A Watch To Remember? Or To Forget? Second Hour Memoir
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A narrow band of appeal here, made narrower by the choice of movement, but a sweet little watch with a lovely dial. Some great colours too if you do wear this style on a more regualr basis. Cheers, Jody
They did a great job with these watches. Very impressive designs. Truly excellent.
Absolutely beautiful watches, the dials remind me of the poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 film 'Metropolis'. Very stylish.
Great reference, Metropolis, one of the all time greats 👍
Thank you @@j.harbottle8928 Moore Marriott! it seems we share a love of watches and great films.
I have that poster behind me and can confirm the thought. The spires are mimicked in the hour markers and very much the deco case back. Have to say, I wouldn't have minded seeing that case back detail on the front...
@@zaygezunt cheers!
@@JF-lt5zc It was the hour markers that first gave me the idea. A dial integrating the deco caseback detail would be fabulous, I agree. The world needs more deco - classy, symmetrical and evocative. Ideal for watches.
Reminds me of the Oris rectangular. Really good looking piece and that side profile👌👌
I like it. If i ever go vintage again it will be a 40's Gruen Curvex.
That is a beautiful watch, especially in green. I do like a watch I can forget is on wrist.
Lots to like, but then there's the Vario Versa reversible which is more tempting to me
That green really changes hue so much even in your footage, probably because of changing light sources and white balance. It's really hard to judge what you'll get, but one thing is for sure, dark it will not be. Dark olive even less. That said, I think it might have looked better with a much darker (perhaps dark olive) strap. I usually have a preference for green, but not in this instance. For what it's worth, I think a small seconds 'complication' is one of the best things to deliver on a rectangular watch and it also gives plenty of opportunity to play with art deco patterns. It works very well here, even if the second hand looks a little perfunctory. I mainly regret that all of this effort went in to deliver a quartz watch for occasional use with a movement with a 25 month battery life. That just doesn't really gel with me. Certainly this watch would have benefitted from a mechanical movement that just stops between these occasional moments of use. In fact, the ideal situation for a hand winder, which might have stood a chance to keep that thickness so beautifully thin. I would have been seriously tempted with a hand wound movement, even if it was a highly affordable Chinese one, but as it stands, it's a relatively highly priced quartz (especially after 20-30% import costs) that looks very attractive but has too much convincing to do.
Nice, I like it, it's unexpected from a brand like Second Hour. I have to say, in this case I prefer the more conservative colours. Quartz makes a lot of sense here. "Australia" on the dial is a nice touch.
I don't mind you telling us about your 177.8 millimeter wrist in each video Jody, as anyone who only watches the occasional video or has only just come to the channel for the first time won't know about your 17.7 centimeter wrist, and even frequent watchers may forget your wrist is 0.583 feet, so it's not a problem to hear about your 0.194 Yard wrist in each video. Thanks for your diligence on things like the "spec sheet" shot and the wrist shots!
Yeah it is definitely good to know that he has a 7 inch wrist . If we didn't know he had a 0.0001778km wrist then we couldn't gauge it's 2.8cm watch width .
Very classy, you know you're somebody when you got a square watch. Reminds me of my Bulova "Attorney"
Loving the Bad Batch shirt Jody! I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.
Absolutely Beautiful ❤
I love it! What a wonderful little watch.
Very nice, looks more like a Baume et Mercier Hampton.
Bulova Frank Sinatra watch. Case is slightly different but the dial and layout are very similar.
Puts me in mind of my Longines Dolce Vita, minus the small second hand and a date complication. I love the style!
There are Dolce Vitas in this basic form factor
I think, being quartz, I would have prefered it with no second hand, like the Cartier.
A nice looking watch but its a lot of money for a quartz (very cheap movement) with a leather strap. It should really be a hand wind for occasional use. You go to the box take it out the watch it has stopped and the battery has leaked totalling the movement, at least the small seconds give you the opportunity to easily check that it's still running if you remember to look regularly.
Having almost given up office work and with a super slim Tissot dress watch I've yet to size let alone wear in the months since I bought it (Jomashop again damn them!) plus an Orient office watch I havent worn since BC I dont need a dresser.... so why have I already checked delivery cost (very reasonable) and converted tthe total to the Queens shilling?
Very nice indeed. I have a small Pulsar Tank watch that I like, this is a step up. Hmm, I want it, especially the blue one, will have to think about it. Perhaps next time they have a special.
That's a handsome dial, and the proportions are quite nice for a "Tank" style watch. My lifestyle isn't such that I could justify the expense, as "suit and tie" occasions are currently pretty rare, and this watch almost demands a suit and tie. We're I a bit more affluent and attended more gala events however, I might pull the trigger on this one. Simultaneously subtle and eye catching. Thanks for the review.
They're very nice watches Jody. My wife has two 20 year old Armani tanks (fashion watches, god forbid) but top quality quartz, again Swiss, a nice black dial not unlike the black one here and a very classy champagne dial one, both with a similar curved case and caseback, both sold as men's watches but definitely unisex. These watches here are really very attractive. I like all the colours and have forwarded the website to her without comment. She has become a bit of a watch nerd having caught the bug from me. She may well like that red one and the olive green one too. As for quartz, having experienced it ourselves I do think that it's the perfect movement for these type of watches. They should sell extremely well as classic dress watches.
The dial feels cheap to me. I can't quite put my finger on it (maybe the logo?).
Yeah the font and brand name are hindering the classic styling.
This looks great. So happy about these microbrands doing dress watches. I have a Vario Versa I love that I bought after your video and I love it.
Nice. I like em.
Its very pretty although I have maybe two occasions a year I might wear a dress/day watch and maybe four for a proper dress watch but they'd be great for that!
For me the silver dial with the blue hands is the winner. I would probably swap the strap out for a nice brown leather strap. Maybe ostrich.
Unfortunately, I already have two dress watches. Which is two more then I really need 😊
Very handsome watches these .I have no problem with the quartz either. 👍
I like it, I really do. Simple lines, straightforward and done really well. What's not to like for going out of an evening in the fancy dress?
I think there's space in the market for these, although many value-conscious watch nerds will go "Ewww that much for QUARTZ!!!"
Maybe, but keep in mind it’s curved sapphire & 800 Vickers hardness. Being an ex heat treatment tradesman that’s substantial for a watch case.👍🏼
I'm not a watch nerd, I'm just poor 😢
@@ArcticSeraph Casio and Seiko make some pretty solid tank-likes, but not as nice as this IMO.
It IS a lot of money to pay for a quartz, bought a revelot gentus with a sw quartz for less than half the price :(
Also the second hand looks super cheap (maybe only in the video thought)
You don’t have to be a watch nerd to know when is it justified to pay a bit for a quality piece, and when they just make a pay pig out of you.
Mr Jody, excellent review as always. The watch looks stunning, no doubt. Have only one remark thou, 20USD (retail, maybe 10USD wholesale) Ronda 1069 Quartz movement in a 350USD watch? If I must compare, how about you get any Mercedes model with Wartburg 2 stroke/3 cylinders engine? Wold you spend this money on the watch, if you have to pay for it? Cheers
Replaced a Ronda a couple of weeks ago, battery leaked £12, a cheap fix but should be reflected in the purchase price.
Thanks for the helpful review. My two cents on the new setup. I find it too dark, too many shadows, don’t care for the blurry look of the logo on the wall. The previous bookshelf arrangement had brighter lighting, more appealing colors.
Nice.
I'm pretty ignorant of the design traditions of "tank" watches, but the way the indices push in to the central rectangle seems neat to me. I like it!
Tanks not really my thing, but that is a very nicely resolved design.
I like it.👍🏼😎
I stop worrying about watch sizes when I saw a photo of a huge man with an 8 inch wrist like me wearing a Cartier Tank and it looked awesome on him.
really love it, just a bit out of my price range
The green one looks like the strap passes *through* the case and makes up the dial, and indeed almost like you could slide the case up and down the strap.
Really like this one, though I'm not a dress watch guy 👍
Great review as always. Black seems to be the best of the bunch but I'd struggle to find an occasion to where it.
HI Jody, Great video. The sound is coming through great.
I can't help but mention that this design is probably a homage to a Longines produced between the 1920s and 1940s.
It's probably not a watch for me, but there does seem to be a bit of a trend for the tank style at the moment.
I love the look. The green is amazing. Will it ever come in manual wind or automatic? Just a personal preference.
The Red version really Pops
Great looking watch! I tend to agree with you that it might have been a better choice to do without the second hand for a cleaner symmetrical look. Well done 🥃
the tick helps with mental timing and lets you know the watch is running.
Hello and welcome! 🎉
I think to produce tank style watches is a dead field. There are so many competitors, from Casio over Jacques Lemans and tons of Aliexpress watches. Especially in quarz and for better prices! But thank you, Jody 👍👍👍
I really like the design of this watch, and I even like that small seconds complication. I have a vintage Hamilton and a vintage Elgin, both from the early 50s, and their second hands are also really tiny. I think it was placed there more as a means of determining the watch is actually running at a glance than to be able to accurately tell the seconds. Other than the quartz movement of the seconds hand I think this watch really hits a true vintage aesthetic with some modern touches. I would be interested in this watch for a future purchase if it wasn't for two things... First, I rarely need to dress up formal and therefore the couple dress watches that I already have sit in the watch box and very rarely get worn, I think the same would end up happening with this watch. Second, and this is just my personal taste, I have a large 7.75 inch wrist and don't mind wearing small when the watch is mid century vintage like my Hamilton and Elgin watches, but if I'm going to spend money on a brand new watch I want it to fit my wrist a little better. Not that I would want a huge obnoxious version of that Second Hour Memoir, but I would want it to be just a bit bigger.
I like how the quartered pattern on the second hand sub dial has a hourglass look
Nice. My introduction to collectable watches was a 1947 Gold Bulova tank style watch with the same tiny seconds hand above the 6 o'clock. I thought "Second Hour" meant they were GMT watches. I was in the US military in the 1980s and we always planned missions in Zulu time. I would have liked to have a GMT watch then but I don't know if they existed. We just got used to thinking "plus 2" or "minus 6."
That’s a good looking watch. I think the small seconds is a smart design choice. More art deco’ey. The red is stunning.
They missed a trick here by not leaving the case back sterile. This would be an excellent watch to give a graduate, spouse if any flavour, or a best man, and to inscribe with their name.
Charming
I like the Baume & Mercier Hampton in this style. The JLC Reverso is too expensive
While the colour looks funky, think I will still prefer the Citizen FRA59 as a dress watch looks better in 'traditional/conventional' watch colour
I find interesting that you missed the pattern on the second hand that looks like an hourglass. Great review as always.
Jody pls consider checking out the sugess Moonphase master. It has an aventurine or white dial options with big date window and small seconds. Fully lumed moonphase. Under $250
I wouldnt have needed the seconds indicator, kind of destroyes the clean look of the watch with that gorgeous fond style. Neither do i approve the price.
Despite that i now have got to say every watch collection needs a square watch 😍
I love the green and all of them to be honest yeah I hate seeing that quartz ticking so agree they should have made it a two hander. I also question the cost with a lower grade quartz movement in it that depending on spec can be found easy for 15-20 range. Now its a decent quartz movement still but when the watch looks that good I feel it deserves a better movement in it.
Quite liking the green (:
Is this the first Tank watch on the channel?
I really like it. I pre-ordered the red one. I think at closer to $340 USD, it is worth having to fill the dress watch category that's vacant in my collection. Not being mechanical is not a deal breaker. When nearly all of my watches are mechanical, having a few quartz is totally fine.
Although the intent is for this watch to be a dress watch, I can see this maybe dressed down or otherwise worn in a much more casual attire. Just take it like how many may approach a Carrier Tank.
My initial impressions were that it was too dressy with Roman numerals. But, I have seen and they look fine with a plain t-shirt and pair of jeans. I can imagine the same may be applicable with the Memoir. I'll certainly give it a go and see for myself when the watch arrives.
I rather appreciate the sub-register for the small seconds hand. Not in terms of practicality, but in terms of dial composition. While many sub-registers detract from the overall appeal of watch dials, that second geometric element created by the small seconds register, below the pinion and vertically off-set from the cross hatched center section, seems very consistent with the art deco style. For me, it just works, and works well. It's omission would diminish the balanced (which is not to say symmetric) geometry of the dial.
Not a dress watch guy but this is sharp.
I’d call them cute. Kind of a niche watch
Yes
I always thought I had no interest in a Tank style watch, but these videos are slowly turning me into a convert… this one is a bit pricey though. Although it’s a beauty.
I've been looking for an affordable Cartier Tank alternatives for while, and I'm glad that microbrands have been stepping up to fill this rather niche gap of the market. While I was hunting around there are only a few brand new watches that I know of that are accessible to me, and those are the Hamilton Boulton, Seiko's SUP series, Vario Versa, and Soner Momentum. I love the Hamilton's design and it's size. It's pretty much a perfect Tank alternative with it's own character. The Seiko SUPs are too large (for the model meant for guys) and the supposedly ladies' model is too small. The Vario is cool, being the only Basculante alternative in the market but I wanted a thin (sub-10mm) dress watch so that's out of the picture. The Soner is pretty alright but the design just doesn't speak to me. It looks too clunky and large for it to be a dress watch. In the end, I pulled the trigger on a vintage Seiko Dolce tank for less that USD130 and it fits the bill perfectly. Have I known about this earlier I really may have second guessed my choice. This is a really good alternative to a tank. It has the dimensions and design down very well. It's distinctively Art Deco just like the Tank but it has it's own charm. I'm glad this exists
Somehow to me it looks like a watch you buy at your local shopping mall for under 100$.
I like this one but still haven't pulled the trigger. Red & green are the stars to me and I like the silver. I'm not a huge fan of quartz but with that small seconds I suppose it would be acceptable to me. What really kind of bothers me is when someone makes a two-hander mechanical.
Looks like the Hamilton Boulton “Indiana Jones” now has official microbrand competition.
Haha! A cunning plan indeed!
It's OK, but I can't help but feel something similar can be bought in Argos for £49.99
This should have been closer to 200 USD to fly off the shelves. Btw, I caught the blackadder reference!
It has a smaller JLC look to it. Reminds me of 1930s watches if not 1920s.
nicely done. ditch the second hour as well as “second hour’ logo-seems cheap. Totally agree about their color presentation of the green-miles away!. I have a soft spot for tanks and like quartz so this ticks some boxes
Quartz watch over $500 is always going to be a tough sell.
You had me til quartz. Nice looker though, bit on the small side even now though.
Rectangular watches are not supposed to like an iPad on wrist.
Stylish design
I love these but I actually wish it was a tad smaller. Closer to the large Cartier Tank size of 26mm wide and 34mm long. It so hard to find a tank alternative at that size. They are always too big.
Very good looking just a bit too small for me personally.
Would be keen if it were just a two hander, or a mechanical
With how few square watches there are for men this is quite nice🔥
They do need to work on the colours real vs website. Nice design though & quartz is fine in this style. I have a Cartier tank (long term family loan) in gold that is a very similar size which I wear occasionally & a Swiss ESQ in a similar style but in steel. These do vanish on your wrist feel wise very nicely. The 50m WR does mean you can wear it to a pool party & not worry if you end up in the water some time during the evening, which is an improvement on the Cartier.
Quartz. Not a chance when I can get a mechanical Hamilton Boulton from Japan for a similar price
at 7:12 there's a loud audio distortion causing a piercing click
Quartz 🎉
Add a simple applied logo not the whole name, drop in the peseaux 7001 manual and watch it do numbers
7:32 Why not get a tattoo on your left wrist (above where the watch goes) that says 7” FYR ?
A watch for the first present to the new girlfriend or boyfriend or for a teenager in the graduation of secondary.
Nicely executed, but not a style of watch I would buy. Quartz is preferable for a watch such as this, though - you'd be living in a very different world to me if were wearing this as a daily!
I like the case but the dial is just too busy and shouty for me.
Get the Casio quartz tank for $50… 👍
I like it but it seems a bit pricey too me
Microbrand tank-style dress watch? I'll go get my Lorier Zephyr. More legible and arguably better specs.
Cheese sandwiches and tea, as any dutch had any morning..
Sir,
......thanks for sharing your lovely video of those beautiful watches...
Single tick per second, look for dead beat second and see how complex mechanical trying to achieve that.
A seconds hand shows if the watch is running, even a small seconds hand.
❤
Ten points to Mr Jolly!
I like the green.
I would rather pic up the new Casio Tank for a Quartz or the Sanda from aliexpress for $8