====== Sea-Gull ======
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**Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch Factory**

Chinese watch manufacturer

===== A goverment decision =====
On a Chinese government decision in January [[1955]] four Chinese watchmakers began with the production of watches. From this has now arisen the world's largest manufacturer of mechanical [[watch movement]]s, whose production cover a quarter of the total world production of movements.

===== Company history =====
In [[1990]] the //Tianjin Watch Factory// obtained the status of a national company, and in [[1992]] the //Tianjin Sea-Gull Corporation// was founded. In the same year the decision was made ​​to stop the production of mechanical watches in favor of [[quartz watch]]es. Five years later it came to a complete reversal of this decision since then only mechanical watches are produced.

In the year [[2000]] the Sea-Gull Group went public. In [[2003]] a sales office was opened in Hong Kong.

​​Sea-Gull makes the most profit on the mass market, but through the skills at the production of [[tourbillon]]s and [[chronograph]]s one has gained a growing appreciation. Thus the image of the label 'Made in China' was also indirectly improved. Meanwhile, with watch friends Sea-Gull watches are enjoying a growing reputation as a representative of high-quality Chinese watchmaking.

===== Current movement families by Sea-Gull =====
**[[Sea-Gull ST6]]** --

  *Woman-size [[automatic]], hand-wind or hand-wind skeleton
  *Man-size automatic, with various calendar and 24-hour/day-night display options
  *Hand-wind, rectangular form-movement with open heart

**[[Sea-Gull ST16]]** -- [[Miyota]]-style simplified construction with Seiko-style auto-winding. Many calendar and 24-hour display options available.

**[[Sea-Gull ST17]]** -- Upgraded ST16 with even more options including jump-hour, big date and power-reserve. Skeleton versions, both automatic and hand-winding.

**[[Sea-Gull ST18]]** (**[[Sea-Gull ST1812]]**) -- Premium [[ETA 2892]]-style movement; fast-beat, automatic, day/date. 

**[[Sea-Gull ST19]]** -- [[Hand-winding]] [[chronograph]] developed from [[Venus 175]]. Available as skeleton or with power-reserve.

**[[Sea-Gull ST21]]** (**[[Sea-Gull ST2130]]**) -- Clone of [[ETA 2824-2]] (Often incorrectly referred to as ST24)

**[[Sea-Gull ST22]]** -- A pair of small ST6 automatics on a common dial plate. Open-heart and big-date options.

**[[Sea-Gull ST25]]** -- Premium movement with double-bridged balance for open-heart. Various calendar options.

**[[Sea-Gull ST28]]** -- AS1475-style hand-winding [[alarm]].

**[[Sea-Gull ST31]]** -- Unusual bowtie-shaped movement with linear train, open-heart, subsidiary seconds and day/night indicator. Also available as skeleton.

**[[Sea-Gull ST36]]** (**[[Sea-Gull ST3600]]**) -- [[Unitas 6497]]-style 36mm [[pocket watch]] movement, hand-winding with subsidiary seconds. [[Skeletonized]] version with unusual bar-type bridges.

**[[Sea-Gull ST41]]** -- Thin, small hand-winding movement, hour and minute display only.

**[[Sea-Gull ST80]]** -- [[Blancpain]]-style flying caroussel-[[Tourbillon]]. Various calendar and power-reserve options. [[Hand-winding]] or automatic. Skeleton version is hand-wind only, no options.

**[[Sea-Gull ST82]]** -- [[Tourbillon]] with large-diameter balance on common axis with carriage. Hand-winding or automatic. 

'Flying' or bridged [[Tourbillon]].

**[[Sea-Gull ST8080]]** -- Hand-winding dual [[tourbillon]]; caroussel and common axis.

**[[Sea-Gull ST84]]** -- Hand-winding common axis [[tourbillon]]. Narrow movement suitable for women's watches.

**[[Sea-Gull ST90]]** -- Hand-winding [[minute repeater|quarter-repeater]]. 

**[[Sea-Gull ST91]]** -- Hand-winding [[minute repeater]]. ST9150 includes [[perpetual calendar]] (as per ST2590).

**//Note:** A thorough comparison of the Sea-Gull ST21 ([[ETA]] 2824 clone) and a ST18 (ETA 2892 clone) movements can be found on the TZ-UK forum: (In this article, the movements are incorrectly referred to as ST24 and ST26)// http://www.tz-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43661&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

===== Weblinks =====
  * [[http://www.tractionink.com/watch_wiki/index.php?title=Tianjin_Seagull|Tianjin Seagull]] (Chinese Watch Industry Wiki)
  * [[http://www.seagullwatch.com/|Sea-Gull Watch Collection Website]] (Chinese)
  * [[http://www.seagullhk.com/|Sea-Gull, Hongkong]]
  * [[http://www.seagullwatch.eu/|Sea-Gull, European Website]]
  * [[http://www.usseagull.com/|Sea-Gull, U.S. website]]


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