I Found The Top 10 AliExpress Watch Brands in 2025

Today we go through my top 10 favourite AliExpress watch brands. Including Addiesdive, Sea-Gull, San Martin & more.

Addiesdive

Sugess

Sea-Gull

Proxima

Merkur

Thorn

Escapement Time

Cadisen

San Martin

Baltany

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[leostamp]

Absolutely love your site. Been buying watches for 40 yrs. Have found your posts to be excellent and i never miss one at all. You introduced San Martin to me!! Big Tudor fan but venturing out to try alternatives. So fun to watch And really well put together videos. Leo

[muniryassin]

Watchdive are killing it lately in every aspect.

[StromTrooper-]

Militado are great value if you're into the military aesthetic.

[ignaciopadilla]

As a budget watch collector I really appreciate the value to specs of watches that come from china....I have a few from aliexpress. My most recent purchase is that red military watch by Thorn. I really enjoy wearing it and not worrying about it being scratched. Great list mate

[tigerbalm]

I bought an Addiesdive Tuna. Sapphire crystal! Quality is impressive, exceeded my expectations. $60 is unbelievable....

[dthoma]

I've watched a lot of Ali watch videos and I have to say this was one of the best ... thanks for sharing! Two brands I've gotten attached to are Militado and Steelflier for their military theme watches.

[adk]

All excellent. Honorable mention goes to Watchdives and a future brand to look for (IMO) is WM (formerly Welly Merck). Thanks for putting together the list!

[MuhammadMustafa-uy]

man you are the goat for budget ballers like me

[Fred-rgvw]

I like the escapement time field watch.. simple yet attractive

[BG_EDC]

The Baltany Explorer is seriously considered for my first automatic watch, the reddish brown dial is beautiful. I also love a couple San Martin’s in this video. I’ll probably pick up the Baltany “Khaki” too.

[WorldTravelerCA]

There is one thing I’ve learned in my 28 years of being watch enthusiast is to never care what other people like, it’s what I like to wear it’s what pleases my eye and not some else’s. I own 2 luxury watches and rest is Ali express kinda mix with couple Tissot, Tag and yes I have 2 pagani design and absolutely adore them.

[timrosenthal]

Baltany's sister brand Milifortic do some beauties as well. I have their 'Murph' homage and its beautiful for the money. The Steeldive SD1970 'Captain Willard' is another great watch for not much money ...great vid as usual mate..

[eshwarrao]

Nice list mate.. all watches have something special to own one. thanks for the efforts and great commentary

[Sicarius]

There are also a few other brands/watches that I got in last year or 2 and really like.
Hruodland type B pilot, Tactical Frog FXD and Watchdives NTTD. I had a few NTTD versions and they all were more or less bad, but this one is very good.

[vipulpanchmatia]

A good selection of brands and models. Love your vdos !

[thewatchvortex]

Congrats brother, great video that sets itself apart from the wave of Anniversary Sale lists of the last week. Really like the format and the picks (although mine would have have been different for some brands but otherwise it would be boring, wouldn't it?). Anyway just wanted to say keep up the good work!

[beprf]

I would add Welly Merck, Militado and Watchdives.

[goober]

Agelocer is a very good Chinese brand that offers watches that contain movements with 28, 800VHP 80 hour movements at surprisingly low price points

[Stabilized]

I haven’t owned one but Aquatrident looks interesting especially there bronze dive watches.

[gregdesena]

I got an Addiesdive H3-2 (Sub Homage) and I'm truly impressed. The lume is out of the world and the finishing is really nice. Fantastic value for the money.