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Mantua - Mantua/Sergal782 HMS-Victory 1:78 Scale Plank-On-Frame Wood Ship Model KitMantua Sergal 782 HMS Victory 1: 78 Scale Plank On Frame Wood Ship Model Kit This is not a week end project. No, it's more like a year long investment in the joy of reconstructing in miniature the greatest sailing warship in naval history and leaving a legacy of fine model building. There are other HMS Victory models available in the world marketplace but in my opinion none matches this one. Here's why and at the risk of boring my readers I have a
Mantua/Sergal 782 HMS-Victory 1:78 Scale Plank-On-Frame Wood Ship Model Kit
This is not a week-end project. No, it's more like a year-long investment in the joy of reconstructing in miniature the greatest sailing warship in naval history and leaving a legacy of fine model building.
There are other HMS Victory models available in the world marketplace but in my opinion none matches this one. Here's why and at the risk of boring my readers I have a story to tell ... Please humor an old man and read on.
I am an American from Denver, Colorado. While in college I was struck with WanderLust and wanted to travel and work in foreign countries. Luck smiled upon me and in 1968 I found a job with the Mattel Toy Company in Italy. In 1971 a customer who owned hobby and toy stores in Rome asked me to become his partner. We struck a deal, I left Mattel and became an Italian business man. It was November of 1972 when a short, red-headed man with a huge smile walked into our office carrying a big box with a photo-label reading HMS Victory by Sergal. And that's how we met Sergio Fabrizi, the designer and original producer of this fine kit.
Sergio was alive with passion for his kit and convinced us to place his built up prototype model of HMS Victory in our flagship toy and hobby store. His kits sold out in a hurry and he could not make enough to keep up with our orders. And then we discovered that this was the first kit Sergio ever designed and produced.... his real trade was designing up-scale bathrooms for rich Italians with big villas. But ship modeling was his passion and he had been a scratch builder from childhood. The friendship grew and Sergio inspired me to start the Model Expo - company in 1974 advertising Sergal kits in the U.S. and shipping to modelers from Rome, Italy. Sergio went on to design and produce some of the worlds' greatest kits ... Soleil Royale, Sovereign of the Seas and many others. One day he tired of it all and sold the rights to Mantua Model who continues to produce his kits to this day.
I've seen them all ... HMS Victory kits from other manufacturers ... and although this kit was designed in 1971 I've yet to see a better design nor better materials. Plywood is the finest available and the laser cutting is perfect. Planking is limewood (basswood in Europe) and walnut. Castings are bronzed white metal, there is an abundance of machined brass, photo-etched brass. Instructions in English, Italian, French and German are beautifully illustrated in 34 pages and accompanied by 8 giant sheets of plans. Even the flags are made of delicate cloth designed to drape realistically.
Scale is 1:78 (78 times smaller than the real HMS Victory, which you can visit in Portsmouth, U.K.)
Length of the finished model is 52" ..... if you need a display case visit Model Expo - 's site.
Size of the kit box is 36 x 13 x 3-1/2" . Weight is 13 lbs 3 oz. ... shipping weight will be about 18 lbs.
Skill Level? If you have never built a wood ship model before I hesitate to recommend this one. On the other hand I once met a skilled carpenter who started with this kit as his first wood model and built a superb replica. If you have patience and are willing to invest in ship modeling how-to books and watch youtube videos on how to build ship models then anything is possible.
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★★★★★ 5
Great Wonderful!!
Color: 6617:Blue Dial and Gold Silver Strap
I've now purchased about 3 of OLEVS watches.. The fit great.. Band is so easy to ajust. I'm super careful. So I took great care and time on the first OLEVS watch. So it took me about 15 mins. Now about 6 from start to finish.. Don't hesitate due to fitting the band. You get to custom fit it to you. And it's easy...real easy. Best of all. You get to keep the adjusting tool they provide...
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Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Gorgeous watch!
Color: Silver, Color: Silver
This is such a beautiful timepiece! After a couple weeks I have yet to have to adjust the time. It keeps time as well as my other olevs that are quartz movement. The price is great, comfortable for all day wear, perfect size for me and the weight definitely feels on par with much more expensive automatic timepieces. This won't be the last olevs I purchase
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Muy lindo y bueno lo recomiendo
Color: 6617:Blue Dial and Gold Silver Strap
Tal como en la foto
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Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Beautiful
Color: Silver
It was a gift for my husband and he loves it.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Beautiful Watch, but . . .
Color: 6617:Blue Dial and Gold Silver Strap
I’m updating this review and lowering to one star. Would be zero if possible.
Another 2 weeks of owning this junk watch. I’m now having to wind it daily and reset the time. The only reliable feature is that it’s going to stop in the middle of each night. Piece of junk. Don’t buy.
This is a beautiful watch but not very reliable timepiece. This is a self winding watch which requires you to wear it 24/7 in order to keep working. i wanted a nice watch which looked good, kept good time, was affordable and a bit nicer.
I work a standard M-F, 8-5:00 workweek. I wear my watch daily for work and on RARE occasions after work or weekends if going out. My watch typically sits on the bedroom dresser after work hours and weekends. I've had this watch about 3 weeks now and have had to wind it and reset the watch three times during the time I've had it. If you are not wearing it for more than a day the watch runs down and and comes to a complete stop. You then need to manually wind and reset.
This was a concern after reading other reviews. I tried to find the same watch with a quartz movement and battery for this very reason. But this particular watch only comes in a mechanical self winding version. They have ONE other model with a similar look that has a quartz movement with battery. That watch is made in China; this one is made in the USA. This is another factor that convinced me try the self winding mechanical version. Big mistake, I should have looked at other brands and manufacturers. It turns out this was a regrettable impulse buy based on looks but not practical. It is not a reliable timepiece. Lets face it a watch's function is to reliably tell the correct time; if you're not willing to manually wind it and reset the time and dates every Monday morning this is not a practical timepiece. I would NOT buy this again for this reason.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2022
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