Bambino 38
the dress-watch bargain
The resized 38.4mm Bambino fixes the only real complaint about Orient's dress watch: an in-house F6724 automatic with a domed crystal, under $260.
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The resized Bambino fixed the only real complaint: 38.4mm wears the way a dress watch should. In-house automatic, curved dial, and change from $250 — the hidden gem of the entry-level dress category.
What makes the Bambino worth a page here is the F6724: an Orient-made automatic that both hacks and hand-winds, two features that vanished from watches at this price a decade ago and have only recently crept back. The domed crystal is mineral rather than sapphire, and that is the trade — a scratch-prone front for a profile no flat sapphire at this money can match.
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- Orient Watch — official site — Case size, movement and water resistance per Orient's published Bambino specification. Orient's US storefront blocks automated verification, so the manufacturer domain is cited instead.
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