Spinnaker Bradner Review - The Tidal Blue

Hey there friends welcome back to another full and in depth review, this one is the Spinnaker Bradner in the Tidal Blue colour way. This watch will be a part of my 1500 subscriber giveaway that is happening very soon.

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[WATCHingJames]

It’s a good looking watch. I do love the duel crowns.

[whit]

How is it you always seem to be reviewing watches I am thinking of buying?

[sebastianvillalobos]

Great review! the watch has a beautiful dial!!

[RebootADude]

Never knew about the parent company. Neat.

[watchsixto]

Awesome review Chris definitely spinnaker like the dial color and the inner rotating bezel

[bogrot]

Spinnaker has always made some really nice looking watches. I do recall early on in my collecting journey, I was considering picking one up. I decided to do some research and I found a lot of people had been having QC issues with them. I remember in one case, one of the applied indices had detached from the dial. They were pretty major problems and I came across enough of them to change my mind. For a while it seemed like they had improved, then I heard you mention the crown thing. I hope they sort things out

[RebootADude]

Could not agree more about the quick release. It’s all I buy if I can.

[Z-S-H]

The volumn on this video seems really low. I have noticed when uploading to youtube that in editing I had to crank the volumn up on my video to get it to sound right on the videos, does anyone else think the voice volumn on this vid is really low?

[bluecollarwatches]

To Bo honest $285 is way to much for that watch, spinnaker and avi8 come from solar time limited out of Hong Kong, the exact same company that watch gang gets all their watches from. 75% of the watches you’ve received from them have had a defect which to me does not speak well of their quality control. This is all just my opinion, and when I was a member of watch gang for 3 months I was hoping they would send me a spinnaker but as I’ve been educating myself and learning about watches I personally have a low opinion of anything Solar time limited manufacturers. Opinions are like a$$holes but that just happens to be mine. Good luck with it though.

[AnCar]

Hey Chris. The qc issues are a bit of an alarm indeed, considering that you had issues with the AVI-8 too as far as I remember. Having nice customer support is great, but maybe some more budget being spent on qc would be a better idea for them. Now concerning the watch, the face looks really great indeed. The finishing on the hands is a bit rough though and the lume on the indices seems to not be equally applied based on your footage. I would tend to agree that if you have a screw down crown and you decide to add an inner bezel, the crown for that should be screw down too or at least the inner bezel should be very stiff and tactile and with very clearly defined clicks, which does not seem to be the case for this. Also labeling the strap as water resistant to have it come apart after some customers take it in the pool (even though they probably shouldn't in the first place) is at least a bit misleading.
But my biggest gripe with the design of this watch is the the case. It is arguably too thick (even though that might be marginally useful for the inner bezel crown), but the real problem is the side profile. If you have a thick watch, don't make it slab sided. This makes even Vostoks (which are usually in the 14.5-15mm range including the crystal) look like ballerinas. Apart from the nice first impression of the face of the watch, I don't find this model too appealing.
By the way, there is a bit of an argument to be made for not having quick release spring bars, at least in some circumstances. For example, it is a real pain to replace the quick release spring bars if they happen to break or get damaged somehow or if you just need thicker or skinnier lugs. In my opinion, the real necessity for quick release is with custom endlink metal bracelets. Those are a real pain to take off the case without quick release.

[KishorSridhar]

This watch is amazingly beautiful and easily beats higher prized manufacturers

[WesWatchRoom]

Shame about the qc but overall its a good looking watch, bit thick I think for myself but its still nice, especially that curvy bezel and the dial. Congrats on hitting 1.5K too mate. Well deserved.

[somewhereintimewatchreviews]

Qc issues aside if you can pick one of these up in one of thier special offers or sales then as a compressor style diver I think they're pretty cool & I guess there's a reason why it's one if thier longest running & most popular watches. My only issue with them is that they wear a bit top heavy being quite a thick/tall watch.

[NaNByZero]

A very beautiful fat lady. I have the Atlantic Blue and Love it.

[BCallum]

Love my Bradner in Pacific Blue. Spinnaker sales are awesome. There are a couple 30% and many 25% off sales every year. Just wait for the sale.

[danielm]

Love it. Will it look ok in a 6.5 inch wrist?
I like it more than the Dan Henry 1970, but the 42mm case and 50mm lug to lug makes me think about the Dan Henry which is 40mm and 45.7mm lug to lug