Alpha Jump Hour - Mini-Review

I bought the PN Chronograph for myself, but picked this one up on behlaf of a friend at the same time. He's picking it up tomorrow so I won't have time to do a detailed review or get really good pics, but I thought I would post my initial impressions of this watch.

As with the other watch, it's hard to believe the quality is this good for the money! I took some quick and dirty pics (didn't set-up the light box and tripod, so bear with me on these).

Case and dial are nicely done - solid construction, and nice detail on the dial:



More dial detail, and you can see the minute hand in more detail here. Not impressed with the finish on the minute hand, but again you can't really complain for this sort of money:



I checked the point where the jump hour indicator switches (it's instantaneous, by the way), and it was about 1 minute before the top of the hour. Clicks over nicely, but of course the minute hand is in the way, so it makes it hard to read the hour. Not a big problem IMO:



Looking through the display back, the movement had decoration of sorts, but it's made to look more finished than it really is:



The Geneva bars are pretty rough, and the "anglage" is either not there or not polished. No blued screws either, which would have improved the look of this tremendously.



Other observations - the manual winding is a bit rough, but not bad. The strap and deployant seem quite good. The movement doesn't hack, but that is a minor concern for me.

Still I'm sort of comparing this to some high end watches, and again for the money this does not disappoint in any way. I will likely pick one of these up for myself on the next group buy.

I will ask my friend to see what the timekeeping is like, but if it's anything like the PN Chrono, it will be good. That watch is nearly spot on after 2 days!