So this is actually currently live on kickstarter. So i’ll leave details down in the description for that. If you do want to check it out and get a bit more information on the actual kickstarter itself, but that’s for this watch, as you can see, this is the green dial and gold case option. So i think one of the stretch goals on the actual kickstarter is a few different color variations. So if you’re interested in them, like say down in the description i forgot to mention, this is actually a review piece. So i’ve got to send this on someone else. When i’ve done the review so that’s, why you’ve got the pay promotion down there? I don’t get paid for this review. I’Ve just got to lend this to review it and then, like i say, i’ve got to send it on so the case on this is actually stainless, steel, obviously it’s being coated and, as you can see, it’s kind of like a cushion style case. I guess very 70s style, which i do quite like, and one of the first things that probably stands out is the fact that there’s no second hand on this, so you could probably say if i zoom in on the dial, it actually says: hybrid chronograph there. So the reason they’re calling this a hybrid is because it’s a mecha, quartz it’s, actually a vk 64 movement, so it’s a little bit odd. That they’ve called it hybrid.
They might actually be changing that on the dial as well to be fair other than that there aren’t really going to be any changes, but with that hybrid they might be changing it, so it actually just says orbit, which is obviously the model of this watch, which I think might be a bit better to be fair, so getting onto the rest of it. As you can see, we’ve got a nice side ground there and we’ve also got a sound buckle too much in the case, so that’s always nice to see. If i zoom back in on the dial there, i think there are a few little bits of dust and stuff under this. But, like i say this is a prototype. So hopefully, they’ll sort that out in the final production version – and you can probably also see as well we’ve, actually got some blue ar coating on that so that’s always nice to have some people are a little bit funny about it being blue. If it’s, not a blue dial, but personally i don’t mind too much while i was aimed into let’s quickly mention those sub dials. So if i tilt it slightly, you can actually see they are slightly recessed into the dial and you can also probably see as well. We’Ve got a domed crystal on this it’s got a nice bit of distortion, which i do like so getting back to those subdials. As you can see, the one on the three o’clock position is the 24 hour, the one at the nine o’clock position, that’s your 60 minute timer for the chronograph, speaking of which let’s quickly see it in action.
So obviously press this top pusher to activate the chronograph and, as you can see there being a mecha quartz i’ve got a fairly smooth sweep of that and then obviously press it again, stop it and the bottom one to reset. As for the rest of the dial, you can see, you’ve got the tachymeter around the outside and then we’ve got the date window at the six. Some people might not like that. It’S, not a color match date whale. I actually personally don’t mind it too much because i think it kind of blends in with the rest of the indices with them all being white, so it fits quite well with the positioning of it so i’m, not too bothered about that, and then with the hands. You can actually see you’ve got a little bit of loom on there, but we’ll get into that later on when we do the loom shot Music, so Music, so that’s for the strap. It is actually a really nice one, nice tank and a colour really soft, really comfortable, not had any issues with that at all and it is actually branded and, as you can see, genuine leather as well, while we’re around. Here too, we have actually got a nice case back on this i’m going to zoom in on that too, so really interesting. I do like that obviously fits in with like the space theme, nice touch and then we’ve got the usual spec sheet around the outside.
So sapphire crystal stainless steel, the name and then the fact that we’ve got 100 meter water resistance. So speaking of that water resistance for quickly zoom back out crown on this isn’t, actually a screw down one it’s, just a push, pull so we’ve pulled it out. Once then, we can obviously change the date, pull it out again and then, obviously you can change the time. One thing to mention with this: i don’t know if this is going to be the same on the production ones, but, as you can see, the gearing on it seems to be quite low, so it takes quite a bit of turning to actually change it. I’M, not overly keen on that and it’s slightly light as well in function, so hopefully that’ll be addressed in the actual production ones, but other than that no issues so let’s get on to the measurements. So we’ve got a thickness of just over 12 mil diameter of 40 mil log width of 20.. I personally, i think it would have preferred if they’d made that a bit bigger, maybe 22. I think it might have fitted a bit better with the case kind of style, but that’s, just personal preference. I guess and then we’ve got a look to log of just over 46, so pretty nice dimensions overall, pretty compact, even with that unusual case design. So now let’s test whether we’ve got sapphire crystal using the trusty diamond selector too and as you can see, yep we’ve got sapphire crystal, so that was correct.
Nothing to worry about there so now let’s check out that loom. So, as you can see, it’s not looking brilliant, but with this kind of style watch, you don’t really expect that anyway, so let’s charge it up, give it a chance and there we go so it’s looking a bit better now, but again, with this kind of style Of watch you’re not expecting too much volume wise because there’s, just not a lot of surface area to be playing with really but it’s usable. Nothing, not the ordering. Nothing special. But again, you kind of expect that so all that’s left to do now is show your rest. So this is what it looks like on my seven inch wrist, as you can see, wears pretty nicely and, like i say this strap is really comfortable. Not a lot of curvature to the case, so you might want to wear it slightly tighter, but i personally prefer to wear my watches a bit loose, so it does kind of sit on top of the wrist a bit and look a little bit odd. Sometimes, but again, if you wear it a bit tighter that’s, not an issue and again a nice bit of distortion from that crystal.fzWvzl-ms3k