Almost a PERFECT vintage reissue ... Momentum SeaQuartz 30 review
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2024
- I had seen this Momentum SeaQuartz a lot, all over the internet in-fact ... and at the end of last year I picked one up as it does look rather lovely. I wanted to make my own mind up though - and to come at this without any Magnum PI tinted sunglasses on.
I erased all of the reviews I had seen last year from my head, and took this on holiday with me, starting with a clean slate to see if the hype is justified...
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ca.momentumwatch.com/products...
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Really is a watch that causes a jolt of happiness when you glance at it. One of my favorite pickups of the past year!
Great reviews. I''m always amazed how Casio can produce the 200 meter $47 Duro with superb bezel action and a second hand that hits the marks, but other brands can't do it for often 10 or 20 times the price. The Duro's lume isn't great (I can dimly read the time after 7 hours, though) and I replaced the strap, but still.... The Momentum Sea Quartz nonetheless will be in my future. Great looks and features, along with the Magnum PI esthetic.
Thank you - I don't know if the Duro has a specifically high torque quartz movement and casio have just nailed this at an incredibly low manufacturing price with some wizardry and won't share the secret with anyone else? Or maybe other movement makers are just deliberately keeping it as a feature of the higher tier quartz offerings 😆...but it is an engineering marvel at its price point. Lume paint is expensive so makes sense this is the area it's weak, at least it has an excuse at the price. Thanks for the comments 😎🍻
great balanced review. Really enjoyed it!
Thank you, really appreciate you watching 😎🍻
3:21 I spin the bezel a few times under freshwater in a sink after a saltwater dive to break up any salt that may have crystallized during the initial drying out process. Without doing so, bezels have a tendency to feel rougher/harder to turn.
Yes definitely great advice 👌 - I do the same although didn't put it on camera, but I should have 🙂
@@nextonthewristOh, I forgot to compliment you! Great review, by the way!
I’ve been rocking my Momentum Sea Quartz 30 Eclipse Stainless ever since it landed in my mailbox last week. I’m really enamored with this watch! I guess I was lucky with my second sweep hand: it hits every second marker on the nose (or as close to it as my aging eyes can tell).
@@kevinong1735 great to hear you're really enjoying yours and thank you for the very kind words. For the seconds hand, I am pretty happy with mine, as it's a low torque quartz movement the seconds hand does have some play (turn it upside down, crown facing the floor, then 180 again and the seconds hand will shift slightly) but this is totally normal at the price point and its marginal. Sometimes I feel as watch reviewers we look at things closer than most normal humans would bother haha! There's not too many budget brands using high torque movements....I think Casio and Marathon are perhaps the two that come to mind. It's a minor point I guess to be aware of, but for me it's no deal breaker...like you I love mine and it gets plenty of wrist time. A great watch for sure 🙂
The bezel on mine is a solid performer. I’d venture that yours is a QC anomaly. Reach out to momentum, they’ll make it right.
Mine is good too, make a warranty claim?
I may just buy one! Thanks for sharing as i had no idea about this one! And hey its from canada just like me!
My pleasure 🙂🍻
I really love the vintage look to the dial but it’s just too big for me
Great review and great watch - bezel action on mine is much tighter and it aligns perfectly but the seconds hand misses almost every marker…I guess Momentum are a bit like a Seiko in terms of QC!😂
Haha good to know - sounds like a lucky dip then, I wonder how many perfect examples there are 😅
I have one of these and most of what he says is spot on. My bezel is actually a lot better than what his experience is but that is the only difference I see in his experience and mine. I also have the bracelet as well as the tropic strap. Bot are excellent. I love mine. One of my favorite watches in my collection My best non solar quartz diver.
Cheers for the comments - I do seem to have something a little wrong with my bezel I think, as lots of other owners seem to be doing a lot better here in the comments. I was curious about the bracelet so maybe I'll give it a go if you say it's decent ...since making the video this watch is my number 1 grab and go quartz, so despite a few shortcomings it's such a cool piece and I love it!
I like this watch very much!
After watching your spectacular review, I definitely want to buy one!
Keep up the great content, man!
👊🏼🫵🏼🤟🏼
Thank you really appreciate the kind words and your time to view the vid 🙂🍻 ...it's definitely a very cool piece - let me know if you end up grabbing one what you think 👍
I have zero problems with my bezel. I do not experience any back-play and the clicks are distinct. I dont know if mine comes from a different batch or what but I have several divers and the bezel on this one performs fine.
Yeah got a weird feeling it might actually just be mine after uploading this video, a few others have said the same. Cheers for stopping by 😎 🍻
Nice watch. Thanks. Do you have a link, were to buy it.
Thanks. You can pick them up at...
ca.momentumwatch.com/products/sea-quartz-30-42mm-black?variant=43903372165344
Good looking design, but a dive watch MUST have a good working bezel. Too bad. Great review though!
Bezels seem hit miss on these, mine is quite tight almost too much so. For the money a fun watch.
Interesting - very different to mine then 🙂
mine has a reasonably good bezel action, but the cool factor wins over the minor miss on the bezel.
Cool factor does win out for sure 🙂🙌 cheers for the comments 🍻
Yup
It is a fantastic watch all around.
Such a cool piece of design 🙌
I do like the retro look - but for much the same money, I’ll stick with my Dan Henry 1975. It has a VK31 movement, so a nice smooth second hand compared with the Ronda, great bezel action and excellent fit and finish. Only thing it lacks compared with the Momentum is the lume, which is terrible by comparison.
Nice - I had a Dan Henry many years ago and wasn't impressed with the quality of the watch but I'd definitely give them another go, nice to hear you're enjoying yours and it's a fair comparison....I did come close to picking up a 1975 (also great looking pieces) when they launched as do genuinely want to revisit. I think for this momentum you have to specifically value history - the same brand owner (as he was in 1977) re-manufacturing this exact watch off the original chronosport design drawings they kept hold of and assembling it in Canada otherwise it's perhaps not so appealing vs. some competitors 🙂👍
Edit - forgot to add, I normally love a sweeping second hand but in this watch, as a recreation of something from the quartz crisis I actually think the janky ticks suit it and I weirdly like it 😆😂
@@eatswodo Dan Henry watches are great, I have a few myself and love them. There are so many great watches these days it is hard to keep up with them all.
Would you or anyone call this a field diver watch or is it strictly a divers watch?
It feels like a dive watch to me but I'm open to negotiation 😆 it's pretty slim so would be good in the field 😎
The only thing keeping me from buying one of these is the lack of “Chronosport” and the sailboat on the dial. If Momentum owns those trademarks, they are missing a real opportunity to do a special edition and charge more. I’d pay it.
I'm not sure who has the rights to the name now, there was a long post about it on a forum I read and it gets very confusing with many companies involved depending on where in the world 🤔
I agree. If the original name was not possible (there was a German watch brand by Helmut Sinn with that name as well) at least the sail boat logo should have been possible and would have been nice. Anyway, the strange name Momentum along with the ugly typography and horrible M-logo are the only things that put me off from this otherwise nice watch.
Hard to complain about those things for a watch at $350 Cdn, isn't it??? These 'negatives' are simply what you should generally should expect when you get any watch at this price point. To consistently manufacture watches to make up for these 'negatives' will drive the price up. And if you get better than that at this price point, extra good! I mean, what are we comparing sub $1000 watches to, an Omega, Tudor, Squale? Seems perfectly good at the price on all counts.
In the interest of a fair and balanced review I'll always offer good and bad points, the bezel action on mine is especially poor vs $150-200 watches. There's no comparisons in here to anything unreasonable I don't think and as I said at the end, I do think it's a very cool watch. 👍
£400 to get one in the U.K!! LOL no thanks… lots of much betters options at that price!
Yeah value often depends where you live, I picked totally different watches in the uk and mainland Europe compared to ones I pick now from Canada.....based on exchange rates, import duties and taxes things changes drastically. 🙂👍
@@nextonthewrist I mean it’s a nice looking bit of kit, but at the price your a few hundred quid away from CWC. The cheap quartz movement missing the markers would drive me mad too!
@@Theflyguy522 It is a good point - QC on these especially seems to be hit and miss. Based on the video comments there is varying degrees of seconds hand alignment and bezel actions reported from other owners 👍... I'd quite like to try a CWC soon, will try and pick one up this year. Do you have any CWC experience? Marathon is big here in a Canada but their legendary GSAR quartz watches are really in a totally different price category so I wouldn't compare.
@@nextonthewrist CWC QC has got a lot better. The last one I handled hit all the markers. It is the “British Military Watch” over here. The most consistent quartz QC I have seen comes from Casio. They seem to have mastered the crystal! 🤣👍
I’ve had a marathon but I don’t really like tritium. I’d take lume anyday, well made though 👌
I had this one in my basket but once you add the postage and tax, you're right, it's just too expensive for what it is. I'd pick this up used at half the price but in the UK it's just too expensive to buy new.