Hello Everyone,

I tried on the 39.5mm blue stainless PO. Great fit. The watch has one barrel as opposed to two like the 43.5mm version. Knowing nothing about this difference I wanted to ask does it really matter if you have one or two barrels? The power reserve difference is five hours less but that is far from a deal breaker.

Thanks,

Charlie

 

It's due to the size of the movement. 8800 is smaller so there's not enough room for 2 barrels. I assume it's one slightly larger barrel.

Most watches are single barrel.

 

Yes thanks so it does not make it any weaker than the double barrel 8900? I heard the power reserve is five hours less and that is not a problem at all

 

The number of barrels are less important than the design - go for the SU over the Weber.

 

Forgive me but what is the SU and the weber grills?

 

Not grills but a carburetor joke.... barrels.... not very funny I admit

 

Gotcha I feel like one of those people that ask if a watch is fake when they know it is. So I assume its not a big difference except in the size

 

I don't know anything specific about the watch in question, but I doubt you'll have much drawback from going with the smaller size. I think the whole "two barrels" thing is more of a bragging-rights exercise than a true game-changer in terms of utility

 

I have not heard anything bad about the 8800 movement, so I would not see it as a detriment.

LOL my old racing Z at dual Webers on it at one point, I got so sick of adjusting them everytime I looked at the car sideways, I put the SU's back on with a nice profile on the "needle" and it worked so much better. Proof that Simple British Shoemakers are better then Sexy Italian Engineers at least on reliability. Oddly though I might give the Italian engineers the nod to making great shoes...

 

Cool story.

 

The more time I spend living with cars the more I realize I enjoy them more as an abstract concept than an actual thing to own and use. Even when I find the time to go out for a fun drive, the roads are so clogged up it's impossible to enjoy; and even when they're empty they're so rutted and pockmarked I spend most of my time in the S2000 dreaming of a crossover with air suspension

 

easiest way to put it is with one barrel it is technically not a disadvantage its just like having a Walkman, you can tell you energy is low due to the distortion of the music and a double barrel is like an ipod when its dead its dead it will stop. Single barrel you will begin to notice a loss of time due to low power reserve and with a double barrel there is an equal distribution of the energy so its fluent down to the last seconds of the power reserve

 

I had a friend with 2 four-barrels on a Chevelle SS396. I swear you could see the gas gauge go down under hard acceleration.

 

Thank you that sells it for me. Double barrel it is. Thanks so much.

 

I promise you that you'll never notice a difference in real world use.

 

I had a friend who used to say about his muscle car when putting gas in it "If I don't shut the engine off, it will never fill up".

 

Unless there is a Geneva stopworks or some other device on the watch, simply having 2 barrels does not act as you are suggesting it does. Torque still drops off at the end of the running time (coming from one barrel or two, it still drops), and that will affect the rates.

 

Thanks Archer with not being an expert at all I was assuming that would not be as good as a choice as opposed to having the 8900 movement with two barrels. Thanks again