[250112 New Addition]- [UHR-461]- toughest brudder arrives!
Got this from the courier roughly about 30mins ago. This time round, it's a shorter wait that takes about 8 working days to wait for the arrival.
1st impression-
The watch itself is very heavy, much heavier than that of my STEINHART Ocean 44 DLC. The face is a a little smaller this time, since it was listed in UHR's website as 43mm. The white markers and main hands is a big contrast with the black dial. Look closely, the black rotating bezel seems to have some lines of textures that make this piece kind of unique looking. The metal bracelet is well machined, not too sharp to wrap around my wrist.
How's the lume? Initially i thought that only the major hands are applied with the lume material, so i charged the the lume by placing the watch under the weaker sunlight for 30 seconds. GUESS WHAT?!! The hour markers as well as the subdial hands are lumed as well!(ok... this might not be new, as fellow brudder in this forum had posted the lume pics) Although not so bright as the hands maybe... i guess probably due to some kind of glossy material applied on the markers that might have affected the brightness.
The package quality-
The watch is packed together with a black plastic card as well as the user guide on ETA 7750 movement in a squarish hard-card based box with 2 clear elastic film securing the watch that may help to prevent against any hard knocks or vigorous shaking during the shipping process. Truly an economical way to save on packaging cost that may eventually passed on to their customers from different part of the world. However, the external box that packed the watch box was delivered with serious dent, that luckily does not passed on to the watch box.
Will i go for another UHR AUTO CHRONO?
Ermm... As we know by now, majority of the watch makers are hit by the rising cost of movements supplied by ETA SA, UHR is not spared either.
I'll get another watch from UHR though... For the price of 499euro, or perhaps another model that may cost another 100euro lesser, if there's any model on offer... unless if they come up with better design or price... Hopefully there would be more options for 499euro watches.
UHR AUTO CHRONO is really a great catch that must not be missed!!!
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Since today i'm on my CNY leave, i shall use some time to take a closer look at this piece...
As pointed out in the brief short review by brudder Evirobie, the chronograph buttons are protected by those black colored shells that when unscrews up, release the button for chronograph functions, screws down locks the buttons to prevent activation of the chrono function when underwater. I have no problem with this, since i don't go underwater much.
However, as brudder Evirobie had pointed out in another thread, the crown of the watch is easy to release but not easy to screw back. This is true, but not really too serious as i discover that there's could be some kind of additional hidden o-rings under the crown that makes the pushing in a little un-smooth. The only complain that i have on the crown, is that the material used, seems to be plastic rather than metals that can be found in most other cheaper makes.
How about the weight? Any discomfort felt?
Well even i'm quite a big built fella, with moderate size arm, i could feel the watch adding weight to my wrist as if i'm carrying a chain. The positive part of the bracelet is that... it's smooth and comfortable! I started to feel great about that!
By the way, the "7750 wobble" effect is much lighter than the first UHR-261. Probably due to the weight of the case that stables it down.
How about the size?
The watch is darn big! Bigger that the biggest watch in my collection, the STEINHART OCEAN 44 DLC!
Higher case, fatter exterior... phew... from the wrist shot, you could see what i meant.
