The Lume On This Dive Watch Is OUTRAGEOUS!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- In this video I review the incredible Wise Hitman Fully Lume'd Dial Special Edition. Wise build incredibly well built watches and this is no exception.
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Quality, attention to detail, hand assembly, affordable, innovative can't go wrong with a WISE IMO
Brilliant, on so many levels. Love Wise watches. Keep up the great work Gary.
Absolutely stunning watch and so much individual choice available
Never heard of this watch brand but very impressed with the Hitman. Fantastic finishing, great looking dial, proper movement with no ghost date. Impressive.
It's a beautiful watch, and the "mix-and-match" options they give you are dope. The lume is crazy on this one. But, they still COULD move that "W" logo from the caseback (and clasp) to the dial, even in slightly simplified version, for even more "premium" look, because that brand name as it is looks just so "plain" and "generic", if that makes any sense. It's just a minor gripe, though.
I have the Wise AD820A great watch, wears closer to the 39mm. Just preordered the 904L bracelet for it! Can’t wait! Highly recommend this brand.
Thank you for this introduction, man. Very interesting watch. I think that more micro and macro brands should start implementing features which set them apart from numerous, countless brands that repeat each other and use the same features. Using excellent lume is one of such features. How about making better watch cases and bracelets? Very few companies do anything to harden metal parts in their watches these days, while just cloning each other watches, either fully or portionly. I wear the Sinn U50 made in 2020 and this watch looks like new! Zero scratches neither onto the crystal nor onto the metal parts of this watch. This is just the next level in engineering and craftsmanship. And it would be great if more brands followed this practice.
Although it doesn't bode well for a watch when the packaging is too fancy, having the nicely presented when opening the box is a nice thing. I think they got it right. As for the watch: it's beautiful, no question. Fully lumed dial often have an ugly greenish tint, this one doesn't. The colour is nice warm off-white. The "Special Edition" writing that you can only read in the dark when the dial is lumed is a nice touch. Excellent!
Beautiful Watch!!! Great Review! 👍👍👍
Great review, it’s amazing how they can get the alignment correct yet some just can’t get it, aka Seiko!
Excellent review and beautiful watch. Thank you.
Great looking watch and i love the different options available with it and the packaging is nice. If they really want to be a "premium brand " I think they need to up the warranty to at least 2 years.
Great watch, Wise make some very nice watches, i have the AD8 Adamascus blue dial it is fantastic and the supplied blue leather strap is the best ive come across, fantastic value for money 904L stainless too
I have a Wise AD951 red dial. Fantastic watch!
good materials, great fit and finish, good price, comes with tools and thanks for the $35 off code.
I have this watch and love it despite its name. It is beautiful and the light blue in the office is great. Great quality. On the website they are showing the next generation with on the fly adjustable clasp.
Looks like my Scurfa Treasure Seeker with white dial, great lume and Miyota 9000 movement.
Very nice watch! My sister in law and husband are going to Thailand next year, might get them to pick one up for me and save on the import duties!!
Wise are incredible. I have the ad770 and its just incredible
2:53 it’s a premium watch! And you can clearly see the clue residue leaking out at the 45min indicator….
Well spotted!
Gotta say, looks really nice!
An owl told me, You’d be Wise to keep time with wise.
Wise if your looking at this get a warehouse in the eu a lot of watch enthusiasts love your watches but the import taxes in the eu are making it to expensive to buy one
Wise is actual even cheaper to buy locally. So I you ever go on vacation in Thailand be sure to pick one up. The most expensive Hitman variation (full-lume with stainless steel bracelet) is only 8200฿ (approximately US$225) when discounted. An unbelievable deal if you ask me.
Liking this one 👌 great content as always
I visited the website. I didnt see any 36mm watches? However, the watches are very reasonably priced and beautiful. I think very much worth the money if you need a watch at this level of quality.
I have their bronze Adamascus watch and it is by far, the most accurate and nicely finished watch in my collection. I will be buying another.
Very impressed with the design and look of finishing on the video. Great lume too. However I would never consider a watch with an NH movement as premium. Why not charge another £30 or £40 and have a superior Miyota 9000 movement as an option at least? I have lots of watches with NH35/36 movements. They seem promising for the first few months but all lose their accuracy. Imo it’s a robust but bargain and not very precise movement and is frustrating. Things like the cheap clasp are fairly irrelevant compared to having an inaccurate movement imo! All of my Miyota 9000 movements keep much better time.
Agreed. It's not like NH35A or similar movements are bad; they're solid, but they're literally all over the place these days, and I'm getting a little bit bored with this. Give me something with Miyota 9100 series, or at least anything at 28800 bph already... Hilariously enough, it's the chinese microbrands from Ali, that currently offer more options, when it comes to calibers used. I've got one watch with Miyota 9120 for well under 500 EUR, but you can find watches with chinese PT5000 clone of ETA, or even choose original ETA or Sellita movement for not THAT much more money. Typically, the bump in price equals to the price of the better movement itself, so it's a fair deal.
That Hitman is still a very nice watch, though.
@@JanKowalski-rd7yb Good point. However , I’ve bought a couple of watches with Miyota 9000 movements for a fraction of the price of the hitman although you’re right about quality of the hitman, the finishing looks superb so guess there has been a fair amount of labour gone into that. I also have a Cronos pilot’s watch with a PT5000 that cost my £160 and it seems to be a fairly precise movement too.
@@jacc88888 Cronos with PT5000 for 160 quid?? That's...outrageous!😄 I've paid much more for my Cronos Sea-Dweller homage with plain old NH35 (and then some, because I had to pay additional duty for that one)... I would prefer a better movement, of course, but I was going for that 2000 meters of WR in this case, and this was the only option. And Cronos has a really high overall quality too, so I'm satisfied. Mine has best bezel action I've ever experienced so far, and I have a number of diver's watches.
You can go for the Adamascus AD932 of them, for example. Great looking, 904 Steel, 9039 Movement, $579, still a bargain.
@@susokraut3169 I'd go with AD951. I like shades of red, which is generally a bit underused color, in my opinion. And yes, a watch cased in what essentially is an "oystersteel" for that price is actually a steal. As I've commented a couple of times before, I just wished they'd use their "W" logo on a dial, instead of a bit "boring", plain text, but it's a minor thing. I guess a lot of people probably don't mind it at all.
i want the green C3 version
Wise work very well..
Those close up shots are amazing! Thanks for the great review as always.
Looks like my CW Trident, actually a lot like it.
Loved it so much. I’ve just bought it from you 👍👍
Lol….nice
Their new gmt is to die for 😮
I'm drooling over that, but I'm trying to save so hard for either my swiss crono or tudor/longines
With that amount of lume you don't need a flashlight ‼️
Perfect for South African loadshedding 😁
You'll also get it nicked there
yeah...there ARE all too many places where the $20 Casio is the only real answer@@chrispekel5709
@@chrispekel5709also true 🤦🏻♂️
I'm very impressed with Wise. If the import fees didn't cost an arm and a leg here for anything above $200, I'd like to get an AD760.
Maybe it's an excuse to holiday in Thailand
@@chrispekel5709or maybe not, I'm Thai and that' the price I have to bear too, not only you
@@ahha6304so as a Thai living in Thailand, you have to pay UK import fees? That was the focus of OPs complaint.
Looks quite impressive. I've been looking for a diver with white dial with black bezel with 9015 this is second NH powered one today. Close but no cigar.
Traska freediver (Arctic white)
I like it. It does look very similar to my 38mm Cadisen. Obviously the quality of Wise is higher. This one would look decent with a suit.
Aragon has a similar offering in the divemaster 42 with lumed day date complications and half the price of this model
Nice review. Wise has a lot of promise with their watches from a build and material standpoint. However, their movements are substandard to be called premium. Until the company addresses this, They will never be anything but a good value solution in my mind and I'm sure those of us who take watchmaking and makers seriously.
I hope you get the chance to review the watch jodi just dropped.
I'd love to see your review of your review of his watch.
Nice watch, didn't knew the brand
Name is a deal-breaker. Wise Hitman once said, watches without silly names sell better.
Will wait for their next release, the Serial Killer or the Axe Murderer perhaps.
I really like the Wise 300m diver. Are there any other brands around $500 which have a strong lume?
*Of note: Full lume dials and hands have an inherent weakness. They are incredibly visible when fully charged. But when in the dark for a few hours, the dimming lume dial and lume hands blurr together as they lose charge. So it is difficult to check the time at a glance. All solid black hands (no lume hands silhouette on a lume dial) could solve this issue.
Great comment…
Wow
This is really nice, and has me pondering a purchase. The NH38, large diameter, and clasp are the only things keeping me from an instant buy. Also, is it me, or is there a flaw in the printing of the 4 in the "45" marking on the dial?
Looks like it has.
Great looking watch, but I think they really missed the mark with the dial and not using the logo that’s on the caseback instead of “Wise”. Not a fan of the font at all there.
Almost too much lume. I've got 2 full lume dial watches. One is a cheap AliExpress watch, and it had polished hands with lume on them, much like this. In the dark, the lume on the hands almost makes active camouflage, makes it hard to see the hands at a quick glance because they are the same color and brightness as the dial. My Zelos Mako Frost did it right, with a full lume dial and black hands and indexes. Super legible day or night. Oh, on the AliExpress watch, I took it apart and colored the hands black with a Sharpie, so much better day now.
I have this watch and the legibility is the best on any watch I own. Both in the light as well as in the dark. If the hands are lumed on the entire surface I definitely get that it wouldn't work but the unlumed metal border on the hands makes it work excellently in the dark as well. Luming the hands is honestly just showing off on Wise's behalf at this point.
How long does the lume last in minutes or hours? Do you have to "charge" it like you did?
nice but nothing beats tritium for lume
Did you really miss the splotch on the 45?
I like it, and as you say, the finishing looks excellent, nicely boxed as well, i would say it punches above its weight in a division where there are so many divers, which seem to a hugely popular style, but not all are even quality wise.....i think this one should have a session with Herman to see if it is as effective as it is good looking.
May be you find a battery for the lume 😂😂😂
Bezel should be wider. Looks a bit narrow in width.
I like your content, but you should invest in a better camera or add a higher resolution videos ;)
HD 60 frames a second isn’t good enough?
That is a very nice looking watch for sure. But it is for the Yakuza or the Mafia boys who fancy themselves as hit-people. The price is way too high for me, especially given the specs. Despite that, I do like it. The model name is simply a deal breaker. Who ever heard of a diver - hit man anyway. If I was ever sent a free watch I'd be praising it up too.
Pity there isn’t an on the fly adjustment, that’s a no brainer these days. At least allow for it as an option
I love Wise, but they simply are not available within the EU, and customs are a killer.
Is lume or Luuuuuume 🤣
Great looking watch, just the movement is too Basic.
Beautiful watch. Can't buy it though.......bloody silly name.
Nice watch, but I wouldn't wear anything that identifies me as a hitman!
Minute hand is too narrow! Dive watches should have thicker hands in my opinion and I have dived at night!
Seems a bit adolescent to have "Hitman" on a watch, at least it's small on the dial (and hidden on the caseback) but I'd be a bit embarrased to explain the model/brand to anyone who asked.
It's very very Thai haha
@@chrispekel5709 must be a 'lost in translation' kinda thing, I can imagine a kid thinking 'Hitman' would be fun.
Isn't any "hitman" gadget supposed to be discreet?
Nice watch, but do you want to wear a watch called ''Hitman'' ?
I would rather buy Jody’s watch.
That is too much lume for me.
Hitman? What else they selling? The Fraudster? The Nonce?
Very odd name for a watch
HaHa! Stop saying "Premium Micro Brand" every other word! We get it, you want us to think there is something special about this brand. There is nothing premium about it! They look to be on par with the nicer AliExpress brands. Zelos to me would be an example of a Premium Watch Brand. Nice review though. 😊😊
You have to keep it in context. Gary is talking about premium "budget" brands. We're not talking luxury watches here.
But the name: Wise Hitman. No serious adult would ever pick that name, for a mature watch. I would never buy it, no matter how good it was.
It’s a bit boring looking besides the lume. It needs color on the bezel insert.