Hey everyone, today I want to give you my honest thoughts about the Mosel watch
from DIY Watch Club. This is a followup to the video where I talk about the DIY
watch kit and the build process, so if you haven’t checked that out yet, please do.
There’ll be a link to it down below in the description as well as up here.
So I actually first discovered this through an instagram ad and I thought it
looked pretty cool so I decided to buy it. It’s actually a collaboration with EONIQ,
which does custom watches, but that’s only mentioned on EONIQ’s website.
Anyways, on to the watch itself. This is the Mosel with a blue sunburst dial and black leather strap.
The body is made from polished stainless steel and the crystal is a piece of single domed acrylic.
As for the dimensions, it’s 38.5mm across, 45.5mm from lug to lug, has a lug width of 20mm,
and is 13.3mm thick, but a lot of that thickness comes from the domed acrylic.
On the dial, you can clearly see that it is an open heart dial, meaning there’s a hole cut out
so you can actually see the balance wheel spinning in the movement. Personally, I don’t prefer open
heart dials because I think it breaks up the symmetry of the dial, but I wouldn’t consider it
a deal breaker. There are only two hands on this, indicating the hour and minute, so no way to tell
the exact seconds, which is helpful, since this isn’t exactly the most accurate movement around.
The dial itself is actually made of metal, so all of the markings you see are actually just
parts of the dial that weren’t painted over in blue. I actually think it looks a lot nicer than
if they were to just paint it all blue and then paint the markings in white over it.
In terms of the markings themselves, it just says automatic at 12 o clock,
with no brand name anywhere. The hour markers are just standard arabic numerals,
with the 7 missing because of the open heart cut out. Then it has rail markings to show
minutes with every 5th minute being a little bit thicker than the rest.
Looking at the crown, it is actually signed with the same letter D that’s in the logo for DIY
Watch Club. Not a lot of cheap watches have signed crowns, so this is actually a pretty nice touch.
Flipping the watch over, you can see it has a see through caseback with an acrylic window,
which lets you see the entire movement. Around the case, it says hand assembled, 316 stainless steel,
Japan movement, water resistance 30m/100ft and DIY
Watch Club. And it also has that same letter D from their logo that you see on the crown.
In terms of the movement, this is a Miyota 82S0. It moves at 21,600 beats per hour,
has 21 jewels, a 42 hour power reserve, and is accurate from -20 to +40 seconds per day.
I can say from my experience that it gains about a minute every 3 days, making mine +20 seconds
per day, which is not too bad. The movement is automatic, hand winding, and also hacks.
Automatic means that the watch winds itself just through the movement of it being on your wrist.
Hand winding means that you can actually wind it up yourself by rotating the side crown when
it’s pushed in all the way, and hacking means that the movement will actually stop
if pull out the crown to the first position and set the hour and minute.
Now finally, let’s move on the the strap. This is just one of the standard black
20mm wide leather straps from EONIQ. According to their website, the outside
is genuine calf leather from a Swiss supplier and the inside is a “suede like” material,
which means that it isn’t actually real suede, but it’s still soft and comfortable nonetheless.
On one strap it says belle Toscana, which is actually Italian and translates to tuscan leather,
or leather from Tuscany. On the other strap, there’s some EONIQ branding with
their logo and the same logo is seen again on the buckle. One thing I really like about this
strap is that it comes with quick release pins, meaning no tools are necessary to remove them.
All you have to do it slide the pin back and the strap will come right off.
So now the final question, do I like this watch? Yes. I think the sizing is great for my 6 3/4 inch
wrist and I really like the blue color on the dial. It’s a pretty clean and minimal watch,
with the simple arabic numerals and lack of branding with just a little bit of flair from
the open heart dial. While it is a touch on the dressier side, I think this would also look great
on casual outfits as well. All in all, I think it’s a great looking watch and have definitely
got plenty of use out of it, as you can tell from the huge scratch on the crystal and case.
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It really helps me out. Thanks for watching and See you all next time.