The San Marino offers the most: A massive housing, which is good for 2,000 m with other manufacturers and "throttled" at DeTomaso at 1,200 meters is, Helium valve, sapphire crystal, a completely painted with luminous substance dial and a massive bracelet seeks its equal, with screw pins and wetsuit extension as Rolex.
Good! Helium valve, luminous dial and 1,000 m WR there already for 149 Euro at Dive Master, so the San Marino with her Miyota 8215 503 Euro at Amazon itself is struggling with currently, to say nothing of the targeted 859 euro, dating back to the fairy tale world, because There are several professional divers watches in the competition.
In the San Remo is DeTomaso modest: 300m WR (which for all circumstances sufficient) and a "normal", but good bracelet the upper middle class and above all genuinely competitive price. The clock is available in a dozen different versions, with automatic, quartz and even solar.
Finally, this 200 m WR Matera, the 250 euros, sometimes less, offered in four versions with blue, red, yellow and green pointer. That's a reasonable price, because it meets the direct competition of Luminox, which dominates this market segment.
With 200m WR, Miyota 8215, sapphire crystal, metal bracelet and H3 or tritium illumination which Matera is bewappnet right for competition, because in the price range Luminox has to offer neither sapphire crystal nor metal bracelet. These facilities offered at Luminox dive individually for the first time clearly above 300 euros, and together about 380, ie 120-130 euros more than in Matera. However Liminox scores with "Swiss Made" while DeTomaso as can produce where the sun rises much earlier.
In the lower price segment also Invicta tries with an even greater clock with the same design, but she has no light tubes but conventional Lumibrite, light becomes dim and therefore does not play in the same league.
The special thing about these Matera H3 fluorescent tubes, which are glued on the hands and 12x on the outer edge of the dial. They constantly lit with a half-life of approx. 13 years, meaning that the clock constantly weaker lights but these tubes are about 15 years well visible.
What I also like is that the Schwärzug the bracelet links is complete and they are also massively while in San Remo, the members of folded stainless steel sheet and the plating for example is applied only to the visible surfaces.
About the Matera hear anything negative, except when their owners damage the watch mecanisch by blows. I myself currently have two of them in green and blue, and can not contribute much to because I do not have in operation, even if I wanted: I still rd 2 San Marino, San Remo 3, 2 Luminox. 20 of the best DeTomaso and over a hundred other watches have, I could not hold in transition, even whom I wanted.
I can say though is that if customers here on Amazon of "solid" or talk at all "precious" metal box as a packaging that can be based unpack only on the state of euphoria, because viewed objectively, is a square, painted tin how that emerge gelegentlih at discounters for 50 cents or a little more than coffee or sugar bowls for poor students households, only half as large.
Whichever clock, all doses of DeTomaso, but also the cheap foam punched in it, and even the operating instructions are absolutely identical, so that small ladies watches swim in there and beat great diving watches bumps in the sheet. This of course is not so important, but if you want to give the clock, do not raise these "Keck doses" the impression of a valuable content. I want to make clear that no wrong impression.
I'll write here any detailed review of the graduation, but the questions that are occasionally gfestellt answer.
The bezel is movable, rotating counterclockwise with clicks 120/360 degrees. The resistance is 7.5 on a scale of 1 (very loosely) to 10 (rotatable only with great effort with dry fingers). It is clean mounted without play, springs not back when turning. The numbers (and strokes) are not impressed but engraved.
The screw-down crown has a good grip. The thread for the screw is nice and evenly felt, about 4 turns.
Position 1 for the date is fairly straightforward, not spongy, date jumps cleanly and höhrbar, beautiful, direct feel.
Position 2 is a little grip and gives the impression of a direct connection with the movement. No game, nothing springs back, clean and direct translation. My grades this on a scale of 1-10:
- Position 1: 8
- Position 2: 9
Luminosity in the dark: 8.5 / 10 degrees. By comparison, Seiko or Citizen diver's watches with large Lumibrite-Pünkten:. 7
Readability of the pointer in daylight: 9
Legibility of the date in daylight: 2. The window is too small, it lacks a magnifying glass with a magnification factor of 2.5.
Readability of seconds: Dark red pointer stands out in color from the difficult black dial, good light needed Note 5/10. Second hand moves quite fluid with 5 steps / second.
Open bracelet: rope clip through indentation into sheet with a fingernail easily accessible, open neither too heavy nor too light, grade 9/10. 2. opening stage by side sprung buttons, perfect 10/10.
Close the bracelet: folding buckle snaps easily and safely, 10/10. Safety catch closes slightly heavier but surely, 8/10. Both with good acoustic and mechanical feedback.
With regard to the accuracy, each clock is different, even depending on the location, temperature, spring tension, etc. A deviation of 10-15 sec. / Day is acceptable.
Weight with strap for 17.5 cm circumference joint 186 gr.
Conclusion:
I did not know why I should refuse the Matura 5 stars. The packaging does not count and the little things like the legibility of the date is not relevant in my eyes. But to be fair, I stripped off together 1 star for everything.
I think that would be the essence.
Price-performance ratio:
Sure, compared to an equal-armed Luminox Matura is favorable, but not Swiss made.
For my feeling the Luninox is anyway somewhat overvalued.
Up to 200 euros I was evaluate the value for money with 5 stars, 225 with 4, at 250 by 3.
