Who’s ready for another quick look. You know more like quickish, I can be verbose!
Will it be 10 minutes, 7 minutes. It's at least a surprise to me as I write these.
This time for a watch the Vaer D4 solar dive watch. Sola-Diva! It's a uh... callback
to my last video. No one cares. Anyway the channel news is The Hamilton Khaki review
tanked hard even by the channel standards, so why not another watch film. It saw the Serge video,
the Vario video and said hold my mimosa. Knife bros on Youtube are all struggling for views
right now so I said to myself why not make other channels feel better about themselves.
So Vaer is based out of California, like myself, and they assemble a lot of their watches here
from international components. You know, that’s how supply chains work, a lot of things that are
made here use parts from all over the world. Even the knife companies who make things here.
I thought most people understood that, but some recent posts on my Instagram feed shows
individuals in fact do not understand that. Either that or they know it but would rather not admit it
because they like making everyone miserable. But I digress. Today we’re here for the Vaer D4, which
includes 3 trims, The Arctic for the polar bears, The Atlantic which evoke beautiful seascapes seen
at places like Daytona beach, (hey man after you bail me out, out them cuffs is tight, Imma
miss the race- I didn't see the guy there fore I started peein), oh and and the Meridian with it’s
blue and gold colorways reminding me of my high school football team the Mountain Home bombers.
They were the worst. I mean they called it gold but it was blue and yellow.
Would it surpise you I'm not a football fan. And then there is also a d4s, a similar budget version
of this compact diver, which differs in a few ways by being assembled overseas, has a flat crystal,
and a little tamer on the looks. But the D4 Meridian, is a bit compact but kind of a hamburger
like divers can be. Has a similar case print on the wrist to the lastest get of the Seiko 5.
First let's get our strap on. There are multiple options for The Meridian.
Nylons rubbers and leathers. New channel direction everyone. I'm not much of a bracelet guy, and I
prefer a nice strap. I think I favor the leather straps most, I think Natos are a tad chunky, So
with all this in mind I chose the rubber, Then a quick release nylon strap, and a blue leather
to represent my favorite losers. Ok they weren't my favorite I never went to a game.
What is great about all these straps is you don't have to screw with the tool, no scratched cases
or ricocheting spring bars. Get your gross little fingernail to slide the quick release and change
out the strap in a few seconds. For the straps for most of the day comfort, the rubber wins. Rubber
is a bit boring but it's functional. Although the leather is the one I chose the most. It's lined
Horween leather, a very dark blue and makes me feel a bit like a fancy lad. This is not going to
be a quick look. And the quick release khaki also looked great but seemed a bit scratchy in places.
Let's look at the case. You have your 316L stainless. It's not a steel you come across
in knifes, ok not true some knives- there's at least one amazon knife that uses it.
There's probably a hundred. I feel like they've hit me up via email once.
As you know watchmakers choose 316L because it is pretty corrosion resistant, and I
think that's all I have to say about it. We have some contrasting polished and brushed places,
and the case back has a pretty nice etching. It's a diver so we have some waves I guess.
The dial is pretty classy navy with some gilt indices accents very readable indoors and out.
There's a nice depth to the blue, it shimmers a little maybe due to the solar cell beneath it or
maybe it's because I've been drinking. Covering the dial you ave a ever so
slightly double domed sapphire crystal with an anti reflective coating. Sapphire is nice as
it is more resistant to scratches than acrylic in theory. And outside of that
you have your 120 click unidirectional bezel. I know all of my divers do this click thing,
and I still am not sure what it's for. Please don't anyone ever tell me.
As far as it's time keeping abilities I have found it almost as accurate as my iphone as it should be
since it's a quartz. It was barely off by a second for over 2 weeks. Now this is a solar watch that
says it needs 6 hours of full sunlight for a 6 month charge. This is very easy for me,
because of my daily solar viewing where I stand and stare directly into the sun for about 3 hours.
It's important to get my vitamin D. It complements my caveman diet of raw beef beef feedings.
The movement is in epson VS-22 which is awesome, as I have an epson ink well printer that works ok
most of the time. Which is the best you can expect. The lume on the Vaer is pretty average.
Here's a 10 minute time lapse where I compare some of my other divers. Including my favorite diver
the lume king Serge Model 2. For this I charge it with one of my flashlights, you might remember the
Noctigon Meteor. That video carried the channel in it'd early days and it gave me a false sense of
what was possible on Youtube. I've been casing those views ever since on what was kind of a
shitty video now that we look back on it. (Heckler Voice) I don't see much of an improvement.
The lume starts out a big stronger than the others but near the end it sits
where a standard seiko 5 does. Meaning with completely night adjusted eyes,
in very dark areas you should still be able to make out the time throughout the night.
The Serge wins of course. The Vaer is noted as 15 Layer C1 Super-LumiNova
Hands & Numerals if you'd like to spend an evening reading on lumes like one does for fun.
The user interface. Ha ha, it never gets old. Now here the crown is a screw down type. Sure down
crowns in theory help keep more water out, and give YouTubers who haven't been outdoors in days
something extra to complain about. To set the time score counter clockwise till the crown
pops. Then pull out a further once it releases and you can set your time when the second hand stops.
Press, hold, and screw clockwise to uh. Get it back to normal.
Are we at comparisons? Now seasoned viewers may know I have about a 7 inch wrist, and if I don't
mind saying despite looking kind of fragile it is one of the finer wrists in the EDC community..
Each hair kind of does it's own thing. Now as far as comfortable watches go. I recently purchased
an apple Model 7 that I bought the official apple leather strap for and a silicon case.
So it looks like Ninja turtles. This is by far my most comfortable watch. The caseback is smooth.
And it always tells me I don't get enough sleep or exercise so it's been great month. The Vaer
here is nice. As you know I hate watches and I think the people into them are stupid... so with
that in mind know that I am not used to watches on the wrist. If I had one little nitpick is that the
caseback was a little less edgy. It's not bad at all, but the apple is pretty nice on the wrist-
but the counterpoint is that it's ugly and you can't really change the battery.
The Serge, I think this is probably my favorite watch. It's huge and kind of heavy but it's unique
and the glow in the dark is great. Yea we're just gonna call it glow in the dark.
Then you have the knife nuts xenomorph. It's big heavy and purple,
and I really like this one too. I got a compliment on this one, by a guy wearing a big gold invicta,
notable because its the only watch compliment I've ever gotten. Then there's this. The Seiko 5 auto.
Ok. That about does it. Thanks to Vaer for sending this watch for review.
As you know autos are probably not the worlds best batonig watch, as they have more delicate
internals. Vaer is absolutely my favorite batoning watch. It's resistant to my fluids,
and the rigors of batoning. Say Hi to the Patrons. They gave me the gift of 4k and macros, and I have
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