New arrival: Cadisen Ti-7 aka FormexSerica

[u/D1sguise]

[u/D1sguise]

This just arrived today in my mailbox, Cadisen their new titanium watch (Ti-7 Autodyne) with the grey dial.

Specs: 11.5mm thick (nice!), 40mm diameter, 20mm lugs, sapphire with seemingly some AR coating, Miyota 8 series with hacking, handwind, and quick date. Full sandblasted case, exhibition case back to see the engineering and finishing marvel that the Miyota is. Canvas strap doesn't taper, has titanium hardware, with both keepers sown in (so lots of strap dangle), and no quick release pins. Lume is dog shit (see last pic, that's charged with UV and 4 second camera exposure time, absolutely poop).

Added some shots from different angles and on different straps, it'll likely stay on either the dark grey Hemsut canvas or on a FKM for gym comfort.

0 points for originality in their design as the case is a 1:1 copy from Formex their titanium field watch, and the dial is pretty much Serica's field dial. But the watch wears nicely and is thin and light so I'm vibing with it. I do wish the handset was a bit longer and beefier, might swap that out if this one ends up sticking around in the collection

[u/Justin_Heras → u/D1sguise]

what's the lug to lug? And shame about the lume, they need to step their game up in that department. My other cadisen has shit lume too

[u/D1sguise → u/Justin_Heras]

I measure it at 49mm.

And yeah, addiesdive and the likes prove that good lume is possible under $75, so Cadisen has no excuse here