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Could get a Seiko 5 GMT and enough change left over for a G Shock with a tough solar module and multi band 6 timekeeping. Two watches that would last a lifetime.
@@NajCarnage What for? I do not think, that he wears these crappy watches on his wrist. And keeping them just for future reference is pointless IMO. He can just reuse video clips shot before and thus bring us 'new' content.
Yeah cheap fashion watches you can get on amazon or aliexpress are at least honest with there price. i don't know how DW comes up with a price like that.
@@treegrasss the company aims towards non watch people who want something "fashionable", let alone all that horology nuances that they wouldn't know of
It’s revolting how companies such as DW exploit people’s ignorance with junk like this. Thanks for the vid, brilliant as always and Happy New Year to you!
My initial thought to your comment was that you were being a bit harsh, but on second thoughts you’re right, at that price they should carry out due diligence before buying and hopefully come across Bens Watch Club!
@@rr40v8 If people are dumb enough to buy them then that's tough and a reflection on their stupidity. Rolex are no different, they just operate at a different price point.
But Ben, they invented a movement that is powered by the motion of your wrist! I've never seen anything like it. That's gotta be worth at least $1000 and they're selling it for half.
when I didn't know better I actually bought one of DW just because a friend of mine has two and I really liked the slim case. after spending 180$ on it, after few years I got more into watches and now I still have it as a reminder to think twice and do some proper research before buying some crap.
I just said the samw thing!!! Have yours stopped working? Mine did, but it works again. I just wound it to the right time and it started working again.
It’s kind of why I’m glad these channels are around. I bought myself a Tissot PRX automatic a few days ago and probably wouldn’t have known the obvious quality differences without it
I bought a Seiko Alpinist 1959 Re-Interpretation in grey dial yesterday. I was resizing the bracelet this morning and for a second I almost had a buyer's remorse (not really). After seeing this video I'm very happy with my Seiko especially when considering I paid 459€ for it.😀
Now we have to wait for Ben to look at Vincero’s newer automatics. Preferably the Argo, given it’s a popular model. It’s a similar price point, but at least they opt for a 9015 instead of an 8215.
Once again, DW lost me at "Hello." "Iconic" is the most overused, meaningless phrase since "old school." Here's a word for everybody: "thesaurus"! Another great video. You're a public service.
I wonder if MVMT, DW, Fillipo Loretti, etc. have an internal metric to gauge how much their sales go down and how much money they lose after Ben’s watch club put’a out a video about their watch
I'll opt for the Seiko 5 GMT, Presage Cocktail Time or Turtle at this price point, thank you very much. Or a Citizen Promaster Tough Ray Mears, or a nice Eco Drive diver. Any Zelos, Phoibos or Boldr. Or any Timex. Or a PRX Quartz. Or a Certina DS2 diver. A Hamilton Khaki Field. Some nice Bulovas available for this price. Damn, there are plenty of options if you sit down to think of them!
Yep. 500 is a price point where you can still get a huge amount of value. One of the really premium Prospex divers like the King Turtle or the King Samurai can be had for 500. You could buy the new 38mm Bambino, the Kamasu and have enough change left over a pretty amazing G Shock for 500.
I’m amazed by how little thought seems to have gone into the design of this watch. The dial, hands, markers and even logo are completely uninspiring. I think the font they use for their logo might actually be Times New Roman 😅. The case and movement are also likely some of the worst you can get for the price. However, I think the inoffensive aesthetic will help them sell more of these watches. I don’t think it’ll be a commercial flop.
And even the similarly priced Vincero Argo wasn’t as bad. And that actually used a movement more acceptable at its current price point (and even before it went upmarket and upgraded the packaging).
I bought a scratchless second hand DW for a cousin on his birthday @ ~30% sticker price, after I noticed he was using that same model as his phone wallpaper. Dude actually loves the brand because of all the Influencers. 🤷♂️
Great video, Ben. You took one for the team when you bought this watch. On a separate note, I think DW is making a big mistake. According to Forbes, MVMT was sold to Movado in exchange for $200 million. MVMT was sold when the hype was high. DW should do that soon or the window will close.
The fact that they EVEN BOTHERED to copy Rolex' date window magnifier is absolutely hilarious. I mean DW, seriously? xDD I think they secretly are aware of the meme department they ACTUALLY are. So they cranked up a bit on the meme meter. Maybe as a response to AlphaM's "MVMT being better than Rolex".
For that price i could get a titanium eco drive, an orient bambino and a vostok amphibia with enough change for a g-shock. That's a whole watch collection right there
Community question: how do you respond when someone shares their excitement over a new scam watch like DW or MVMT? I have this happen occasionally when looking at a friends watch and I usually just say “that’s a good fit for you” or some other avoidance. Thanks!
Who cares if the person wears a watch you don't like? My feelings on the matter are if the person likes the watch and is okay with what they paid for it I'm really happy for them. I'll tell them I think it's really cool they're wearing a watch and share in their excitement. Sometimes if I'm really close with the person I'll wait for their next birthday or Christmas and buy them a nice watch with the same design language as the watch they showed me
The company is going in the same direction as the “D” in their logo. Backwards. Hard to do when you’re swimming at the bottom of the barrel but they did it!
I mean, I saw a Le Locle with literally the same price with leather strap here in Spain. It just amazes me how you can sell this under 100$ Aliexpress piece at the same price of one of the best dress watches on the affordable market without even producing your own movements.
I recently bought a pilot watch from Aliexpress which has the Seiko NH35 movement, sapphire crystal for just $58 including shipping. I'm wearing it right now and I can safely say it also looks miles better than this POC.
A local shop had one with a Tiffany blue dial, I almost pulled the trigger, but I really couldn’t justify a non hacking, no manual winding movement at that price. I bought a Tiffany blue Casio to scratch that itch lmao
A big chunk of a watch with a terrible crown and I have to say with NO real effort put into the detail of this design...with a bit more effort they could have given us a cool looking design, give me 20min and I can make this design pop ! But as it is, NO ! I would probably not wear it even if given to me !
Love your vids Ben 💚 Would love to know your take on the new Casioak series (the solar ones) and please consider making videos on Flieger watches just like the one you did on field watches.
all your videos about DW made me appreciate first and only automatic watch which is SNKL45 more and more... Even my for the quartz version I will still pick my 35 usd Alba watch..
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a Daniel Wellington store in Dubai mall, for anyone who doesn't know Dubai mall is the most fancy and lavish shopping mall ever and these scammers actually have a store in there, shocking
I've gotten a lot of adds recently about a "minimalist" fashion watch that looks similar to mvmt but it's called mnmal 😐 ... Have you heard about this?
The thumbnail pic says it all 😂 I can’t believe they had the cheek to do this. I literally just picked up a AUD$390 Seiko Presage in the Boxing Day sales 😭
Founder of DW bought Swedens most expensive apartment for 10 million dollars some years back, thats the thing that happens when you have healthy margins. However now its not going so good any more and i dont think this will be a big seller you can just congratulate the dude he exploited a part of the market in perfect timing
The price would have been forgivable if the styling had been something really unique and if they had at least decorated the rotor a bit. Invicta put out better for much less.
I've just check Daniel Wellington and MVMT on their local online store in my country, and holy heck they're selling them for the same price as Casio Edifice and G-shock watches; but unlike buying an Edifice and a G-shock wherein you get proven high-quality steel or resin material, a myriad of utility and features, solar-powered, a 100m or 200m water-resistance; all you get with a DW and MVMT is a thin watch with a "minimalist" design(translation in the design industry: ultimate profit margin but dumb people will think its trendy), 3 ATM which just means "splash-proof and rain-resistance"(I don't think it's even something they should put on their product at all) and a marketing spiel about cutting the middleman which is dumb because Casio is selling cheaper watches with million times better quality despite having a ton load of middlemen.
That's an understatement. Seiko 5's might only come with workhorse movements but they are decent ones and their styling is better. Maybe the DW beats the seiko in the bracelet but for the price difference you can always upgrade the bracelet on the seiko.
For as little as £100 more, you could buy a vintage 1960's Omega Geneve. A watch with both good looks and an arguably iconic movement, the '565'. You could even snap up the Seiko speedtimer, a watch that is far more complex, reliable and would last a lot longer.
You can get plenty of quality vintage watches for that price - heck, you can get second hand 21st century Tissots and even Longines at around the asking price for this DW. I can't see why anyone would buy this tat.
I was abhored with brands like DW and MVMT so I decided to make my own with a swiss movement with much fancier look and sturdier build quality for less price. I even tested the prototype watch for 4 years now and it's going strong :)
I showed my family this video. They're not into watches and didn't get it - Until I told them that a preowned Omega Geneve starts at 600$, and a preowned Rolex starts at 3000$. What non-watch enthusiast need is perspective. Spending 5000$ on a watch you'll wear for 10 years is equivalent to buying a coffee at work every day.
Gotta smile at this one, DW has finally broken into the auto watch market because (you know) the fact that their previous models were quartz was the problem.🤨
This is the first watch review video I’ve ever watched. So I was wondering - watches which tell the date - how do they tell whether the month has 30, 31, 28 or 29 days? Please tell me you don’t have to manually correct them/
I got a Certina DS Podium Automatic (Powermatic 80) for less than that (it was on sale but still). It's a really nice 38mm perfect for a daily beater or frankly anything. And it's a swiss brand. Money well spent if you ask me
I am sorry that this comment is irrelevant with this video but I wanted it to be seen. I’ve read on couple of unofficial resources that Casio has ended to produce W-86. Is that true ?
....i've seen far worse looking watches. this one is overpriced for what you're getting. at half the price it would be, "expensive" but off the rip off radar. that's the only real problem i see with it. one could argue it's actually a better value than an $8K rolex selling at three times retail. good review, i've subscribed.
Thing I don't get is why don't they respect themselves , I'd never start a brand like that but even if I did , got that successful I'd at least offer one model that could bring up the reputation of the brand , like one watch that would offer so much value that even brand haters (or all of us who dont like crap) would love, people literally will give ass to get a few bucks...
Not sure who the target market is? DWs seem to be aimed at people who are new to watches or who are just after the aesthetic? Why would that market care if the movement was automatic or quartz?
Yoo Ben come on. Last time I mentioned that Ive bought a Rotary Oxford and I believe someone mocked the brand. It sure not a Bulova or Breitling but Ive bought it for €80 on sale. Has saffier glas as well. Can you dedicate one or a piece of a video on Rotary this year? Edit: Im not asking you to sugar coat the truth. Im just wondering about the what and why
I bought a DW here in Spain. Didnt know anything about them. I paid 159 for mine, but it stopped working. I wound it to the right time and it works again. I was going to take it back, but ill use it as a lesson to myself to do a little research before i buy. Now i have a bulova precisionist on the way to my house so itll be there when i get back from shitty europe.
A lot people don't care about stuff that been talking here. as far as those brands open enough shop in almost every malls that would enough to convince majority to believe the watch has enough reputation and worth to buy
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i wouldnt buy the watch , even if it was good quality , with that retarded logo ....well , dyslexic perhaps .
maybe the watch is a clever marketing product for dyslexics .
When Ben's face forms the toyota logo, something truly heinous has happened
@@ailestriker9888 LMFO
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459 for a Daniel Wellington… when you can get a Hamilton Khaki field for near the same exact price. Weird world
459 for a Hamilton khaki field where you can get a Seiko field watch for 200. Weird world.
Still, Hamilton is free to market more if they like.
Weird people who buy it!)
Could get a Seiko 5 GMT and enough change left over for a G Shock with a tough solar module and multi band 6 timekeeping. Two watches that would last a lifetime.
You can get 3 Orient bambinos instead
Ben throws his money in the bin so folk like us don't. What a man.
If the watch is worthless, I believe he sends it back and gets a refund. He has both the money and a video published.
@@pzwolski he’s a reviewer. Why would he send it back if it’s working. He needs all these watches
@@NajCarnage What for? I do not think, that he wears these crappy watches on his wrist. And keeping them just for future reference is pointless IMO. He can just reuse video clips shot before and thus bring us 'new' content.
Don’t worry the watch comes off as a business expense so it’s tax deductible and he probably makes more money from it then 495$
@@pzwolski Your opinion.
DW is the final boss of bad fashion watches
Yeah, Is the orphan of kos of the watch industry
@Eicee1989 😂 definitely true would take always a Seiko over an DW
Yeah cheap fashion watches you can get on amazon or aliexpress are at least honest with there price. i don't know how DW comes up with a price like that.
@@treegrasss the company aims towards non watch people who want something "fashionable", let alone all that horology nuances that they wouldn't know of
That completely uncustomized, undecorated cheap movement straight from Aliexpress is just so insulting
It’s revolting how companies such as DW exploit people’s ignorance with junk like this. Thanks for the vid, brilliant as always and Happy New Year to you!
It's so easy to research watches online nowadays. It's kind of people's own fault if they buy this.
My initial thought to your comment was that you were being a bit harsh, but on second thoughts you’re right, at that price they should carry out due diligence before buying and hopefully come across Bens Watch Club!
Silimlar practices go on everywhere, Beats headphones are a good example.
All companies exploit ignorance. It's how money gets made.
@@rr40v8 If people are dumb enough to buy them then that's tough and a reflection on their stupidity. Rolex are no different, they just operate at a different price point.
But Ben, they invented a movement that is powered by the motion of your wrist! I've never seen anything like it. That's gotta be worth at least $1000 and they're selling it for half.
when I didn't know better I actually bought one of DW just because a friend of mine has two and I really liked the slim case. after spending 180$ on it, after few years I got more into watches and now I still have it as a reminder to think twice and do some proper research before buying some crap.
I just said the samw thing!!! Have yours stopped working? Mine did, but it works again. I just wound it to the right time and it started working again.
For that price, I got an Automatic Tissot Small Seconds watch lol (Around $400), it's amazing how deluded these fashion watch companies are.
u would pay extra for small seconds ?
Amazing how deluded consumers are.
@@motaman8074 : exactly
You can get the Tissot PRX or Gentlemen in Quartz for that price
It’s kind of why I’m glad these channels are around. I bought myself a Tissot PRX automatic a few days ago and probably wouldn’t have known the obvious quality differences without it
Ben slamming DW? I'm in
I bought a Seiko Alpinist 1959 Re-Interpretation in grey dial yesterday. I was resizing the bracelet this morning and for a second I almost had a buyer's remorse (not really). After seeing this video I'm very happy with my Seiko especially when considering I paid 459€ for it.😀
i wonder how much it cost seiko to produce your new alpinist
@@tjlee9901 Parts/manufacturing/assembly maybe 20€? Development/manufacturing/marketing/distribution etc. maybe 100€?
Great watch. Welcome to the club!
I've had my eye on the limited edition 3k dollar one for like 3 years now
Now we have to wait for Ben to look at Vincero’s newer automatics. Preferably the Argo, given it’s a popular model. It’s a similar price point, but at least they opt for a 9015 instead of an 8215.
Once again, DW lost me at "Hello." "Iconic" is the most overused, meaningless phrase since "old school." Here's a word for everybody: "thesaurus"!
Another great video. You're a public service.
I can get Tissot, Mido, Hamilton, Victorinox or a Bulova with Sapphire Crystal automatic for cheaper than this lol
We want a WATCHCRUNCH app!!!!!
Keep your eyes peeled 👀
Yep. This is the main thing stopping me from getting on there much
I thought it was an app until I couldn't find it on the store. It's very weird that isn't
I wonder if MVMT, DW, Fillipo Loretti, etc. have an internal metric to gauge how much their sales go down and how much money they lose after Ben’s watch club put’a out a video about their watch
I'll opt for the Seiko 5 GMT, Presage Cocktail Time or Turtle at this price point, thank you very much. Or a Citizen Promaster Tough Ray Mears, or a nice Eco Drive diver. Any Zelos, Phoibos or Boldr. Or any Timex. Or a PRX Quartz. Or a Certina DS2 diver. A Hamilton Khaki Field. Some nice Bulovas available for this price. Damn, there are plenty of options if you sit down to think of them!
i have a beautiful tissot seastar 7 i could get serviced for less than 200$ but even that seems dumb to my mind
Yep. 500 is a price point where you can still get a huge amount of value. One of the really premium Prospex divers like the King Turtle or the King Samurai can be had for 500. You could buy the new 38mm Bambino, the Kamasu and have enough change left over a pretty amazing G Shock for 500.
DW should be rebranded as MPT, for Monumental Piss Take.
Your courage is beyond compare, Ben. All the best for 2023. Cheers, everyone 🍻!
I’m amazed by how little thought seems to have gone into the design of this watch. The dial, hands, markers and even logo are completely uninspiring. I think the font they use for their logo might actually be Times New Roman 😅. The case and movement are also likely some of the worst you can get for the price.
However, I think the inoffensive aesthetic will help them sell more of these watches. I don’t think it’ll be a commercial flop.
That Miyota movement is the biggest insult at this price point.
Happy New Year, Ben! Great job as always on the reviews.
And even the similarly priced Vincero Argo wasn’t as bad. And that actually used a movement more acceptable at its current price point (and even before it went upmarket and upgraded the packaging).
The Tissot Le Locle Automatic can be had for less
And that one is actually looking very nice.
Beautiful little watch
There's obviously a market for this and if you're honest the hot air isn't that different from Rolex; just at different price point.
Many content creators earn adsense by critisizing DW or Hublot
The creators are happy because those brands exist
It's not Sunday but I'm ready for this roast...
I bought a scratchless second hand DW for a cousin on his birthday @ ~30% sticker price, after I noticed he was using that same model as his phone wallpaper. Dude actually loves the brand because of all the Influencers. 🤷♂️
Great video, Ben. You took one for the team when you bought this watch.
On a separate note, I think DW is making a big mistake. According to Forbes, MVMT was sold to Movado in exchange for $200 million. MVMT was sold when the hype was high. DW should do that soon or the window will close.
Already too late. The last two years, DW has gone from a revenue of €250M to €140M and €72M in losses. They are already done.
@@rooftopv4664 Thanks for the data. So the windows is closed.
The fact that they EVEN BOTHERED to copy Rolex' date window magnifier is absolutely hilarious. I mean DW, seriously? xDD
I think they secretly are aware of the meme department they ACTUALLY are. So they cranked up a bit on the meme meter. Maybe as a response to AlphaM's "MVMT being better than Rolex".
For that price i could get a titanium eco drive, an orient bambino and a vostok amphibia with enough change for a g-shock. That's a whole watch collection right there
I love how you compare and analyze many timepieces
Community question: how do you respond when someone shares their excitement over a new scam watch like DW or MVMT? I have this happen occasionally when looking at a friends watch and I usually just say “that’s a good fit for you” or some other avoidance.
Thanks!
Who cares if the person wears a watch you don't like? My feelings on the matter are if the person likes the watch and is okay with what they paid for it I'm really happy for them. I'll tell them I think it's really cool they're wearing a watch and share in their excitement. Sometimes if I'm really close with the person I'll wait for their next birthday or Christmas and buy them a nice watch with the same design language as the watch they showed me
Look better
Really. If you know you look fashionably better than they are, it's easy to convince them that the brand they bought into is a scam.
Great video, Ben. Have you heard of the citizen tsuyosa?
The company is going in the same direction as the “D” in their logo. Backwards. Hard to do when you’re swimming at the bottom of the barrel but they did it!
maybe the backwards D is for dumb or dyslexic
I mean, I saw a Le Locle with literally the same price with leather strap here in Spain. It just amazes me how you can sell this under 100$ Aliexpress piece at the same price of one of the best dress watches on the affordable market without even producing your own movements.
I recently bought a pilot watch from Aliexpress which has the Seiko NH35 movement, sapphire crystal for just $58 including shipping. I'm wearing it right now and I can safely say it also looks miles better than this POC.
I bought the rose gold Citizen Tsuyosa for almost the same price with the same movement.
A local shop had one with a Tiffany blue dial, I almost pulled the trigger, but I really couldn’t justify a non hacking, no manual winding movement at that price. I bought a Tiffany blue Casio to scratch that itch lmao
@@m4t7eo : i would not buy another seiko even with non handwind , unless maybe it was 60 bucks .
real gold ?
A big chunk of a watch with a terrible crown and I have to say with NO real effort put into the detail of this design...with a bit more effort they could have given us a cool looking design, give me 20min and I can make this design pop ! But as it is, NO ! I would probably not wear it even if given to me !
I've seen this watch online for a while now and already wondered if anyone would ever review it!
Was Ben referring to the watchuseek forum at 1:54 ?
I like how the midlink on the endlink meets the case, otherwise it's a Seiko 5 clone, but at 5 times+ the price.
DW is grasping for straws at this point. The glory days of influencer sales are over. The company is doing big losses. Good riddance.
Love your vids Ben 💚
Would love to know your take on the new Casioak series (the solar ones) and please consider making videos on Flieger watches just like the one you did on field watches.
Ben is wasting his money on scam watches so we don't have to
all your videos about DW made me appreciate first and only automatic watch which is SNKL45 more and more...
Even my for the quartz version I will still pick my 35 usd Alba watch..
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a Daniel Wellington store in Dubai mall, for anyone who doesn't know Dubai mall is the most fancy and lavish shopping mall ever and these scammers actually have a store in there, shocking
Apparently Valuchi is popular there too.
I've gotten a lot of adds recently about a "minimalist" fashion watch that looks similar to mvmt but it's called mnmal 😐 ... Have you heard about this?
Wait, what's wrong with DW? They designed a watch face that I've been dying for watchmakers to make for years
The thumbnail pic says it all 😂 I can’t believe they had the cheek to do this. I literally just picked up a AUD$390 Seiko Presage in the Boxing Day sales 😭
Founder of DW bought Swedens most expensive apartment for 10 million dollars some years back, thats the thing that happens when you have healthy margins. However now its not going so good any more and i dont think this will be a big seller you can just congratulate the dude he exploited a part of the market in perfect timing
I just got an Orient Kamasu with a green dial and unidirectional bezel(RA-AA0004E19A) for $200 less. I'd go for the Seiko he talked about.
I have a Seiko cocktail watch, the finish quality is really nice and the face gets comments.
The price would have been forgivable if the styling had been something really unique and if they had at least decorated the rotor a bit. Invicta put out better for much less.
Daniel wellington used to have a brick mortar store in carnaby street london
I've just check Daniel Wellington and MVMT on their local online store in my country, and holy heck they're selling them for the same price as Casio Edifice and G-shock watches; but unlike buying an Edifice and a G-shock wherein you get proven high-quality steel or resin material, a myriad of utility and features, solar-powered, a 100m or 200m water-resistance; all you get with a DW and MVMT is a thin watch with a "minimalist" design(translation in the design industry: ultimate profit margin but dumb people will think its trendy), 3 ATM which just means "splash-proof and rain-resistance"(I don't think it's even something they should put on their product at all) and a marketing spiel about cutting the middleman which is dumb because Casio is selling cheaper watches with million times better quality despite having a ton load of middlemen.
I love Daniel Wellington.
Consider it as visible filter test
that butterfly clasp is literally the same as what comes with any aliexpress watch with a butterfly clasp
In direct comparison, the Seiko 5 undoubtedly has a much better quality to price ratio.
That's an understatement. Seiko 5's might only come with workhorse movements but they are decent ones and their styling is better. Maybe the DW beats the seiko in the bracelet but for the price difference you can always upgrade the bracelet on the seiko.
@@nicerides9224 agreed
@BensWatchClub I would like to know if there are some good "Richard Mille" homages without braking the bank (around 100-200 dollars) 👀
Love your channel mate, but getting serious Dr Evil vibes with that top 🤣
Another great video
At that price, if they're too tight to go for the 9000 series, at least use the 8315?
I'm currently wearing an Orient Kamasu I paid $250 for and that came with a sapphire crystal. How is this worth $450?
Watches like this (same movement, sapphire) can be had for ~$60 (even less with coupons) on Aliexpress.
they probably cost less than 10 dollars to produce .
For as little as £100 more, you could buy a vintage 1960's Omega Geneve. A watch with both good looks and an arguably iconic movement, the '565'.
You could even snap up the Seiko speedtimer, a watch that is far more complex, reliable and would last a lot longer.
You can get plenty of quality vintage watches for that price - heck, you can get second hand 21st century Tissots and even Longines at around the asking price for this DW.
I can't see why anyone would buy this tat.
Can you please review Zepelin watches?
You should review a Dakota, there a smaller company in the US
The purpose of this watch is as simple as it's design. And that purpose is to separate a fool from his money.
You could buy a lot from Tissot for the same price or even cheaper, from a REAL watch company with some history. Great video Ben...again.
The dial is not too bad. But the case and it's thickness are a let down. For that price it competes with a Seiko SARB033.
I was abhored with brands like DW and MVMT so I decided to make my own with a swiss movement with much fancier look and sturdier build quality for less price. I even tested the prototype watch for 4 years now and it's going strong :)
4:38 "Skeletonised hands." So that's without the lume then?
I showed my family this video. They're not into watches and didn't get it - Until I told them that a preowned Omega Geneve starts at 600$, and a preowned Rolex starts at 3000$. What non-watch enthusiast need is perspective. Spending 5000$ on a watch you'll wear for 10 years is equivalent to buying a coffee at work every day.
my first omega was quite a beautiful watch and only cost 35 dollars used in 1974 . would i pay a grand for the same watch today ? no
Holy macaroni. Iron Annie 5056-1 costs 499 EUR and it has Sellita SW200 inside. And I grabbed it on sale for 362 EUR. -6 seconds per day - wunderbar!
Got the Iconic Link on sale for €90 - quite happy with it
At that price U can buy Tissot Prx quartz with a lil bit extra left lol
"There is minimalism as a pursuit and there is minimalism as an absence of thought." ~Teddy Baldassarre
I think DW belongs to the latter group.
For $459, you can get a Casio A168, an automatic Invicta Pro Diver, and a quartz Tissot PRX ... and still have money left!
Gotta smile at this one, DW has finally broken into the auto watch market because (you know) the fact that their previous models were quartz was the problem.🤨
Typical scam watch: high price...and cost cutting all around. They have not shame.
It’s all about the price. If it’s priced at 59, it’s a good choice. If 159 msrp, that’s fair. 459? That’s garbage.
I've got three Seiko 5s for a combined price of €360. One could get a Presage or a Hamilton for less than $450.
Four minutes in that crown placement is horrifying. At least add crown guards to the case to make it look at least a little bit thought-out!
You really took one for the team there, bravo
I want a 55mm Invicta-Hublot colab F1 dive watch
why no one is talking about the tissot classic dream, its the same price as a DW,
It's personal preference, of course, but IMO the DW logo with the backwards D is trash.
appeals only to idiots
In the last three months I've bought two used Hamiltons for less than the price of this watch.
This is the first watch review video I’ve ever watched. So I was wondering - watches which tell the date - how do they tell whether the month has 30, 31, 28 or 29 days? Please tell me you don’t have to manually correct them/
You have to correct the date six times a year. It assumes all months have 31 days.
I got a Certina DS Podium Automatic (Powermatic 80) for less than that (it was on sale but still). It's a really nice 38mm perfect for a daily beater or frankly anything. And it's a swiss brand. Money well spent if you ask me
Certina DS: Double Shitter
I am sorry that this comment is irrelevant with this video but I wanted it to be seen. I’ve read on couple of unofficial resources that Casio has ended to produce W-86. Is that true ?
Ben i hope you get most of your money back on that dire watch..rather have a pagani design 😄😄..by the way have a happy new year!!🎉🎉
....i've seen far worse looking watches. this one is overpriced for what you're getting. at half the price it would be, "expensive" but off the rip off radar. that's the only real problem i see with it. one could argue it's actually a better value than an $8K rolex selling at three times retail. good review, i've subscribed.
Got a new Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 for a discounted price of $500, should I have waited for this DW release to come out?
Thing I don't get is why don't they respect themselves , I'd never start a brand like that but even if I did , got that successful I'd at least offer one model that could bring up the reputation of the brand , like one watch that would offer so much value that even brand haters (or all of us who dont like crap) would love, people literally will give ass to get a few bucks...
I ended up getting one as a gift
Lets say it took $250 at a watchmaker to get to +/- 26sec per day at best.
Yikes. Cestrian master series looks similar.. £115.. excellent specs..
Not sure who the target market is? DWs seem to be aimed at people who are new to watches or who are just after the aesthetic? Why would that market care if the movement was automatic or quartz?
Yoo Ben come on. Last time I mentioned that Ive bought a Rotary Oxford and I believe someone mocked the brand. It sure not a Bulova or Breitling but Ive bought it for €80 on sale. Has saffier glas as well. Can you dedicate one or a piece of a video on Rotary this year?
Edit: Im not asking you to sugar coat the truth. Im just wondering about the what and why
I bought a DW here in Spain. Didnt know anything about them. I paid 159 for mine, but it stopped working. I wound it to the right time and it works again. I was going to take it back, but ill use it as a lesson to myself to do a little research before i buy. Now i have a bulova precisionist on the way to my house so itll be there when i get back from shitty europe.
Can you increase the frequency of your videos? Perhaps as a new year resolution?
A lot people don't care about stuff that been talking here. as far as those brands open enough shop in almost every malls that would enough to convince majority to believe the watch has enough reputation and worth to buy
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Being right between the two PRX models is a terrible place to be for such a bland watch. I’d get two Orients for that price