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if you've been following me for a while
you'll already know that I like watches
a lot specifically analog and mechanical
watches which is what I talked about in
a previous video but I also have a soft
spot for smart watches although there's
definitely a place for a smart watch
that's basically all screen and a little
like phone computer on your wrist it
still has some serious drawbacks from
you honestly they're a bit more
complicated than I like I only want to
use a few of the features and they're
just not that beautiful compared to a
traditional watch and now I found a
brand that gives me those new tech
features that I'm looking for but also
marries it with traditional beautiful
watch making that's called Carnaby I
will let you know this isn't exactly a
review we are working with them on some
other projects and they did send me the
watch so I just want to go through some
of the features and tell you why I do
just really like this product the first
thing that I love is that all the
hardware and the software is designed
and developed by Crona be it's not just
a Smart Watch package jammed into a case
they did all of this from scratch so
there's a really seamless integration
between the hardware or the software and
just all the design comes together
really nicely it feels modern and
elegant through bluetooth it's really
easy to sync it with either iOS or
Android device and once it's synced the
time is actually set by your phone so
you don't have to reset it if you're
traveling this is actually a real
advantage over mechanical watches I mean
as much as I love them I do kind of hate
setting them all the time in fact my
favorite mechanical watch have actually
given up on setting the date because
when I don't wear it for a few days you
know
so for traveling this is great because
then I know what I'll and it's already
set correctly and there's a second dial
that can keep track of both my home time
and my traveling time multiple locations
there's a lot of ways to configure it
but it's really smart about it and I
like that I know it's gonna tell me the
right time even if I forgot to set it
myself
when it's out of range of your phone
there's a quartz oscillator inside so
then it just turns it to a normal quartz
watch and keeps track of time and design
you call that graceful degradation
now these watches have tons of features
in a lot of different ways you can
configure them but I'm just gonna tell
you how I use the watch which is only
using a couple of features and that's
part of why I like it so much it can be
as simple as you want it to be but check
out the link in the description below to
see a whole list of everything that it
can do including sport with if this then
that which I haven't even tried diving
into yet but it can control all my smart
home stuff so that's really cool but I
got that far so if we look at the app
it's got a really clean elegant design
it's really easy to configure the basics
of this watch on the watch face I use
the smaller dial for the secondary time
and actually don't assign anything to
the crown and the reason for that is
that if I press and hold the crown I
actually get the main function that I
want which is that it triggers a sound
for my phone so I can find it when it's
missing this is maybe the thing that I
use the most often it's really great
because I believe my phone around all
over the place you can also assign it to
be a stopwatch your time or a bunch of
different things I just like to leave
this one blank now let's take a look at
notifications there's a ton of options
here but I like to keep it really simple
so that I know if my watch vibrates it's
something important so if my wife tries
to contact me it'll vibrate three times
that's it I don't need a ton of
notifications I get distracted enough
but it's important to me that I don't
miss anything from her so I'm glad that
my wrist will vibrate even if my phone
is not in my pocket in addition to the
crown there's two other pushers that you
can assign different triggers or
complications to and my favorite one is
the music control where I can just play
and pause my music with one press and
the other pusher I assigned as a camera
trigger so I can just remotely set it
off again put it across the room press
the button takes the photo I can assign
that with a timer as well or even do
like hands-free stories on Instagram it
has great Bluetooth range it works
really consistently I love it there's a
few other things that can do like drop a
pin in a map or it has a walk me home
feature but I love the audio and camera
controls and then finally an underused
feature for me is the activity tracker I
know that's important to a lot of people
they wear a watch to Tractor steps I
don't really look at my steps at the end
of the day but it is there you can set
goals and it'll notify you if you've
achieved them these watches range from
about 400 to 700 dollars which i think
is a pretty sweet spot for them they are
premium they're not cheap watches and it
really shows in the manufacturing and
the design the point is you can get a
cheaper watch with more features but
this does feel like a premium product
there's a lot of details to love like
the etching around the crown and the
leather band that it comes with feels
great the one that I'm wearing is 43
millimeters which I expected to be too
big before it showed up but it feels a
little smaller still I'd love to see
them hit the 40 millimeter range but
they also have the smaller 38
millimeters which is great for slimmer
wrists carnaby is based out of Sweden
they have a lot of beautiful designs
probably one that you're gonna love so I
think you should go check them out and
I'll see you next video also I've got a
giveaway to go along with this video
carnaby is giving away one watch all you
have to do is follow me
Crona be on Instagram and comment a 1
micron of me posts about what you think
the coolest feature is about a connected
watch more details in the description
below
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