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Q & A Video And Watch Review: Maen Skymaster Chronograph With Great Features!
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- In this video I answer your questions regarding watches, watch services but also about style, music and personal development.
A big extra is the in depth review of the new Maen Skymaster Chronograph, 38 mm, with ETA 2894-2 automatic movement and a vintage style design.
00:00 Start
00:31 Questions and Answers 1
06:38 Review Maen Skymaster
15:42 Questions and Answers 2
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I bought the Skymaster and due to pandemic it took a year to receive it. The watch is extremely accurate. Two weeks on the wrist and the time is perfect. It is also beautiful and well made. I would recommend it.
I receive the panda dial on April 20. Congrats on your purchase. Is the dial color close to white, or how would you describe the dial color? Thanks.
TIm, there are many who's first language is English, who don't have your command of the language. Kudos!.👍
Yes, he's from Brisbane, Australia 😉
Tim’s English is much better than my German
Superb vid Tim. I’ve followed you for years now. One of the best YT Channels! Thanks!
Thank you very much for your support! It means a lot.
De nada :-)
Tim, definitely the coolest watch guy on RUclips 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for answering my question, I'm sure considering you have turned your hand to so many things, designing a watch would be easily within your talents. I would certainly be interested in seeing a Tim designed watch, especially with a GMT function.
Thank you for answering my question Tim! 😊 I’m quite surprised by your answer over Boardwalk Empire. I am delighted to hear about Mad Men’s accuracy within the costumes. And thank you for the greeting, I appreciate it. I am Filipino, but I am born and raised in the United States.
I always enjoy your content, I can’t wait for the upcoming reviews and interesting insights on your personal design projects and watch research in the upcoming future.
Thanks Tim for another great installment! Always looking forward to your next video. 👀
A couple of people praised you on your English.
I spent 10 years teaching business English for companies in Sweden, and I have to say your vocabulary and delivery are more than a credit to you.
If this is the result of 'school English' plus some later 'lessons' you have an amazing aptitude.
Any more lessons and you'll be reading the news on the BBC.
Thank you, that’s very encouraging!
Hahaha I liked the diplomatic answers to some of the questions....
Tim- thx for your answer. Good for us that you‘ve decided that way
CBTim, I very much respect the way you are constantly pushing yourself to learn complex tasks. I was impressed with the work you did in order to start your channel.
I doff my hat sir.
Re. the Maen, great looking piece. It looks like an Omega '57 Seamaster and a Heuer Carrera had a baby!
I think that's a fair price for a well made auto chronograph with that mov't.
Another enjoyable upload Tim.
Do you mind if I keep asking you how the watch design is going?
...I'd like to keep you on task! 😊
Great video. I would always rather buy the unserviced watch if it is 250 Euros cheaper (unless the service is from an authorised service center from the brand), because then you can choose the watchmaker that services the watch yourself (I personally prefer a unserviced watch that needs a service to a watch that has been poorly serviced), or you can stretch the service interval a bit if the watch runs fine. Viele Grüße aus dem Erzgebirge nach Hamburg.:)
Hi Tim. I am inspired by how you have continued to find ways to challenge yourself.
A while ago I looked at replacing an ETA movement which was possible but expensive. I investigated Sellita instead as they are supposedly a clone and cheaper. I'm sure this is the main reason ETA movements are rare in micro brand watches. Keep up the great work!
Your English is good, Tim...drive on👍
Tim you’re so cool! Led me to fall in love with vintage watches haven’t looked back since! Du bist toll !!!!
Thanks for the diplomatic answer to my question 😉
Interesting episode, Love the Maen- beautiful.
Cheers mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Glad to hear you like GMT and Asymmetry ;)
An excellent video Tim. That's a very stylish watch- an excellent argument for plexi over sapphire. You were right to pair it with a leather strap, it picks up the dial. One thing though - I doubt the bezel is intended to track a second timezone. 12 hour bezels are often added to stopwatches so that elapsed time can be tracked past 30 or 60 minutes - align the pip with the hour hand at the start of timing and read elapsed hours off the bezel.
I have to ask, is there a recording somewhere of you duetting with a violinist? "I got rhythm" perhaps?
I always call this kind of chronograph watches "Mickey Mouse" watches. As the 3 black dials always reminds me of the Disney logo.
Plus any mechanical chrono will blush in shame against any 10$ digi-quartz ... in milliseconds! 😜
Go with an Invicta Mickey Mouse Lupah.
Nice good looking watch. However it drives right to Speedmaster and Hamilton Chronograph panda dial. I don’t say it’s a homage but... my opinion only. Cheers Tim
Talking of watch designing if I were designing this one I would only marry that bracelet and case to that dial if I wanted it to closely resemble a Speedmaster. I think watch designers should have a little more pride in their craft.
Die MEAN Sky ist wirklich eine schöne Uhr und ich hätte sie auch fast sofort bestellt, ABER.... als ich das riesige " Swiss" auf dem Stunden Totalisator sah, musste ich mich erst mal setzen!
Wie kann man ein perfekt gestaltetes Ziffernblatt so verunstalten? Das geht gar nicht!!! Schade eigentlich!! Wäre perfekt für meine Sammlung gewesen!!!
Frank S.
Nice watch. Good review. Good vid. Keep at it!
I hope we can get your comments on Maen's newly announced GMT watch when it releases!
They offered me the watch for a review and of course I agreed. So fingers crossed that it arrives soon.
Nice Video Tim! Always fun to watch, Greeting from HH-Eimsbüttel
Beste Grüße zurück. Ich wohne auch in Eimsbüttel!
@@CasebackWatches Ja die Welt ist klein. wenn ich Dich auf der Straße sehe spreche ich Dich an. Ist aber in den letzten Monaten nicht passiert.. vielleicht ist Eimsbüttel doch nicht so klein.
- durch Corona bin ich auf Uhren gekommen, und ich denke das bleibt. Grüße
@@CasebackWatches Ich denke Du bist mit Deinen Videos ein guter Botschafter im Ausland, und das ist klasse und hat eine Qualität, die sonst nirgendwo gewürdigt wird.
@@frederick4929 Danke, das freut mich. Das ist tatsächlich auch ein Punkt, der mir persönlich wichtig ist.
Excellent video as always! Btw, my fiancé loves your style and wants to model my wedding vest after yours lol
I feel honored! 😀
So, no follow up to "Djangoholics" in the near future. It's a pity, but I fully understand your feelings about compromising in a band. Oh well, as long as there is the odd outro with Tim & Tim, I'll be satisfied.
my favourite watch brand is JLC off course... 🤭😳😅
Great video! Love the channel. Here's a thought: A very successful asymetrical design, say a Glashütte Original Lunar Panomatic will be successful when worn on the left wrist, but not so much on the right. Your take on this?
Tim, I have a great deal of respect for you. You went out of your way to familiarize yourself with a language you didn't know just to bring us your amazing content. Thank you!
Hello from Montana, USA, Tim.
Wow, how did they manage to seperate the dials like that? How come Zenith can't manage it? #sillier than a royal oak
Do not buy the Skymaster. Don't get me wrong, it's a good looking watch, but it seems like they only sell it as a pre-order item, and according to their terms and conditions they don't refund pre-orders. Talking from experience, as they took 14 months to deliver my purchase and only after several sour emails and arguments. So, if your watch comes defective and you want your money back, they won't refund you. You will be forced to keep the watch and experience months of delays with their repair service. Is like if they know that the movements or parts will fail at some point, but still want to sell it anyway.
Also, the rotor that comes in the actual production model is not the same as in the model shown in the video, with I assume is a prototype. The actual rotor is just plain, not custom, and with a simple black engraving that reads Maen in a font that looks like out of a word document. Not something you would expect in a watch that costs almost 1K.
As the host mentions in the video, the lugs are really sharp. One needs to be careful with those, as they can even harm your skin or scratch you stuff.
If you could would you get a brown Sinn 556 or a cosc mido date only ocean star ?
What do you think of a flyback chrono Schwartz Etiene on ebay for 990 dollars? Is that a good brand. It's a flyback auto chrono.
Yess, my favorite watch channel, after mine haha. do you have Patreon? If I still pay for Netflix why not support something better :)
Thank you very much. I appreciate the question, but I don't use Patreon.
@@CasebackWatches Ok, PayPal? I believe that also has a recurrence.
The Maen Skymaster really seems awesome, and the lugs even remind me a little bit of a Universal Geneve Polerouter. I especially like the size, but, in my opinion the movement is quite problematic. The ETA 2894-2 is a 2892(which is nice) with a chrono module made by ETA. The issue is, the module is supposedly unserviceable (or at the very least not made to be serviced - my watchmaker says he can service it, but it's a pain and if anything breaks he had to replace the whole module), and the way Swatch services them is by servicing the base movement and using a new module. It might not seem like a big deal, but I think it's very much against the whole mechanical watch ethos.
I confirm the part on being unserviceable, that is what my watchmaker says too. That is why I never bought a Tudor Montecarlo.
@@IDKline the Swatch brands use them quite a lot tho
I have, and use quite frequently, an Omega Speedmaster Reduced since 2001. It’s been serviced two times and still going strongly. The movement being unserviceable is a false myth, there’s even a video on RUclips of a watchmaker doing it without problems. And try finding a slimmer automatic chronograph with an integrated calibre.
@@giusepperocchi2979 That one has a different module, by Dubois-Depraz, not by ETA. That one is easily serviceabke
A warning at anyone looking at the Maen Skymaster, preordering with them was the worst customer experience of my life, no watch for 11 months and they held onto my money despite me cancelling my preorder 8 months before because they couldn't refund me until the watch was ready. You'll see a lot of similar comments online. Stay away from this brand.
Same, i literally spent 18 months without my money/watch. I pre ordered on September 2019 and it arrived until November 2020. The watch failed, upon literally the third time of engaging the chrono, the seconds hand got bent when it snapped back to 12:00. Lesson learned, I’m never buying micro nor at pre order again.
I also had a very bitter experience with them, it took 14 months to receive the watch, and despite several requests for a refund, they refused to do so with the excuse they can't refund pre-orders. At some point they say that model brought them too many problems with customers so they wouldn't do it again, and yet they just offered a new batch of Skymaster for pre-order! Now it seems to me that they are not completely honest and use sneaky ways to sell a (possibly flawed) product without offering the basic right to return an item if you are not satisfied with it. The watch itself works ok, without problems or bending hand, but after that experience I don't even wear it, I still have it in the box. I will probably just sell it soon.
I had ordered this piece and it had very poor quality control. Great looking piece but had too many issues to keep.
I feel so stupid i lost my bill i got after servicing my 50s Stowa... Watchmaker sead they inscribed the date in side of the caseback but i still dont feel it convincive. I hope i wont need to sell it in future
I would love to have it for 800 dollars, 700 euros once it goes on sale or is sold used.
How much is this watch?
... and on the seventh day, Django wrote the bible. 🎸
Is that a MIA Strat?
That's made in the US, late 90s.
@@CasebackWatches Nice!
@@IDKline Made in America, MIM is Made in Mexico and MIJ is made in Japan.
In defense of Boardwalk Empire, we Americans are inundated with British costume dramas. They're great but they induce the envy to be a society with a deeper history. BWE gave us a bit of that.
No need to defense! 😀 Ive watched the entire thing twice!
But I know what you mean. Downton A...
C'mon, man... plexiglass?! I think I'll skip it.
Hrm, I might be wrong (which is likely) but it was my understanding that ETA was limited movements to the large companies, not the small ones, with the threshold based on the number of units they ship out per year.