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While its overall aesthetic and layout may suggest it's built for a flight mission, the Glycine Combat Chronograph is equally suited for a night on the town. With a polished stainless steel case, sapphire crystal, and display caseback showing the GL 750 25-jewel movement, it certainly looks the part, yet it's tough enough to handle strenuous wear Read More
It’s a nice watch at a great price with an iconic movement but lug to lug 3 mm bigger than my pelagos is taking a big risk and the darker dial with the red outer track hardly looks like a chronograph at a glance the lighter dial is a little better but still huge i guess I’m just hung up on the speedmaster it’s just seems to be taking forever to get the funds together and having to resist all these temptations in between sucks
I have 6.5 inch wrists (I know they’re small) and I was wondering if the lugs would hang over my wrist because people are saying that they’re huge lugs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state straight up that I think Glycine is one of the most overrated watch brands we see here on MD. That said, I'm well aware they have a fallowing and I'm certainly not saying they're a bad watch, per se.
My issue is with the games everyone seems to be playing with their offered price vs the claimed MSRP. We know they're bull shit up front, but I say it also says something about the value the manufacturer puts on the watch, and perhaps worse--what the manufacturer thinks of YOU, their customer. Consider for a moment the many things you do buy over the corse of a month or year--would you trust anyone who claimed the price of "X-whatever" was really two or three thousand times more expensive, but they were giving you a deal on it? Say...groceries, a tank of gas, or dinner and drinks? No, you would not! You would think they were trying to con you. I say that's what Glycine is doing, and maybe even (or especially) what Rolex is doing, and maybe every other watch manufacturer is doing too. My question is how deep do you want to get into it, for this brand? How much kool-aid are you willing to swill to jump on this or that bandwagon?
But even if you don't agree with me, do some price checking before you buy any watch, but especially any Glycine. And remember: there is NO shortage of Glycines, and this isn't the only place sells them.
RayF'Old' Glycine didn't play those crazy MSRP games, but it seems the Invicta genes are slowly coming out after their takeover. I bought a 'MD Exclusive' Airman shortly after their acquisition of Glycine that was altogether pretty solid, save for a few quirks here and there (reviewed on this site if you're curious). However, it WASN'T a legitimate exclusive item and ended up on Ebay from multiple sellers a month or two later. A couple months after that, I ordered the maroon and gold Combat Sub from their direct Ebay storefront for a song... but the bezel insert was set VERY clearly off in the bezel. Things like that drive me nuts, so I sent it back very quickly for a refund. To their credit, they settled the refund relatively painlessly. That said, after lusting for that specific model for quite some time, the watch itself was rather underwhelming... not BAD in any sense (other than the stupid bezel), but just somewhat underwhelming. At any rate, my limited experience coupled with the recent inflation of their 'MSRPs' and introduction of tons of new model variations has soured the brand for me.
Does hand winding the valjoux 7750 on this watch damage it? I saw somewhere in the comments that it does but my understanding is that if it has hand winding as a feature that it isn’t a problem if you hand wind it. Is this an issue with this watch? If I can’t hand wind it I don’t know if I’ll want to buy it. Also how often do chronograph have to be serviced if you don’t use the chrono function frequently? I don’t plan on servicing my regular 3 handers but does this absolutely require servicing?
JayR278If you’re not gonna wear it all the time and you really like the watch what i do is wind it and maybe wear it a day once a month just to keep everything honest and if you still wanna keep it 7 or 8 years from now it’ll probably cost you about half of what you paid for it to service it
JayR278The hand winding capability is meant to be used as a means to start the watch (so that you don’t have to shake it like a crazy person for 30 seconds to get it going.) It’s not intended to be wound fully in that manner.
Black chrono hands on gray dial. Skip for me. What's the point of having a chrono if it's not possible to tell the time elapsed at a glance. Price for a 7750 based chrono is very good though.
I would love this watch IF the L2L wasn't 53mm. That's a long stretch. 40x48 would be perfect or 42x50, maybe. And COMBAT on the dial... Kinda makes me feel like it's trying too hard.