Dartmouth is NOT a UK company. They got you with that one too! They listed a UK address, which when you Google it is just an online rental office for very little money. If you dig through their company files, the owners are Indian and it’s operating from Hong Kong. They are basically marketing scammers as far as I’m concerned…
@@denisdaly1708 Time to rethink some things if that's what you think "too far right wing" is. Is he ignorant or you don't want to listen to anything outside your bubble?
@@Dr.Gunsmith You are quite right. My Seiko 5 snkl23j1 has misalignments on dial, hands, day, date. My SKX013 from 2019 has no misalignments at all, even the bezel is perfect. A Seiko surely is a miss or a hit
Well said Jody, I couldn't have slagged off this watch brand any better myself. I really hate this brand for every reason you mentioned. These watches are regularly sold on idealworld shopping channel here in the UK and drooled over by one presenter named Peter Simon, who often claims that owns many of the watches that he's flogging! I hate to use the word liar. Horrible designs and ridiculous RRPs
Always fun to create a chart of how many times Peter Simon says right or OK during each transmission. I once sent an e-mail to the channel asking if they take bets on how many per transmission!! 🤣😂🤣
Peter Simon is an absolute dick head, he NEVER mentions the price of a product he just says what the first flexi payment is to get peoples attention. His other stock phrase is 'can I ask you to go to the phones' because it's a premium rate number and the more people that use it the more money they cream off. His Vostok Europe shows with Kevin Reynolds are embarrassing, he's like a robot just repeating the same old crap show after show. Ideal World need to boot him out because of his lies and deception, not to mention he's a complete and utter twat.
as a former journalist AND a former vintage watch restorer/seller (neither connected with the other) i can only congratulate you for taking on these garbage brands and calling the BS. also done in very entertaining fashion. keep up the great work.
Personally I don't think they are necessarily lying at all. Just because they use some dude from the pasts name doesn't mean they are lying, is sam Adams Boston lager a fraud? I didn't think so. They are trying to market their products, this is nothing new.
Had a surgery earlier this week and today was the first time I was recovered enough to get to my desk. Your voice is a great soothing reward for recovery, and a nice reminder that this too shall pass. Thanks for the smiles Jody!
How about Tissot? How much of their watches are really made in Switzerland? I am pretty sure most of the parts are coming from China. A nearly finished product is shipped to Switzerland, regulated, may be assembled and put in a box. So how much truth comes from Tissot? They won't tell you for sure....
Thomas Earnshaw actually got me in to watches. They taught me that RRP is a bunch of BS and that you can pay a lot of money for complete tat. So they taught me a great lesson to investigate watches properly and put my money in to the trusted brands. 60+ watches later they are totally thrown to the back of the cupboard and would never adorn my skinny wrist. What a bunch of total tommy tankers
I wish your videos were titled with the name of the watches so that someone considering buying them would find your reviews and avoid being ripped off, especially since you review quite a few obscure watches and brands that are often difficult to find reviews on. All the best!
That's a throwback! 2016 to 2018 I worked at a Precision Time in my local mall as an assistant manager doing watch repair, and this was one of the brands the company owned at the time. They sold alright, mostly to people who had never heard of the brand but thought they looked fancy. Build quality was... questionable. Some never seemed to have any issues, while others would come back routinely for repair. Definitely not the worst brand we sold though lol
@@karlsenula9495 it was a brand called "Monaco" and it was truly some flea market type stuff. Something you'd buy for $5 at a discount store. Pot metal bracelets and cases, stupidly difficult to size, rhinestones that routinely fell out shortly after purchase, etc. etc.
If we love Jody but we really love mean Jody videos so we’re all mean too? I love ever JOMW videos and keep them coming! Maybe another history lesson? That 1963 video was epic!
Some watch brands definitely need trashing. When I retired from a job that made wearing a wrist watch a bad idea, I started looking around for an affordable watch. I came across an advert for a watch brand beginning with the letter after U. I describe it this way, because the brand is like Bloody Mary. If you mention the name 3 times (or even the starting letter), you will end up with a year or two of constant invasive advertising, pushing overpriced, 42mm plus Quartz watches priced obscenely high, but on sale now for 1/4 the price for a limited time only. Most of the adverts are done by people described as "influencers" who you never heard of, who try to convince you that these watches are brilliantly designed by vaguely European fashion geniuses. Ben's Watch Club does a good send up of a fake watch brand (Spaghetti Scameti) like the one whose name shall not be mentioned.
I recently bought this watch and to be perfectly honest I quite like it. I don’t care about the brand I buy watches of AliExpress and as far as I’m concerned it is certainly no worse than any of those. Mine also lines up correctly with the bracelet. But fair call on the complaints that you have made about the brand and on the particular example you have.
Greetings from Oklahoma Jody! Strange that you mention the Titoni at the end- my dad has a collection of them and is in the same boat of restoring one with an ETA/clone movement, very fitting you are doing the same with this watch! Looking forward to the update and cheers!
Watch Gang sent me an Earnshaw last month on the Platinum tier. It wasn't even a Swiss movement one. It was promptly returned and the sub was immediately cancelled 🤣
I literally just got this delivered. The misalignment on mine is barely there. It's basically a Seiko cocktail for half the price and a better movement. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the butterfly clasp and they could have done the crown better.
@@JustOneMoreWatch 😂. It is a lovely design and is good quality. I'm just not a big fan of butterfly clasps in general because it's hard to get a good fit.
I do totally get what you’re saying, but this doesn’t seem massively more cynical than “Swiss Made” or the many brands that have passed through multiple different owners over the years but still in their marketing make a direct line back to their origins.
Jody, you're possibly going to have issues with the supplied hands on the titoni. The dial is domed so the pinion shafts on the hour, minute and second hand aren't long/deep enough so they won't set properly. I ordered a set of domed dial deep pinion hands and they worked like a charm. I also had to order a 2824 movement holder because the one they sent was wrong.
Thomas Earnshaw watches are at the pinnacle of horological architecture and design, matching and even exceeding the quality of many prestige brands such as Patek Phillipe and AP. Clearly the channel have unwittingly purchased a replica of this masterpiece upon which the original should not be compared.
I’m still ROTFL after the ending of that video. Please, please start a couple of new channels. How about Dark Jody after hours and Dark Jody’s chasers? I’m sure we’ll all subscribe!
Nice review! This is a brand I have never heard of but the type of brand I stay far away from! I lump this into all those over priced fashion brands that are poorly made and over priced. I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole!
Yeah, these things are shit and you nailed it Jody. Where I live they are available online only by the same outfit that sells Invicta. Except invicta has Pro Divers which are OK, Earnshaw has nothing. Nice Drinker reference at the end there!
Have said it before and will say it again - there is obviously some money to be made here. Business plan; 1 - Get some cheap generic Chinese manufacturer/parts to assemble a watch for you 2 - Come up with some nonsense marketing hype 3 - Build a website 4 - Send watches to influencers 5 - Profit! What's amazing is there are so many buyers that keep these watches coming and coming. That or the profit per watch is so much that it keeps the business going with minimal buyers.
I was expecting this video to be about Stührling... another equally trash brand with shady marketing and laughable discounts from unrealistic prices. I was slightly drunk one night and bought one of these watches online. Lesson learnt!
"Anyway that's all I've got for today, go away now" I had a good chuckle at that line I must admit. If I was a UA-camr I like to think that's is how I would end my videos. Videos over, get tae fuck.
Definitely agree about the TE brand, Jody. How about a sequel video, where you assemble & give life to the Titoni case using the rescued Ronda movement? Some of us would love to see that!
They remind me of a certain brand that sounds Italian but is no where nearly as Italian. But in their case, you will actually get the watch. Can't say the same for that brand.
I just got into watches recently. Wow is the watch community odd. As someone who is just starting out I look for value for money considering there is no way I am going to go out and buy a high tier brand like rolex or omega for example. To me it's like hey should I get a Harley Davidson and pay 10000 extra for the name, or should I get a Honda for 20000 less. Maybe it's just me.
Personally, I like happy smiling Jody better but dark Jody is always fun to watch too. I think if I had come across this brand on my own, from the looks of the watches, the Invicta style pricing scheme and the brand name, red flags would have been popping up all over the place in my head. But as usual, thanks for spending your money and exposing these brands on your channel. 👍 BTW, Have you been watching the Critical Drinker?
There is a similar branding issue with the watches called "Louis Cottier". Louis Cottier was a famed swiss horologer, but the watch brand of the same name is a recent creation with zero connexion with him.
i never pay attention to this watch brand, but almost for once, i was looking up for a skeleton automatic watch, then this brand bumped up on every pages i had visited. Then i looked for their website, legit website design, eye-catching watch, i was falling for them .... until i saw one, just one comment from a buyer stating that their automatic watch was a disaster to him, how he just recently bought it, but the timing tolerance is unbearable, how it died twice a day, ... . And that was when i knew there was a big red flag, and i stopped right there.
in a moment of weakness I bought one of these a couple of years ago(for £79uk),it's a sort of royal oak homage and a bit chunky to say the least,TBF there's a lot of stainless steel for your money and the butterfly clasp is better quality than some Japanese brands,for what I paid it's not that bad,I get what you mean about the marketing though.
Were you as Jody put it 'dangerously drunk'? Don't worry we've all bought our share of 'what the F did I buy THIS for?' Watches ... mine were 1) an Aldi watch (ironically that was German made actually looked good and got a few compliments), 2) two Lige watches and 3) an Ochstin chrono.
Ha, 'go away now', nice touch Dark Jodie! I was genuinely expecting this to be about Seiko! Never heard of these Earnshaw pieces of cack, they look like those horrible Armani Exchange things you see youths sporting on the tube.
Came to think about the pricing if there would be any item available at AliExpress which would _not_ be on Sale? It's also funny how when the seller boasts "Free Shipping!" the price is most often just the shipping costs more expensive than the competitor's with no free shipping... BTW I have a Lige 1856 Watch, where the "1856" probably refers to the post code of the firm. 😇
I thought I'd never see someone who inflated pricing as bad as Invicta. Got a Master of the Oceans GMT (claims Swiss made, Swiss movement- the movement at least is a Ronda) for $89 on the site named for a big river in South America. In the box was the hang tag, with a price sticker for... $795. A mere 800+% inflation over the actual retail paid.
Actually, because I liked the looks of one of their skeleton watches, Earnshaw actually got me into collecting mechanical watches, because I got it for £99. still running. But obviously their marketing is a bit questionable.
I don't know much about the various groups that comprise several brands nor how one influences another but I recently bought a James McCabe that I like very much (Baja Scabler in dusty blue for just under $100 USD shipped). The watch's dial is marked "Belfast London" at the bottom where Swiss Made is placed on many Swiss-made watches I've never seen anything that made me think they were anything other than a UK-based company selling Chinse contracted watches. I bought it because I liked the style, and the price and had bought from the seller before so I had confidence it was being well represented in the eBay listing.
I actually had to listen to the ending twice to make sure I heard the critical drinker reference correctly, but I feel it's appropriate for this video. Thanks Jody!
To hell with the watch, that Masters of the Universe shirt ROCKS!! "Go away now" must be the nice version of f*ck off as described in it's usage by the brilliant and wonderful Billy Connolly.
Lol. Dark Jody don't pull punches. Yes I'm guilty of enjoying these type of videos but then again I haven't missed a JOMW video in years as evident by the fact that at 3:30am, in Trinidad and I am up watching a JOMW video. I must be mental
I made the mistake of buying one from the website, Before I knew any better, The price was ok, until a few days later I started receiving messages about import tax, eventually confirming they were real I had to pay another £48,00 , this is the only time this has ever happened,and yes, it came from China.
Dang, thought you meant Bulova Precisionist? 3 year warranty that they never honor. Batteries that are unnecessarily difficult to replace, mediocre quality & fairly high pricing! Love the technical design but not a reliable product that nobody wants to repair
My first automatic watch was a Thomas Earnshaw…it’s stopped working after a week and I returned it and got me a Seiko Sports 5. I own 4 Seiko divers now 😊
If the dial was 6mm narrower, the date window would land in the right place. But that's nothing new, Seiko and others butcher proportions in much the same way all the time.
Very good Jody, love the video! Never heard of Earnshaw watches and now i'm sure i didn't miss anything. About the eviscerating part: That piece deserves it! I once had a discusasion on Reddit whether the worst watch imaginable was a Daniel Wellington or an Invicta Diver. My argument was that after you stop loving the pieces you can take them apart and either gain a solid Seiko NH35 or a heap of scrap metal. Can't wait to see the Titoni!
Invicta divers at least normally have decent movements you can repurpose. I've a garish Invicta GMT that I'm going to harvest the movement from and stuff it into a Seiko case.
Come on, Man- these are $250 watches, nobody in their right mind is expecting quality from a "fashion" microbrand. Invicta also has basically zero do to with the actual Swiss watchmaker that went of of business in the, what was it, 1960's? Sadly, that's just what it is now, call it "stolen prestige" if you will (maybe I should claim that term). And most of them are clearly rubbish from the photos, although I have to say I kind of like that Carlisle and they inarguably have put more effort into actually designing a watch than the likes of Pagani "Design", which AFAIK has never designed, only copied. I mean, it is what it is, but I think I'd rather have one of these than Alibaba rebrand AKA Daniel Wellington or the like. They are at least offering something that doesn't look exactly like everything else, have some design continuity across the line (like it or leave it) and they are not trying to sell the things for $2500, so I say give them a pass- if they are total trash, it's a case of you get what you pay for. Consider Fossil as a comparison.Yeah you can get a better quality watch for the price, Orient, etc.- but then you are back to one of the same 150 or so watch models that all of us see all the time and are frankly a bit bored with. There are a lot of guys jumping intro the "cheap" watch space, have you given any thought to doing some more upscale reviews of smaller brands (Formex, Zero West, Norqain,etc.) or is it a case of what you are doing is working, so don't mess with success? Just curious. I do enjoy your reviews although I have generally given up buying really inexpensive watches.
I already didn't care for this brand based on looks and pricing alone, but now I legitimately loathe them. It's hard to believe they're under the same umbrella as Spinnaker.
I was sent one of these after subscribing to a certain Club that sells watches THEY choose. I left the club and the watch sits in a drawer because I would be ashamed to give it to a friend.
Jody - this is cheap Chinese rubbish promoted by shopping channels in the UK as having RRP of £500+. I always suspected they are a con as are so many watches on the shopping channels, so it's great that you have taken the time to expose the rubbish that they are. Anthony James is probably another - you might want to review?
My nominee is Pagani Designs. Their QC is very poor, at best. The bezels, in particular, are a long odds crap shoot. I’ve experienced ones that are simply impossible to move. Completely unusable. The ones that did move are really sloppy. They frequently look and spec nice, but aren’t really nice. There are better watches that are better value because you stand a better chance of getting what you paid for. Never more!
I do own 1 or 2 earnshaw watches I was under the impression as we are told by the sellers that they have history and like you said about earnshaw being the grandfather of the modern chronometer and it was on the ships.i was thinking they are ok I've not paid more than 130 pounds I think I do think they feel very light but tbh I've not encountered any issues. But if they are created like you say how can they get away with the selling criteria, this shouldn't be allowed. I think ateotd if your happy with the watch and comfortable with the cost then you have no reason for disappointment.😊
JustOneMoreEvisceration - well done! Nowhere near enough warning shots like this. Too many “if you don’t have anything nice to say” types, keeping quiet about some of the crap brands and sub-standard products.
Oh this brand still exists. The first watch I was suckered in to before I knew anything about watches way back in 2018. The mechanism was running several minutes a day slow. Drove me insane.
An instagram fashion guy I really like wears them and it drives me nuts. If you take the time and money to dress well you’ve got the time and money to buy a quality timepiece.
Internet just loves strife... ineffectual, impotent sadsacks whose only outlet for hatred and rage is living vicariously through negativity online.. I rather like smiley happy Jody :-)
Dartmouth is NOT a UK company. They got you with that one too!
They listed a UK address, which when you Google it is just an online rental office for very little money.
If you dig through their company files, the owners are Indian and it’s operating from Hong Kong. They are basically marketing scammers as far as I’m concerned…
Would not surprise me at all mate!
Spot on their head office is in Hong Kong and the London office is just a front to give them some credibility.
Hhmm....Indians scamming watches in addition to running scam-call centers. Who would've thunk??
im not being a racist here, but why all of the online scamming is coming from India? LuL
That Titoni will be lovely!
Absolutely loving the Critical Drinker sign off at the end there Jody! Had to do a double take for a moment. Cheers for another cracking video.
Yes, I caught that sign off also. Don't worry, I am going away right now.
I believe it's the traditional dismissal among Scotsmen, that and "hands eff my oootmeal"
I'm not a fan of the critical drinker. Far too sexist, and too far right wing for me. I find him ignorant apart for film knowledge.
@@denisdaly1708 Great opinion! btw I hope your family doesn't get into a car crash on the 6th of feburary 12:30am 2023 :)
@@denisdaly1708 Time to rethink some things if that's what you think "too far right wing" is. Is he ignorant or you don't want to listen to anything outside your bubble?
These are on the UK shopping channels all the time … Perhaps the 1805 means they have been trading since 5 past 6 😊
Dark Jody’s last line “Go away now” had me rolling😂😂
Critical Drinker fan confirmed?
critical drinker's countryman
Why would he say that? DON'T KNOW.
My new favorite UA-cam genre: Scottish men who end their reviews with the line “go away now”
You're damn right, Jody! If I wanted a misaligned dial or bezel I'd get me a Seiko 😆
Hey not all Seiko watches are that bad 😂
1😂😂% spot-on
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@@Dr.Gunsmith You are quite right. My Seiko 5 snkl23j1 has misalignments on dial, hands, day, date. My SKX013 from 2019 has no misalignments at all, even the bezel is perfect. A Seiko surely is a miss or a hit
@@stiglnsborgsaxbjrn3392 i will never understand how a huge brand like Seiko can have worse quality control than an aliexpress brand like San Martin
Come on Jodie - say what you really think ……..😂😂😂😂😂
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As savage as a criticaldrinkers review of a Disney live action remake.
Well said Jody, I couldn't have slagged off this watch brand any better myself. I really hate this brand for every reason you mentioned.
These watches are regularly sold on idealworld shopping channel here in the UK and drooled over by one presenter named Peter Simon, who often claims that owns many of the watches that he's flogging! I hate to use the word liar. Horrible designs and ridiculous RRPs
Always fun to create a chart of how many times Peter Simon says right or OK during each transmission. I once sent an e-mail to the channel asking if they take bets on how many per transmission!! 🤣😂🤣
Somewhere on UA-cam there's a video of Peter Simon farting, if that helps.
Peter Simon is an absolute dick head, he NEVER mentions the price of a product he just says what the first flexi payment is to get peoples attention. His other stock phrase is 'can I ask you to go to the phones' because it's a premium rate number and the more people that use it the more money they cream off. His Vostok Europe shows with Kevin Reynolds are embarrassing, he's like a robot just repeating the same old crap show after show. Ideal World need to boot him out because of his lies and deception, not to mention he's a complete and utter twat.
as a former journalist AND a former vintage watch restorer/seller (neither connected with the other) i can only congratulate you for taking on these garbage brands and calling the BS. also done in very entertaining fashion. keep up the great work.
Right on, Jody! Expose those marketing liars 🙏
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Personally I don't think they are necessarily lying at all. Just because they use some dude from the pasts name doesn't mean they are lying, is sam Adams Boston lager a fraud? I didn't think so. They are trying to market their products, this is nothing new.
Can't wait to watch the disassembly of that watch.
With a hammer
Had a surgery earlier this week and today was the first time I was recovered enough to get to my desk. Your voice is a great soothing reward for recovery, and a nice reminder that this too shall pass. Thanks for the smiles Jody!
Loved the Critical Drinker reference at the end!
How about Tissot? How much of their watches are really made in Switzerland? I am pretty sure most of the parts are coming from China. A nearly finished product is shipped to Switzerland, regulated, may be assembled and put in a box. So how much truth comes from Tissot? They won't tell you for sure....
Thomas Earnshaw actually got me in to watches. They taught me that RRP is a bunch of BS and that you can pay a lot of money for complete tat. So they taught me a great lesson to investigate watches properly and put my money in to the trusted brands. 60+ watches later they are totally thrown to the back of the cupboard and would never adorn my skinny wrist. What a bunch of total tommy tankers
More and brands are using these shady tactics nowadays. What a world we live in. Great video, nice rrrrrroasting Jody :)
I wish your videos were titled with the name of the watches so that someone considering buying them would find your reviews and avoid being ripped off, especially since you review quite a few obscure watches and brands that are often difficult to find reviews on.
All the best!
Don't worry, they are tagged with the name. So if someone searches, it'll pop up.
In all fairness, maybe their first watch was completed when it was five past six in London.
Ahahha! Nice one.
That's a throwback! 2016 to 2018 I worked at a Precision Time in my local mall as an assistant manager doing watch repair, and this was one of the brands the company owned at the time. They sold alright, mostly to people who had never heard of the brand but thought they looked fancy. Build quality was... questionable. Some never seemed to have any issues, while others would come back routinely for repair. Definitely not the worst brand we sold though lol
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Ok now I'm curious .. What was the worst brand you sold?
@@karlsenula9495 it was a brand called "Monaco" and it was truly some flea market type stuff. Something you'd buy for $5 at a discount store. Pot metal bracelets and cases, stupidly difficult to size, rhinestones that routinely fell out shortly after purchase, etc. etc.
@@FailSafe161 wow .. ok is it bad that I want to see Jody roast one now?
The drinker savages a watch- 😂 I will go away laughing!
Love his stuff, especially with the best accent in the world 😉
Jody, this one is one at your best! Truly viscrated by a master!
@@JustOneMoreWatch Aye right you are!!
If we love Jody but we really love mean Jody videos so we’re all mean too?
I love ever JOMW videos and keep them coming! Maybe another history lesson? That 1963 video was epic!
Some watch brands definitely need trashing. When I retired from a job that made wearing a wrist watch a bad idea, I started looking around for an affordable watch. I came across an advert for a watch brand beginning with the letter after U. I describe it this way, because the brand is like Bloody Mary. If you mention the name 3 times (or even the starting letter), you will end up with a year or two of constant invasive advertising, pushing overpriced, 42mm plus Quartz watches priced obscenely high, but on sale now for 1/4 the price for a limited time only. Most of the adverts are done by people described as "influencers" who you never heard of, who try to convince you that these watches are brilliantly designed by vaguely European fashion geniuses. Ben's Watch Club does a good send up of a fake watch brand (Spaghetti Scameti) like the one whose name shall not be mentioned.
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Dark Jody: Buying junk so you don't have to! 🤣
I recently bought this watch and to be perfectly honest I quite like it.
I don’t care about the brand I buy watches of AliExpress and as far as I’m concerned it is certainly no worse than any of those.
Mine also lines up correctly with the bracelet.
But fair call on the complaints that you have made about the brand and on the particular example you have.
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Greetings from Oklahoma Jody! Strange that you mention the Titoni at the end- my dad has a collection of them and is in the same boat of restoring one with an ETA/clone movement, very fitting you are doing the same with this watch! Looking forward to the update and cheers!
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The blue Quartz Seiko street Tuna did not hit the markers and didn't get any flak for that.
Watch Gang sent me an Earnshaw last month on the Platinum tier. It wasn't even a Swiss movement one. It was promptly returned and the sub was immediately cancelled 🤣
Yes jody ma man 06:10 on a Saturday morning here in Glasgow perfect way to start a Saturday
Helloooo Glasgow! Baltic at 06:10 mate?
I literally just got this delivered. The misalignment on mine is barely there. It's basically a Seiko cocktail for half the price and a better movement. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the butterfly clasp and they could have done the crown better.
Mate! That's funny, I actually thought the clasp was the best bit 🤣
@@JustOneMoreWatch 😂. It is a lovely design and is good quality. I'm just not a big fan of butterfly clasps in general because it's hard to get a good fit.
I do totally get what you’re saying, but this doesn’t seem massively more cynical than “Swiss Made” or the many brands that have passed through multiple different owners over the years but still in their marketing make a direct line back to their origins.
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Jody, you're possibly going to have issues with the supplied hands on the titoni. The dial is domed so the pinion shafts on the hour, minute and second hand aren't long/deep enough so they won't set properly. I ordered a set of domed dial deep pinion hands and they worked like a charm. I also had to order a 2824 movement holder because the one they sent was wrong.
Jodie my eyes are still in agony from last time you showed the Techno My-Brain. Why'd you have to show it again?!?
I do not understand why this channel isn't bigger... best watch channel on YT.
"That, to me, is marketing at its most cynical."
OOOF. That's not a burn that's a murder.
Thomas Earnshaw watches are at the pinnacle of horological architecture and design, matching and even exceeding the quality of many prestige brands such as Patek Phillipe and AP. Clearly the channel have unwittingly purchased a replica of this masterpiece upon which the original should not be compared.
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LOL.
Careful… you don’t want to incur the wrath of dark Jody! 😜
Methinks that thou hast over-imbibed of the marketing Kool Aid . . . .
I’m still ROTFL after the ending of that video. Please, please start a couple of new channels. How about Dark Jody after hours and Dark Jody’s chasers? I’m sure we’ll all subscribe!
I bought a nice looking watch from the Bradford Exchange and it was £300 and terrible with a cheap £10 cheap quartz movement 😂
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Nice review! This is a brand I have never heard of but the type of brand I stay far away from! I lump this into all those over priced fashion brands that are poorly made and over priced. I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole!
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There's also a typo on the logo, Jody. There's only one "s" in Thomas. There should be two.
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Yeah, these things are shit and you nailed it Jody. Where I live they are available online only by the same outfit that sells Invicta. Except invicta has Pro Divers which are OK, Earnshaw has nothing.
Nice Drinker reference at the end there!
Big fan of the Drinker and his accent 😉
That ending was priceless…especially for those of us who got The Message.
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Damn, I read "The Message" in _that_ voice :)
Have said it before and will say it again - there is obviously some money to be made here. Business plan;
1 - Get some cheap generic Chinese manufacturer/parts to assemble a watch for you
2 - Come up with some nonsense marketing hype
3 - Build a website
4 - Send watches to influencers
5 - Profit!
What's amazing is there are so many buyers that keep these watches coming and coming. That or the profit per watch is so much that it keeps the business going with minimal buyers.
More like 'Scam of the Day" if the think that monstrosity is worth anywhere near $1500 AUD!? Great video Dark Jody 🔥
I was expecting this video to be about Stührling... another equally trash brand with shady marketing and laughable discounts from unrealistic prices. I was slightly drunk one night and bought one of these watches online. Lesson learnt!
"Anyway that's all I've got for today, go away now"
I had a good chuckle at that line I must admit. If I was a UA-camr I like to think that's is how I would end my videos. Videos over, get tae fuck.
Definitely agree about the TE brand, Jody. How about a sequel video, where you assemble & give life to the Titoni case using the rescued Ronda movement? Some of us would love to see that!
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They remind me of a certain brand that sounds Italian but is no where nearly as Italian. But in their case, you will actually get the watch. Can't say the same for that brand.
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Spaghetti Scameti?
@@TheKnobCalledTone. Nope.
Vincero ?
@@international_dave you came close.
I just got into watches recently. Wow is the watch community odd. As someone who is just starting out I look for value for money considering there is no way I am going to go out and buy a high tier brand like rolex or omega for example. To me it's like hey should I get a Harley Davidson and pay 10000 extra for the name, or should I get a Honda for 20000 less. Maybe it's just me.
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Thanks for the tip about the r150. I also picked up one of those Titoni cases and have been trying to get a good movement for it.
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Branding is awful, but to be fair I have bought a Seiko and an Orient with misaligned dials. Can't be that hard to get it right can it?
I think the good Doctor was completely fair and judged appropriately based on a good amount of research. Well done.
Personally, I like happy smiling Jody better but dark Jody is always fun to watch too. I think if I had come across this brand on my own, from the looks of the watches, the Invicta style pricing scheme and the brand name, red flags would have been popping up all over the place in my head. But as usual, thanks for spending your money and exposing these brands on your channel. 👍
BTW, Have you been watching the Critical Drinker?
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There is a similar branding issue with the watches called "Louis Cottier".
Louis Cottier was a famed swiss horologer, but the watch brand of the same name is a recent creation with zero connexion with him.
i never pay attention to this watch brand, but almost for once, i was looking up for a skeleton automatic watch, then this brand bumped up on every pages i had visited. Then i looked for their website, legit website design, eye-catching watch, i was falling for them .... until i saw one, just one comment from a buyer stating that their automatic watch was a disaster to him, how he just recently bought it, but the timing tolerance is unbearable, how it died twice a day, ... . And that was when i knew there was a big red flag, and i stopped right there.
in a moment of weakness I bought one of these a couple of years ago(for £79uk),it's a sort of royal oak homage and a bit chunky to say the least,TBF there's a lot of stainless steel for your money and the butterfly clasp is better quality than some Japanese brands,for what I paid it's not that bad,I get what you mean about the marketing though.
Were you as Jody put it 'dangerously drunk'?
Don't worry we've all bought our share of 'what the F did I buy THIS for?' Watches ... mine were 1) an Aldi watch (ironically that was German made actually looked good and got a few compliments), 2) two Lige watches and 3) an Ochstin chrono.
Ha, 'go away now', nice touch Dark Jodie! I was genuinely expecting this to be about Seiko! Never heard of these Earnshaw pieces of cack, they look like those horrible Armani Exchange things you see youths sporting on the tube.
I got sucked into buying an Earnshaw when I first started buying watches. Thought I was getting a great deal, but lesson learned
Came to think about the pricing if there would be any item available at AliExpress which would _not_ be on Sale?
It's also funny how when the seller boasts "Free Shipping!" the price is most often just the shipping costs more expensive than the competitor's with no free shipping...
BTW I have a Lige 1856 Watch, where the "1856" probably refers to the post code of the firm. 😇
I thought I'd never see someone who inflated pricing as bad as Invicta.
Got a Master of the Oceans GMT (claims Swiss made, Swiss movement- the movement at least is a Ronda) for $89 on the site named for a big river in South America. In the box was the hang tag, with a price sticker for... $795.
A mere 800+% inflation over the actual retail paid.
Actually, because I liked the looks of one of their skeleton watches, Earnshaw actually got me into collecting mechanical watches, because I got it for £99. still running. But obviously their marketing is a bit questionable.
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Could think of many more watches that would fall in the same category as well 🤦🏻♂️
First time I've heard of them. I wouldn't purchase one, but I can't help but feel sorry for those who did.
Another smashing vid. I could have bought one of these over priced at Carboot sale for £50. Turned it down , cheers Jody
I don't know much about the various groups that comprise several brands nor how one influences another but I recently bought a James McCabe that I like very much (Baja Scabler in dusty blue for just under $100 USD shipped). The watch's dial is marked "Belfast London" at the bottom where Swiss Made is placed on many Swiss-made watches I've never seen anything that made me think they were anything other than a UK-based company selling Chinse contracted watches. I bought it because I liked the style, and the price and had bought from the seller before so I had confidence it was being well represented in the eBay listing.
The Drinker's outro? Paying tribute to the great storyteller 😉
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I actually had to listen to the ending twice to make sure I heard the critical drinker reference correctly, but I feel it's appropriate for this video. Thanks Jody!
Indeed! He has a sharp tongue, and a great accent 😉
Have to say, I creased myself laughing when Dark Jody or the Critical Watcher said that. 😂
To hell with the watch, that Masters of the Universe shirt ROCKS!!
"Go away now" must be the nice version of f*ck off as described in it's usage by the brilliant and wonderful Billy Connolly.
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Lol. Dark Jody don't pull punches. Yes I'm guilty of enjoying these type of videos but then again I haven't missed a JOMW video in years as evident by the fact that at 3:30am, in Trinidad and I am up watching a JOMW video. I must be mental
I made the mistake of buying one from the website, Before I knew any better, The price was ok, until a few days later I started receiving messages about import tax, eventually confirming they were real I had to pay another £48,00 , this is the only time this has ever happened,and yes, it came from China.
Dang, thought you meant Bulova Precisionist? 3 year warranty that they never honor. Batteries that are unnecessarily difficult to replace, mediocre quality & fairly high pricing! Love the technical design but not a reliable product that nobody wants to repair
Nice one Jody.. Actually watching England v Scotland in the rugby right now. Half time. So will watch the full video after it!
My first automatic watch was a Thomas Earnshaw…it’s stopped working after a week and I returned it and got me a Seiko Sports 5. I own 4 Seiko divers now 😊
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I blacklisted all the Dartmouth brands a while ago, even AVI-8 and Spinnaker, which are probably the best two of the bunch.
I bought one for $65 it's ok, but the dial isn't aligned properly. The 12 o'clock position shows 12:01.
If the dial was 6mm narrower, the date window would land in the right place. But that's nothing new, Seiko and others butcher proportions in much the same way all the time.
Very good Jody, love the video! Never heard of Earnshaw watches and now i'm sure i didn't miss anything. About the eviscerating part: That piece deserves it! I once had a discusasion on Reddit whether the worst watch imaginable was a Daniel Wellington or an Invicta Diver. My argument was that after you stop loving the pieces you can take them apart and either gain a solid Seiko NH35 or a heap of scrap metal. Can't wait to see the Titoni!
Invicta divers at least normally have decent movements you can repurpose. I've a garish Invicta GMT that I'm going to harvest the movement from and stuff it into a Seiko case.
Come on, Man- these are $250 watches, nobody in their right mind is expecting quality from a "fashion" microbrand. Invicta also has basically zero do to with the actual Swiss watchmaker that went of of business in the, what was it, 1960's? Sadly, that's just what it is now, call it "stolen prestige" if you will (maybe I should claim that term). And most of them are clearly rubbish from the photos, although I have to say I kind of like that Carlisle and they inarguably have put more effort into actually designing a watch than the likes of Pagani "Design", which AFAIK has never designed, only copied. I mean, it is what it is, but I think I'd rather have one of these than Alibaba rebrand AKA Daniel Wellington or the like. They are at least offering something that doesn't look exactly like everything else, have some design continuity across the line (like it or leave it) and they are not trying to sell the things for $2500, so I say give them a pass- if they are total trash, it's a case of you get what you pay for. Consider Fossil as a comparison.Yeah you can get a better quality watch for the price, Orient, etc.- but then you are back to one of the same 150 or so watch models that all of us see all the time and are frankly a bit bored with.
There are a lot of guys jumping intro the "cheap" watch space, have you given any thought to doing some more upscale reviews of smaller brands (Formex, Zero West, Norqain,etc.) or is it a case of what you are doing is working, so don't mess with success? Just curious. I do enjoy your reviews although I have generally given up buying really inexpensive watches.
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Keep on buying mocking and invicerating (if that’s a word)! We enjoy both 👼 Jody and 😈 Jody!!! 👏🏻🤠
Nice one Jody, about time the covers were pulled off on these ,
I already didn't care for this brand based on looks and pricing alone, but now I legitimately loathe them. It's hard to believe they're under the same umbrella as Spinnaker.
Hah! Well done, Jody (love the "Critical Drinker" ref!)!
Nice Critical Drinker impression at the end!
I was sent one of these after subscribing to a certain Club that sells watches THEY choose. I left the club and the watch sits in a drawer because I would be ashamed to give it to a friend.
Love Dark Jody!
You are spot on with these Companies over inflating their worth to catch out People who don’t know any better.
Jody - this is cheap Chinese rubbish promoted by shopping channels in the UK as having RRP of £500+. I always suspected they are a con as are so many watches on the shopping channels, so it's great that you have taken the time to expose the rubbish that they are. Anthony James is probably another - you might want to review?
Okay, I know this brand sucks but I actually really like the watch you bought from them. Too bad the dial is misaligned.
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My nominee is Pagani Designs. Their QC is very poor, at best. The bezels, in particular, are a long odds crap shoot. I’ve experienced ones that are simply impossible to move. Completely unusable. The ones that did move are really sloppy. They frequently look and spec nice, but aren’t really nice. There are better watches that are better value because you stand a better chance of getting what you paid for. Never more!
I do own 1 or 2 earnshaw watches I was under the impression as we are told by the sellers that they have history and like you said about earnshaw being the grandfather of the modern chronometer and it was on the ships.i was thinking they are ok I've not paid more than 130 pounds I think I do think they feel very light but tbh I've not encountered any issues. But if they are created like you say how can they get away with the selling criteria, this shouldn't be allowed. I think ateotd if your happy with the watch and comfortable with the cost then you have no reason for disappointment.😊
JustOneMoreEvisceration - well done! Nowhere near enough warning shots like this. Too many “if you don’t have anything nice to say” types, keeping quiet about some of the crap brands and sub-standard products.
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Oh this brand still exists. The first watch I was suckered in to before I knew anything about watches way back in 2018. The mechanism was running several minutes a day slow. Drove me insane.
7:59 At least the Earnshaw is a Limited Edition! So we know there aren't too many of these watches. 😂😂
You have me on tenterhooks. Can't wait for the next episode of Dark Jody. Talk about a cliffhanger.
Heyyyy, you turned into the Critical Horologist at the end there! Don't think I didn't notice! BELIEVE it!
In terms of heritage, this brand makes Vostok look like Rolex 🤣
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An instagram fashion guy I really like wears them and it drives me nuts. If you take the time and money to dress well you’ve got the time and money to buy a quality timepiece.
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Probably given to him in exchange for his flogging them.
Hi Jodi! Where do you buy your t-shirts? New one every time😂. Online or in local store?
Hey ! The Critical Drinker showed up today!! Go away now!! Lol ! You Are The BEST Jody! Take Care And Stay Funny. Eric
Never heard of them.
I'm ok with that
Internet just loves strife... ineffectual, impotent sadsacks whose only outlet for hatred and rage is living vicariously through negativity online.. I rather like smiley happy Jody :-)
I don't include you in that of course... in the rare instances of negativity, a watch has earned it!
Hahaaaaaaaaaa... I hope you asked Critical Drinker!
Ah Jodi, until you mentioned the price you paid I thought you were talking about Rolex.