This XL Chronograph I bought as a reduced flash range by almost 40 euros, thus the true price / performance ratio somewhat. The ausgelobte list price of 119 price hikes is probably only the additional purchasing motivation (man, what am I doing here for a bargain!) And will want to be paid by anyone for a low produced Fernostuhr safe.
In the metropolis New York is probably the only name lively home. And who or what is now "Mike Ellis"? - Somehow, that is also available on t and time mentally prepared Manufacturers Homepage not really clear, there is the plural of "the designer" the speech.
The obvious is: Once there are German at the Asian watches or Swiss and exclusive sounding brand name to boost the nameless products with emotions and desires, in this brand so probably had the Big Apple to serve as a water heater, to urbanity, creativity, diversity, colourfulness, shrillness and lifestyle in the watches (and also offered the jewelry) miteinzukochen.
Anyway: If you this clever but dubious marketing trappings dispassionate toward and stops you judging on the pure product down, is the paid (lightning offer reduced) price at first glance quite ordinary quartz chronograph quality over.
A little scared I initially then equal times when unpacking:
Although I had a large chronograph expected, but as a martial chunks but not again - but got me then quickly made friends with it - The fat thing has somehow what. For me it's just a Drittuhr, I want to wear every day, they definitely do not because of their massive weight and sheer size.
So please note: because ye buys a really thick Brummer - Smart, subtle and fragile is definitely different.
Here are my findings after two, not too intense, weeks use (ie do not have any long-term experience - How do I submit, if necessary, even after, if special abnormalities should occur):
+ Chronograph basic functions fit come: Stop / Go, tenth of a second, meanwhile, provision, zero adjustment
+ At least for normal vision can easily read all dials (totes)
+ Robust and massive impression, almost a little too much of the safe optics
+ Scratch resistant mineral crystal, but quality not defined
+ Good accuracy corresponds to the expected, precise quartz technology (not a single second difference after two weeks)
~ Design: Who's like - Matt Black, big, fat, heavy. Even something bulky under the motto "more is more." Will be worn with a certain sense of humor and self-irony (but certainly also adorns the stylish, cool New York hip-hop Gangsta Rappa addition to the casual Blechketterl, the bullet which proofed and secure nuclear bomb searches)
~ Because previous point but easy to use even for Grobmotoriker
~ Average build quality, but never feels cheap
~ Fluorescent luminous hands and -.ziffern, easy to read in the dark, but rather short persistence
- Package With Cheap acting Universalpappschachtel, therefore unsuitable as a gift, but at least is the mineral glass and the only clamped, not screwed stainless steel back with protective film
- No manual operation works only after trial and error principle, but is logical and just nor reasonable, provided general basic knowledge of Quartz Chronograph Operation
- Brown leatherette bracelet is letztklassig (leftovers from the manufacture of bags?), I immediately exchanged for a black leather strap (incidentally, 24 mm wide, not 20 mm as indicated - AMAZON please correct)
- Handle do not have a defined pressure point, act by imprecise and vague, but function smoothly and OK
- Chronograph: zero adjustment of the minute display is only possible by circling the seconds display, so time-consuming, but not often necessary
- According to Article Description 3 bar water resistant (on the clock itself however is no pressure indication!), So we would therefore suggest mirnix-dirnix mistake quickly to 30 meters waterproof - DIN 8310 is 3 bar but 0 meters (iW zero!) depth, not even showers is safe, only splashproof
- Thickest Minus: Fluted Bezel in diver's watch style suggests turning functionality, but is non-rotatable, but fixed. Thus, if only chimera functionless ornament and is beyond the side profile over, therefore seems somehow placed, drangepappt, its just a bissl an abortive Designgag
I had the water tightness and diving watch functionality do not care (hence the retrofit leather strap), but who intends a use in wet areas, or even expects a diving chronograph top, should definitely take the purchase distance.
But who is looking for a thick, black chronograph diver's watch design with no special image and modern quartz technology and can live with the limited water resistance, the rigid wannabe bezel and the heavy safe habit, goes by purchasing not fail - True Qualitäts.- and Prestige fetishists grab anyway deeper in the pocket and a wertigeren and exclusive clock.
Actually, the clock would certainly earn the fourth star (always in relation to the cheap flash offer price), but the fixed Fake diver who remains beyond unmentioned in the item description, and the fast misleading waterproof specification (only on closer examination of the hyperlink "Water resistant depth" later in the "Watches Details", the clear facts) opens, pulling the fourth star in my opinion but the same again.
I'd prefer earned three and a half stars awarded, but unfortunately that does not work, so unfortunately, here in doubt against the accused and only three stars, so how would we rate here in Vienna ". Is eh net bad, the klunkerte Wecka" (Translation for the West German readers: "actually is not bad, this flashy watch.")
I hope I could provide you with my little review and further useful information for the purchase decision. Whoever has will be happy - Who it is not, send it back without mercy, but not to NYC.
Best wishes to you!
Gert from Vienna
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Supplement for one month now sporadic use:
Nothing to report, everything works so far technically well and as expected.
Often I do not wear them, however, the weight hangs over the day saw how suspects pretty and in certain activities it is just too big, too bulky and Disabled. Everything so far as unremarkable, except for the external effect: By design, one feels, as described in my Erstrezension, with the rapper from the Bronx quite a bissl at eye level, but I did not have any particularly negative or ironic comments, due to the almost ans Paramilitary bordering appearance of the clock must be picked up by my friends and colleagues in this respect, in the way "Is the gun license-free?", etc.
Accuracy is far OK, I am now after about four weeks of my time to about six seconds ahead, but the clock was, as mentioned, is not borne much and therefore mechanically and lightly loaded.
One criticism perhaps the stopwatch function:
Hours.- and minute hands overlap the three dials (totalizers) the stopwatch (always clear anyway), thereby in certain hand positions the readability of stop time affect and laboriously through the overlying hour / minute hands. The date display is incidentally also briefly covered easily every hour at a quarter of the minute hand. But all this is of course a systemic problem of all analog chronograph in this configuration. I was, however, not considered when purchasing in advance, so I mention it here. So if you want or need, and in addition to the tenth of a second still needs the hundredth perform much Zeitnehmungen is certainly better equipped with a digital chronograph.
Best wishes to you!
Gert from Vienna
