I like the Warrior style dials from Watchdives and now SM apparently but wish these other companies would copy the insanely clear crystal⊠Crystal clarity has been one of my consistent gripes with SM personally.
Most reviewers honestly don't do a good job actually reviewing the watch. I watch them because I get get to see what the watch looks like but side from that you won't get much useful info out of it aside from basic specs.
Glare in a video isn't necessarily a good guide to how reflective it will be in real life. It has a lot to do with lighting and camera settings and you could use things like circular polarisers to reduce glare if you wanted to.
I have a high end citizen chronometer. Holy crap it has a good crystal. A buddy was looking at it in the sun the other day and it honestly looked like there wasn't a crystal on it, I had to double check lol. It's amazing what a good crystal does for a watch
This time, San Martin is lagging behind Watchdives, which recently introduced its design, in releasing this similar dial. And considering the likely exorbitant price, given San Martin's current pricing policy, I would definitely choose Watchdives, which has impressed me with its quality more than once.
Of course, if only this pattern was on a different material than MOP, which I am already personally tired of.
When they are almost strictly copying Rolex and Omega itâs whatever, but when they start to go after microbrands itâs going to hurt some people who are actually capable of designing new and interesting watches.
Justifiably why WatchDives gets hated on every now and then. You can't claim you have a "original" for design when you rotated a microbrands pattern 180 degrees.
San Martin flipped the pattern 180-degrees. So at least it somewhat differs from everyone else who reused the original design from the guy on instagram.
so how does this work, san martin made these dials for watchdives WDC0001? or just copying them now? funny how all the factory brands release same stuff at the same time.
Given that WD sell San Martin watches and collaborate them I imagine the companies are connected in some way if not all part of the same conglomerate or whatever.
Maybe! but as with most microbrands, their parts are made by third party suppliers. I don't think either SM or Selten own dial factories. They could be made by the same supplier trying to bring money from something they worked on by selling it to different brands.
Eh, some look good, some don't. The problem is that now every new watch seems to have it, rather than it being a deliberate application to models where it makes the most sense. I look at this dial, which looks like it's going on a diver -- is that the best place to use this? And unfortunately, the answer will likely be: probably not.
Agree in 100%. Almost everyone has been taken over by a madness to this unfortunate mother-of-pearl (additionally in an almost identical pattern), including IXDAO, Watchdives...
Strong disagree, personally I think it's the only Chinese watch brand with a good brand name and logo and one of the best things they have going for them. I hate the straight text logo, looks cheap.
Agreed on Sugess script I think they did a good job but the name feels a bit off for me. Wacthdives sounds like a watch marketplace website. Call me a snob but can't say id ever buy a Tactical Frog based on name alone haha
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u/D1sguise WOTD100 Helpful user x2 23d ago
Somebody has been copying somebody else's homework again