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Watch Collection Overview

Welcome to the channel. Thank you to everybody for tuning in. As you guys can see in front of me, I have a mass of watches. There is nine watches here to be exact, which means only one thing that you are guys are going to get a huge nine watch unboxing on this video. Today, I've got a huge range here. Uh all different types and designs. And the good news is the majority of these watches are around the£100 mark with a couple of watches which are a bit more and some which are a bit less. And I've got quite a vast range of brands as well. We've got Watch Dives, Addis Dives, Millie Forotic, Cadison, Herudland, a couple of new ones. We've got Xiao Dao, we've got SH Watch and the brand new release from Spect and Son. So I know you guys are looking forward to this. Um yeah, so we're going to get all these moved away and I'll take you through each watch. What unboxing basically is is giving you my first impressions of the watch. Giving you the specs, colors, prices, etc. Uh, and just a couple of words around it. Now, because it's nine watches, uh, I know the video is going to be quite long, so I'm going to try and keep it as concise as possible, and then I'll revisit each watch and give you guys a full and thorough review and my thoughts on what these watches are. U, so yeah, let's take it away. Let's start off in no particular order. I'll unbox the first one and give you guys a look at it. So, the first one we'll be unboxing today and taking a quick look at is the Watchdog WD1016, the version 3. Now, this watch is up for sale around £114, and it is available in five different colors. But not only that, you also get two different types of crystal. So, for £114, you will get the mineral crystal one, which is the one I have here. For £133, you get the sapphire crystal version. And as I said, you've got five different colors. I went for this beautiful sunray brown, uh, brown and black. I really do love brand dials and this has the guilt sort of accents and framing around the hour markers. Now everyone is very familiar with watch dives. They are the best budget brand out there but the finishing is far from budget. Often their watches are way above the price point by two or three times. Now this one is a very classical case. Obviously it's a explorer style watch and it has specifications like 100 m of water resistance with a screw down crown and a screw down case back. You also get female end links and on this particular bracelet you also get screw in links which is a bit of a bonus. Uh you also got that five link fold over milled clasp and with the option of paying extra and getting the on the-fly adjustable clasp which I don't really think you need. Now the movement in this watch is the Seikko VH31 mech movement which is sort of watch dives thing. Now for ages I remember everyone's asking for the VH31. I think Watchd Doses took that advice seriously and pretty much I'd say 80% plus of their watches are VH31 quartz watches which is a nice touch. It's a pick up and go majority of the time obviously but all of them are dateless as well. Um and yeah what it means is you get a lighter thinner watch and they have homage some of the most classical designs and bought you those in the VH31 and as you guys know the price is very budget friendly. Now, in terms of dimensions, this is just a touch under 37 mm. So, it's around 36.7. The watch is also 11 mm thick with a log to log of 45.5 and a 20 mm log width. Just to give you guys a brief overview of the finishing, very soft brushing on the bracelet, polishing on the sides, and it looks incredibly well. I mean, I've looked at so many Watch Dives watches now, um, and they do tick all the boxes. I mean the the value they're giving you is unseen on any other brand. Um you know the finishing of this these watches are it's the same type of finishing that you got a couple of years ago on like the Rlands and the Octopus Krakens and the watches which were slightly higherend. So this watch does a very good job. So I'll put this one away and let's get on to the next watch. So next up we've got something very bright and very vibrant. Yeah. This is the Millie Forotic R087. This watch is currently selling at £91 and it comes in four different colors, these fruit inspired sort of pastel colors and this one is probably the most vibrant one. Uh you've got orange dial with the purple. And with with this color schemes, um I'd like to thank or you can thank San Martin potentially because San Martin are the ones that came out with these very bright and fruit inspired color combinations. And so other brands are starting to pick up on that. This is a slightly different case than we have seen previously on some of the other watches. very soft finishing, polished bezel. Um, yeah, that color it will take some getting used to. This is quite bright and you know, as I said, one of my sort of critiques with Millfortic is that they need to stop giving these standard straps and kind of choose more bespoke straps to their designs. Now, moving on to specifications, you've got 100 m of water resistance, screw down crown, and a screw down case back. The watch does have a sapphire crystal. And the movement here they've gone for an interesting choice is the one the same as the one we looked at just before. This is the Seikko VH31 hybrid quartz. Um what we've noticed is that the movements Seikko NH35 to be exact has gone very expensive. It's doubled in price almost if not just a little bit more which means now the watches we're going to be seeing for in that budget price category to around £130. They will not be using the Seikko N35 as you'll see with the nine watches I have here. uh they have gone backwards to use the miotas. Now with this the Seikko V31, I think this is where a lot of the watch brands are going to be looking at alternative movement. So expect to see a lot more seagulls now. Um and you won't really see that much NHS 35s unless it's above the 140 to 150 category. Um but yeah, coming back to this VH31 quartz u no date. Um which I think some people do prefer a date, but for the purpose of symmetry, you have a no date. And this dial has a very interesting sort of texture on there. This cross-hatch sort of chessboard pattern. Um, yeah, it's it's a mad color scheme to be honest. It's not easy on the eyes definitely. Uh, but very detailed dial. Now, in terms of dimensions, this one here is 38 mm with just a 10 mil thickness, which is obviously a benefit from from using the Seikko VH31. Log to log is 46 mm and the log width is 20 mm. So, we are going to come back to this tangerine bad boy once I've done the unboxing and I've had a chance to review this watch. So, let's move on to our next one. Next up, we've got a brand new Cadison. This is the Cadison CH244. Now, with Catson, it's been a bit of a hit and miss on some of the models or some of the later models. Um, this one did peique my interest. I saw it flash up on AliExpress because I do spend quite a lot of time on there u and I requested uh for them to send one out and they did. Um, and it looks very interesting. I'd say it's definitely uh a lot nicer. As I said, bit of hit and miss from Kson over the past few months or so. But this one does look really well made. Price, this is ridiculously cheap. Uh, this is on choice. It's £66. That's where I found a deal on there. Now, uh, I think generally the price is closer to the 90 give or take, you know, 1020. They do fluctuate across stores. Now, this comes in three different colors. You've got a black and then you've got a brown with sort of off brown accenting on the dial. Now, the one I've got here, as you can see, it's blue. Now, the reason I chose this because it comes with the guilt accents. I think it's a bit more of an interesting dial. Um, there's a few layers to this dial as well. So, I like the intricacy. I like the attention to detail here. And I have to say it looks pretty impressive. Let's move over to the specifications. So, 100 m of water resistance with a screw down crown and a screw down case back. Um, you have a mineral glass crystal. So, you can see brands are starting to downgrade some of the watches. Um, but 66, guys, that's ridiculous for an automatic movement. Uh, now, yeah, moving on to the movement. As I just previously said in the last watch, u, this uses the Miota 8215. So, like I said, you're not going to see any 35s for these price points that we were used to seeing. So, we did take them for granted a bit, but you're going to see a lot of Miotas coming in now. Now just a quick note on the Miotas. Uh all the new Miotas which should be I think in the last few years they do all hack now. Previously they didn't. So Miota did a secret upgrade without you know making a huge announcement. So the good thing is they do hack and hand wind like the Seiko N35 and reliability and overall accuracy is the same as the NS35. The only thing is that they have that indirect drive system which gives it a stutter. Now if you just take a closer look you can see that second hand just falling down. It's moving a lot quicker than you know a tick a second. um or sorry six ticks a second and that's due to the mechanism. Now this is it doesn't affect the time keeping at all. It's just a visual. Now on wrist you're barely going to see it. It's only when you kind of hold it um and look at it closely and hold it at a certain angle where it goes against gravity. You'll see that second hand kind of falling. Um and it does vary. Some of them I've seen them skip like 20 30 seconds in like I don't know 10 seconds. But um I don't know how the accuracy is still there when the second hand moving so much. But yeah, that's one one of the biggest flaws of this movement. Looks wise, it looks pretty good. You've got female end links. You've got a beads of rice bracelet, which doesn't it's not an actual fully articulating beads of rice, but it's it's still good enough. Uh split pins on the construction, a three micro adjustment uh fold over clasp with milled internals. Um just a quick look at the brushing and the finishing. It's a fully brushed case with just Is there a tiny amount of polishing? Not at all. So, fully brushed. Uh, but it does look good. I think it's quite surprising from Cadison. It looks totally different from what they usually do. So, that's very interesting. Dimensions wise, it's 40 mm across, a thickness of 12.7 mm, and a log to log of 47 mm with a 20 mm log width. So, definitely very interesting. Now, let's move on to the next one. Now, next I've got with me the Rudland F016. This is a pilot watch as you guys can see. Uh, and it's got a couple of interesting features. So, first off, the price on choice deals. You get this for £116, but I think out of sales it is around £130 approximately. Um, and it comes in two different colors. So, I don't know if you can see this properly. This is like a blue sunburst. It also comes in a black. But then you've got a further two variations which is one with text. So you'll have the hoodland text on the 12 or you can have one without. Now it's got a very cool design. Uh no doubt that turbine at the six is what is going to stand out. Uh and it's definitely something which has stood out to me and yeah it looks very cool the fact that it's spinning. O obviously it's a sub dial for the seconds. Now in terms of specifications with this pilot watch you get 50 m of water resistance a sapphire crystal with I think it's a very very slight dome. Uh it's not flat exactly but a very slight dome but I could be wrong but yeah you get a pushful crown and you also get an exhibition case back which shows you the movement and I think this is my first experience with this particular movement. This is the Seagull ST 3620. It's a hand winding mechanical movement and everything is like oversized. I've never seen a flywheel this big but it allows you to see all the workings and it looks pretty neat. And of course, you got the colored jewels and you've got the blueed screws as well. So, it looks quite nice. Something very different. Uh, and yeah, it's hand winding. So, you have to be careful when you hand wind it. When I say that, just don't overly do it. And in terms of dimensions, this is a bigger watch. Diameter is 42, a thickness of 12.5 mm, and an overall log to log of 51.5, but it does have quite a drop down on the logs. and then a log width of 22 millimeters which actually makes it look quite proportionate. A quick look at the finishing. The case does have that very smooth horizontal brushing. You got that polished edge along the sides and a very thin polished bezel which makes it look really nice. Uh and then you've got that aviator style leather strap which I absolutely love with a steel sort of hardware decoration. Very good. So we'll put this one away. Very interesting. It does look quite nice. something quite different. Let's move on to the next one. Now, next up, we've got a new brand. I've not seen this brand before. Uh again, browsing on AliExpress, I managed to catch a glimpse of it. Uh and it's something which I bought myself. Uh because yeah, the seller did not want to send one in for free. So, I still felt I had to have a look at it. The main reason I wanted this is because purely off that dial. It's a very sort of green, sage green, uh metallic pastel style. It's difficult to describe, but it's like a very pale green. Um, and it looks very interesting. As well as the watch, I felt it looked like quite a very cool sporty watch. I like the layout, that 6:00 date window, uh, the mix of polishing and brushing, and I thought it's quite interesting. And price-wise, this is only £14, uh, with a leather strap and only 109 with a bracelet. So, it makes sense to get it with the bracelet. Now, it comes in two different colors, a gray and this sort of sage green. I went obviously for the green because that's what kind of stood out to me and that's what attracted me to this watch. In terms of the specifications, you get a pushpull crown, a screw down case back. Um, it has a sapphire crystal. Of course, you can see the steel bracelet. Uh, it does have female end links. Uh, it does have a fold over mil clasp with five micro adjustments and an exhibition case which again shows you the Miota 8215 movement. Uh, as I said guys, just going to see loads of Miota 8215 movements. So, same thing as I said before, this one does hack as well because these are all the new movements. Um, but again, that stutter. Let's see if you can see the stutter again. Um, I don't think you can make out too well on this. But yeah, you can just see the second hand kind of jumping more than it should. But yeah, it's a very interesting design. Like I said, sometimes it's about just the smaller things. For me to like a watch, it has to be uh something impulsive. Um, but it has to be something which jumps out. It's either the case shape 9 out of 10 times or it's something about the dial and that is a very nice color. Um, in terms of dimensions, this is 41 mm across with a thickness of 11.5 mm, a log to log of 47 mm, and a 20 mm log width. Those polish center links are going to drive some people mad. But to have a quick glance at the case, uh it does feel really high quality in hand. You can just see that soft brushing, those polish highlights, the linear brushing on the logs. Some really great definition here, that polished bezel, really good slope. I like the way that sapphire sits just on top of that bezel as well. So, yeah, quite a cool looking watch. And as I said, something I haven't seen before. So, it's a new brand. And if you're like me and you spot this watch, you'll get a full review soon enough. So, next up, we've got a watch from Addis Dive. And yet, another very funky looking watch. Some really funky colors. And I think that's a new trend now. So, I think it's been what, a year or so where uh the watch guys from China are really branching out and making some, you know, very stunning colorways. Colorways that you probably wouldn't expect to put together, but it does give a really nice look. So, this is the Addis Dive AD2095. Uh the price is £60. Uh you know, cheap. Add his dive are quite budget friendly. And you have three colors in this. So you've got this one, which is called the beige, but it's a two-tone with that sort of vibrant blue. You also get green with white contrast on there. And then finally, a black one. And they all come on a NATO strap option only. Now, with the NATO strap, I'd say it's a good move. It's a good touch. Uh, as I said, some brands will just give you the offtheshelf standard sort of uh, leather straps or, you know, plain black uh, NATO straps, but here they've tried to kind of match the strap to the aesthetic. So, I am quite appreciative of that. In terms of specifications, this is 100 m of water resistance, but you don't get a screw down crown. You do have a screw down case back. Now, the crystal is hardlex, so no sapphire here. Uh, it's a high top sort of top hat hardlex crystal. And the watch uses the Seikko VK64 Mecca quartz chronograph movement which we are all familiar with. U so yeah just a nice looking chronograph panda style by compacts obviously uh just some nice fun colors should we say. Um dimensions this is 38 mm across thickness of 12.5 mm with a 46 mm log to log and a 20 mm log width. So yeah quite a fun looking watch. Just a quick glimpse at the case. So, you get a polished bezel and you get the brush horizontal sides with a bit of detailing on those pushers. Interesting. And additive with the branding on the crown and the case back. So, quite a fun and cool looking watch. So, next up, we've got SH Watch. Now, if you guys know about them, um I've done a few videos on some of their watches. Uh they absolutely smashed it with the first model I ever looked at and you can check that out as well. It's like a PRX style homage mixed with some Christopher Ward. And similar thing here, they have homaged somewhat of a Christopher Ward watch, but I believe they've used the Murf case, right? The case that they used on the Murf watch. Uh, and they've again done something sort of together and just made a hybrid sort of homage here. £159, slightly more than what we already seen. It only comes in this one color, which is a yellowy beige color uh cream. Yeah, it's a it's a strange color. You don't really see this on a lot of watches. Uh you do have that dune texture on the dial and that polish logo on the top. Uh but yes watch do have incredible build quality. Uh and they generally do give you a lot of good specifications which we'll see now. 100 m of water resistance, screw down crown uh and a screw down exhibition case back. The watch does use a sapphire crystal on the top and which is slightly domed, quite a low domed, but it also has a sapphire crystal on the case back which shows you that PT5000 movement or the PT50004. Now, I tried to look at what the PT50004 was. I didn't find much information. I think it's something either HK Technology have made a dateless version or it's something which has been modified by some of the watch makers out there. Um, sorry. It's not a screw down crown. It's a pushpull crown. But I can't get a ghost position. And when I do pull the crown out, it goes straight to hacking. So, I think it probably is a dateless version of the PT or at least modified. Uh, and the PT5000, if you don't know, it's a clone of the ETA 2824. Um, and the majority of the experiences people have with them are positive, highbe, very precise, accurate, and reliable. They do obviously share the same problems as the ETA 2824. In terms of dimensions, it's 38 mm across with a thickness of 12 mm, a log to log of 44 mil. Very compact, but it doesn't have totally female end links, which means it comes up to about 47.5, which again isn't too bad if you look at the very compact logto. And then you get a 20 mm log width. So, a quick look at the sort of finishing that we're going to get. yet soft brushing along the sides. A fully brushed case with that polished slim bezel. Now, as I said, it's like the Murphage that they did. So, which means that bracelet does have along the center links, it got it's got a very nice and subtle detail, which is those polished sort of edges on either side of that brushed bracelet. Uh it's quite difficult to spot, but it does give it uh quite a nice look. Um not much taper. You've got a plain sterile fold over milled clasp with three micro adjustments. So, £160 for this from SH Watch. So, next up, we've got Xiao Dao or Zhu DAW. You know, I'm still not 100% sure I'm getting it right. Uh, yeah. So, this is the JDX02T. Well, it is. Well, it either is or it isn't. I'll explain in a bit. So, let me just take the watch out. You open the box and then you've got a nice little cutout on the foam which gives you a quick look at what watch we have here. Uh they've also included a purple screwdriver which is kind of stuck in this. So I'm not going to fight to get that out but yeah uh little tool there for removing links etc. So let's take a closer look at this. So we have looked at uh Juda's 39 mm pelagos. I did a whole I think three four watch comparison when um was it a couple of years ago now when uh Sea Stern and everybody else sort of made one. This is £276. However, I'm going to kind of pause you there because the only one I can find on AliExpress and their website is a full black one with a black dial. I believe they've sent this to me and it may be just a brand new release, meaning because the sales will be in a couple of weeks, I think this may pop up on their website, you know, in in a week or so or in a few days. But as it stands, uh this is not on their website. So, um I think it's probably best for me to show you and you can keep an eye on it perhaps. Um so, with this watch, £276. So, I put it as two colors. One's all black with the black dial and one is this gorgeous sunray purple dial which black and purple uh and especially being this sort of sunburst dial. Uh it looks pretty cool. Now being the Juda uh they do have some high quality dials and you can see here that silver printing is one thing which I really love, but you've got these loom blocks as well which means it's going to have monster loom. Now, further specifications include 200 m of water resistance, screw down crown, screw down case back. You've got a sapphire crystal uh and you also get that brushed sort of that sunray sunburst ceramic bezel, which is pretty cool to look at. And it's only 60 click though, so I don't know how you guys feel about that 60 click bezel. I know titanium is a bit trickier than others to get a very smooth rotating bezel, but I think with the 60 click, it does line up. So maybe that's why they've gone for the option. We also got this fully black case. Now, uh I can't confirm whether it's DLC coated or PVD. Um I can't confirm that. I'll try and find out if I can from the guys at Jo. And the movement in this is that PT5000. Now, you'll notice there's no date. So, let's see if it does have a go position. So, it does have a go position. So, this is the PT5000 or and not the PT50004. Um yeah, definitely two distinct clicks. So, another PT5000 movement watch. Now, they do have this in a couple of different options. So, you've got the option of an ETA 2824 and the S SW200 and obviously the prices to uh and obviously increased prices to reflect those movements. But, you know, I don't think you need to go there unless it's ridiculous value for money, then I'd say go W200. Um, in terms of dimensions, this is 39 mm across with a thickness of 11 1/2 and a log to log of 46 1/2 with a log width of 20 mm. So, it does look pretty cool in black and purple. Now, let's move on to our final watch that we're going to unbox today. So, we have Spect and I said this is their brand new release. And if you do follow AliExpress, you keep an eye on it. You probably know which one I'm talking about. Now, Spect and Son as a brand, I'd say was it a year ago where I looked at quite a few watches from them and I had mixed feelings about them as a brand. I wasn't fully impressed. Um, bear in mind they are budget brand. So, obviously I did kind of gear my expectations to that. But my biggest problem was they they homaged a lot of high-end brands, but I felt the finishing was so far away. Uh, it looked quite scruffy on a fair few watches. So, and what they also do, they use renderings to sell their watches and you don't really get any pics of real watches. So, it's a bit of a concern. I think a couple of videos ago, somebody commented saying that they want me to look at this watch as well, which is great because I already bought it and it had it coming in. Now, they took a a while to ship this out. Uh, and I did inquire that why are you guys taking so long? Now, the reason is, and this might annoy some people, so if you go on the website, you'll see as soon as it got released, so many people bought them. I think there was around 100 sold when I bought this one. Now, the problem is they've got a V1 and a V2. Now, what they said is that the V1 bracelet, it wasn't as good as they hoped. So, they kept my order on hold. I fitted it with the V2 bracelet and then shipped it. So, it depends when yours was shipped. I don't know the difference between the V1. So, when I do the full review on this, maybe you guys can confirm if you've got a V1 to see tell me what the difference is. But having taken it out of the box, yeah, I I'll give you my first impressions just after we looked at the other, you know, important bits. Um, yeah, it's it's very interesting, right? It's actually looking quite good and it's a pleasant surprise. So yeah, the Spectum price it's £110 and it comes with five different colors plus a rose gold PVD version with a white dial and some gold sort of accenting um details around the hour markers and hands. Um so you do have a few colors u and obviously we know what it's homagging. It's homagging I think the new is it Landmaster series from uh those guys up there. So yeah definitely it's going to be something quite popular. uh that watch was only released. So it's only right that we start seeing uh the homages to that. Now at the same time Pagani design have also released one and I'm aware and I've actually at the time of this unboxing um when I saw Pagani designs I ordered that as well. So potentially there's a comparison coming in the near future. Um but the difference there is the Pagani design is 40 mm as so are all most of the other homages that will be coming. Now, Spect and Son have done a 37 mm which I think is going to capture uh a different set of customers because you know with these style of cases I I can say it now if they run 40 mm similar to the PRX they don't fit on smaller wrist that well. Um so anything which is less than 6 and 12 in or maybe less than seven so maybe 6 and 3/4 because the case is too straight and it just doesn't fit right. So I think coming in at 37 mm is a great shout. This actually comes in less than 37. This is close to 36 mm across. And you've got an 11 mm thickness and you have a log to log of 45, but as you can see, it's an integrated bracelet and you get uh those end links that stick out. So, which increases it to only 47 12, which means smaller wrist overall 47 1/2 mm. It's it's going to wear really well. So, if you're interested in this design and you want the best fitting one and your wrist is, let's say, under 7 in, then yeah, Spect are the ones because they're the only ones that do this design. Now, colors, they've got some really nice colors. Uh, the dial detail looks pretty good. And this is where I'm a bit quite impressed with these guys is the fact that the renderings do this watch justice. I can't see any sort of scruffiness. Um, I don't think the watch looks a mess. I think it looks pretty wellm made and you can even see these polished bevels along the sides. Just look at the brushing. Pretty consistent. And the reason I'm saying um the reason I'm giving you a bit more on this watch and giving you a bit more of my thoughts uh is because I know there's a lot of people that aren't going to be able to wait. I know there's a lot of people that probably don't want to wait and as soon as you see this, you know, you're basically waiting for me to give you the go-ahad. Uh just hang on a second. Yeah, then I will. So, specs wise, 50 m water resistance. You have a screw down crown and a screw down case back. You've also got a sapphire crystal and you've got that date mag which I don't think it's two and a half because two and a half usually looks a bit clearer or it could be. Uh but yes, pretty sweet. But you do have a date frame there. So, I don't know how you feel. Uh it's not too difficult to remove that. Uh if you are a bit um okay with DIY and modding, pretty easy to take that off. But the movement in this being an automatic, take a guess. It's the Miota 8215. As I said, guys, you know, we're not going to see the NS-385 as much in these sort of lower priced watches. So 8215, but you know, to put into perspective reliability and accuracy, you won't see a difference with N35. It's just that stutter, which should we see if you can see it? If we hold it down, is it skipping? This one doesn't seem to be doing it as much. So anyway, yeah. So I would say honestly, honest opinion, you know, you guys, you guys know I don't gas and I don't lie. Uh, and I'm not a salesman really. I like to call it as I see it. I'd say this is made really well. I'm quite surprised from respect and so on because I had written them off when I looked at all the watches. I wasn't really interested, but this definitely shows quite a lot of promise. You get a butterfly clasp and pretty decent. And the best thing is I like the dimensions on this one more than anything else. But let's see hopefully the Pan can get here in a couple of days and I'll follow up with a full review on this. So that is it. I've done nine unboxings and I think I've done it in a good amount of time. Just drop it in the comment section, guys, which watch that you'd like me to look at first. So whichever watch gets the most comments, uh, then I'll review that first because nine is quite a lot to go through. So yeah, all watches are linked below in the description. Some of them if you're confident enough and you've got enough sort of experience at AliExpress, go ahead. You can buy them whenever you like. There is a sale coming up, I think, in under two weeks. So save them in your car, etc. Um, or if you just want to stick around and wait until you see my full reviews on this, make sure you hit the subscribe button and then hopefully I'll try and get them done as quick as I can and give you guys a thorough review on all the watches we looked at today. So that's it from me today, guys. Thank you all for watching and I'll see you on the next video.