Two Of The VERY BEST Affordable Watches Go Head To Head

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • These two highly regarded affordable San Martin watches are going head to head. The SN0129 and the SN0130 are two of the best San Martin watches you can buy but which is right for you?
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Комментарии • 64

  • @antonysmith9173
    @antonysmith9173 Месяц назад +10

    I think for me,personally it's the SNO130. Just looks a nicer watch,but as l say its personal choice. 😊

  • @FullyLumed
    @FullyLumed Месяц назад +1

    I picked up the purple SN0129 recently. Everything about it just works and proportion-wise, it’s pretty much perfect for my wrist. I quite like the polished centre links, it just adds a bit of difference to most of my other watches.

  • @miguelmendez4718
    @miguelmendez4718 Месяц назад +3

    I would pick the SN0129 it’s much sleeker and top bezel is more stream line with the watch. I think it would wear more comfortable on the wrist. 👍

  • @stephenschroeder6567
    @stephenschroeder6567 Месяц назад

    As my only San Martin, I have a 0129 Non-GMT in the red desert and I LOVE IT. It wears perfectly and gets a fair share of positive comments from folks. It is fun introducing people to a brand and watch they had not heard of.

  • @Wrist-rolls
    @Wrist-rolls Месяц назад +3

    I have a SN0130 and I can't get over how reflective the crystal is. It's like there is no AR coating at all.

  • @chunkhenderson1878
    @chunkhenderson1878 Месяц назад +7

    Not sure. You may have to send me both so I can judge them in person.

  • @robh.2400
    @robh.2400 Месяц назад +1

    I'm wearing the red dessert texture SN0129 today. It's a fantastic watch. The 130 is a bit big for my preference.

  • @ikeman5774
    @ikeman5774 5 дней назад

    I like the SN0129. However, if I get it, the first thing I'd do is brush the center links. I hate polished center links.

  • @ahmedsaeed6667
    @ahmedsaeed6667 Месяц назад +1

    129 G B Adventurine black starry sky

  • @redbarchetta8782
    @redbarchetta8782 Месяц назад +3

    I like San Martin's design, I don't like San Martin's throwing NH movements into all their 3/4 hander watches. I wish they'd use the Seagul 28.8 tickers myself, or option the SW200s more as well.

    • @gilbertoflores7397
      @gilbertoflores7397 Месяц назад

      An sw200, would double the price, and eveyone would complain. And then when they used the pt5000 eveyone complained even though it's like the ST2130, but the connotation of Chinese movement is still associated with inferior. So if they want to upgrade the movement and maintain respectability they should use Miyota 9K movements. Which will bump up the price enough to make people complain. 200-250 is the price most people are willing to pay for their watches, so it's a fine balance of increasing the quaint but keep it's price at thay range, so the movement is the compromise. I'd probably prefer if they started using High Accuracy Quartz movements as an alternative.

    • @Megatraum504
      @Megatraum504 12 дней назад

      @@gilbertoflores7397 who tf complains about a pt5000? i cant imagine anyone who shops san martin being too stuck up for a pt5000.

    • @Megatraum504
      @Megatraum504 12 дней назад

      @@gilbertoflores7397 pt5000 is just flat out better than nh35 anyways

    • @Megatraum504
      @Megatraum504 12 дней назад

      @@gilbertoflores7397 also, plenty of companies offer multiple movement choices at different price points. So you get whatever u actually want to pay for. No excuse imo for san martin aside from using the cheapest 3hz movement they can get.

  • @jasons2562
    @jasons2562 5 дней назад

    I think the bezel on the 0130 is too busy and bulky. It distracts from the dial also. The best here to me is the Dune in white with the polished center links for $250 USD

  • @stevev7402
    @stevev7402 Месяц назад

    I got the 42mm Peacock Green dial sn0130-g-b. What a fantastic watch. Just beautiful. Great grand seiko vibes. I think San Martins best to date

  • @robbbbery
    @robbbbery Месяц назад +1

    Sexy macros, as always! The polished chamfers on the center links look really swell, I hope they do that for more models in the future.

  • @gilbertoflores7397
    @gilbertoflores7397 Месяц назад +1

    Do you have any idea when we'll see better images of the new SN0144X? I have a feeling like that'll be the clear winner of it's best watch, if they make the bracelet like the GS bracelet they did for the GS Diver they did in ghe past.

  • @richardpool9970
    @richardpool9970 Месяц назад

    Have the SN0129 and it works great on my 6.5" wrist. Not many 42mm cases I can get away with. However, prefer the bracelet on the SN0130.

  • @AlexanderB.
    @AlexanderB. Месяц назад +2

    None of them is right for me. Not a fan of the polished end links and the crown guards of the SN0129, the SN0130 is a touch too big for me, wish it had female end links too and I don't like the notches on the bezel. What I do like about both of them are the handsets and indices though.

  • @user-hj5lw6jp9j
    @user-hj5lw6jp9j Месяц назад +1

    I think for me SNO129.💯👍

  • @JWnFlorida
    @JWnFlorida Месяц назад

    Beautiful watches.

  • @adk7962
    @adk7962 Месяц назад

    I could pull off the 130, but the 129 is the perfect size for me, and the watches look similar enough where buying one over the other doesn’t really matter. Phenomenal watches though. Thanks!

  • @markhagan3653
    @markhagan3653 Месяц назад +3

    Go San Martin!

  • @gregtolley3455
    @gregtolley3455 Месяц назад +3

    Why male end links on the sn0130 and not on the sn0129? It's already a large watch, those end links just stick out.

  • @laurencehogg6010
    @laurencehogg6010 Месяц назад

    Very nice, and the split screen content really works imo, but I'm kind of with you on the done-to-death aspect of these models. SM need to do a follow up 'difficult second album' now rather than endlessly resleeving the first one.

  • @ChonoChaser
    @ChonoChaser Месяц назад

    Another banger of a review! Have you ever handled any of the Welly Merck I recently got a couple on prime day they are pretty good for what they are miyota powered.

  • @jamesalexander4405
    @jamesalexander4405 Месяц назад

    They look great, any chance of them doing a version with something other than an NH movement?

  • @Spectrecontrol
    @Spectrecontrol Месяц назад +1

    I agree, the 0129 has the edge, certainly looks great

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Месяц назад +1

    SM always excellent

  • @CoolWatchesOnly
    @CoolWatchesOnly Месяц назад

    I like more the 130, maybe is that I don't like that much the purple dial or the crown guards, there's something about the 129 that makes it look too delicated.

  • @CapatinMoondust
    @CapatinMoondust Месяц назад

    Would love to see a comparison with the GADA

  • @HORIZONTIMEPASSIONEOROLOGI
    @HORIZONTIMEPASSIONEOROLOGI Месяц назад

    Love Starry night

  • @garylangford6755
    @garylangford6755 Месяц назад

    SN0129 for the sizing and i also dont like those notches in the bezel

  • @paulveneziani9857
    @paulveneziani9857 Месяц назад

    Nice comparison Gary!

  • @billgrisenthwaite3874
    @billgrisenthwaite3874 Месяц назад

    If I didn't already have a watch with a Aventurine dial then I would have to go for the sn0130

  • @scollyutube
    @scollyutube Месяц назад

    What's their performance like though? Every one of my SMs run slow, which isn't great really.

  • @TelephoneNinja
    @TelephoneNinja Месяц назад

    The lume is far from "very good", at least on the red SN0129 - "average" is the right word for it. Still - I think its a great watch. If only SM decided to equip them with slightly more "delicate" bracelets though - both are unnecessarily chunky.

  • @philspencelayh5464
    @philspencelayh5464 Месяц назад

    For me it's the 129, better size and much nicer case

  • @WatchWiseUS
    @WatchWiseUS Месяц назад

    I really want both. Sadly my bank account says otherwise :(

  • @alexanderpavlenko6332
    @alexanderpavlenko6332 Месяц назад

    The only thing that stops me from buying these great watches is the San Martin logo on their dials, which to me is just not a good design.

  • @rickybest007
    @rickybest007 Месяц назад

    I find it funny, they speak wonders of the bracelets and clasps and never mention that they have sharp edges and are uncomfortable on the wrist. Or I was the one who was unlucky and I got the only one like that.

    • @ilikewatches
      @ilikewatches  Месяц назад

      We don’t mention it because it’s not what we feel, I’ve never thought that.

    • @rickybest007
      @rickybest007 Месяц назад

      @@ilikewatches Although I have already seen many people complain about the same, I understand perfectly that everything is excellent for you. greetings.

  • @Riketz_
    @Riketz_ Месяц назад

    The big question, will the SNO144 be better than both?

    • @gilbertoflores7397
      @gilbertoflores7397 Месяц назад

      It seems like a combination of the two, the case shape of the bigger one, but at 39mm, and hopefully a more detailed bracelet from the renderings, a new unique dial design, and it look like a miyota 9k movement, so it'll be thinner.

  • @timfit33
    @timfit33 Месяц назад

    If only the SN0130 had female end links 😢. Just too big for my little wrists.

  • @monkeychops1585
    @monkeychops1585 Месяц назад +1

    SN0129 ❤

  • @julianb1474
    @julianb1474 Месяц назад

    I like a lot of things about these, just not the bezels.

  • @scotthayes2652
    @scotthayes2652 Месяц назад

    129 for me chief

  • @kobusvanrensburg4092
    @kobusvanrensburg4092 Месяц назад

    0129 gets my vote despite the GMT fatigue. The other bezel is a bit funky looking (to me at least), and the male endlinks always make the watch wear longer. .

  • @ccooper8785
    @ccooper8785 Месяц назад +1

    Come on microbrand manufacturers, give us quartz options on all your watches.
    Good to see the option of different bracelets on some of your pieces but this should always be the case.

  • @FurkanCemTurfanda
    @FurkanCemTurfanda Месяц назад

    SN0130 > SN0129

  • @jacc88888
    @jacc88888 Месяц назад

    Poor man’s Grand Seiko. Amazing dials and finishing. Love the design of the SN0129 and especially the silver dial version you showed briefly at the end.

  • @StrangersIteDomum
    @StrangersIteDomum 8 дней назад

    the bezels on both are ugly.