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I know this is a late comment, but I just wanted to point out that the dial is nearly identical to my 10 year old Tissot PRC200 I own - which really does have 200m of water resistance!
It looks like something that i would find in a claw machine at a beach town. placed in a acrylic box, hidden in the back, so you don't realize you spent 5 bucks on a watch, if you can even get it from the machine.
What is truly remarkable about the price of the watch is that a profit was made at every step of the supply chain-from the suppliers of the raw materials all the way to the retailer on Amazon. First I thought it looked like a Tissot PRC 200 from afar. Then I saw it was a Gaiety PRC 200.
You have to be very, very, desperate to buy a watch like this. I would rather do without. The strange thing is, it's accuracy just could out perform a lot of mechanical movements. Just think about that for a minute......
you don't have to think hard. Quartz nearly decimated Swiss watch making in the seventies for a reason. Mechanical movements are out of date in this day and age. The only reason we have them is because of its luxury value. And they are pretty to look at. And that we appreciate the hardwork that goes into making one mechanical watch. Want to know another funny thing? quartz even beats mechanical watches in the beats per hour category! So there is absolutely no doubt that quartz watches are superior in technical points you can think of...
@Foster Twelvetrees nah definetly not. There are some extremely precise mechanical watches and in the £2.6 watch is probably the cheapest crap movement the manufacturers could possibly find and it might have ±5 seconds each day.
I think the best bang for buck is Orient. Maybe the Ray II. Not only do you get an amazing watch for the price, but the movement is manufactured in-house and has hacking/hand-winding. All for around £150! If it's just a dress watch that you like, then it's the Bambino for sure. Crazy how they produce such amazing watches for the price. I have an Orient Star RE-AU0004B00B and it's case finishing/details are way better than my Tudor Classic Date 21010. Movement is just as accurate too at +1s per day for both. I think Orient are very underrated in the UK. Would love to see more videos from you about them!
@@nolanolivier6791 Great shout. Vostok's designs just don't appeal to me, but you do get a lot of watch for your money. Everyone I show my Orient / Orient Star to think the watch is £1000+! I usually get them from TUS Watches in the UK and their prices are so low
My top 3 bang for the buck in no particular order: orient, vostok and starking. Starking actually has quite good fully in house watches for under $30 and they actually last some years.
I just bought a Casio Duro for $50 out the door I'm amazed , bought the blue version I absolutely do not no how they can make a watch that looks and works this well for $50 the rubber strap is really nice the bezel works good the second hand hits all the marks I'm amazed !! I've got a Rolex and Omega and many others , for the price this beats them all !
I've tried even cheaper watch - again just out of curiosity. I was able to buy and receive a $1 watch from Ali express. It was even ticking. The construction was very similar to the one you present. the design was even more simplistic truing to resemble Max Bill watch. Thie watch is rather worthless but is still a surprising and unbelievable testament to cheap Chinees labor
I picked up an "Olmeca" chrono off of Amazon for about $8 US. Yes, it actually is a real chronograph, with three working chorno hands on three sub-dials, working pushers, and a real date complication! The black plating on the metal band is starting to wear off on the bottom, and the "crystal" is plastic, but it looks OK as long as you treat it with care. It even came in a "real" box, with the tool to push out the pins to remove the bracelet links.
I bought a g shock mudman copy off ebay for $3.20 usd, shipped. "Smael" or something like that. Now, it hardly have any functions, stopwatch, alarm, date. But the insane part is that it looses 1 second per 6 months. 0.5s/3 months. Its by far the most accurate watch I own. I use it for banging out in the bush with. And the beefiness sure stands up to a beating, even if it is just a copy. Great backlighting. Yeah, in a way there is diminishing returns. As the added mudman features, while neat, prob wont be used that often. I have $60-$90 dual and triple sensor watches if i need that. They just arent $500 g shocks. But for 3 bucks... And super accurate, sorry, but I love it!
The best use case for these watches: when you haven't worn a watch for years and want a cheap way to decide if you want to start again. That was me last year and I bought a few Chinese watches like Yazole (great looks, bad straps, super noisy), and Curren (ok looks, good straps, better quality) and wore the various designs long enough to get hooked on watches and am now shopping for Seikos.
I am so chuffed you like that Lorus RDX425 , I bought one, what ten years ago now, I currently own two and bought them for my boys, they're indestructible and after a few years the titanium case gains a lovely soft polish. They're seriously underrated.
@@133774c05 hi. It arrived. It works. :-). It's no Rolex but it's surprisingly good for the money and it keeps decent time. The 'glass' is plastic. The back is very thin and the strap is a bit itchy, but it is perfectly useable and doesn't look awful. Not my first choice to wear but it's amazing for the money
Think his mind was already made up that the watch would be bad before he even opened up the package solely based on the price ! I don't think it looks too bad and is set off by it's Milanese strap even though it's not metal ! When the battery gives out , it would probably cost more to replace at somewhere like Timpson's than the cost of the entire watch , so if you can't replace the battery yourself and youve had say a years use out of it , you can merely bin it but , perhaps , keep the strap as a spare .My first adult watch , mechanical , cost £7 ( back in the sixties ) which equates to £183 : 70 today !! Every morning it had to be be wound up and time adjusted as it lost 2 whole minutes a day !! A quartz watch would probably not lose as much as that in a month and not need winding up every day ! So , to get any sort of watch for that price , including delivery , is just amazing and it doesn't look too bad except for hypercritical and very close inspection ! One thing I don't like is the fake , small dials which the sellers describe as " decoration:" . But , anyone having just a quick look when you are asked what time is it , wouldn't notice that and only you would know that ! To begin with, you might be a little disappointed in that knowledge but you'd soon forget that within a short period after numeroulsy looking at it to check the accurate time , more accurate than some much more expensive mechanical watches. And , afterall , I'd say isn't that the main criteria of having a timepiece in the first place ?
About a year ago I've bought a Daniel Wellington "homage" named Ginave on Aliexpress for 1.79€. Finishing is awful and provided NATO strap is really basic, but it still works just fine, shows accurate time and has some features that beat Timex Weekender, everybody tends to like somehow: 1) You don't have to put your timepiece in another room to get some sleep, it's absolutely silent; 2) It has applied hour marks. Totally misaligned, but nevertheless; 3) The second hand never misses second marks, because it doesn't even have a second hand. I'm still quite amazed.
You went a bit too cheap. I've seen some good DW knock-offs and homages with proper finishing and some of them even have domed glass I think if you go up to the $10ish price range, I think on DHGate they have some even nicer ones for a bit more.
"Geneva" for 2€. Pros: Accurate, amazingly accurate actually. The seconds hand hits the marks Very silent The copper colour of the case is constant Cons: Dial is a bit dull (maybe it's a feature?) No lume Inner edge of the case where the crystal sits wasn't properly polished Applied brand name is a bit tilted, took me a while to notice though
Right now I'm wearing a Gaiety watch like this I bought from Amazon but the "leather" band broke. So I put it on a NATO strap and it looks nice.... For the $5 I spent
I LOVE how you kept a straight face when you said... It claims to be water-resistant to 200m Ben ..IF this is water-resistant to 200m ..I will eat my left foot.
A while back I got to watch on wish for $1 shipped.. actually had a metal case and a sterile dial with a single gold marker at 12 and a real leather strap it sort of looked like a early 90s Movado museum... I never wore it but it still surprise me you can get a watch that worked and didn't look half bad for $1
I bought a 10 euro watch from Aldi! its not bad! surprising what you get for little amount of money... great review! and I think a great price point is 50 bucks... like the Casio Duro, you get a lot bang for your buck with that watch!
What I don't understand about SKMEI is how they can produce solid rubber straps, properly waterproof their watches and put electroluminescent backlights in but fail to properly regulate their watches. One runs 35 sec/month fast, one 30sec slow and one 20sec fast. Casios or Chinese watches with Miyota movements are under 8sec/month!
Great video and I am so glad I have found your channel.... well price point for "Value for money"... I would say the Casio AE-1000W-1A2VEF These retail at around £20 quid at Argos and come with a TEN YEAR battery. Yes, I said a TEN YEAR battery. The Casio AE-1000W-1A2VEF features World time, Alarm, Stopwatch 1/100 Second a backlight, and water-resistant to 100M and a countdown timer. It's a Seriously good watch for £20 .. And comes with a 2 Year Warranty from the manufacture. No need to pay anymore. And the accuracy on them is around +/- 30 Seconds a MONTH. i.e +/- 1 Second a day. I own one and it is the best £20 watch I have ever bought. It is one of my favourites.
I bought a Chinese digital for my wife for .99. I put a metal clasp on it to replace the plastic one. She loves it, it just tells the time. I'm a big spender.
I got a good looking watch that's a copy of a DW with a NATO style strap for $8. Only things wrong with are that it came running so the battery only had a few weeks left on it and I needed a new one. Oh and the crown looks very tarnished. It's quartz, it works. Also I managed to find a good looking automatic mechanical with a nice stainless steel band and date for $17. It's accurate for a mechanical. China's been making these movements for 50 years, they're fine.
There is a saying that you get what you pay for which is what you get in this case. I agree bang for buck Casio are really good value for money and I have several of them. Two of my favourite Casio watches though are my Casio MTD1053D watches, one the black version and the other the blue version, I have had them three years now and they are great diver watches with 200M water resistance and have a screw down crown and caseback and have hardened scratch resistant glass and come on a stainless steel bracelet. I paid around £50 each for them and for the price are definately value for money if you want a dive watch at a great price. They are designed for the smaller wrist so are not big and bulky like some other brands of watch but they still do the job they are designed to do. I have used mine in both the sea and swimming pools without any problems. Definately worth a review if you ever get one. I purchased mine on Amazon and also at a retailer while on holiday in Malta.
As far as value goes in a "cheap" watch, I bought a Casio F-91 digital for $6.99 with free two day shipping off amazon. I gave it to my brother several years ago and it's still running. It even has a functional chronograph! Now that's "reverse chic".
I bought a pocketwatch once, 40 Euro, mechanical, runs 4 minutes slow per day… it was meant to be a prop for a steampunk outfit. Bovet was the brandname. Tourbillon… from Aliexpress… that watch has travelled more than I ever have.
I got myself a similarly cheap (below £5) field watch from China, a Xinew. It didn't arrive ticking, the plastic separator worked here. The one big shock was that when I engaged the crown to set the time the minute hand succumbed to gravity. However, that was not broken as I feared, I could set the time and date and the watch worked fine. The only fake part on the watch was the loom, i.e. it looked like it would be loom but was just paint. For my small wrist the watch is on the large size (45mm case size, 24mm lug width), but it wears ok and does not look shabby. I have been using it for a couple of months, and so far so good. The movement appears much better than expected, as it keeps time very accurately and (shocker) the second-hand is well aligned with the dial. I had field watches in the £30-50 range that were much worse, and - I would not trade this for the affordable luxury of a DW.
I bought a watch from eBay for £1.84 a few years ago, really just to see if anything arrived - It did and it works, although it's quite like this one (actually a little nicer, I think!)
Best value for money has to be the G-Shock DW5600E. They can be found for under $40 on Amazon and eBay. For that you get: classic design, 200m water resistance, day, date, stopwatch, countdown, alarms, backlight, and the legendary G-Shock toughness.
Fair points, but I still prefer a ye olde fashioned mechanical movement. For that, it's tough to beat HMT watches from India for under $20 delivered. Very classic designs too.
For a very nice watch for sure. You can get away with a £40 ($50 at the current exchange rate) for if you want a pretty good watch for average people though. It'll keep on ticking and you've got a good range ( lorus, Duro, etc) to choose from
It's interesting to see how something which would still have been a marvel of magic or science a couple hundred years ago can be mass produced into a spectrum of quality.
You can actually get decent watches from Aliexpress for around 15 pounds. Naviforce is one brand the gives you pretty good bang for the buck. Just don't shower with them
I've just bought a Ben Sherman watch originally £55 for £29.50 including shipping. I've had £30 watches before, and they've always lasted me a good 2 or 3 years before they fall apart.
Chinese quartz movements aren't the most accurate (for quartz), most silent or best looking, but the idea that they are spontaneously failing after a short period of time is a myth. I bought two for the lolz about 10 months ago and they are still happily ticking like on the first day. And battery change would be really easy.
🤔Maybe for a 5-10 year old for their first watch. Wouldn't be too bad I don't think. If they can prove they can look after that one get them something better for Christmas. 🤷♂️
Many time before I see your video I wanted to buy I Braun watch, and the reason was one very beautiful table watch that I find at the home that I live now, but he was loosing time badly. I speak with people that they had experience with Braun watches and mostly have something negative to say. If you want to buy something from Braun buy the shaving machine, for real is the best! O yes, I write you from Germany, nice job, keep going.
Kupio sam najjednostavniji kineski sat sat sekundama za 4,5€ u kinesku prodavnicu omaž na Casio 1303 bele boje gde za sada funkcioniše. Kod tih satova od 2$ treba uzeti najjednostavniji analogni ili digitalni gde računam da će funkcionisati najmanje godinu dana gde naravno ne treba očekivati da za te pare funkcionišu sve komplikacije kod hronografskih sata gde je logično da ih treba izbegavati...
Topical.Me and my mate tried a similar stunt a couple of years back.Mine was a fake chrono that the next door neighbours possibly heard ticking.Conclusion being that this shit gives quartz a bad name and that's why we chucked them.Timex,Casio ,Pulsar etc analogues yes all day long.They represent good value .Cheers!
a good idea for a similar video might be to buy a cheap frankenwatch or two from ebay (the kind put together by indans/eastern europeans with whatever parts they have lying around)
@Andrewshadowy I don't actually get the hate against these. If you know what you are buying and like the Indian fantasy dials? It's not like you'd take anything away from the buyers of a new and fully original one.
Like someone pointed out, this price is achievable by slave labour or something that is basically a slave labour. Also, I would say they’re using “B grade” components, which would be considered scrap by major productions, but still work/function, at least to some degree. I usually can find value and purpose even in very low cost stuff, as I used to be very poor, but not this.
Believe it or not I actually found a watch on Amazon for a penny! It's not bad looking, and the case is plastic. I never wore it, and I just now checked, and the battery has died. But for a penny I couldn't resist!
You could ask a friend or relative if they have an old crappy watch that they don’t use anymore and if they’d be willing to give it to you for free. If it needs a battery, you would be paying more than $3 USD but you’d still be better off.
I'm 2 years late here as of this writing... but... in VERY SPECIFIC situations? I could see buying this watch. It DOES tell the time. One of those specific situations? One is in need of a cheap watch to just simply tell the time without having to order anything. One sees it on the shelf at a Dollar Tree and snag it because it's better than nothing. Okay. The Dollar Tree isn't gonna get this watch anytime soon. But you hit up the jewelry section of WalMart with all those George watches for 10 bucks? If you REALLY need a watch? They function.
For christmas in 2018 my dad asked for a watch (black face, minimalist design, thin) so went on wish and found the ugliest tackiest fake rolex (gold and silver, gold face) for 1p + £2 shipping and gave it to him before i gave him the real watch i got He wore it to work every day and it finally broke last month
I can beat that cost... No2 Son was buying some stuff on Ali Express and needed to spend another £2 to get free P&P which otherwise would have been around £5, so he bought me a watch for £2 and effectively it cost him £-3! Is it any good? Well the crystal works...
At least you got a strap that might be recyclable if you ever just need a silicone strap for a beater watch? Obviously not great quality but like you said a silicone metallic strap is very unusual.
Bought a couple of Carribean Joe watches from Amazon for $15 each. Surprisingly nice looking, though suspiciously light. Of course the straps had to go.
I had one of those. Cost US$2 all in. It had a worse strap though. Looked like leather but felt like cardboard. Wore it a few times before the band tore. The watch died a couple weeks later. It came with a wallet that I just gave to Goodwill.
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200m isn't water resistance, its the estimated lifetime
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This jokes really don’t make sense even in humorous terms
I thought maybe 200m air resistance
VG best watch themed joke ;)
Either that or their missing an "m".
When a Casio f-91 is too "high end" lol
This would go well with that £17 suit.
I know this is a late comment, but I just wanted to point out that the dial is nearly identical to my 10 year old Tissot PRC200 I own - which really does have 200m of water resistance!
This watch is Ice Cold
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I would rather draw a watch face on my wrist with magic marker than wear this.
At least it would be right 2 times a day.
not a fair comparison. magic marker costs more.
@@AlanJWatkins lol
that's hilarious man
The '200 meters' on the dial is the height from which you should drop that thing.............
It looks like something that i would find in a claw machine at a beach town. placed in a acrylic box, hidden in the back, so you don't realize you spent 5 bucks on a watch, if you can even get it from the machine.
I would've left it at 'claw machine at a beach town,' that's a nice clean insult : )
How is that so accurate?
@@alienhatz3265 "Claw machine"
lol
What is truly remarkable about the price of the watch is that a profit was made at every step of the supply chain-from the suppliers of the raw materials all the way to the retailer on Amazon.
First I thought it looked like a Tissot PRC 200 from afar. Then I saw it was a Gaiety PRC 200.
You have to be very, very, desperate to buy a watch like this. I would rather do without.
The strange thing is, it's accuracy just could out perform a lot of mechanical movements.
Just think about that for a minute......
you don't have to think hard. Quartz nearly decimated Swiss watch making in the seventies for a reason.
Mechanical movements are out of date in this day and age. The only reason we have them is because of its luxury value. And they are pretty to look at. And that we appreciate the hardwork that goes into making one mechanical watch.
Want to know another funny thing? quartz even beats mechanical watches in the beats per hour category! So there is absolutely no doubt that quartz watches are superior in technical points you can think of...
@Foster Twelvetrees nah definetly not. There are some extremely precise mechanical watches and in the £2.6 watch is probably the cheapest crap movement the manufacturers could possibly find and it might have ±5 seconds each day.
Yeah we don't like to think about that
@@jong9379 "Luxury value"
Because that undecorated, mass-produced 7s26c in your Seiko 5 is definitely luxury...
@Foster Twelvetrees Unless you mean how long it runs for! :D
I think the best bang for buck is Orient. Maybe the Ray II. Not only do you get an amazing watch for the price, but the movement is manufactured in-house and has hacking/hand-winding. All for around £150! If it's just a dress watch that you like, then it's the Bambino for sure. Crazy how they produce such amazing watches for the price. I have an Orient Star RE-AU0004B00B and it's case finishing/details are way better than my Tudor Classic Date 21010. Movement is just as accurate too at +1s per day for both. I think Orient are very underrated in the UK. Would love to see more videos from you about them!
Exactly. Orients are surprisingly good for the price, I have 2 of them
I would contend that Vostok represents a contender for BBFB, but imho Orient are the better watch.
@@nolanolivier6791 Great shout. Vostok's designs just don't appeal to me, but you do get a lot of watch for your money. Everyone I show my Orient / Orient Star to think the watch is £1000+! I usually get them from TUS Watches in the UK and their prices are so low
My top 3 bang for the buck in no particular order: orient, vostok and starking. Starking actually has quite good fully in house watches for under $30 and they actually last some years.
I just bought a Casio Duro for $50 out the door I'm amazed , bought the blue version I absolutely do not no how they can make a watch that looks and works this well for $50 the rubber strap is really nice the bezel works good the second hand hits all the marks I'm amazed !! I've got a Rolex and Omega and many others , for the price this beats them all !
I've tried even cheaper watch - again just out of curiosity. I was able to buy and receive a $1 watch from Ali express. It was even ticking. The construction was very similar to the one you present. the design was even more simplistic truing to resemble Max Bill watch. Thie watch is rather worthless but is still a surprising and unbelievable testament to cheap Chinees labor
"The construction was very similar"
Wait, so you mean he overpaid ?!
Just imagine, a watch worth $1 including shipping. What can possibly go wrong?!
@@ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски easily
I picked up an "Olmeca" chrono off of Amazon for about $8 US. Yes, it actually is a real chronograph, with three working chorno hands on three sub-dials, working pushers, and a real date complication! The black plating on the metal band is starting to wear off on the bottom, and the "crystal" is plastic, but it looks OK as long as you treat it with care. It even came in a "real" box, with the tool to push out the pins to remove the bracelet links.
8$ ? Nah, who can afford that ?!
I bought a g shock mudman copy off ebay for $3.20 usd, shipped. "Smael" or something like that. Now, it hardly have any functions, stopwatch, alarm, date. But the insane part is that it looses 1 second per 6 months. 0.5s/3 months. Its by far the most accurate watch I own. I use it for banging out in the bush with. And the beefiness sure stands up to a beating, even if it is just a copy. Great backlighting.
Yeah, in a way there is diminishing returns. As the added mudman features, while neat, prob wont be used that often. I have $60-$90 dual and triple sensor watches if i need that. They just arent $500 g shocks. But for 3 bucks... And super accurate, sorry, but I love it!
The best use case for these watches: when you haven't worn a watch for years and want a cheap way to decide if you want to start again. That was me last year and I bought a few Chinese watches like Yazole (great looks, bad straps, super noisy), and Curren (ok looks, good straps, better quality) and wore the various designs long enough to get hooked on watches and am now shopping for Seikos.
Oh and they're also good as a watch to wear when you're working on your car or house and you might wreck it.
Looks like a Daniel Wellington haha
same quality!
Probably built in the same factory. Coming soon to a boutique near you...
@@nolanolivier6791 🤣🤣🤣
I am so chuffed you like that Lorus RDX425 , I bought one, what ten years ago now, I currently own two and bought them for my boys, they're indestructible and after a few years the titanium case gains a lovely soft polish. They're seriously underrated.
Currently wearing my Lorus while I watch this. I'm currently waiting for delivery of a Chinese special at £2.38 - I have high hopes!
So what happened?
@@133774c05 hi. It arrived. It works. :-). It's no Rolex but it's surprisingly good for the money and it keeps decent time. The 'glass' is plastic. The back is very thin and the strap is a bit itchy, but it is perfectly useable and doesn't look awful. Not my first choice to wear but it's amazing for the money
1:57 holy hell that accent
I didn't underatand a single thing😂
@@Brainman_2331: “Phoebes… This better be the right one, haven’t ordered any other shitty watches, have we?”
Hey . For a homeless person .wtf . It is a good watch . Give it to one on the street with a coffee . Be a nice bloke !
Good idea. You know how the homeless hate to be late for meetings.
@@motaman8074 lol
Matt Hyman nice one👍🏻
The fake metal silicone is cool.
Think his mind was already made up that the watch would be bad before he even opened up the package solely based on the price ! I don't think it looks too bad and is set off by it's Milanese strap even though it's not metal ! When the battery gives out , it would probably cost more to replace at somewhere like Timpson's than the cost of the entire watch , so if you can't replace the battery yourself and youve had say a years use out of it , you can merely bin it but , perhaps , keep the strap as a spare .My first adult watch , mechanical , cost £7 ( back in the sixties ) which equates to £183 : 70 today !! Every morning it had to be be wound up and time adjusted as it lost 2 whole minutes a day !! A quartz watch would probably not lose as much as that in a month and not need winding up every day ! So , to get any sort of watch for that price , including delivery , is just amazing and it doesn't look too bad except for hypercritical and very close inspection ! One thing I don't like is the fake , small dials which the sellers describe as " decoration:" . But , anyone having just a quick look when you are asked what time is it , wouldn't notice that and only you would know that ! To begin with, you might be a little disappointed in that knowledge but you'd soon forget that within a short period after numeroulsy looking at it to check the accurate time , more accurate than some much more expensive mechanical watches. And , afterall , I'd say isn't that the main criteria of having a timepiece in the first place ?
About a year ago I've bought a Daniel Wellington "homage" named Ginave on Aliexpress for 1.79€. Finishing is awful and provided NATO strap is really basic, but it still works just fine, shows accurate time and has some features that beat Timex Weekender, everybody tends to like somehow:
1) You don't have to put your timepiece in another room to get some sleep, it's absolutely silent;
2) It has applied hour marks. Totally misaligned, but nevertheless;
3) The second hand never misses second marks, because it doesn't even have a second hand.
I'm still quite amazed.
You went a bit too cheap. I've seen some good DW knock-offs and homages with proper finishing and some of them even have domed glass I think if you go up to the $10ish price range, I think on DHGate they have some even nicer ones for a bit more.
"Geneva" for 2€.
Pros: Accurate, amazingly accurate actually.
The seconds hand hits the marks
Very silent
The copper colour of the case is constant
Cons: Dial is a bit dull (maybe it's a feature?)
No lume
Inner edge of the case where the crystal sits wasn't properly polished
Applied brand name is a bit tilted, took me a while to notice though
Right now I'm wearing a Gaiety watch like this I bought from Amazon but the "leather" band broke. So I put it on a NATO strap and it looks nice.... For the $5 I spent
If I must get a Chinese watch for cheap, it would be that 99% identical DW you got from Aliexpress lol
I LOVE how you kept a straight face when you said... It claims to be water-resistant to 200m
Ben ..IF this is water-resistant to 200m ..I will eat my left foot.
Makes my Lorus Lumibrite you featured look like a Patek Philippe! Great video once again. Make sure you wash your hands !
That strap is actually pretty cool. Not that I would wear it but it looks like metal
I got a rash on my wrist just looking at that 'timepiece'.
A while back I got to watch on wish for $1 shipped.. actually had a metal case and a sterile dial with a single gold marker at 12 and a real leather strap it sort of looked like a early 90s Movado museum... I never wore it but it still surprise me you can get a watch that worked and didn't look half bad for $1
I bought a 10 euro watch from Aldi! its not bad! surprising what you get for little amount of money... great review! and I think a great price point is 50 bucks... like the Casio Duro, you get a lot bang for your buck with that watch!
Some of the Skmei Casio homage is probably some of the best low price value for money. I paid around 8$ acceptable quality, chrono, alarm, mt etc
What I don't understand about SKMEI is how they can produce solid rubber straps, properly waterproof their watches and put electroluminescent backlights in but fail to properly regulate their watches. One runs 35 sec/month fast, one 30sec slow and one 20sec fast. Casios or Chinese watches with Miyota movements are under 8sec/month!
@Foster Twelvetrees
Did you actually keep track of that?
I bought an automatic Jaragar Hublot big bang homage for £ II that actually looks good and runs well amazingly
Great video and I am so glad I have found your channel.... well price point for "Value for money"... I would say the Casio AE-1000W-1A2VEF
These retail at around £20 quid at Argos and come with a TEN YEAR battery. Yes, I said a TEN YEAR battery.
The Casio AE-1000W-1A2VEF features World time, Alarm, Stopwatch 1/100 Second a backlight, and water-resistant to 100M and a countdown timer.
It's a Seriously good watch for £20 .. And comes with a 2 Year Warranty from the manufacture.
No need to pay anymore.
And the accuracy on them is around +/- 30 Seconds a MONTH. i.e +/- 1 Second a day.
I own one and it is the best £20 watch I have ever bought. It is one of my favourites.
I got a watch for $1.46 US. Works fine for me.
I bought a Chinese digital for my wife for .99. I put a metal clasp on it to replace the plastic one. She loves it, it just tells the time. I'm a big spender.
A watch that looks like a... ehm... a watch 😂😂. The strap surprised me, i can't figured out in what way
I have one of these too. I put whiteout over the maker on the dial and wrote in "Rolex" as a joke.
Great video! Love your humor. That silicone faux metal strap is kind of a cool idea though 🤔
I got a good looking watch that's a copy of a DW with a NATO style strap for $8. Only things wrong with are that it came running so the battery only had a few weeks left on it and I needed a new one. Oh and the crown looks very tarnished. It's quartz, it works.
Also I managed to find a good looking automatic mechanical with a nice stainless steel band and date for $17. It's accurate for a mechanical. China's been making these movements for 50 years, they're fine.
There is a saying that you get what you pay for which is what you get in this case. I agree bang for buck Casio are really good value for money and I have several of them. Two of my favourite Casio watches though are my Casio MTD1053D watches, one the black version and the other the blue version, I have had them three years now and they are great diver watches with 200M water resistance and have a screw down crown and caseback and have hardened scratch resistant glass and come on a stainless steel bracelet. I paid around £50 each for them and for the price are definately value for money if you want a dive watch at a great price. They are designed for the smaller wrist so are not big and bulky like some other brands of watch but they still do the job they are designed to do. I have used mine in both the sea and swimming pools without any problems. Definately worth a review if you ever get one. I purchased mine on Amazon and also at a retailer while on holiday in Malta.
This watch belongs in the "Ice cold" section for sure! ;)
If you open the caseback, is the movement just a chunk of black plastic with no markings?
As far as value goes in a "cheap" watch, I bought a Casio F-91 digital for $6.99 with free two day shipping off amazon. I gave it to my brother several years ago and it's still running. It even has a functional chronograph! Now that's "reverse chic".
I bought a pocketwatch once, 40 Euro, mechanical, runs 4 minutes slow per day… it was meant to be a prop for a steampunk outfit. Bovet was the brandname. Tourbillon… from Aliexpress… that watch has travelled more than I ever have.
I got myself a similarly cheap (below £5) field watch from China, a Xinew. It didn't arrive ticking, the plastic separator worked here. The one big shock was that when I engaged the crown to set the time the minute hand succumbed to gravity. However, that was not broken as I feared, I could set the time and date and the watch worked fine. The only fake part on the watch was the loom, i.e. it looked like it would be loom but was just paint. For my small wrist the watch is on the large size (45mm case size, 24mm lug width), but it wears ok and does not look shabby. I have been using it for a couple of months, and so far so good. The movement appears much better than expected, as it keeps time very accurately and (shocker) the second-hand is well aligned with the dial. I had field watches in the £30-50 range that were much worse, and - I would not trade this for the affordable luxury of a DW.
I bought a watch from eBay for £1.84 a few years ago, really just to see if anything arrived - It did and it works, although it's quite like this one (actually a little nicer, I think!)
Best value for money has to be the G-Shock DW5600E. They can be found for under $40 on Amazon and eBay. For that you get: classic design, 200m water resistance, day, date, stopwatch, countdown, alarms, backlight, and the legendary G-Shock toughness.
Fair points, but I still prefer a ye olde fashioned mechanical movement. For that, it's tough to beat HMT watches from India for under $20 delivered. Very classic designs too.
For me ~ 100$ - 150$ is a good pricepoint for a very nice watch
For a very nice watch for sure. You can get away with a £40 ($50 at the current exchange rate) for if you want a pretty good watch for average people though. It'll keep on ticking and you've got a good range ( lorus, Duro, etc) to choose from
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It's interesting to see how something which would still have been a marvel of magic or science a couple hundred years ago can be mass produced into a spectrum of quality.
My son is a bit into watches. I might buy him one for Xmas.
defenetly better value then any fashion watchbrand
You can actually get decent watches from Aliexpress for around 15 pounds. Naviforce is one brand the gives you pretty good bang for the buck. Just don't shower with them
I've just bought a Ben Sherman watch originally £55 for £29.50 including shipping. I've had £30 watches before, and they've always lasted me a good 2 or 3 years before they fall apart.
Great video Ben, think you could do a side by side comparison with an Invicta, MVMT and the venerable Daniel Wellington. Thanks, Brian.
Looks like a very nice watch, and tells time. A real buy, and a keeper!
Love your watchvids! Keep those coming. Have you interest in testing the aliexpress watches like guanquin etc?
It's a good bang-for-buck assuming it actually doesn't die before a month.
Chinese quartz movements aren't the most accurate (for quartz), most silent or best looking, but the idea that they are spontaneously failing after a short period of time is a myth. I bought two for the lolz about 10 months ago and they are still happily ticking like on the first day. And battery change would be really easy.
Best bang for the buck, 31 jewel Vostok Amphibia, steel case, waterproof like mad and $73
🤔Maybe for a 5-10 year old for their first watch. Wouldn't be too bad I don't think. If they can prove they can look after that one get them something better for Christmas. 🤷♂️
Buy a sundial instead.
Cheap, accurate (well at least half the time), solar powered, and no servicing required.
Many time before I see your video I wanted to buy I Braun watch, and the reason was one very beautiful table watch that I find at the home that I live now, but he was loosing time badly. I speak with people that they had experience with Braun watches and mostly have something negative to say. If you want to buy something from Braun buy the shaving machine, for real is the best! O yes, I write you from Germany, nice job, keep going.
It’s a shame you didn’t do a long term test of it just to see how durable it is
Kupio sam najjednostavniji kineski sat sat sekundama za 4,5€ u kinesku prodavnicu omaž na Casio 1303 bele boje gde za sada funkcioniše. Kod tih satova od 2$ treba uzeti najjednostavniji analogni ili digitalni gde računam da će funkcionisati najmanje godinu dana gde naravno ne treba očekivati da za te pare funkcionišu sve komplikacije kod hronografskih sata gde je logično da ih treba izbegavati...
A thing possibly cheaper than the packaging it arrived in.
And it looks it too.
What model casio is that?
Topical.Me and my mate tried a similar stunt a couple of years back.Mine was a fake chrono that the next door neighbours possibly heard ticking.Conclusion being that this shit gives quartz a bad name and that's why we chucked them.Timex,Casio ,Pulsar etc analogues yes all day long.They represent good value .Cheers!
a good idea for a similar video might be to buy a cheap frankenwatch or two from ebay (the kind put together by indans/eastern europeans with whatever parts they have lying around)
Phoebe bought me one haha I might show it
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I don't actually get the hate against these. If you know what you are buying and like the Indian fantasy dials? It's not like you'd take anything away from the buyers of a new and fully original one.
I have the exact same watch but with a different branding. From back when I didn’t know the difference between quarz and manual 😂
Funny thing i got a "Wish" commercial bevor watching the video
Still better value than a Hublot !!!
Still better than DW, MVMT, Vincero...
They let a ticking package through customs?
Like someone pointed out, this price is achievable by slave labour or something that is basically a slave labour. Also, I would say they’re using “B grade” components, which would be considered scrap by major productions, but still work/function, at least to some degree. I usually can find value and purpose even in very low cost stuff, as I used to be very poor, but not this.
My buddy that lives in the uk order 300 of these for about the same price in different designs and colors for movie props lol!!!
Believe it or not I actually found a watch on Amazon for a penny! It's not bad looking, and the case is plastic. I never wore it, and I just now checked, and the battery has died. But for a penny I couldn't resist!
You could ask a friend or relative if they have an old crappy watch that they don’t use anymore and if they’d be willing to give it to you for free. If it needs a battery, you would be paying more than $3 USD but you’d still be better off.
I bought 2 $5 watches on Amazon LOL they work fine
Here in our country you can buy a watch for $1
I'm 2 years late here as of this writing... but... in VERY SPECIFIC situations? I could see buying this watch. It DOES tell the time.
One of those specific situations? One is in need of a cheap watch to just simply tell the time without having to order anything. One sees it on the shelf at a Dollar Tree and snag it because it's better than nothing.
Okay. The Dollar Tree isn't gonna get this watch anytime soon. But you hit up the jewelry section of WalMart with all those George watches for 10 bucks? If you REALLY need a watch? They function.
This is fast coming my favorite watch channel.
For christmas in 2018 my dad asked for a watch (black face, minimalist design, thin) so went on wish and found the ugliest tackiest fake rolex (gold and silver, gold face) for 1p + £2 shipping and gave it to him before i gave him the real watch i got
He wore it to work every day and it finally broke last month
Am I the only one who thinks it looks good
Yep!
That corona joke aged interessting :D
new vincero watch(the apex) said they used seiko mecha quartz in it can you review it?
I can beat that cost... No2 Son was buying some stuff on Ali Express and needed to spend another £2 to get free P&P which otherwise would have been around £5, so he bought me a watch for £2 and effectively it cost him £-3! Is it any good? Well the crystal works...
Nice video! :)
GAIETY - tells you everything 😂🤣
At least you got a strap that might be recyclable if you ever just need a silicone strap for a beater watch? Obviously not great quality but like you said a silicone metallic strap is very unusual.
Casio MRW-200H-1BVEF for £14.99 a 200m diver-type.
Also, Ravel have sub £10 dress watches which aren’t terrible.
I don't know why but I hate fake subdials. Really hate them. Cool video :) greetings from Poland :)
Bought a couple of Carribean Joe watches from Amazon for $15 each. Surprisingly nice looking, though suspiciously light. Of course the straps had to go.
What brand of salve comes with that "watch' ? You know, for the terrible rash you'll get on your wrist .
I had one of those. Cost US$2 all in. It had a worse strap though. Looked like leather but felt like cardboard. Wore it a few times before the band tore. The watch died a couple weeks later. It came with a wallet that I just gave to Goodwill.
Looks just like a Vincero 😂😂
Pagani design or megir is good?
Defiantly a timex expedition clone I own one and bought it for £48 bargain flawless watch can’t complain about anything
That dial is a straight copy of a Tissot PRC 200 lol