Review number 3 of 3
Here we are, watch number 3 of 3. The Daniel Wellington Minimalist. What a doozy this is. I bought an auction lot of watches a while back and this was in it. This was before I knew what Daniel Wellington was. I have never worn it and I have had it for about 3 years. I have tried to sell it and got no takers. I now know why.
First off it comes with a retail price of $195 USD. It comes with a nice box, leather strap, nato strap and a pin tool to help change straps easier. Being able to change straps makes it a nice feature. The leather strap looks nice on my Santa Claus watch with Swiss Eta movement. The leather is decent.
The Nato strap is made out of cheap nylon. It reminds me of the material that Timex used on their field watches way back in the day. I think those straps were better quality than this DW strap.
The case appears to be made of cheap grade stainless steel that has been gold plated. The lugs are thin and bend easily. They shouldn't bend if I'm using the springbar tool that they provide.
Can you tell which ones bent by taking the strap off? The caseback is pressed on pretty easily. As far as water resistance I think that it's not capable of being in water.
The dial is a clean looking dial until you look closely. It looks like a piece of paper with indices applied to it. It is easy to read if you don't have good eyesight. Looking at the hands I can't believe it. They are tarnished. It's not patina it fingerprinta! I tried to take a picture but it's hard to see the actual fingerprint ridges. Trust me, they are on there. I should have it ran so we can catch the crook selling these and ripping people off.
The movement is a cheap Miyota movement that has been gold plated. There is no second hand to show how good or bad the accuracy of the movement is.
Overall this watch is really light weight, looks and feels cheap. There is no way that it's worth the money they are asking for.
Review number 3 of 3
Yes
No
- Quick change straps
- Easy to read
- Lugs bend
- Fingerprints on hands from factory
- Overpriced
- Too lightweight
I have been collecting watches for a while now. I have so many watches that I wear a different one every day. Cheap to expensive, if I like how it looks I wear it.
I pride myself on stumbling on DW cold at a shop about eight years ago when I had no particular watch knowledge and quickly seeing through the marketing. I figured this was just another big, bland, empty and overpriced watch with a stoopit logo, but now this review informs me that it is much worse.
I would presume it is a decent 50m splashproof though, which is fine for non-sports stuff. Is the dinky crown okay to use or a hassle? Wait, the lugs are drilled? Barring hamfisted user error, bending lugs when pushing a spring bar through a drilled lug is really an indictment of the crap design. A fingernail is stronger than the spring force.
I have no idea how you managed to bend a lug changing the strap. I never had any problems with mine, even the clone versions.
I have no idea how you managed to bend a lug changing the strap. I never had any problems with mine, even the clone versions.
I don't have any idea either. I've changed hundreds of them. This is the only one. Your guess is good as mine.
I don't have any idea either. I've changed hundreds of them. This is the only one. Your guess is good as mine.
The one thing I do know about DW is that the caseback is sometimes difficult to get back on especially if you don't have a press. Other than that, and the fact that you have to use a bicycle pump and adapter over the crown hole to pop the crystal to change it if the hands fall off or the crystal breaks, I haven't found anything much wrong with them apart from the price. I moved over to Larsson and Jennings, and then onto Vis Vires, a long time ago because of the caseback issues which, since they use screws on theirs, they don't have.
I pride myself on stumbling on DW cold at a shop about eight years ago when I had no particular watch knowledge and quickly seeing through the marketing. I figured this was just another big, bland, empty and overpriced watch with a stoopit logo, but now this review informs me that it is much worse.
I would presume it is a decent 50m splashproof though, which is fine for non-sports stuff. Is the dinky crown okay to use or a hassle? Wait, the lugs are drilled? Barring hamfisted user error, bending lugs when pushing a spring bar through a drilled lug is really an indictment of the crap design. A fingernail is stronger than the spring force.
The dinky crown is hard to work when you have big fingers. When you push it in after setting the time the minute hand moves off a couple of minutes from where you set it.
I have no idea how you managed to bend a lug changing the strap. I never had any problems with mine, even the clone versions.
I just measured the lugs. They are 1.3mm thick. That's pretty thin.
This is to me just a simple grab n go. Feel so sorry for anybody who paid big retail price for this and really thought it’s a real winner. Better off buying a 9 dollar walmart brand way better looking than this.😆