A Watch To Remember? Or To Forget? Second Hour Memoir

[@Dialandhands]

Reminds me of the Oris rectangular. Really good looking piece and that side profile👌👌

[@AlexanderB.]

Nice, I like it, it's unexpected from a brand like Second Hour. I have to say, in this case I prefer the more conservative colours. Quartz makes a lot of sense here. "Australia" on the dial is a nice touch.

[@zozangzozang4073]

Beautiful watch with bonus points for being Australian. If it were a 2 hander I'd have picked one up already, I'll have to make do with my Seiko Dolce in the meantime.

[@mikehowells7746]

I think, being quartz, I would have prefered it with no second hand, like the Cartier.

[@darrenaquilina1403]

Very nice, looks more like a Baume et Mercier Hampton.

[@UnburdenedByWhatHasBeen]

Bulova Frank Sinatra watch. Case is slightly different but the dial and layout are very similar.

[@tobinmundy5495]

Great review as always. Black seems to be the best of the bunch but I'd struggle to find an occasion to where it.

[@lammyjammer6670]

The dial feels cheap to me. I can't quite put my finger on it (maybe the logo?).

[@calebdlara]

Yeah the font and brand name are hindering the classic styling.

[@Justme0495]

Really like this one, though I'm not a dress watch guy 👍

[@holgermuller3597]

I think to produce tank style watches is a dead field. There are so many competitors, from Casio over Jacques Lemans and tons of Aliexpress watches. Especially in quarz and for better prices! But thank you, Jody 👍👍👍

[@zaygezunt]

Absolutely beautiful watches, the dials remind me of the poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 film 'Metropolis'. Very stylish.

[@j.harbottle8928]

Great reference, Metropolis, one of the all time greats 👍

[@zaygezunt]

Thank you @@j.harbottle8928 Moore Marriott! it seems we share a love of watches and great films.

[@JF-lt5zc]

I have that poster behind me and can confirm the thought. The spires are mimicked in the hour markers and very much the deco case back. Have to say, I wouldn't have minded seeing that case back detail on the front...

[@j.harbottle8928]

@@zaygezunt cheers!

[@zaygezunt]

@@JF-lt5zc It was the hour markers that first gave me the idea. A dial integrating the deco caseback detail would be fabulous, I agree. The world needs more deco - classy, symmetrical and evocative. Ideal for watches.

[@marchills4131]

I rather appreciate the sub-register for the small seconds hand. Not in terms of practicality, but in terms of dial composition. While many sub-registers detract from the overall appeal of watch dials, that second geometric element created by the small seconds register, below the pinion and vertically off-set from the cross hatched center section, seems very consistent with the art deco style. For me, it just works, and works well. It's omission would diminish the balanced (which is not to say symmetric) geometry of the dial.

[@jamesblonde2271]

Its very pretty although I have maybe two occasions a year I might wear a dress/day watch and maybe four for a proper dress watch but they'd be great for that!

[@johnsrabe]

That’s a good looking watch. I think the small seconds is a smart design choice. More art deco’ey. The red is stunning. They missed a trick here by not leaving the case back sterile. This would be an excellent watch to give a graduate, spouse if any flavour, or a best man, and to inscribe with their name.

[@smittysmitty481]

I like the Baume & Mercier Hampton in this style. The JLC Reverso is too expensive

[@NeoGee]

I like how the quartered pattern on the second hand sub dial has a hourglass look

[@theshadowman1398]

Quartz. Not a chance when I can get a mechanical Hamilton Boulton from Japan for a similar price

[@Horizontalvertigo]

Would be keen if it were just a two hander, or a mechanical

[@tomhohum4275]

I’d call them cute. Kind of a niche watch

[@ChristyOFaghan]

at 7:12 there's a loud audio distortion causing a piercing click

[@mattewj1268]

I like the case but the dial is just too busy and shouty for me.

[@GinkgoJoe]

Haha! A cunning plan indeed!

[@donnyboon2896]

Yes

[@Egi_Fr]

❤

[@andrewd7586]

I like it.👍🏼😎

[@zapper28]

Nice. I like em.

[@gregtolley3455]

You had me til quartz. Nice looker though, bit on the small side even now though.

[@heiner71]

Rectangular watches are not supposed to like an iPad on wrist.

[@ignaciopadilla5150]

I would rather pic up the new Casio Tank for a Quartz or the Sanda from aliexpress for $8

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Cheese sandwiches and tea, as any dutch had any morning..

[@aaronswatches]

How do I feel about this one? Remember the “Second Hour” of the Cats film?🎤🐈

[@rodiow369]

Phew!, ..am I the only one here who feels a little relieved when it's something you know instantly it really does not float your boat? Love your reviews Jody but this ones a no from me thank goodness.

[@stavros_katsopr]

After all a really good microbrand, that's that.

[@JudeSturman]

Well some people advertise pistachio as green and others advertise white as silver…LOL

[@greamespens1460]

The back ground is growing on me.

[@kbarnbrook4993]

$500 for a quatz?

[@johnc1848]

Very feminine

[@philspencelayh5464]

A nice looking watch but its a lot of money for a quartz (very cheap movement) with a leather strap. It should really be a hand wind for occasional use. You go to the box take it out the watch it has stopped and the battery has leaked totalling the movement, at least the small seconds give you the opportunity to easily check that it's still running if you remember to look regularly.

[@dejandimitrijevic2722]

Mr Jody, excellent review as always. The watch looks stunning, no doubt. Have only one remark thou, 20USD (retail, maybe 10USD wholesale) Ronda 1069 Quartz movement in a 350USD watch? If I must compare, how about you get any Mercedes model with Wartburg 2 stroke/3 cylinders engine? Wold you spend this money on the watch, if you have to pay for it? Cheers

[@philspencelayh5464]

Replaced a Ronda a couple of weeks ago, battery leaked £12, a cheap fix but should be reflected in the purchase price.

[@zplapplap]

They did a great job with these watches. Very impressive designs. Truly excellent.

[@Chris-du3jc]

Lots to like, but then there's the Vario Versa reversible which is more tempting to me

[@watchalot919]

It's OK, but I can't help but feel something similar can be bought in Argos for £49.99

[@tkindschi]

While I love Second Hour watches, (the Mandala is on the top of my list of watches), I'm not in on this one. I can't stand any watch that isn't round. A personal weakness, maybe....but I just don't like the look. And a specific dress watch isn't required in my life. I'm just not that cool. ;)

[@hattyfarbuckle]

Having almost given up office work and with a super slim Tissot dress watch I've yet to size let alone wear in the months since I bought it (Jomashop again damn them!) plus an Orient office watch I havent worn since BC I dont need a dresser.... so why have I already checked delivery cost (very reasonable) and converted tthe total to the Queens shilling?

[@Publius_Enigma]

Somehow to me it looks like a watch you buy at your local shopping mall for under 100$.

[@JackJackSoriano]

That is a beautiful watch, especially in green. I do like a watch I can forget is on wrist.

[@nigelwint1969]

Second hand would have been more clever. Definitely no value here. The logo on the dial instead would be better. I like an Art Deco tank but more though went into the price here I think.

[@edwardgreenaway1808]

I like it. If i ever go vintage again it will be a 40's Gruen Curvex.

[@benjaminvis]

That green really changes hue so much even in your footage, probably because of changing light sources and white balance. It's really hard to judge what you'll get, but one thing is for sure, dark it will not be. Dark olive even less. That said, I think it might have looked better with a much darker (perhaps dark olive) strap. I usually have a preference for green, but not in this instance. For what it's worth, I think a small seconds 'complication' is one of the best things to deliver on a rectangular watch and it also gives plenty of opportunity to play with art deco patterns. It works very well here, even if the second hand looks a little perfunctory. I mainly regret that all of this effort went in to deliver a quartz watch for occasional use with a movement with a 25 month battery life. That just doesn't really gel with me. Certainly this watch would have benefitted from a mechanical movement that just stops between these occasional moments of use. In fact, the ideal situation for a hand winder, which might have stood a chance to keep that thickness so beautifully thin. I would have been seriously tempted with a hand wound movement, even if it was a highly affordable Chinese one, but as it stands, it's a relatively highly priced quartz (especially after 20-30% import costs) that looks very attractive but has too much convincing to do.

[@DouglasRosser]

I think there's space in the market for these, although many value-conscious watch nerds will go "Ewww that much for QUARTZ!!!"

[@andrewd7586]

Maybe, but keep in mind it’s curved sapphire & 800 Vickers hardness. Being an ex heat treatment tradesman that’s substantial for a watch case.👍🏼

[@ArcticSeraph]

I'm not a watch nerd, I'm just poor 😢

[@DouglasRosser]

@@ArcticSeraph Casio and Seiko make some pretty solid tank-likes, but not as nice as this IMO.

[@F3ARcsgo]

It IS a lot of money to pay for a quartz, bought a revelot gentus with a sw quartz for less than half the price :( Also the second hand looks super cheap (maybe only in the video thought)

[@axelnext]

You don’t have to be a watch nerd to know when is it justified to pay a bit for a quality piece, and when they just make a pay pig out of you.

[@Smartzenegger]

Ew, what is that sound @ 7:12 ?!?!? Not so pleasant for headphone users... I do love that green color, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with Quartz! I personally prefer it over mechanical movements for every day of the rest of my life. :)

[@MrMnmn911]

They all look nice but way overpriced.

[@musik4u343]

Yea I'm one of those "nerds"....cheap quartz for almost 500 retail is ridiculous! Lorier Zephyr is how you do a watch like this...just as thin with on AUTOMATIC for the same price and better dial. This watch is 250$ MAX

[@johnnychin]

I've been looking for an affordable Cartier Tank alternatives for while, and I'm glad that microbrands have been stepping up to fill this rather niche gap of the market. While I was hunting around there are only a few brand new watches that I know of that are accessible to me, and those are the Hamilton Boulton, Seiko's SUP series, Vario Versa, and Soner Momentum. I love the Hamilton's design and it's size. It's pretty much a perfect Tank alternative with it's own character. The Seiko SUPs are too large (for the model meant for guys) and the supposedly ladies' model is too small. The Vario is cool, being the only Basculante alternative in the market but I wanted a thin (sub-10mm) dress watch so that's out of the picture. The Soner is pretty alright but the design just doesn't speak to me. It looks too clunky and large for it to be a dress watch. In the end, I pulled the trigger on a vintage Seiko Dolce tank for less that USD130 and it fits the bill perfectly. Have I known about this earlier I really may have second guessed my choice. This is a really good alternative to a tank. It has the dimensions and design down very well. It's distinctively Art Deco just like the Tank but it has it's own charm. I'm glad this exists

[@hitsugayat10]

While the colour looks funky, think I will still prefer the Citizen FRA59 as a dress watch looks better in 'traditional/conventional' watch colour

[@MyNameIsGhost]

Jody pls consider checking out the sugess Moonphase master. It has an aventurine or white dial options with big date window and small seconds. Fully lumed moonphase. Under $250

[@brianmsahin]

They're very nice watches Jody. My wife has two 20 year old Armani tanks (fashion watches, god forbid) but top quality quartz, again Swiss, a nice black dial not unlike the black one here and a very classy champagne dial one, both with a similar curved case and caseback, both sold as men's watches but definitely unisex. These watches here are really very attractive. I like all the colours and have forwarded the website to her without comment. She has become a bit of a watch nerd having caught the bug from me. She may well like that red one and the olive green one too. As for quartz, having experienced it ourselves I do think that it's the perfect movement for these type of watches. They should sell extremely well as classic dress watches.

[@MyNameIsGhost]

HOLYYY SHIT the price😅...that said the red is beautiful but slightly femme imo

[@stephenmasciocchi1411]

Microbrand tank-style dress watch? I'll go get my Lorier Zephyr. More legible and arguably better specs.

[@Shri_V]

This should have been closer to 200 USD to fly off the shelves. Btw, I caught the blackadder reference!

[@CT-wq1je]

They do need to work on the colours real vs website. Nice design though & quartz is fine in this style. I have a Cartier tank (long term family loan) in gold that is a very similar size which I wear occasionally & a Swiss ESQ in a similar style but in steel. These do vanish on your wrist feel wise very nicely. The 50m WR does mean you can wear it to a pool party & not worry if you end up in the water some time during the evening, which is an improvement on the Cartier.

[@BlindProphet413]

I don't mind you telling us about your 177.8 millimeter wrist in each video Jody, as anyone who only watches the occasional video or has only just come to the channel for the first time won't know about your 17.7 centimeter wrist, and even frequent watchers may forget your wrist is 0.583 feet, so it's not a problem to hear about your 0.194 Yard wrist in each video. Thanks for your diligence on things like the "spec sheet" shot and the wrist shots!

[@justinlangley9522]

Yeah it is definitely good to know that he has a 7 inch wrist . If we didn't know he had a 0.0001778km wrist then we couldn't gauge it's 2.8cm watch width .

[@mattclarke8791]

Nicely executed, but not a style of watch I would buy. Quartz is preferable for a watch such as this, though - you'd be living in a very different world to me if were wearing this as a daily!

[@Brynn-be9zr]

Thanks for the helpful review. My two cents on the new setup. I find it too dark, too many shadows, don’t care for the blurry look of the logo on the wall. The previous bookshelf arrangement had brighter lighting, more appealing colors.

[@DC-uf6ve]

Too expensive for a quartz I think. I'd get a vintage personally.

[@johngibson7127]

nicely done. ditch the second hour as well as “second hour’ logo-seems cheap. Totally agree about their color presentation of the green-miles away!. I have a soft spot for tanks and like quartz so this ticks some boxes

[@jarowinti9274]

Nice watch! Honestly, I don't like the studio. It is too dark and you are "half lighted" you left body side has light, you left side does not. In one of the previous videos you said you still have to do something.... I hope so. I am you fan and I hope you take my criticism without offence...

[@thetattedpharmacist3215]

Still a bit small for me, to be honest it looks small on your wrist Jody and my wrist is a half inch at least larger than yours. Unfortunate because I love the design, and have zero problems with it being quartz.

[@Great-Scott]

I like this one but still haven't pulled the trigger. Red & green are the stars to me and I like the silver. I'm not a huge fan of quartz but with that small seconds I suppose it would be acceptable to me. What really kind of bothers me is when someone makes a two-hander mechanical.

[@chriswatchreviews4752]

I would have removed the second hand. I don't like quartz ticking hands, but that is just me

[@jjhawkins9048]

Loving the Bad Batch shirt Jody! I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.

[@etebol]

I like the small second. It is very much in line with the watches of the epoque it draws inspiration from. I do love the fact that is curved. Good effort.

[@AgeofEon]

Pretty, but I think the brand logo would have looked much better than the name "Second Hour" written out of the dial. I don't love it

[@leohidayat6811]

Single tick per second, look for dead beat second and see how complex mechanical trying to achieve that.

[@andreas1453]

I wouldnt have needed the seconds indicator, kind of destroyes the clean look of the watch with that gorgeous fond style. Neither do i approve the price. Despite that i now have got to say every watch collection needs a square watch 😍

[@notasdelaimagen8587]

I find interesting that you missed the pattern on the second hand that looks like an hourglass. Great review as always.

[@hankborchers-hc2yf]

I have no problem with quartz. I prefer it over Chinese movements that are junk.

[@birdytiger]

I don't like the typeface. But I'm also sure you wouldn't notice it in the slightest in the real world

[@johnmonachelli5256]

Add a simple applied logo not the whole name, drop in the peseaux 7001 manual and watch it do numbers

[@donaldturnbull]

I stop worrying about watch sizes when I saw a photo of a huge man with an 8 inch wrist like me wearing a Cartier Tank and it looked awesome on him.

[@davidrosenblum2178]

Puts me in mind of my Longines Dolce Vita, minus the small second hand and a date complication. I love the style!

[@Horizontalvertigo]

There are Dolce Vitas in this basic form factor

[@casep2517]

Saw an interview with the owner and he did not impress. There are plenty of other micro-brands to buy from.

[@BryanO92]

Quartz watch over $500 is always going to be a tough sell.

[@duncanhamilton5841]

Tanks not really my thing, but that is a very nicely resolved design.

[@b.k.4954]

The green one looks like the strap passes *through* the case and makes up the dial, and indeed almost like you could slide the case up and down the strap.

[@UnburdenedByWhatHasBeen]

Looks like the Bulova Frank Sinatra watch.

[@PhantomObserver]

Looks like the Hamilton Boulton “Indiana Jones” now has official microbrand competition.

[@felixangellopezalonso3993]

A watch for the first present to the new girlfriend or boyfriend or for a teenager in the graduation of secondary.

[@darrensmith6999]

Quite liking the green (: Is this the first Tank watch on the channel?

[@johnnyj.817]

the tick helps with mental timing and lets you know the watch is running.

[@chickenporkadob0]

expensive. they should've put an auto innit.

[@ajh5407]

Very good looking just a bit too small for me personally.

[@imaginarybravedave]

I like it but the written name looks like something out of a Chinese lookalike catalogue

[@soerenwizard]

A seconds hand shows if the watch is running, even a small seconds hand.

[@Jardker]

No lume, no go… dress watch or not I want to be seen from space! Lol

[@TerrySteiner]

For me the silver dial with the blue hands is the winner. I would probably swap the strap out for a nice brown leather strap. Maybe ostrich. Unfortunately, I already have two dress watches. Which is two more then I really need 😊

[@Aliens_Gonna_Get_Ya]

Get the Casio quartz tank for $50… 👍

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Not going to buy it. Not my kind of stuff.. Just bought a Casio :)

[@dmbtour05]

Not a dress watch guy but this is sharp.

[@jazdecbezhlavy]

It's a pity they left out the beveled 6.

[@j.harbottle8928]

Too much strap methinks

[@kevindavis7530]

If only it where not quartz