80% of the microbrands that set out to “make the watch that was missing the in world of watches” end up making a watch that Seiko has been making for years, but with a Sellita movement
I don’t think it’s an hot take, it’s just objective! If it wasn’t for all YouTubers screaming LotOfWatchForYourMoney!! way less people will care about Tudors (or maybe they would have dropped already the snowflake monstruosity)
I wrote this a while ago, you might find it useful https://www.watchcrunch.com/Robin_npy/posts/any-jdm-watches-shops-to-recommend-357751#comment-1461582
I have the Automatic Titanium Blue 42mm, pictured at https://www.watchcrunch.com/to_slacker/posts/wruw-2023-11-09-4fe98682-qbj5qmdz-245933
Honestly I did not even know it did not have AR coating until I read about it here. People like to make big deals of insignificant things
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