Is The Cheapest Watch On Amazon Really THAT Bad?

In this video, I unbox the cheapest watch on Amazon, to see if it's good or garbage for the super-low retail price. As far as I can recall this is the cheapest watch ever reviewed on YouTube and is significantly less than the cheapest automatic watch on Amazon. This has to be close to the cheapest watch in the world.

#luxury #Gaiety #BigBen

Music: Epidemic Sounds

[BensWatchClub]

Some sections of this video have been blurred post-upload to avoid breaking Amazon’s updated terms of service for their affiliate program. Affiliates are no longer permitted to use Amazon web pages in their videos, and we can’t afford to get booted, as it makes up a large portion of our revenue. It sucks, right?

[alienhatz]

200m isn't water resistance, its the estimated lifetime

[mrbacchus]

When a Casio f-91 is too "high end" lol

[justme]

This would go well with that £17 suit.

[dominicrusho]

I know this is a late comment, but I just wanted to point out that the dial is nearly identical to my 10 year old Tissot PRC200 I own - which really does have 200m of water resistance!

[mrbacchus]

I would rather draw a watch face on my wrist with magic marker than wear this.

[russellharris]

The '200 meters' on the dial is the height from which you should drop that

[tomu-s]

I think the best bang for buck is Orient. Maybe the Ray II. Not only do you get an amazing watch for the price, but the movement is manufactured in-house and has hacking/hand-winding. All for around £150! If it's just a dress watch that you like, then it's the Bambino for sure. Crazy how they produce such amazing watches for the price. I have an Orient Star RE-AU0004B00B and it's case finishing/details are way better than my Tudor Classic Date 21010. Movement is just as accurate too at +1s per day for both. I think Orient are very underrated in the UK. Would love to see more videos from you about them!

[harrkev]

I picked up an "Olmeca" chrono off of Amazon for about $8 US. Yes, it actually is a real chronograph, with three working chorno hands on three sub-dials, working pushers, and a real date complication! The black plating on the metal band is starting to wear off on the bottom, and the "crystal" is plastic, but it looks OK as long as you treat it with care. It even came in a "real" box, with the tool to push out the pins to remove the bracelet links.

What is truly remarkable about the price of the watch is that a profit was made at every step of the supply chain—from the suppliers of the raw materials all the way to the retailer on Amazon.

First I thought it looked like a Tissot PRC 200 from afar. Then I saw it was a Gaiety PRC 200.

[steveg]

It looks like something that i would find in a claw machine at a beach town. placed in a acrylic box, hidden in the back, so you don't realize you spent 5 bucks on a watch, if you can even get it from the machine.

[IlyaSolodky]

I've tried even cheaper watch - again just out of curiosity. I was able to buy and receive a $1 watch from Ali express. It was even ticking. The construction was very similar to the one you present. the design was even more simplistic truing to resemble Max Bill watch. Thie watch is rather worthless but is still a surprising and unbelievable testament to cheap Chinees labor

[BarnOwl]

You have to be very, very, desperate to buy a watch like this. I would rather do without.
The strange thing is, it's accuracy just could out perform a lot of mechanical movements.
Just think about that for a

[davidcoleman]

Hey . For a homeless person .wtf . It is a good watch . Give it to one on the street with a coffee . Be a nice bloke !

[Santor-]

I bought a g shock mudman copy off ebay for $3.20 usd, shipped. "Smael" or something like that. Now, it hardly have any functions, stopwatch, alarm, date. But the insane part is that it looses 1 second per 6 months. 0.5s/3 months. Its by far the most accurate watch I own. I use it for banging out in the bush with. And the beefiness sure stands up to a beating, even if it is just a copy. Great backlighting.

Yeah, in a way there is diminishing returns. As the added mudman features, while neat, prob wont be used that often. I have $60-$90 dual and triple sensor watches if i need that. They just arent $500 g shocks. But for 3 bucks... And super accurate, sorry, but I love it!

[donaldasayers]

I am so chuffed you like that Lorus RDX425, I bought one, what ten years ago now, I currently own two and bought them for my boys, they're indestructible and after a few years the titanium case gains a lovely soft polish. They're seriously underrated.

[chrispenn]

Currently wearing my Lorus while I watch this. I'm currently waiting for delivery of a Chinese special at £2.38 - I have high hopes!

[JoeUrbanYYC]

The best use case for these watches: when you haven't worn a watch for years and want a cheap way to decide if you want to start again. That was me last year and I bought a few Chinese watches like Yazole (great looks, bad straps, super noisy), and Curren (ok looks, good straps, better quality) and wore the various designs long enough to get hooked on watches and am now shopping for Seikos.

[InspireWire]

Great video! Love your humor. That silicone faux metal strap is kind of a cool idea though 🤔

[danielnilson]

Right now I'm wearing a Gaiety watch like this I bought from Amazon but the "leather" band broke. So I put it on a NATO strap and it looks nice.... For the $5 I spent