Comments on: Parnis GMT Review: The Power of Compromise

By: Nicholas Triesch

Nicholas Triesch — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:34:49 +0000

Hi. I recently bought two Parnis GMT watches. One all black and the other the sub mariner look alike. Both have a parnis rubber straps. I own some very nice Swiss watches including a beautiful Porsche design number one watch. I must say the Parnis watches are amazing! Great fit and finish, automatic movements, 316 steel! Mine work perfect . I paid $78 each with free shipping on eBay. Why would I buy even a $500 GMT watch??? I suggest that you buy at least two or three of these wonderful watches to put in your collection. They are very accurate and really good looking especially with the Parnis rubber straps.

By: Karl Senula

Karl Senula — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:57:09 +0000

The actual water resistance may be more than stated. Has anyone opened the caseback to see if there is a rubber gasket? If it has it then the solid screw down caseback and screwdown crown means that it likely has a better actual water resistance.

By: Trooper

Trooper — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:49:55 +0000

I bought the pepsi version from aliexpress in Jan ’21 for 86 bucks. Amazing that they can produce these for the price. The fit and finish are great, the bezel alignment is better than 2 of my seikos while keeping very good time and you can set the GMT hand independent of the hour hand. Parnis overall is producing some very good inexpensive watches.

By: Shelp

Shelp — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 07:29:29 +0000

I have the Parnis Rolex Submariner in black with a really nice bracelet. $140 can’t go wrong.

By: Matthew Sneddon

Matthew Sneddon — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:34:12 +0000

I have been wearing my Parnis GMT Red/Black bezel for about 10 months now and I must say I am most impressed all round with it. It looks like and feels like a Rolex. Time keeping is acceptable if not spot on. Loses about one minute every two weeks. No problem with that. Sum it up as great value for the money. I should know i’ve got a collection of watches including
Rolex’s.

By: Aroon

Aroon — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:45:27 +0000

I purchased one of these in 2018 for something like $60. For the price, it was great. But I had issues from the very first day. The bracelet I received was faulty which meant that one of the pins would slowly start to fall out over time, and I narrowly avoided having the watch fall off my wrist a number of times due to this. After many attempts at putting the pin back in (and not wanting to spend money on LocTite), I bit the bullet, got rid of the bracelet (which is a shame since I’m a bracelet guy) and put it on a leather strap. The watch was great for the few months I wore it on the leather, then eventually a NATO strap, but one day the movement somehow completely broke. It started to lose time significantly and I decided the watch simply wouldn’t be worth repairing. For the 3-4 months I wore it, I think it was definitely worth the money, but I’d caution against the reliability of the movement.

By: Jon R

Jon R — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:16:51 +0000

I was inspired to get the same Parnis watch by your review. Purchased it on AliExpress and it arrived a couple of days ago. I’m loving it. I replaced the metal bracelet for a black silicon strap that I think really accentuates the watch. Thank you for your accurate review. I agree completely with your concluding insight that a watch that brings this much pleasure for 1/200th the price of the watch that inspires it is quite the deal. Peace.

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:59:34 +0000

Good review.

I’d like this watch, or any homage, if it didn’t copy the GMT. At least do something different with the hour hand. Lose the Mercedes hand and the cyclops and you have a decent automatic GMT for the price point.

Don’t outright copy Rolex. Get inspired, fine, but don’t make a clone.

And fix the blue at the “6”.

Still, Sapphire crystal and ceramic bezel for $100??? Insane.