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I found this brief introduction to British and Foreign Microbrand Watches refreshing. It’s fascinating how much talent there is out there.These guys deserve our support.
I was there with a friend. It was a very eye opening event. I can definitely say micro brands offer pound for pound more value than any established watchmakers
Microbrands are like the craft beers of the watch world. They're niche and serve a specific market but as craft beers became more mainstream, so will indy brands.
I just bought a echo/ neutra "Cristallo" diver last week. With deep blue and Black dial. Wonderful watch, with beefy bracelet and clasp( with slide adjust regulation), Cant take my eyes off it, crisp design, very high quality for the price. Love the power reserve indicator. Well done, echo / neutra. As a designer myself, I just can say nothing but "Bravissimi!"!!! ☺
Thanks for this video. these watch designs are so much cooler than what i see in shops from famous brands right now. Would love a few of the Studio Underdog watches.
I picked up a Desert Sky today & I'm looking forward to the new watch Studio Underd0g are launching in 4 days. The 1st album is going to be a difficult one to follow but I think that Richard is a really smart young man & I wish him every success.
@@WeaCkArK No, I bought it from the only authorised dealer that Studio Underd0g have in the UK. James Porter & Son, jewellers in Glasgow. They have limited stock still available but it's only for in store pick up, you'd have to travel to Glasgow to get it.
Those zero west watches are really nice, the watch editions are only sold in very limited numbers. Thay make very nice hand made custom leather straps to go with them.
Brilliant video WG. Some really spectacular looking products, however the recurring theme of such small dials really excludes us larger wrist enthusiasts. A 43mm case just looks disproportionately small on wrists over 7 1/2 in my experience and adversely affects the aesthetic of the designs themselves. A couple of the 41mm designs were really appealing to me, only to be excluded due to the size. All that aside, it’s a great era for thin wrists and smaller people so congratulations to that lot! Be interested in any coverage of micro band builds for ladies too, that demographic seems confined to the known brands with their very limited design options Thanks for the video, I’d love to attend one of these expo’s one day soon! ✌️
@@garmin1488 in my experience, 46mm is ideal for 8” wrists, depending on the lugs to lug but also based on how much gap(if any) between case and spring bars. A gapped space between the case and spring bar mount ruins it for me, to my eyes it wobbles the aesthetic balance too noticeably. I’d rather have the tighter spring bar to case gap than have a strap monster where that gap serves that desire. I prefer bracelets on a diver but the one watch I see that does rubber and bracelet really well is the Oris Pro Diver, which is a beast but I really am drawn to that watch. The Longines divers are another line done so very well it’s hard to ignore! As for a 43, maybe if it had a 24mm bracelet/strap could work. I’ve found it’s not just a matter of case size, it’s the whole design. A 43 diver with a puny 20-22mm strap dimension to me looks absurdly too delicate and dainty. I have a rather flat wide 8” wrist so my thoughts are probably well outside the thoughts of those with a more typical 6 1/2-7 1/2” wrists. Example is I adore my Lunar Pilot 45mm but the 21mm bracelet just bothers me yet the case size and wear of the case is near perfect! A 24mm bracelet and the Lunar Pilot would be the kippers knickers for me!
Very enlightening. You highlighted some of my favourites. I may consider visiting next year. Hopefully I may see some of my other favourites like Zelos, Feynman, Behrens and Visitor.
Very nice roundup. Nice to see great upcoming brands. I'm personally keeping my eye on Subdelta & Elliot Brown (both blue and orange "Broxworth" watches look fantastic!!). Thanks for sharing.
looks like a lovely event, not too long, refreshing smaller brands from across the world, not insanely overcrowded...going to have to put it on my list next time i'm across the pond
I'm not from the UK but I managed to secure an order of a Clemence Munro field watch. Great specs, awesome finish and great bracelet. 8 coats of AR and awesome lume. Scottish based.
Wow I love love love microbrands and was fortunate enough to attend a show in Birmingham last year and met some of the brand owners too. However there were plenty in the video I have never heard of but Very interested in. So really just wanted to say a massive thankyou. Just find them so much more interesting than some of the main brands. 👌
They are based in Taiwan and from what we heard, it's mostly just one guy and his wife working on the business. Possibly they haven't had a chance to build a proper website?
British microbrands are buzzing at the moment, with some cool brands at the show. However, I would consider Ball wtches to be outside the microbrand category!
Excellent review. Microbrands show more imagination and very often better quality control than some of the major players. I didnt realize Ball was a microbrand. Are these shows open to ordinary public enthusiasts?
Thanks for the feedback! It was our first time doing something like this so unfortunately we couldn't interview as many brands as we wished but we've learned a lot so next year we'll try to get more brands in the video.
I really like the design of Venezianico and would buy one if they only used a different movement. I'm tired of all the NH 35 movement watches out there. Surely they can source Sellita movements. I'd even buy one with a Seagull ST2130.
You can always visit Apiar's website for more details. But if you're interested we could always ask them to send us a watch for a review and we could make a separate video to expand on that topic!
@@watchgecko Thanks I just did and found this: Additive Manufacturing, commonly known as metal 3D printing. So probably not worthy of any more research.
Zerowest are way to expensive for what they are they may contain old plane metal but lots of watches do that for way less out side of that there nothing more. Not to mention large scrap bits of old cars and planes are quite cheap
World Time UK is a watch fair near the end of September, it's free entry but you'll have to follow them to know when the next one will be. Next year we will be attending the British Watchmakers' Day on the 9th of March, but you'll need a ticket for it if you wish to go.
Italian durability…haha these two things just don’t go together Ok now that i watched the entire video and spent time on their websites nothing calls out to me or makes me want any.
Good onya ! Crickey, These ticker's are Fair Dinkum better than a ham sandwich, when you gone walkoubout tell those Roolex blokes and Sheilas they can put a sock in it they are dreaming. Ta-ta
I have a different opinion about the microbrands you featured here. First the positive. Microbrands are proliferating around the world. This is great news for the future of horology. Microbrands won't topple the big boys anytime soon but the Swiss and Germans are being chased. Competition is good. It may take 20 years but there might come a day when Rolex loses its swag. "Time will tell." Now for the critique. None of these watches are persuasive to me. Brands that rely on the same tropes, like diving, racing, and aviation shows a lack of imagination and only reinforces established forbearers. How many more Submariner clones must we see? Microbrands must carve out a unique niche. A few innovative and singular microbrands are Ming, Ressence, and MIH. Microbrands must either innovate or if they choose the traditional route, their work must compare favorably with the great classics, like the Submariner, Patek Ref 96, or Cartier Tank Louis, an almost impossible undertaking. Few microbrands both engineer brilliant movements and design beautiful timeless dials. There's a reason why Kikuchi Nakagawa is focused on perfecting what's already perfect, slow and steady, the Japanese way.
We love Marloe, but unfortunately, we ran out of time to interview them. We will see them at the British Watchmakers's Day next year in March. Is there a watch in particular you'd like to see?
Microbrands have a place, but they are in no way replacing the heavyweights. They offer great style for the money, but their movements are neither special nor advanced.
still looking a non smartwatch with minimalist design and constant second dial with date sync automatically, is hard to understand an expensive watch where you have to correct the date or moon phase manually (is like a mechanic cars, is incredible in 2024 there still mechanical automobiles)
Pretty unimpressed. Mostly case and dial designs with standard movements and 3 arm time display. Some are quite good, others have an elaborate story for pomp factor. Where are the jump hours and minutes, retrogrades, minute repeaters and other innovations to display the time?
We were exhibiting as well as filming at the event and there were so many visitors that unfortunately we weren't able to interview Farer but we've learned a lot this year so for the next show we will prepare and do better! If there's a Farer watch that you might like a review of, do let us know. We will see them in March on the British Watchmakers' Day in London so we could interview them there and get footage of their watches!
Time Out, Time Out, Hold the Friggin Phone there Bald Eagle !!!! Do tel WHAT is the point of a watch that's as thick as half a house brick that's " pressure tested " to 11,000 ft. ???? am I right that the gullible passenger's on that piece of junk that went down to Titanic @ 3'850 ft, got squished in a couple of millisecond's ???. Sometime's , just because you can, doesn't mean you should .........
25000 metre dive watch! Yeah! It is thicker than wide and looks like a massive hernia on the wrist. I'd wear this in an unlit coal mine at midnight when nobody is around. Some weird wankers around that place. Watta waste of resources for wankerage.
That's a fair point, Ball are a more established brand, but we featured them in the video because we wanted to show as many cool watches as possible. The show is not specifically for microbrands, as in the past they've had other bigger brands like Oris and Sinn. However, the founders are passionate about watch enthusiast brands and independent watchmakers.
Being very new to the watch scene, I did not know Ball was considered a micro brand. After almost 3 months of deliberation and study, my first mechanical watch is a Ball Engineer III Marvelight White Dial! I am very happy to own it and it is on my wrist daily! Thanks for a great video
Fabulous to have the chance to see the microbrand scene over in the UK. Great choice and designs too, so refreshing to see such innovation too. Sadly these are all way beyond my price range, as almost all of them were well into four figures (in CAD$); it would have been amazing to see some of the more affordable microbrands, and seeing the new innovations available to those of us with more modest budgets. Thanks for sharing the video though, really enjoyed it!
My Watermelon arrives this month but I'm interested to see if Studio Underdog can repeat the trick of making a field watch that is a different as their chronos are.
I liked the Echo/Neutra watches the best, but this was very interesting. Haven't heard of any of these besides Ball and Studio Underdog. I saw Farer and Doxa in the video as well.
Was gutted to miss this years show !! been previous 3 years and brilliant show !! next year I wont miss it !!! H20 for me is awesome, just a shame you cant purchase them on the day !!!
