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@Bhethar4 ай бұрын
When you showed that Kuoe I genuinely thought the video was about hunting vintage deals. It’s drop dead gorgeous ❤
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Right?! 💯
@acethis4 ай бұрын
I wish the Nezumi had a date function. GMT watch is a tool made for traveling. I feel that omitting the date function from a GMT watch is like removing a speedometer from a racing car. You should not have to second guess the date, especially when you are traveling across multiple time zones. That's my 2 cents.
@K.J.H_4 ай бұрын
I second guess the date without leaving my own lounge room.
@Horizontalvertigo4 ай бұрын
Is the date set to your local time or your home time? Who knows
@JM-gy6zb4 ай бұрын
Ah man. I hadn't noticed that. I was about to look into how to buy one. I won't buy a GMT that's not a jump hour since the 9075 came out. Unfortunately, I also won't buy one without a date.
@DANNY358704 ай бұрын
I agree
@theonlyrobot3 ай бұрын
The only thing I don't like about mine. Otherwise it's so good, especially for the price before they upgraded the movement. The blue dial coordinates with medium denim and their tropic straps are just fantastic.
@WatchesCanBeFun4 ай бұрын
Screw down crown, thin, automatic, and under 36mm? Glad to see Kuoe getting the appreciation they deserve
@EdmundPorter-ju8kd4 ай бұрын
Unfortunately I have 8.25” inch wrist and this size looks silly on me.
@WatchesCanBeFun4 ай бұрын
@@EdmundPorter-ju8kd I have a 5.5 inch wrist so we probably wear different watches lol
@chateaubullion25604 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. I immediately went to Kuoe website only to find out both colors of the Royal Smith were on backorder. I love that vintage look.
@ajmarion4 ай бұрын
Wow that Kuoe is a stunner! I wish more micros would make vintage-inspired dress watches like this. Not a fan of the straight end link bracelet, but overall a really cool watch
@verynormalman4 ай бұрын
Excellent suggestions. It's great to hear about new watches. Where are the watches made? That's important to me.
@bradleyburton47623 ай бұрын
You made excellent points. Amazing collection. I’d love to see a microbrand Video about the ones that have it all. Sapphire, elevated vickers,screwdown crown, excellent Lume, respectable movements, etc
@neilgadsby39244 ай бұрын
wow. I was looking at the Kuoe a month or so ago when they refreshed it, but then I moved on and forgot about it. Seeing it on the bracelet makes we want one again.
@K.J.H_4 ай бұрын
I do like that Nezumi. My favourite of there's is the black dial with jubilee.
@joeymorris45894 ай бұрын
I’ve got the standard dial version of the Fleux. It’s really fantastic. One of my best surprises of 2023.
@islandathlete8354 ай бұрын
Amazing line up! The Royal Smith 🤌🏼
@r4yfoong1903 ай бұрын
Really good list and i agree that Kuoe Royal Smith is a nice watch. Now i gotta get that watch. Flukes diver watch looks like the Baltic Aquaschape that i own from first look. Design wise very similar
@mr_glasses2 күн бұрын
Great trio! I've had my eye on all three of these for a while.
@garytru5633 ай бұрын
Good job MAX, thank you.
@mckafai21264 ай бұрын
Good pick Max! I really enjoy this episode. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@timmanion74594 ай бұрын
Another nicely designed micro-brand watch is the new Eska Amphibian 250 . A freind sent me a pic . Has the vintage Fifty Fathoms vibe. I've been gone working and just returned. Good informative video . Thanx
@iTheShirt4 ай бұрын
Are the zero straps shipping currently? Very interested in purchasing one.
@canadianwatchmonkey39924 ай бұрын
Wow, you knew about Nezumi, I learned of them a few years back when they had the release of the limited edition RUFF chronograph, stunning! 😊😊😊
@vipnetworker4 ай бұрын
Microbrand, I would go with Islander watches. They have SOOOO many to choose from and I totally trust, respect, and appreciate Mark from Long Island Watches. I have learned so much from him here. I can’t wait to buy an Islander.
@Z-S-H4 ай бұрын
That is an awesome cover of AFFORDABLE watches great job man!
@maximimaxima33274 ай бұрын
I‘ve been watching the Kuoe Website for montags, Finals wanted to order, and then the Royal Smith is sold out 😅 I‘ll wait, just fell in love with this Watch.
@illiterate-ei8dp4 ай бұрын
the fleux is pretty similar to the Squale Marine Militare with the blank bezel insert and orange sword minute
@CHWatches4 ай бұрын
The Royal Smith on leather looks great!
@Joe_Biden9153 ай бұрын
I love the first two. Not crazy about the third. I think, for GMT I'd go with the Nodus specter.
@BEYSeamaster14 ай бұрын
The Kuoe is beautiful. Thanks Max.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Yes she is 😍
@pierremartin90483 ай бұрын
Very nice, all of them but that dive watch on the nato, very nice
@YusufEbr4 ай бұрын
That Fleux is fire though 🔥
@joeblackwolf17Ай бұрын
Great collection of watches ❤
@Ray.J3 ай бұрын
From a distance, the Fleux resembles Lorier, but up close it is wild! In a good way.😊
@edjack19934 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. Just added the Nezumi to the wish list. Looks great on the cream rubber strap but thinking I’ll order with their brushed jubilee bracelet too. QC issue was a little concerning (given the risk of negative comments, why wouldn’t they be checking press versions even more closely than customer versions??). But at the price I reckon it is worth a punt (particularly with the Miyota movement).
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Yeah it's unfortunate but they are good guys that would take care of you
@khronokraze4 ай бұрын
I've looked at and briefly considered one of Kuoe's small seconds models, I like the look of those a bit more. I've owned a few Nezumi chronographs in the past. And, I'd say the closest looking to the Cali dial Flux I've considered is from another microbrand called Beaufort, but it also has a sector dial. I'd say my experience and personal picks could be a good alternative to the ones you picked.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Wow, nice dude! 👍
@kalpakpatil27314 ай бұрын
hii sir, i loved your videos, im indian. how can buy in india this watches?
@philipmccracken6973 ай бұрын
Wow. The Kuoe looks incredible. I love vintage looks (and size) but not vintage fragility. It's like my clone started a micro-brand!
@A_Dude_And_His_Watch784 ай бұрын
Wow, what a collection!
@JaySmith-pv2mw4 ай бұрын
Kuoe is definitely on my radar.
@philipperajaofetra19383 ай бұрын
I just purchased the Nezumi today.
@7spenceb4 ай бұрын
Could you do a "best cushion cases" video?
@YasinD954 ай бұрын
Kuoe make amazing watching! Its on my list for the watch I would buy if I had the money for it! Love the care and quality that goes into them
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
For sure! These guys know what they are doing
@YasinD954 ай бұрын
@@WatchCrunchOfficialagreed, Japanese finishing 😍
@YasinD954 ай бұрын
@@WatchCrunchOfficial need to do a giveaway of one of these!
@rabadabadoo4914 ай бұрын
Ive the Nezumi in black and on bracelet, dress tool watch. Cheers 🍻
@ahha63044 ай бұрын
1500 bucks for 3 watches are good, now lemme check last time I post on your website how much I have spent in 11 months... ...2718 bucks for 14 watches (dives, dress, field, flieger, chronograph, regatta, sport) well let's say that I done pretty good savings haha
@nickamandes49804 ай бұрын
Genuinely thought that Fleux was the Baltic Aquascaphe in blue for a minute. Love the piece regardless
@jjDemir4 ай бұрын
Great video 🎉
@shanehb4 ай бұрын
Awesome video like I said on the Crunch Max. I come to give my Hulk smash to the like button.
@Android_MT19834 ай бұрын
The kuoe is 🔥
@musik4u3434 ай бұрын
I wish ud put links to the watches. Anyway..the dress watch is nice but that name is terrible. And the gmt is similar with the names but my main thing with that one is , they are using a thin movement but the watch is still so thick
@davidmeddows60744 ай бұрын
Very crunchy.
@stephengarratt80274 ай бұрын
Nice choices
@jonboy81814 ай бұрын
I’m not a diver but I time so many things everyday with my rotating bezel. That one is a guessing game where you always lose. Haha, let’s make a watch with no hands too! 🙄 Kuoe is the fillet of the three in my book.
@lukedavies37324 ай бұрын
Great content
@jeejkee64714 ай бұрын
I do go snorkeling. With my Seiko 5.
@jameslogan49934 ай бұрын
The Kuoe is outstanding! Wow. The Japanese know how to build a watch. Elegance personafied.
@Not_Mark_Twain4 ай бұрын
Nice video. What you don’t mention is that these are gateway watches. They lead you to harder stuff. If I had $1,500 to spend on my watch collection, I’d keep it to one watch, buy it used, and wear it everywhere. Lots and lots of ways to do that.
@HaonProductions4 ай бұрын
Going to trade my Baltic MR01 in for that Kuoe, microtor and breguet numerals is cool but that waffle dial is way more my speed!
@fredochinaski99684 ай бұрын
No sweat arm pit😂😂😂good job max,. Thé last gmt bleu IS a killer,. Frédéric from Paris France...
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
😂😂
@morganthedruid14 ай бұрын
Love the Kuoe and the Fleux. I preordered the Nezumi when it was announced but when it turned up it was pretty underwhelming for me and I moved it on after a few weeks but that's just personal taste, I know there are many more who love this watch.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Damn Morgan, you are really back at it 😉
@morganthedruid14 ай бұрын
@@WatchCrunchOfficial 😂😂
@guillaume7844 ай бұрын
Nezumi aviera is really top looking. 200m ,explorer style for 500 euros !!
@gregtolley34554 ай бұрын
Wise ad8 my friend.
@johnmonachelli52564 ай бұрын
Nezumi should have said yeah we know about the seconds hand it's actually a built in windshield wiper
@happyjim24 ай бұрын
My favourite is the lovely dress watch a sleeping beauty
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
😍👍
@brettkeeler88224 ай бұрын
Kuoe has been catching my attention lately. Just not sure I can pull off 35. My smallest watch is 37 and that feels like I’m pushing it.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Smaller watches are coming! 😉
@zillsburyy14 ай бұрын
if its one thing that sucks its when a company gives a watch a name that people are not sure how to pronounce
@TheNimbleNomad4 ай бұрын
Nezumi looks like the best of the lot.. but the watch failure seems a bit odd..
@theonlyrobot4 ай бұрын
This video just cost me $117. I needed the off white rubber strap for my Aviera after seeing this, and since the shipping was $30... Well I had to get the Rindt leather rally to make it worthwhile, didn't I?
@jameslogan49934 ай бұрын
Kuoe is outstanding! Wow. The Japanese know how to build a watch. 😮
@yosefkashani94704 ай бұрын
The 9075 must be a very new development for Nezumi, I'm 90% sure it launched with the NH34 like most other micros.
@theonlyrobot3 ай бұрын
It did. My Aviera has a Seiko movement in it. I don't mind it because my GMT stays set to IST, so the caller suits me just fine. My days of taking the flying bus to work are over.
@yosefkashani94703 ай бұрын
I just realized it has no date. Which to me is the dumbest thing ever, because literally why would they switch movements than? The literal difference practically between caller and Traveller gmt is the date and how it is synchronized with the local hour hand. But if you’re not using a date…it makes no practical difference…..
@tschoy93884 ай бұрын
Good, the Nezumi GMT is killing me.
@DBW2114 ай бұрын
Nothing against the brand but a dress watch with 9039 and an optional Sapphire upgrade of $138 on already a $568 watch bringing the total value of $706 is just ridiculous in my opinion. What other Miyota microbrands charge that much? No one or at least except for perhaps a few microbrands...
@StandAloneState4 ай бұрын
“Made in Japan” labor costs likely explain higher costs. Also the Sapphire is not flat, it’s a proper dome which makes it more expensive than a regular flat version. I get what you mean, though
@austinlaudry83354 ай бұрын
Ain’t nobody tryna build a collection of microbrands
@vipnetworker4 ай бұрын
Or you could get a: Seiko 5 GMT = $475 Seiko Presage Cocktail Time = $450 Seiko Padi Diver = $450 All FAR better watches for under $1,500 Or… Tissot Gentleman = $825 Seiko Presage = $450 Orient Kamasu Diver = $225 = $1,500 Perfect Swiss every day watch, a beautiful dress watch, and a sharp/sexy proper dive watch. GMT? Use your phone.
@pr33tu_4 ай бұрын
Great picks 👍 , I think for new collectors it's important to mention that microbrands like these don't hold any sort of value in the secondary market.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Yes, I don't think any $500 watch holds much value.
@c.f.g.28374 ай бұрын
Great video on some outstanding watches that standout from the norm. I love the Fleux quasi -dive watch!
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Thanks! Yeah that's an interesting piece
@finesse494 ай бұрын
I like the Kuoe, really dislike the Fleux and in general I dislike big GMTs with numeric bezels. One out of 3 isn't bad.😊
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Hehe 😂.
@wwool14 ай бұрын
You had me at artsy fartsy.
@mightya4 ай бұрын
My iPhone serves as a GMT and world timer.
@peakrider48864 ай бұрын
Prices of each individual watch would have been useful.
@CarlAshcroft-mb9pp3 ай бұрын
What is "meh"?
@MorganInForm4 ай бұрын
My wife is gonna be wondering where that 1.5k went....
@brouwersjasper4 ай бұрын
I wozh the fleux had sapphire glass...
@mdunawaym4 ай бұрын
I have a KUOE black dial with a bronze case. It definitely won't be my last KUOE.
@nevkarma3 ай бұрын
fluex looks like a baltic
@VlasTrunov4 ай бұрын
Nezumi look like replicas of Farer watches.
@Andrew-yy2ye4 ай бұрын
You can get a lot of watch for$1500 these days 🎉
@jeanlefranc38174 ай бұрын
We may not talk about it a lot, but now is the second golden age for mechanical watches. In 2050, when the World Economic Forum will have decided that only smartwatches measuring the CO2 emissions of your farts can be bought, those born in 2000 will fondly remember the 2020’s as the good old days.
@zillsburyy14 ай бұрын
kuoe charges more if u want sapphire and even more of you want a bracelet. that fleux bezel is useless
@HoroHigh3694 ай бұрын
I must be watching too many youtube watch channels… all these watches are starting to look the same to me… is it me or anyone else feeling visually overwhelmed? 🤯
@dunka124 ай бұрын
Oh, new zero pass strap ad disguised as youtube content just dropped.Nice.
@vipnetworker4 ай бұрын
Fleux would actually be pronounced “Flu” 😂 I got that new Flu Watch 👍
@flectz4 ай бұрын
that watch failing on you during review isn't helping your case 😂
@Ryan-no5bf3 ай бұрын
Mistakes happen, no big deal. But having less QC for press versions seems like a bad business decision.
@vik5744 ай бұрын
Only...😅
@Youcantleavethisempty014 ай бұрын
Our ideas of an “epic” collection are worlds apart 😂
@SeventhShin3 ай бұрын
Thanks for not saying “True” GMT, I throw up in my mouth a little every time someone says that unironically.
@samgrant834 ай бұрын
Kuoe is just riffing off the old UK made Smtihs 50's and 60's watches. It's clever I guess, as the old Smiths watches have a huge Japanese following, but sadly it bears no relation to the old Smith's watch of the era that they are attempting to emulate.
@WatchCrunchOfficial4 ай бұрын
Yeah everyone is riffing off each other in the watch world, at least the watches are well executed.
@bentcph20314 ай бұрын
With the same budget I'd go: (1) Seiko SKX 007 / 009 with upgraded with domed sapphire crystal and ceramic bezel (2) 40mm Seagull Panda Chronograph (3) Pre-owned Rolex Precision
@viktor18454 ай бұрын
and no one with date. Useless for me at all...
@tomcruz37744 ай бұрын
Wtf i love no date gmts now? No really
@julienfroidevaux11434 ай бұрын
Brands without any history ? No thanks . Just by a real vintage watch from a real watch company .😊