Cheaper than Seiko, better than AliExpress | Viqueria Calipso GMT review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- After the success of their Calypso diver, Italian brand Viqueria have decided to modify its bezel, swap the NH35 caliber for the NH34 and offer one of the best affordable alternatives to the Seiko SSK GMTs.
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Thanks Toni. The first I'm hearing of this brand. 🎉
Thank you for watching! They've been on my radar for quite some time now - they have a really nice dressy watch.
Hello and thanks for this video Toni. Viqueria is surrely more chinese than italian, but this GMT diver's design is pretty cool.
Thank you! Definitely Chinese labour on an Italian design, but at least the price is not American 😂
New era intro? ✅
Btw, they are Italians, always find a way...(most probably in the vast land of China!😋)
PS The lemon yellow is sourly...(may i say?) interesting!
Not necessarily an intro, but I will be trying a new format on my next video, so the new era is a thing, indeed.
Considering my father's a Siciliano, you're right, Italians do find a way, even to a Romanian woman's heart 😂
I completely agree with the advice. If you like this, it's hard to pass at the price. For me personally, it just doesn't get me excited. I even think the styling visually comes across at cheap, to the extent I would not have been surprised to find it at uninspiring AliExpress brands. Too harsh? Maybe, but that's the vibes I get from the footage. Admittedly, head-on it seemed that the pi
granulé textured of the dial washed out and made it more boring than it is. The dial surface needs that textural contrast. I normally quite like a bulbously curved side, but here it did little for the watch. I really dislike all fonts chosen and they don't work together in my opinion. The markers are fine, but have too little definition or flair to become a hero. The bracelet seems fine, and the clasp is congruent with the cheap overall impression. And still, at the price, if this is as well built as you have experienced, it's probably worth a recommendation. Since my taste rarely is aligned with the masses, they may actually do well out of these.
I've found out that the toughest part of being a reviewer is being able to wear different shoes. I am not a diver person, but if I was, having to choose between a flimsy Kamasu, a bland and poorly specced Seiko and a shameless Alix copy, I will 100% go with this one for the money.
@@watchyawant yes, I agree it's part of the professionalism of making reviews. That said, I also think it's therefore sensible to have some boundaries about what you do and don't review, because you'd likely simply be much better placed and informed in your decisions about certain genres more than others. I think that if I had a position to choose whether or not to review e.g. this Viqueira I might have decided to pass. I did many music reviews in the past where I had to apply such limits. It's another one of these things that explains the abundance of generally positive erring reviews: one picks the things more likely to strike a chord or be appreciated, so it is worth one's time and one can have a critical opinion worth its salt. Furthermore, I think size is an important limitation, because is it possible to review watches in every aspect of the experience when they don't really fit you? Furthermore, it's unlikely that brands would give you their goodwill if regularly you have nothing good to say about the products. That said, it would arguably be better balanced if more bad reviews and therewith perhaps more different opinions on watches would exist.
BINGO! It's such a Catch22!... On one hand one needs a large audience to entice brands to send out watches for review, on the other hand one needs to simply review a large enough quantity of watches in order to increase viewership figures. Simply put, one has to do with what one's got before one having multiple options.
Take Peter Kotsa for example. His videos are (deservedly) enjoyed by a large number of people despite not really being reviews. The emotion on those videos is always unsimulated positive, because Peter has the luxury of being able to be picky about watches he CHOOSES to showcase. Me, I don't have that luxury. Yet.
Over the course of the last two videos, I have lost 3 subscribers explicitely because of them, while gaining none. Is this a sign that people are actually more interested in having "safe" picks being showcased instead of leftfield watches being properly reviewed? I guess so. So is the answer to growing a channel simply sticking to popular choices for those looking to confirm their own biases?
The answer to this question is really what defines a channel. I know how to be "succesful", where success is defined by hard metrics, but I simply refuse to act on my knowledge. And that's because I wholeheartedly believe in my mission to educate. I would rather lose subscribers by honestly REVIEWING a microbrand watch than gaining thousands of views and dozens of subscribers on simply PRESENTING an AliExpress watch. Quality before quantity. This is my hill.
anything beats mediocre seiko
Couldn't rec this comment enough!