San Martin SN054G full review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
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Timestamps
0:00 - B-Roll
01:09- Intro
01:34- Price, Colors, Specifications
04:17- Dimensions
05:13- Wrist shots and Strap show
07:54- Case finishing
10:54- Crystal
11:40- Dial
13:50- Lume
14:03- Movement and Crown
16:58- The bracelet
19:04- Conclusion
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Thanks for the review. This is on my "interested" list. I have a very nice looking GMT, the blue Vesuvuaite Volare. This "homage" is killer looking. Cheers from Atlantic Canada!!!
Great review. I'm anxious to see if PD drops one of these soon.
Very nice review. Wonderful with different straps which is really helpful! Thanks!
Glad you found the review useful! The strap show is a fan favorite
Again a great review Steve. I ordered the black dial version with the NH34 movement.
👍the black dials look awesome. Tempted to swap this for the same model since I ha e a similar white dial field watch in the collection already
The Miyota 9075 with the true GMT hour forward/back quick set would be a welcome addition.
I got my first Hangzhou movement in the Cronos Pepsi GMT yesterday and I am in love with it! Also have the NH34 version of this San Martin coming and I couldn’t be more pumped! Both of these watches are my first Cronos and San Martin respectively and I’m simply in love….
Wow, what a way to cut your teeth on 2 of the top Ali brands. Excellent watches 👍
Hello. what is the difference between the first version and the nh34? thanks
Whats is the accuracy hz6460?.
Those ducks cracked me up! I've got the NH34 on the way. That's a great looking watch! The silver and white look so good.
🦆🦆🦆🦆 enjoy the watch!
Great review! That clasp on the black silicon strap. Does it come with it? Thanks!
Great review, as usual. Nice to hear ducks... This looks good.
Thank you, sir. The duck approve of this message. 👊
The problem with any kind of mis alignment, no matter how minor, is that once you notice it, it's almost impossible to " Un-see. Great looking watch though, as usual, from San Martin. Great review as always !!
Indeed, And thank you!
I noticed that when I'm trying to decide the next watch to buy and i watch your reviews, i easily can come up with a decision
I'm just glad I can help one way or another. 👍. Thanks for watching!
I end up buying them all! 😂
14:16 what are you using to keep track of the movement time keeping speed?
Keep up the great reviews my friend. Your review is spot on and I had the Tudor on order but canceled because of the concern of its thickness. Life has to be a real bummer for those that are around people that a.ways see the glass half empty......
Haha, indeed. Thanks for the kind words and I'll keep going as long as someone's watching! 👍
Beautiful watch! I love the white face. I like the looks of a brown or distressed brown leather/suede strap however the parachute elastic straps are so incredibly comfortable so I would wear it on one of those. Grey with orange stripe looks great! Agree that San Martin makes a great oyster style bracelet. They are very comfortable.
All of those go so well with this watch. Strap monster for sure. Thanks for ⌚-ing👊
@@EscapeWheel After some looking, I’m considering the SN0054-G bc it has no date.
It's a stunning watch 😍
But too expensive for me. It's 447€ here in France, thanks to TVA 😔. The NH34 is 382€, so clearly the good choice imo. But still too expensive for my wallet 😅
As usual a very complete review with a so beautiful intro 👌
Try Watchdives, bought my NH34 under 300€ delivered in Belgium, taxes included 🙂 Good luck
Just ordered mine today 03/15/23. Can't wait
Nice! NH35 or HZ6460?
@@EscapeWheel honestly idk, how can I find out? Also which one is better in your opinion?
@@sir59 NH34 would have been under $300, HZ6460 over $300. the NH34 dial lacks an index next to the date at 3 o'clock. both are great movements. the HZ6460 is ETA based and is high-beat and probably more accurate, but the NH34 will probably be the more reliable and cheaper movement to replace down the road.
@@EscapeWheel yes, after looking at it, I did purchase the NH34 around $270. Hope it’s a good watch!
One of their best so far
In my humble opinion I think the leather nato is the most complimentary, very good review
I agree! And thank you 👊👊
Such a nice watch. And great review. I got mine with the black dial but with a misaligned bezel. Your piece looks fantastic 🙂
Is the misaligned worse than mine? Someone told me mine has it 🤷. I can see it, but barely
@@EscapeWheel
Yes my bezel is way off and about 1,5 mm misaligned. Yours to me looks good.
@@lassejupin6684 ugh, San Martin going to do anything about it?
@@EscapeWheel Nothing. They wanted me to send the watch back but I have done so before and lost 3 watches which where stolen by the Chinese post I suspect. So I am not sending more watches to China. They could have given me a refund but nothing 😂
@@lassejupin6684 did you file a dispute with Ali? They may side with you for a partial refund.
Gets me thinking how these are put on....I assume just press fit, wonder if a watchmaker could pop the bezel off and realign 🤔
The date change happens at 23:45 … Which is weird ! Someone else was complaining about this on their Aliexpress review of this watch, so it seems like it’s a general defect from San Martin.
any updates any the explorer 2 polar homage?
thanks for the review! wanted to suggest that you could add "BB GMT" or something along those lines to the title for others to find this. I was looking for a review like this and only came across it by searching through many San Martin posts that were unrelated to this model.
Thanks for the suggestion. My channel got deleted for similar titles and me saying those forbidden words....so I have since moved to using their official model numbers. I try and put it in the tags though. Sometimes I miss the mark...lol
@@EscapeWheel ah that makes sense! Tricky to navigate
@@JulianFok I had "Black bay GMT" In the tags...it should have picked it up but who knows what TH-cam is doing sometimes 🤷🤣
@@EscapeWheel tested that now in my search bar and your review still didn't show up! jeez that's annoying of them.
@@JulianFok annoying indeed.
Great review Steve! I'm gonna have to get the black dial nh34 one. This is one homage that I think looks better than the original IMO
Indeed, they nailed it.
Want applied markers for this watch
Waiting for my Nh34 to arrive, thanks for the great review. Have the Stienhart 42mm in black so, thins will be an interesting comparison in white as the 39mm Stiehart is 25% more than the 42mm and not a good a value IMHO.
I'd be curious to see how they compare as well
Anyone tried this on a 6.25 wrist yet? I'm concerned the 48 Lug-lug is too big for me. Tia 🙏
The orange of the "GMT" writing and the GMT hand should be a a darker orange, like an orange-red, to stand out better. It's still very nice though.
Excellent, thank you
Thanks for watching! 👊
Does de bezel rotates or is ir fix? Thanks for such a good review
It is fixed
By the way, that 12 in my opinion is not off, it may look a bit that way but it's because the #1 is so much thinner than the 2 in the number 12.... They balanced it right in the middle of the entire number not between the two numbers.... I think it looks great........ I just bought this watch...!...... I have a couple other San Martin's and for the money they blow me away.... Amazing that they can sell them for the price they do, considering the quality of the components.... Great review...Greg...IN
Thanks Greg! I agree. Someone said they were off, so then I looked, and looked, and looked... And you know how that goes, the more you look, the more it started to look funny....lol. but I think you are right, looks fine to me and hasn't bothered me at all.
@@EscapeWheel Thank you for the reply... I just got this watch and now I have 3 of these San Martin's and I can't get over the quality for the money...! Love this GMT and I got the NH34 movement.....! The finish on the entire watch is outstanding, great lume, excellent oyster band and (I know you know this being a knowledgeable watch guy) if this watch was Swiss made it would easily be a $750 to $ 1.000 watch... All three of the watches I purchased from them have been fantastic....! By the way I have the SN004 the homage of the Tudor Black Bay and it actually I think wears better than the real one because it is much thinner, although of course it doesn't have the movement that the Tudor does but we are also talking $230.00 vs $4K... Great video as usual... Love it and love that you do strap examples...! 5 STARS....Greg
I have the NH34 (Silver) now for 2 weeks, the 12 marker on the bezel is also slightly to the left, the date is changing around 23u45 (I don't care), I have the impression that the round markers are just a few % smaller then the previous version(or the black outlines are now thicker) but maybe that's just my OCD 🙈.
However, I like the dial color so much that I couldn't resist 😀
For me this watch would have been perfect when reducing the overall size by 1or 2mm ..
Agreed about the size. 38mm would have been perfect for me as well. From the images it does look like something is different about the markers, I think I like the look on the NH34 just a touch more.
@@EscapeWheel I think now the markers are more simular to the hands...
What are your thoughts on the silver vs black dial for this watch? My only other watch is a black Casioak, so I'm leaning towards the silver. However, I'm concerned if the dial color is any different on the NH34 version, as that's the one I'm looking to buy.
Dial colors should be the same between the 2 movements.
Black is definitely the more versatile choice. I wouldn't worry too much about having 2 black dial watches in the collection, especially considering what your other one is (tough and rugged) this one would be a perfect every day wear watch in black. I like the silvery color, but at times I wish it was just white.
@@EscapeWheel Thanks, that helps a lot! I think I'll go with the black dial then.
Where's that black sailcloth strap from? I reluctantly skipped this guy on the sale but a nice strap would help soothe the pain.
Linked in the description as the black sailcloth silicone thing
Hello! I have a thin wrist, will this work for me? (much like a child's) refers to the strip that comes by default 😊
It's hard to say without knowing you wrist size..but this should fit a wrist under 6.5"
Damm that look's nice😊
Awsome watch. Don't care about the colour. Wonderful watch
Ducks 🦆 love it 😂😂 great review
Thanks, Zach.
Why do ducks have tail feathers? To cover their butt-quacks. 🤣🤣🤣
Great review
How reliable is a nh34
If i buy this I'll have to use it for 10 years atleast
Will it last that much of time?
It's never a guarantee, but there are many cases of the Seiko 4R movements (which this is based off of) lasting 10 years with no servicing.
Nice thing about these movements is that they are like$40 for a replacement and about an hour of work for a watch maker to replace so total cost to replace isn't bad
The question we all need answered is - is the NH34 version also duck-approved? 🤔
I would assume so. They go crazy for the NH35 so why not the NH34? 🤣
I would definitely choose an NH34
hello, why ?
Was hoping you compare it to the parnis
This is just on a new level. The Parnis is nice for under $100 but this is just a better watch in every single area.
👍
The 12 is not misaligned. If you look at the bezel isolated the 12 sits perfectly between the | markers. If you compare against the 30 minute marker, the 30 minute marker hits the 2 in 12 because the 2 is wider than the 1.
But after he said it one of the twos at 11 o'clock looks off to me now.
I honestly can't see that 12 being off, so that doesn't bother me as much as the size of the handset. It looks like they just took the hands off of their 36mm model and slapped them on this instead of upsizing them to the proportions of the case. Great review as always, Steve!
Thanks, Dan. Now I'm curious of the dial sizes between the 2🤔
I'm guessing the 36mm dial is about a mm smaller because the hands reach all the way to the minute track on that one.
its weird because my handset seems ever so slightly longer than Steve's (i have the NH34 version)...
Nice.. any sharp edges ?
Nothing out of the ordinary. SM is known for their sharp finishing, but this one never bothered me like their sub homage does.
@@EscapeWheel thanks.. so less sharp than sn017 ?
@@goodlifebdg correct.
@@EscapeWheel thanks
Love…
“What do you guys think?”
Those d@mn ducks crack me up.....smh😄. Really love the styling of the SN054G. San Martin just offers so much more, for so much less, IMHO. I do wish that they would veer away from the fluted casebacks. Have you ever used one of the actual fluted metal bits for opening one or just a rubber ball??? Are they generally pretty easy to remove using a rubber ball removal tool??? Seems to me that it probably wouldn't take much to sheer that fluting, rendering the caseback unremovable. As someone who likes to tinker with, regulate, and service my own watches, that feature alone would prevent me from "pulling the trigger" on certain models. Great looking piece though, and fantastic b-roll shots. I like it best on the bracelet, with the "sailcloth style" a close second. Cheers and well wishes, Steve....
I've had good success with the ol' ball of ductape. My one rubber ball never worked, but the tape ball hasn't let me down yet. I really see no reason for them other than the originals using them. Can't be cheaper than milling 6 little slots into the caseback. 🤷
@@EscapeWheel Agreed. Do you wrap the ball with the sticky side out, or vice versa???
@@tarasmathers7423 stickey side out
It's pretty, it's well made and the price is fair. But it's a pass for me. With a NH34 it would be a winner.
It HAS an NH34 option!
If you’re paying that kind of money on a Chinese made watch then one would expect a much better quality! So please, quit making “excuses” to those “minor flaws”. It’s irritating!!😤
News flash, most premium brands and micro brands are MADE IN CHINA.
Also, I'm pointing out the flaws, it's up to you whether you think it's worth it or not. Nobody is forcing you to watch the review, nor purchase the watch.
Irritating comment!!😤
Your camera is cheaper than this watch.
....I guess with depreciation, sure.
@@EscapeWheel I guess you should buy new camera and we can see your watches
@@Alexander_Sth I don't get it
@@EscapeWheel so you need to set a goal. Think you can find a good used camera...
@@Alexander_Sth but why? For a 10% better picture quality. I'd rather buy more watches. I think you may be the first person to complain about the video quality on my reviews.
Watch has no soul. Just a copy don’t see the fascination with these.