The perfect vintage 24 hour watch! Akerfalk First Season Watch Review

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  • Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
  • Swedish outfit Akerfalk have developed this beautiful vintage inspired 24 hour watch. Costing £189 / ~$240 / ~€215, it's very well manufactured and eye-catchingly designed. It also comes with a leather travel case and has three strap options: leather, NATO, and a milanese mesh bracelet. Watch on to see it in more detail!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 35

  • @skemsen
    @skemsen 4 роки тому +14

    I think only the UK and the US in general operate with 12 hour AM/PM time. I've never heard of anyone else in the rest of Europe mention time other than 24 hour. So not only uses in military, science etc. as you mention. It always struck me as extremely impractical with that AM/PM stuff.

    • @GAUROCH2
      @GAUROCH2 Рік тому

      ...what has this to do with the watch? It is a 24 hour face, right?

  • @eustache_dauger
    @eustache_dauger 4 роки тому +9

    Would have preferred 00 instead of 24. As well as an option for the 00 at 6 o'clock position as to resemble the positioning of the sun.

    • @learnguitardammit
      @learnguitardammit 4 роки тому

      date window at the 00!

    • @LeDebutDeLaSuite
      @LeDebutDeLaSuite 3 роки тому +2

      I would love the position of the sun aspect as well☝🏼; Noon up top with 00/midnight at bottom

  • @Feldspar__
    @Feldspar__ 9 місяців тому

    You're great at this. Åkerfalk owes you a commission.

  • @dmntuba
    @dmntuba 4 роки тому +2

    I find it's vintage simplicity stunning.

  • @mosmicke
    @mosmicke 5 років тому +15

    The Å in Åkerfalk is pronounced like the British variety of "Aw" in Awkward and the a in falk is pronounced almost like the A in Atom

    • @WIAAWatchReviews
      @WIAAWatchReviews  5 років тому +5

      Thanks for the Swedish lesson!

    • @johntaylor5473
      @johntaylor5473 6 місяців тому

      Not so. Å is pronounced like the “o” in bowl. So it would be pronounced more like Okerfalk

  • @patricj951
    @patricj951 3 роки тому +3

    Wow! Out of curiosity I recently wondered if a 24 hour mechanical watch exists, and when I searched for it I found this video!
    And it's a swedish brand, pretty unusal.
    Such a watch should be a must have in a true watch nerd's collection, or?

    • @myhoyoki
      @myhoyoki 3 роки тому

      Yes they do my frien u can check botta watch website but mechanical watch are expensive specialy mechanical i have botta quarts 24h and cost 800 eu the mechanical version is 1800 eu with pioneer movement the quarts are ronda movement

  • @stableianF1oracle
    @stableianF1oracle 7 місяців тому

    The hours hand has passed the hour marker when the watch minute hand is at 12. I think your watch is knackered.

  • @7inchwrist915
    @7inchwrist915 5 років тому +3

    Just went to their website...thought the watch comes with all three straps ...apparently not. Or maybe I miss something...thanks for the review

    • @WIAAWatchReviews
      @WIAAWatchReviews  5 років тому +3

      No you're correct, there's the option for each of the straps, not all three. Sorry if I made an incorrect impression!

  • @neilpiper9889
    @neilpiper9889 4 роки тому +3

    Vintage inspired. Should be 36mm. And not quartz.
    Raketa made lots of beautiful 24 hour dialed watches which you can buy from £50.
    Nice watch you have there sir.

  • @Falkenroth1
    @Falkenroth1 28 днів тому

    I bought one for ham radio. Track UTC time with it.

  • @BillyTheKidsGhost
    @BillyTheKidsGhost 5 місяців тому

    Some counties only run on 24-hours. 😄 But in the States and the UK, nothing matters after 18:00 anyway. 🍻

  • @nopenada8071
    @nopenada8071 3 роки тому

    Any chance you could get your hands on a Raketa Cosmos? Though this has my eye much more actually.

  • @michaellust
    @michaellust 3 роки тому +2

    Lovely. Just missing a date complication. Otherwise very worthy.

  • @bendaharasmpbpau5695
    @bendaharasmpbpau5695 4 роки тому

    This watches is shipped from swedish or UK?

  • @jefferyneu3915
    @jefferyneu3915 5 років тому +1

    Before computerized medical records, this would have been ideal for hospital nurses and doctors. Now, the computer times all notes and orders automatically.

    • @jonathanm877
      @jonathanm877 5 років тому

      and places were its 24 hr day light or on a submarine or space.

  • @andrewsmactips
    @andrewsmactips 5 років тому +8

    The hands aren’t aligned properly.

    • @gitmoholliday5764
      @gitmoholliday5764 5 років тому +5

      What I think is this Ronda 515 movement is actually a quartz GMT movement
      and they just attached the hour hand to the GMT tube.. to make it look like a 24 hour watch.. if so it would be ..or should be possible to align the hour hand with the crown in 1st position outwards ( just like a date adjustment ) if there is only one crown position the watch indeed is incorrect.

    • @gregarends2731
      @gregarends2731 5 років тому +2

      @@gitmoholliday5764 , according to a "how to set the Akerfalk" video, you're absolutely correct. The hands can be set individually, so correct allignment should be easy.

    • @gitmoholliday5764
      @gitmoholliday5764 5 років тому +3

      @@gregarends2731 Yeah that must be it... it is just a Ronda GMT movement
      with one hour hand removed.
      ( wouldn't surprise me if someone skilled can attach a 2nd hour hand on this watch or even a second hand ) 😁

    • @WIAAWatchReviews
      @WIAAWatchReviews  5 років тому +1

      @@gregarends2731 Thanks for clarifying

    • @hannahuang6118
      @hannahuang6118 3 роки тому +1

      According to Ronda specs, the 515.24H has 4 gears at the center of the movement, 24h, hours, minutes and seconds hands, and also a date wheel at 3 o’clock, so they must modify the movement to eliminate the date wheel, seconds and hours hands, just keep the 24h hand and minutes hand. That is quite a lot of work. The minute hand has a flat center. That means the second hand pinion needs to be trimmed short or total a new gear. Again a lot of work. Nice looking watch. Nice reviews too.

  • @als.92
    @als.92 4 роки тому

    It's so beautiful.. so simple and classic.

  • @carolvolpe9410
    @carolvolpe9410 3 дні тому

    I think it is so easy to read a one hand watch, I love a challenge, two hands r too basic

  • @GAUROCH2
    @GAUROCH2 Рік тому

    I love the 1 hand 24 hour watches...but I do not understand the inspiration of the designers: isn't zenit (when the sun is in the highest position in the sky) at mid day... why is midnight (24 h) at the top? odd!!!

  • @jono8884
    @jono8884 4 роки тому

    Numbers are too small

  • @TheN30M
    @TheN30M 3 роки тому +1

    vintage?? 40mm nonono give me a 34-37mm

  • @myhoyoki
    @myhoyoki 3 роки тому

    Your hour hand is way off