Spinnaker Bradner anyone?
Anyone has experience with the brand? I see it's affordable, uses NH35 and it seems very cool!
As usual, looking for the community to stop me from making the mistake of buying one more watch!
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Andrea
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Modena, Italy
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17.00 cm
I had a Bradner on the “waterproof” leather. I had the green dial with green strap. It’s great. It fits well, the crowns feel nice (except the top crown is a bit sensitive and can spin the bezel on your wrist) and they’re smooth. 180 meters or whatever the water resistance is rated to is weird, but none of us are PADI divers anyway, so who cares? The only thing I didn’t like was the way the bezel looks under that crazy domed sapphire at even the slightest of off angles. The entirety of the bottom of the inner rotating bezel is useless unless you’re looking right at the watch.
I would say for, what, $250 or so they’re going for, do it.
It’s also a thicc boi. It won’t really fit under a lot of shirt cuffs.
I have the hull commander and got it during sale. Really liking the watch, seems sturdy, feels good and the dial is beautiful to look at.
I had the Emerald Green one on the bracelet. It felt huge on. It looks really nice and the dial is a thing if beauty but it was too bulky for me.
I had a Bradner on the “waterproof” leather. I had the green dial with green strap. It’s great. It fits well, the crowns feel nice (except the top crown is a bit sensitive and can spin the bezel on your wrist) and they’re smooth. 180 meters or whatever the water resistance is rated to is weird, but none of us are PADI divers anyway, so who cares? The only thing I didn’t like was the way the bezel looks under that crazy domed sapphire at even the slightest of off angles. The entirety of the bottom of the inner rotating bezel is useless unless you’re looking right at the watch.
I would say for, what, $250 or so they’re going for, do it.
I actually am a PADI driver, but 99.9% of us never go past 40m 🤣
Thanks for the comments, I seem to have found a deal at around 150€ so I go for it unless they cancel the order for wrong listing 🤣🤣🤣
Looks great and hard to beat value wise.
I have a Hull Chrono. A friend has a Cahill he likes.
My first had a bum second hand. After I sent it off for a repair that failed, I eventually got a replacement and refund for the non-repair. They did the right thing, but took some prodding (including posting about it on WC where a rep saw my predicament.)
As someone noted then, some very good watches coming out of Asian (Hong Kong) micro brands, but their customer service isn’t up to some of the U.S. micros.
Tough to beat at those sale prices. I think you’ll like it.
I have a Hull Driver. Solid, reliable and better looking than most microbrands out there, for the money.