed up in Burberry and Lacoste, they got THE drip!

But back to the topic at hand -

The Spectre is part of the Fastback GT Collection, and is the result of what traditionalists might view as a "Vegas Wedding" -

A sapphire crystal sits atop a matte black ceramic bezel, which is separated by an anodized aluminum “pinstripe”, that is sandwiched between the bezel and the woven forged carbon case. The crown is titanium and screws down to ensure water resistance to 100M / 330FT / 10ATM.

Then again, the traditionalists tend to slather mayo on their sandwiches and think that Stan Smiths (no offense Stan) are a daring choice in footwear. Ergo, they are wrong ; )

Courtesy of Gorilla Watches

As so many brother Fastbacks before it, the Spectre has a Miyota movement under the hood, in this case the 90S5, with (as you will note from the dial) an exposed balance wheel.

And here are the pertinents -