The Best Aliexpress watches of 2023! | The Watcher

[@hifi-enthusiast]

I'm very curious to see what IXDAO will release next. Their Engineer is an amazing watch.

[@wismods]

I also have IXDAO in my watch collection, amazing watch

[@stavros_katsopr]

Saw the vid when aired, but didn't comment then, got to do it now, as a thank you. A great recap of the year, with many great choices, in many styles/categories. Cheers mate, thanks once more for all your effort, be well.

[@TheWatcherReviews]

Appreciate it Stavvy!

[@chrislyall6251]

Great review my brother.

[@adk7962]

Thanks for the great recap. I can’t believe IX&DAO has only been really around since 2023. I can’t believe it’s already May. Thanks again!

[@TheWatcherReviews]

Same here!

[@c.s2001]

Thank you for your education, training and experience. You really are a watch Expert. Thank you.

[@TheWatcherReviews]

My pleasure!

[@brianmsahin]

Very useful overview of the pros and cons Zee, thank you. I'm just thinking that first one, the Proxima would be a great GMT.

[@TheWatcherReviews]

They do have it in the 39mm, same case

[@brianmsahin]

@@TheWatcherReviews 👍👍👍👍Thanks !

[@wismods]

Love your content. I do various major mods on the Proxima mm300s that you would be interested in. My SBDX001 are 14mm thick.

[@michaelj8793]

Great video as always my friend I've had a couple that have lasted well past the honeymoon phase my favorite being the Watchdives Sharkmaster and tool free adjusting bracelet homage I've even swapped that bracelet over to a couple of my faves I've also seen that Addies dive came out with a bargain Omega homage for just over one hundred dollars I think I'm going to bring it in for a slight mod project Damn you for getting me into modding watches lol Be well my friend and of course Stay Frosty 👍

[@zillsburyy1]

SM, BALTANY, SEESTERN are always great quality

[@alixrza3107]

Good recap bro👍👍

[@mattstolzman]

I'm considering the Sn0121. The new blue one with a 6 o clock date

[@garylangford6755]

Great choice. 6 o'clock date is the way to go

[@brianmccord7387]

The price has been steadily dropping on that Sugess Steve McQueen. Great video -

[@BCallum]

Thanks for the video. Some winners and some....not so winners. Cheers mate!!!

[@briancolyer8483]

Excellent choices, 23 was a very good year for quality improvement overall on AE brands....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⌚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⌚

[@paulneedham5900]

Be nice if you did a dress watch review. Is there one already?

[@TheWatcherReviews]

Yeah a few

[@marcjcapetown]

The value, and quality for the price you get from some of these brands is amazing. I just wish that these Chinese manufacturers would get their branding and text right. Tactical Frog? IX&DAO? RDUNAE? Watchdives? I'd struggle to look past those bizarre, nonsensical names. Thorn, Sugess, Pagani Design, San Martin, Seestern are much better. But then Thorn puts "Exploration Road" on the dial of their Pelagos homage. What for?! Speaking of homages vs fakes, the line gets too blurry for me when brands start (for example) putting snowflake hands on their Tudor homages. I wish they'd give the option of a more generic/original handset, so it doesn't look like a wannabe. Any thoughts? Thanks for the great reviews.

[@TheWatcherReviews]

It's in the nature of homage brands and the fact that it's the chinese producing their own and not just others I suppose. Two very different sides of the world...

[@andyfrizzell4352]

Particularly snowflakes. I don't like them on a Tudor, certainly not going to buy a homage with em

[@minialbinocuda1]

@@andyfrizzell4352you and I are definitely in the minority but yeah, those snowflake hands don't do it for me either.

[@scollyutube]

Watchdives just dropped a Titanium Pelegos GMT!

[@mustang429cobra]

Nothing like wearing good 10 dollar watch to a black tie event.

[@Shifftymking]

Great video, as always. I got a mysterious code engineer ba Sed off of ur review, and I was really surprised at what I got for $65, especially the bracelet and the brushing on the case. Oh, and the lume was really good as well

[@sinjinadams2862]

I have a question. Do you think the Selita SW200 movements that are optional for some of these watches are real or Chinese clones? Have you ever purchased a watch that had an SW200 in it and opened the watch to inspect it? I'd really like to know if they're real.

[@TheWatcherReviews]

As far as I know they're legit but u never know with the chinese. You can usually see on the back sellita sw200 txt but they've also cloned the eta2824 so....and the sellita is also a clone of the eta....🙃

[@sinjinadams2862]

Thank you! I've thought about upgrading to a SW200 on a couple of watches but I didn't do it partly because of the expense but also because I just don't know if they're authentic. I don't think I've ever seen a video where anyone addresses this issue.

[@garylangford6755]

The thing with thorns bb58 is why buy get a worse name look and quality when you can buy the san martin sn004. I love mine and just got a second

[@keyanmoine6162]

I don't know if its due to the fact that english is not my first language but it dont mind the thorn name (even knowing what it means)

[@Cur8or88]

First!