Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Doxa is here :)

After a week of waiting, the Doxa SUB 1000T Pro Mil Edition is finally here. Here's my quick impression:

  • + It wears bigger than the dial size would suggest. I haven't measure the dial size yet, but the dial is a bit smaller than say a Omega SMP's. But because of the pillow case, the watch wears bigger. And the short (47mm?) lugs to lugs size makes it easy to wear for my 6.5" wrist.
  • + The orange dial POPS! Especially with a black PVD case and bracelet.
  • + I think the lume should be on par with the painted Omega SMP dial (i.e. my Omega SMP GMT Great White). But since the hour hand is dwarfed (with less area for lume), I don't expect the same level of ease-to-read as the Omega SMP GMT.
  • + Seems to be comfortable to wear.
  • - The bracelet is really nothing to call home about. To me, I think the weak point is the diver extension. It feels a little flimsy.
  • - Not true "beads of rice" bracelet links.
  • - The bracelet is PVD-ed assembled. Though there's no missing PVD spot on the bracelet when its on the wrist, but you can see the missing PVD spots when you disassemble (size) the bracelet.
  • - The quality of the prints on the dial is only okay/decent, but not great.


One thing that I don't know if its good or bad, is that the watch wears small than it is because of the small-ish dial size. The case is of great size, but the small dial size made the watch looks small. But the lug to lug size definitely fits better than the Doxa SUB 750T or 5000T that I had before.

Here's a quick pic, and the watch is not even sized properly. LOL :D




I sized the bracelet afterwards and the watch seems to be comfortable to wear. I will have to give it some wrist time before

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