r/IxdaoFans

Finally have both watches in, and love them both. Which one do you prefer? I think the white will get more wrist time.

Small adventure through the city!

IXDAO creates the only watches that make me want to take endless photos of them.

Here's a gif that highlights the dynamic nature of the dial. Paired with the best AR in the biz, this watch is taking over my phone storage hahaha

Finally got my hands on my first ixdao after lurking for atleast 6months.

Coming from tudor, longines etc I must admit that the quality suprised me big time.

To be honest this is the best watch I have ever had
I got San Martin Thorn Cronos the only watch that came close was the new SN0144 Enamel white
But this engineer is perfect I had black mop, white mop white dial grey dial and black dial all had some small flaws but this one don’t have any flaws

Although I love the idea of the watch. I just cant seem to enjoy it on wrist. Was thinking of parting ways

Absolutely gorgeous on the wrist. This color and the CNC guilloche dial just scream in the light. Far from the staid blues you may be familiar with from luxury steel wrist watches.

IXDAO makes top tier quality watches and truly punch above their weight. Don’t waste your money and patiently order a warrior. You won’t regret it!

It really changes depending on the lighting

Would like to the thoughts of anyone that owns it and if you have any photos!

Love the look of the silver, really glad I chose that colour. The 20mm lug width will make it fun to play around with straps

Before getting into Chinese watches during the 11/11 sale in 2023, I mostly collected obscure Rolexes like 6062s, mall-era Swiss quartz like B&M Shoguns, and somehow even more obscure JDM Citizens like 4-S82345s. Most Chinese watches last a few months before I dump them on eBay and move on to the next San Martin, Thorn, or whatever but IXDAO has been different.

First, the branding absolutely got me. I'm a huge Mongol history nerd, so naming the company after the Yisun Tsagaan Tug was basically engineered to activate my Jack Weatherford neurons. It feels like a reference buried between some minor Mongol prince torching a few Tangut cities, marrying into the Borjigin clan, and disappearing from history.

Second, I genuinely like how they make weird, hyper-specific stuff that feels like enthusiasm for the originals rather than just biting whatever is popular. They also constantly play around with dials, materials, movements, colors, and tiny production variations. Collecting IXDAO feels more like hunting than ordering Homage #17 from AliExpress while drunk.

Most worn:

• Silver SW200 JD-X05S (E). The Genta 1832 has always been a grail but I could never stomach $15K for the IW328902 reissue. After four different Es, this is the keeper.
• Black MOP 9015 JD-X13S (Warrior). Bought it on preorder day. Sleeker than the E, killer indices, insane dial without being obnoxious. Never selling it.
• White/blue SW200 IPOSE-5303. Sold my Serica because IXDAO made a better bracelet and I no longer have to live with a Soprod timebomb. Still my favorite 5303 configuration.
• Black enamel NH35 JD-X07S. The sleeper. I own four Seiko mini-turtles and this gets exactly what makes them good. Criminally underrated, go buy one.

Not pictured, because I've reached the "restoring Chinese watch cases" stage of the disease:

• Green sword-logo silver/gold JD-X05S E. Replacing the PT5K with an elabore ETA 2824, getting the case/bracelet laser refinished, and getting the gold replated. Financially stupid but worth it to me. Will be a safe queen.
• Green dial silver/gold NH34 6542. Also in the middle of being replated. I love it despite the cheese yellow gold and slightly sloppy bezel. The design gets what made the Bakelite GMTs special.

Incoming:

• Space Warrior SW200 JD-X13S V2

Future:

• Zeta dial JD-DZ09S once it hits the website.
• JD-X10S Pilot with the non-"CHECK ALTITUDE" dial whenever one surfaces.

Sold/traded:

• 2x PT5000 JD-X05S. Traded an unopened F1 for a rough condition green/gold sword-logo dial E and sold my first white MOP E to help fund a Rolex 6556 restoration.
• 2x PT5000 JD-X02T, black DLC and bronze. Just like my original Pelagos I thought I was missing, these just didn't click with me.
• 1x NH34 6542 Batman. Apparently there is such a thing as too many NH34 GMTs in my watch boxes.

Grails:

• Silver/gold iridescent blue-green MOP JD-X05S V1. Saw it on Taobao for a few weeks, my Superbuy agent was too slow, and it vanished forever. Never hit AliExpress, never seen one for sale, and all I have is one potato-quality photo proving it existed.
• Basically any of Frank's special dials. Frank, stop displaying the imperial treasury and release some of it to the peasants.

There are Chinese brands with better finishing, bracelets, QC, movements, whatever. IXDAO is just the one that hits the right combination of Mongol-brain branding, obsessive details, oddball variants, and small-team energy that makes me keep the watches instead of flipping them six months later.

Also, special shout-out to Anna for continuing to answer my deranged emails over the years.

The V2 standard versions are powered with HK PT5000 caliber, fresh from the factory and with little tweaks and more testing to ensure the movement will run nicely on your wrist. We do not buy from the secondary market or grey market, these movement can have parts from other calibers inside and affect the performance.

We did this commitment with the producer of PT5000 because we trust in them and we look forward to plan other models with their movements. Also after visiting their factory, we were even more confident, the machines used, materials (some imported from Germany), professionalism of the team just everything checked out.

With our V2 warriors, you will get a great power horse inside.

There are also Sellita S200-1 and ETA 2824-2 available. In future we will be offering SW200-2 in limited runs (the movment is quite popular, production takes longer) or even LJP or other movements.

Have a wonderful weekend!

The V2 case is a step forward of what Ixdao stands for.

High quality finish and products

Thanks to our new suppliers, we were able to go one or two level up in the case finish, superb crisp transition from mirror polish to satin brush, refined mirror polish over all parts, and the best part, almost no thickness added to the case 😁

Now available for pre-order on www.ixdaowatch.com

Hey all, given the recent changes to the lorier Astra, I think there's a void that Ixdao can fill! They have experience making the dials with a lumed ring, and I think they could absolutely knock something like this out of the park. I've tried to change some stuff up so it's not a pier copy paste (lumed indicies, different colors, beads of rice bracelet, different case shape, standard Dauphine hands, 2 different lume colors, chapter ring), They could make this with the PT5000 (with optional upgrade to the SW-200), or even make some no date options. I think it would look absolutely incredible and be a great seller.

What do you all think?

Got this watch to commemorate my first job and my 19th birthday. Been eyeing an Ixdao for a couple of months and todays the day i finally get to own one. I love it, everything is great and it looks so much better in person than online. As of now, i am a loyal Ixdao fan🫡