After the massive success of the 9000 views of my first watch review the Vario Trench watch,
and the follow up smash of the Serge Model 2 video hovering at whopping 7,016 big ones I figured it
was a great idea to continue down this path. So we’re about to break some more records here
folks. The record being the worst purchase to ad revenue generating video I’ve yet made. Ok I think
that’s currently the Sharp By Design Void XL. I’m really kicking it up a notch in bad decision
making, and at the advice of Levon, who got me into the watch thing- he said you should try a
Hamilton auto. Hamilton is owned by the Swatch group, which includes such prestigiousness as
Calvin Cline watches the ultimate in luxury, Longines pretty sure I’m saying that wrong, Omega,
Rado, Swatch, Tissot, Swatch and others. So I spent a week or two looking at the khaki line,
and settled blowing my wad of 623 dollars and 75 cents with tax on the Hamilton Khaki Field
Automatic Black dial mens watch H70505833 at a romantic Jomashop Valentines day sales,
because I love myself. Now you might ask why? Whats’ the reason? My rock solid logical
reasoning was I thought it looked kinda cool. Makes sense for something that keeps less accurate
time the the iPhone 13 pro lodged in my hand about 12 hours a day. Let’s take a look at the
dimensions on this beast and wonder if anyone anywhere should be making purchasing decisions
based upon the guy who recently got a little star struck about the Steel Reserve corporate account
sliding into my DM asking permission to use an image in a repost. Yes steel reserve
feel free to use my intellectual property. Repeats it slower, intellectual property. (Image shows on
screen). I said yes and they never got back to me. Which is kind of what you’d expect.
Ok let’s take a closer look. The watch comes in a pretty elaborate box, which makes sense as we live
in the golden age of the unboxing videos. Such an amazing art forms. Might could have saved a
few bucks there, but that’s none of my business. It’ll look good with your other empty packages in
a box somewhere. Maybe your family will find that box when they’r cleaning out your dirty little
apartment, and get a few bucks more out of it at the estate sale. Either that or they’ll throw in
the trash, and it’ll sit and slowly decompose in a landfill with all the rest of your bullshit. I’m
going to stop before I have too big of a moment of self realization and delete the whole fucking
channel. The watch comes with a 20mm strap, and Hamilton’s excellent product description gives
us all the sexy details. Species is calf, it’s a shame they don’t list the age. I’m not a watch
guy but I think watch guys would want to know, especially the guy wearing the watch in this photo
from the website. The strap is pretty comfortable with a suede style leather, that has been
darkening with filth and wear in the month and a half I’ve had it. And the pin buckle makes a cute
little H I guess for Hamilton, horology, hodinkee, hell. The underside of the buckle doesn’t give any
discomfort, even on the days when no one notices my $600 watch. $600 oh its not a smartwatch?
The 42mm case is made from a stainless steel no word on if it’s 316L or not.
we have the brushed sides, and the contrasting polished bezel. Now I flail my arms like
a primate and the case has picked up some scratches as it encounters walls, countertops,
cabinets, the shitter, masonry, and the like. The underside of the watch is an exhibition caseback
showing the H-30 movement which is listed to have a power reserve of 80 hours by either winding, or
arms swinging. Since it has no battery the watch is automatically wound by this rotor, which gives
Hamilton the third opportunity to remind you on the watch that it is swiss made. I mean
not like their Omega Swiss made, Or Breguet Swiss- but maybe one day. Sir we have financing options.
That means it can go several days sitting in your watch box and still tick. I have noticed that over
the course of 24 hours it maybe a second off, and after 48 hours it was about 4 seconds ahead and by
72 hours it was only a second or two again. Flipping it over we have a sapphire crystal
covering a black dial. Now I know there are names for the styles of patterns you see on
movements and dials, and no offense I’d rather eat chewing gum off the floor of a city bus than
learn what they’re called at this time. Ok I’m pretty sure it’s a subtle sectoring texture.
Alright heading to the bus stop. The little circular hour markers are luminescent as are hour
minute and just the tip of the second hand. You can see it in a completely dark room,
but after a few hours with night adjusted eyes they aren’t the most legible. It's nowhere near
as nice as the Serge's lume as evidenced by this time lapse I've now used twice in a video!
Which brings me to a nitpick. The dial in bright sunlight is pretty legible but
in dimmer rooms or interior lighting, zoning out at my desk, pooping in public bathrooms,
the glare from the dial and the darker tone of the tan
hands, kind of gets muddy. The counterpoint is “LOL you need indicators to tell time” Ok
maybe I do smart guy. I saw they had a blue dial variant and I would have probably liked that.
The Hamilton's movement features hacking and winding. Winding on an automatic allows you to
hand wind it to get it going. Some cheaper autos like my older seiko 5, not the current version,
don't have hand winding. To wind turn counter clockwise you can hear it... To set the date and
day, pull out the crown half way. Clockwise moves the date forward counter clock wise allows the day
to be set. Actually one of the reasons I bought this was the integration of the day on the dial,
it's like perfectly placed. That's a good reason to drop 6hundred bucks on a watch I
know. To set the time, and hack whilst doing so pull the crown all the way out. Hacking means
the second hand stops so you can accurately sync time. Then you set your minute and hours.
Comparisons. First This one wears kinda big on the wrist. A suede finish doesn’t age as well as
other leathers, it winds up looking kind of dirty whereas other leathers seem to gain character.
I am a filthy careless individual who can’t avoid a condiment, or dog shit on the ground
for the life of me. Don’t know how I’ll get dog shit on this, but dog shit always find a way.
It wears similarly to the SARV001 I bought from Euegene- and I’m going to be honest… This watch
costs about 200 bucks most places, and save a few minor details I don’t feel much better about the
Hamilton than I do this. I think the power reserve and the sapphire crystal are the biggest upgrades
for like $400. I think my main problem with the Hamilton is it was photographed better than
it looks in real life. It doesn’t look bad, but it helped me learn stuff about watches.
And then there’s the Serge Model 2. Really like this one, it’s more of a classic diver design,
better lume. I don’t know how it’s super comparable, but it’s kind of big it's also
a watch and I had this footage laying around saving me some time. Alright let's wrap this up.
I've had most of this written for a while, but my passion projects always get a back burner.
Maybe I'm not using that word right. Passion. Passion. It's like it has no meaning.
Anyway I had to finish this because Vaer hope I'm saying that right sent me a d4 solar diver for
review- and I'd like to do a video of something I paid money for first. Lot's of video have to
get to this month, lot's of giveaways going to happen. Anyway if you like this video go
ahead and wave to the patrons. They're waving right back. "Help us, we're being blackmailed."
They're paying for my 4k camera and computer, so my Google money goes to shit like this video.
I shot and wrote most of this whole video before ever working on the serge video...
and well this was my first try at some ultra close watch macros. Hope you liked it.
What else? I think that's about it so like subscribe, comment, thanks for watching.