This Watch Brand Is TOTAL TRASH - So Why Did I Buy One?
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- 00:00 Intro
01:40 The Brand
04:46 The Watch
07:48 The Final Insult
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I think the brand is awful, I think their watches are awful, I do not recommend that you buy one for yourself, and yet that is exactly what I did. Why? Dear viewer, I'll tell you...... Cheers, Jody.
Dartmouth is NOT a UK company. They got you with that one too!
They listed a UK address, which when you Google it is just an online rental office for very little money.
If you dig through their company files, the owners are Indian and it’s operating from Hong Kong. They are basically marketing scammers as far as I’m concerned…
Would not surprise me at all mate!
Spot on their head office is in Hong Kong and the London office is just a front to give them some credibility.
Hhmm....Indians scamming watches in addition to running scam-call centers. Who would've thunk??
im not being a racist here, but why all of the online scamming is coming from India? LuL
That Titoni will be lovely!
Absolutely loving the Critical Drinker sign off at the end there Jody! Had to do a double take for a moment. Cheers for another cracking video.
Yes, I caught that sign off also. Don't worry, I am going away right now.
I believe it's the traditional dismissal among Scotsmen, that and "hands eff my oootmeal"
I'm not a fan of the critical drinker. Far too sexist, and too far right wing for me. I find him ignorant apart for film knowledge.
@@denisdaly1708 Great opinion! btw I hope your family doesn't get into a car crash on the 6th of feburary 12:30am 2023 :)
@@denisdaly1708 Time to rethink some things if that's what you think "too far right wing" is. Is he ignorant or you don't want to listen to anything outside your bubble?
These are on the UK shopping channels all the time … Perhaps the 1805 means they have been trading since 5 past 6 😊
You're damn right, Jody! If I wanted a misaligned dial or bezel I'd get me a Seiko 😆
Hey not all Seiko watches are that bad 😂
1😂😂% spot-on
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@@Dr.Gunsmith You are quite right. My Seiko 5 snkl23j1 has misalignments on dial, hands, day, date. My SKX013 from 2019 has no misalignments at all, even the bezel is perfect. A Seiko surely is a miss or a hit
@@stiglnsborgsaxbjrn3392 i will never understand how a huge brand like Seiko can have worse quality control than an aliexpress brand like San Martin
Dark Jody’s last line “Go away now” had me rolling😂😂
Critical Drinker fan confirmed?
critical drinker's countryman
Why would he say that? DON'T KNOW.
My new favorite RUclips genre: Scottish men who end their reviews with the line “go away now”
as a former journalist AND a former vintage watch restorer/seller (neither connected with the other) i can only congratulate you for taking on these garbage brands and calling the BS. also done in very entertaining fashion. keep up the great work.
Greetings from Oklahoma Jody! Strange that you mention the Titoni at the end- my dad has a collection of them and is in the same boat of restoring one with an ETA/clone movement, very fitting you are doing the same with this watch! Looking forward to the update and cheers!
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Had a surgery earlier this week and today was the first time I was recovered enough to get to my desk. Your voice is a great soothing reward for recovery, and a nice reminder that this too shall pass. Thanks for the smiles Jody!
Jody, you're possibly going to have issues with the supplied hands on the titoni. The dial is domed so the pinion shafts on the hour, minute and second hand aren't long/deep enough so they won't set properly. I ordered a set of domed dial deep pinion hands and they worked like a charm. I also had to order a 2824 movement holder because the one they sent was wrong.
Come on Jodie - say what you really think ……..😂😂😂😂😂
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More and brands are using these shady tactics nowadays. What a world we live in. Great video, nice rrrrrroasting Jody :)
Loved the Critical Drinker reference at the end!
Can't wait to watch the disassembly of that watch.
With a hammer
Nice one Jody, about time the covers were pulled off on these ,
That's a throwback! 2016 to 2018 I worked at a Precision Time in my local mall as an assistant manager doing watch repair, and this was one of the brands the company owned at the time. They sold alright, mostly to people who had never heard of the brand but thought they looked fancy. Build quality was... questionable. Some never seemed to have any issues, while others would come back routinely for repair. Definitely not the worst brand we sold though lol
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Ok now I'm curious .. What was the worst brand you sold?
@@karlsenula9495 it was a brand called "Monaco" and it was truly some flea market type stuff. Something you'd buy for $5 at a discount store. Pot metal bracelets and cases, stupidly difficult to size, rhinestones that routinely fell out shortly after purchase, etc. etc.
@@FailSafe161 wow .. ok is it bad that I want to see Jody roast one now?
Right on, Jody! Expose those marketing liars 🙏
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Personally I don't think they are necessarily lying at all. Just because they use some dude from the pasts name doesn't mean they are lying, is sam Adams Boston lager a fraud? I didn't think so. They are trying to market their products, this is nothing new.
Thomas Earnshaw actually got me in to watches. They taught me that RRP is a bunch of BS and that you can pay a lot of money for complete tat. So they taught me a great lesson to investigate watches properly and put my money in to the trusted brands. 60+ watches later they are totally thrown to the back of the cupboard and would never adorn my skinny wrist. What a bunch of total tommy tankers
Nice one Jody.. Actually watching England v Scotland in the rugby right now. Half time. So will watch the full video after it!
Well said Jody, I couldn't have slagged off this watch brand any better myself. I really hate this brand for every reason you mentioned.
These watches are regularly sold on idealworld shopping channel here in the UK and drooled over by one presenter named Peter Simon, who often claims that owns many of the watches that he's flogging! I hate to use the word liar. Horrible designs and ridiculous RRPs
Always fun to create a chart of how many times Peter Simon says right or OK during each transmission. I once sent an e-mail to the channel asking if they take bets on how many per transmission!! 🤣😂🤣
Somewhere on RUclips there's a video of Peter Simon farting, if that helps.
Peter Simon is an absolute dick head, he NEVER mentions the price of a product he just says what the first flexi payment is to get peoples attention. His other stock phrase is 'can I ask you to go to the phones' because it's a premium rate number and the more people that use it the more money they cream off. His Vostok Europe shows with Kevin Reynolds are embarrassing, he's like a robot just repeating the same old crap show after show. Ideal World need to boot him out because of his lies and deception, not to mention he's a complete and utter twat.
As savage as a criticaldrinkers review of a Disney live action remake.
How about Tissot? How much of their watches are really made in Switzerland? I am pretty sure most of the parts are coming from China. A nearly finished product is shipped to Switzerland, regulated, may be assembled and put in a box. So how much truth comes from Tissot? They won't tell you for sure....
Yes jody ma man 06:10 on a Saturday morning here in Glasgow perfect way to start a Saturday
Helloooo Glasgow! Baltic at 06:10 mate?
Very good Jody, love the video! Never heard of Earnshaw watches and now i'm sure i didn't miss anything. About the eviscerating part: That piece deserves it! I once had a discusasion on Reddit whether the worst watch imaginable was a Daniel Wellington or an Invicta Diver. My argument was that after you stop loving the pieces you can take them apart and either gain a solid Seiko NH35 or a heap of scrap metal. Can't wait to see the Titoni!
Invicta divers at least normally have decent movements you can repurpose. I've a garish Invicta GMT that I'm going to harvest the movement from and stuff it into a Seiko case.
Thanks for the tip about the r150. I also picked up one of those Titoni cases and have been trying to get a good movement for it.
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Nice review! This is a brand I have never heard of but the type of brand I stay far away from! I lump this into all those over priced fashion brands that are poorly made and over priced. I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole!
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I wish your videos were titled with the name of the watches so that someone considering buying them would find your reviews and avoid being ripped off, especially since you review quite a few obscure watches and brands that are often difficult to find reviews on.
All the best!
Don't worry, they are tagged with the name. So if someone searches, it'll pop up.
Came to think about the pricing if there would be any item available at AliExpress which would _not_ be on Sale?
It's also funny how when the seller boasts "Free Shipping!" the price is most often just the shipping costs more expensive than the competitor's with no free shipping...
BTW I have a Lige 1856 Watch, where the "1856" probably refers to the post code of the firm. 😇
There is a similar branding issue with the watches called "Louis Cottier".
Louis Cottier was a famed swiss horologer, but the watch brand of the same name is a recent creation with zero connexion with him.
I don't know much about the various groups that comprise several brands nor how one influences another but I recently bought a James McCabe that I like very much (Baja Scabler in dusty blue for just under $100 USD shipped). The watch's dial is marked "Belfast London" at the bottom where Swiss Made is placed on many Swiss-made watches I've never seen anything that made me think they were anything other than a UK-based company selling Chinse contracted watches. I bought it because I liked the style, and the price and had bought from the seller before so I had confidence it was being well represented in the eBay listing.
You have me on tenterhooks. Can't wait for the next episode of Dark Jody. Talk about a cliffhanger.
Priceless My friend Jody Dark it is so far love this videos very interesting 😀....
In all fairness, maybe their first watch was completed when it was five past six in London.
Ahahha! Nice one.
The blue Quartz Seiko street Tuna did not hit the markers and didn't get any flak for that.
Some watch brands definitely need trashing. When I retired from a job that made wearing a wrist watch a bad idea, I started looking around for an affordable watch. I came across an advert for a watch brand beginning with the letter after U. I describe it this way, because the brand is like Bloody Mary. If you mention the name 3 times (or even the starting letter), you will end up with a year or two of constant invasive advertising, pushing overpriced, 42mm plus Quartz watches priced obscenely high, but on sale now for 1/4 the price for a limited time only. Most of the adverts are done by people described as "influencers" who you never heard of, who try to convince you that these watches are brilliantly designed by vaguely European fashion geniuses. Ben's Watch Club does a good send up of a fake watch brand (Spaghetti Scameti) like the one whose name shall not be mentioned.
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Love Dark Jody!
You are spot on with these Companies over inflating their worth to catch out People who don’t know any better.
Another smashing vid. I could have bought one of these over priced at Carboot sale for £50. Turned it down , cheers Jody
Thank you for your service Dr. Jody! There are a few watch reviewers I know I can trust. You top the list!❤️
I literally just got this delivered. The misalignment on mine is barely there. It's basically a Seiko cocktail for half the price and a better movement. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the butterfly clasp and they could have done the crown better.
Mate! That's funny, I actually thought the clasp was the best bit 🤣
@@JustOneMoreWatch 😂. It is a lovely design and is good quality. I'm just not a big fan of butterfly clasps in general because it's hard to get a good fit.
If we love Jody but we really love mean Jody videos so we’re all mean too?
I love ever JOMW videos and keep them coming! Maybe another history lesson? That 1963 video was epic!
Watch Gang sent me an Earnshaw last month on the Platinum tier. It wasn't even a Swiss movement one. It was promptly returned and the sub was immediately cancelled 🤣
The drinker savages a watch- 😂 I will go away laughing!
Love his stuff, especially with the best accent in the world 😉
Jody, this one is one at your best! Truly viscrated by a master!
@@JustOneMoreWatch Aye right you are!!
Dark Jody: Buying junk so you don't have to! 🤣
Great video Jody.👍
Personally, I like happy smiling Jody better but dark Jody is always fun to watch too. I think if I had come across this brand on my own, from the looks of the watches, the Invicta style pricing scheme and the brand name, red flags would have been popping up all over the place in my head. But as usual, thanks for spending your money and exposing these brands on your channel. 👍
BTW, Have you been watching the Critical Drinker?
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There's also a typo on the logo, Jody. There's only one "s" in Thomas. There should be two.
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I could maybe see myself trying a Spinnaker watch in the future , but on a whole the Dartmouth brand kicks out some crap watches that I would never touch
Love this one ❤ The most entertaining Jody yet Bravo!🥂
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I recently bought this watch and to be perfectly honest I quite like it.
I don’t care about the brand I buy watches of AliExpress and as far as I’m concerned it is certainly no worse than any of those.
Mine also lines up correctly with the bracelet.
But fair call on the complaints that you have made about the brand and on the particular example you have.
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More like 'Scam of the Day" if the think that monstrosity is worth anywhere near $1500 AUD!? Great video Dark Jody 🔥
Thomas Earnshaw watches are at the pinnacle of horological architecture and design, matching and even exceeding the quality of many prestige brands such as Patek Phillipe and AP. Clearly the channel have unwittingly purchased a replica of this masterpiece upon which the original should not be compared.
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LOL.
Careful… you don’t want to incur the wrath of dark Jody! 😜
Methinks that thou hast over-imbibed of the marketing Kool Aid . . . .
Awesome! Dark Jody gives the people what they want. LOLOL The Earnshaw v Omega vid was hilarious, too. Cheers!
I bought a nice looking watch from the Bradford Exchange and it was £300 and terrible with a cheap £10 cheap quartz movement 😂
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Always great videos!!!
Thanks John! Perhaps not for this brand though.... 😬
Really liked the video Jody
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Lol. Dark Jody don't pull punches. Yes I'm guilty of enjoying these type of videos but then again I haven't missed a JOMW video in years as evident by the fact that at 3:30am, in Trinidad and I am up watching a JOMW video. I must be mental
I bought one for $65 it's ok, but the dial isn't aligned properly. The 12 o'clock position shows 12:01.
I do totally get what you’re saying, but this doesn’t seem massively more cynical than “Swiss Made” or the many brands that have passed through multiple different owners over the years but still in their marketing make a direct line back to their origins.
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My first automatic watch was a Thomas Earnshaw…it’s stopped working after a week and I returned it and got me a Seiko Sports 5. I own 4 Seiko divers now 😊
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Am I on the wrong channel? :) Is Dark Jody savaging a watch or a Marvel movie?
Great video as always.
It is a good thing that someone holds watch makers to account. Thank you Jodie! And... Greetings from the UK
Jody thanks for being loyal making a fantastic channel every time thanks for the the great advice take care
in a moment of weakness I bought one of these a couple of years ago(for £79uk),it's a sort of royal oak homage and a bit chunky to say the least,TBF there's a lot of stainless steel for your money and the butterfly clasp is better quality than some Japanese brands,for what I paid it's not that bad,I get what you mean about the marketing though.
Were you as Jody put it 'dangerously drunk'?
Don't worry we've all bought our share of 'what the F did I buy THIS for?' Watches ... mine were 1) an Aldi watch (ironically that was German made actually looked good and got a few compliments), 2) two Lige watches and 3) an Ochstin chrono.
Hi Jodi! Where do you buy your t-shirts? New one every time😂. Online or in local store?
Very interesting and entertaining video. I’d never heard if Earnshaw to be honest, but watching this, is now obvious a brand to avoid. All the best from the U.K. 🇬🇧
Love the new strapline at the end... definitely an idea for a t-shirt 😘
I do not understand why this channel isn't bigger... best watch channel on YT.
I like the way some of them look. I haven't brought myself to purchase one yet. I've seen a few on Ebay that I like. I keep finding myself going in other directions.
Well done, Dr. Jody. Is Brick next?
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Yeah, these things are shit and you nailed it Jody. Where I live they are available online only by the same outfit that sells Invicta. Except invicta has Pro Divers which are OK, Earnshaw has nothing.
Nice Drinker reference at the end there!
Big fan of the Drinker and his accent 😉
Titoni looks great! I hope we will see finished in the next videos
Oh this brand still exists. The first watch I was suckered in to before I knew anything about watches way back in 2018. The mechanism was running several minutes a day slow. Drove me insane.
I really look forward to seeing you build a watch with the movement. Is there a cheaper source for the 2824 movement? Also is there a Chinese movement that would work as an alternative? I think I'm getting the itch to try a watch build sometime in the future.
Yes, Sea-Gull and other Chinese manufacturers make 2824 clones. The PT5000 is quite highly regarded and available as an option alongside the SW200 for some watches from San Martin.
I thought I'd never see someone who inflated pricing as bad as Invicta.
Got a Master of the Oceans GMT (claims Swiss made, Swiss movement- the movement at least is a Ronda) for $89 on the site named for a big river in South America. In the box was the hang tag, with a price sticker for... $795.
A mere 800+% inflation over the actual retail paid.
Hah! Well done, Jody (love the "Critical Drinker" ref!)!
Jodie my eyes are still in agony from last time you showed the Techno My-Brain. Why'd you have to show it again?!?
I got sucked into buying an Earnshaw when I first started buying watches. Thought I was getting a great deal, but lesson learned
I’m still ROTFL after the ending of that video. Please, please start a couple of new channels. How about Dark Jody after hours and Dark Jody’s chasers? I’m sure we’ll all subscribe!
Ha, 'go away now', nice touch Dark Jodie! I was genuinely expecting this to be about Seiko! Never heard of these Earnshaw pieces of cack, they look like those horrible Armani Exchange things you see youths sporting on the tube.
Definitely agree about the TE brand, Jody. How about a sequel video, where you assemble & give life to the Titoni case using the rescued Ronda movement? Some of us would love to see that!
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That's great, I can't wait to see your Titoni build!
Love these vids Jody... There are certain watches that are not quite what they appear to be.
That ending was priceless…especially for those of us who got The Message.
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Damn, I read "The Message" in _that_ voice :)
A good British watch brand I own 2 of is Bremont !! Maybe you can review the Supermarine in your next video !
I just got into watches recently. Wow is the watch community odd. As someone who is just starting out I look for value for money considering there is no way I am going to go out and buy a high tier brand like rolex or omega for example. To me it's like hey should I get a Harley Davidson and pay 10000 extra for the name, or should I get a Honda for 20000 less. Maybe it's just me.
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i never pay attention to this watch brand, but almost for once, i was looking up for a skeleton automatic watch, then this brand bumped up on every pages i had visited. Then i looked for their website, legit website design, eye-catching watch, i was falling for them .... until i saw one, just one comment from a buyer stating that their automatic watch was a disaster to him, how he just recently bought it, but the timing tolerance is unbearable, how it died twice a day, ... . And that was when i knew there was a big red flag, and i stopped right there.
Funnily enough, those gaudy skeletonized watches are the reason why I'm following a watch channel on RUclips years later. Not this brand specifically, but I wanted to buy a watch and thought "hey, this looks cool, you can see the inner workings of it, isn't that neat?"... Luckily, I wasn't dangerously drunk (just mildly) and started to look into the subject to figure out what I really wanted - and it wasn't that. At all. Dodged the proverbial bullet.
Dark Jody is educational, methinks.
I was expecting this video to be about Stührling... another equally trash brand with shady marketing and laughable discounts from unrealistic prices. I was slightly drunk one night and bought one of these watches online. Lesson learnt!
"Anyway that's all I've got for today, go away now"
I had a good chuckle at that line I must admit. If I was a RUclipsr I like to think that's is how I would end my videos. Videos over, get tae fuck.
First time I've heard of them. I wouldn't purchase one, but I can't help but feel sorry for those who did.
I blacklisted all the Dartmouth brands a while ago, even AVI-8 and Spinnaker, which are probably the best two of the bunch.
Just subscribed to your chanel mate ! Cheers
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I want to be Dark Jody when I grow up!
One of your best videos. Keep ‘em coming!
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Great video. Thus brand is clearly dishonest on many fronts and doesn’t deserve one’s time!
Don't think I was ever that drunk. Well, maybe once, but too drunk Tha time to even manage a buy of a watch. Thanks for the warning(!) And I enjoy both Jody's, bring em on! Anyway thanks for another informative and entertaining vid!! And since you ordered it so, I'm going away (but I'll be back!)
Yep drunk people buying watches happens all the time that's why you see those guys with those Rolex is covered in diamonds
@@glennbeadshaw727 Great, thanks, now I know another trick to avoid stepping into the Rolex mudhole -- stay sober. : - )
I do own 1 or 2 earnshaw watches I was under the impression as we are told by the sellers that they have history and like you said about earnshaw being the grandfather of the modern chronometer and it was on the ships.i was thinking they are ok I've not paid more than 130 pounds I think I do think they feel very light but tbh I've not encountered any issues. But if they are created like you say how can they get away with the selling criteria, this shouldn't be allowed. I think ateotd if your happy with the watch and comfortable with the cost then you have no reason for disappointment.😊
The Titoni looks great. I have a modern Tinoni Impetus.
I think the good Doctor was completely fair and judged appropriately based on a good amount of research. Well done.
JustOneMoreEvisceration - well done! Nowhere near enough warning shots like this. Too many “if you don’t have anything nice to say” types, keeping quiet about some of the crap brands and sub-standard products.
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I’ve purchased one and really liked the design, but two screws came loose and logged in the wheel. No jewelry store would touch it.