hi guys Andrew with my watch addiction .com coming back to take a
closer look at that TUW RUHLA THURINGIA that I received as a part of my watchgang black
subscription for January 2018 before we get started though guys can you do me a
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great events I say great events I think it's really just cool for us hopefully
you guys enjoy it as well but I'm super stoked about seeing what we got in those
boxes but that's not what we're talking about today today we're talking about
these two very very very similar TUW RUHLA THURINGIA watches that I received from my
watchgang black subscription so when I was trying to do a little bit of
research in history on the Ruhla brand specifically to TUW RUHLA I came across
this article at medium comm which is really good read it tells a whole lot
about the history of the ruhla of brand 124 years of watchmaking heritage that
they have behind them and it highlights some of their achievements like being
the world's first mass-produced watch as well as the first German watch in space
and you can see from this graphic right here the the different naming
conventions that the company is they're gone throughout time leading up
to and most recently to UW Rula starting in 2015
really really really interesting read about this watch company gives you some
of the ideas behind the heritage of the watches themselves the design concepts
the whole nine yards I'm going to post up this link in the description section
below if you guys want to take a look at it during your time but they had some
really neat designs back early early on it brings us right up to the present
where this modern version of TWU Rula was was kind of reinvigorated and
brought back to life with the watches that we've received with the watchgang
subscription for January 2018 so diving in and taking a closer look at these two
TUW RUHLA THURINGIA watches that I've received incidentally while I'm taking a look at
these I will point out TUW RUHLA did reach out to me after watching my last
video and explained to me that the German language which I can get is
extremely complicated and the t UW is actually actually an acronym I'm not
even gonna butcher the name of the company but it's an acronym for the
first part of the company name with rule of being the ending so it is TUW RUHLA
anybody that posted up in the comments to help me out I appreciate that as well
okay let's jump in and take a look at this guy
as I mentioned her as you guys may have seen in my previous videos I did receive
two of the exact same model watches so we're just gonna go through it once so
that you guys don't have to sit through two of them and we're gonna take a look
so taking a look at this this watch it is 316l steel that this is made out of
does have a mesh or sometimes they call it sharp mesh or people even call it
Melody's bands on them which is really really nice stainless steel band and the
case diameter around this watch is 40 millimeters with a height of only 11 and
a half millimeters so it's a very decent size excuse me you know very decent
sized watch case for me the dial diameter is a little bit on the small
side I prefer 42 43 44 millimeter but it's definitely something that I can
live with and work into my watch rotation or dress watch rotation we'll
call it now this watch is powered by the Seiko NH35
movement that you can see in the display back right there that is a
little workhorse movement you've seen me talk about this movement specifically
Aragon uses the movement quite a bit but a lot of watches in this price point use
this Seiko NH35 movement and personally I've never had a problem with
this movement itself I do like the open case back design I love being able to
see the mechanicals that we'll watch so that's that's pretty interesting if we
jump over to the dial again very simplistic design very basic design if I
put in an anvil there you might even be able to see these watches do have raised
indices which is a nice addition but instead of just having a very flat dial
there is a little bit of depth to it the one thing I will point out though that I
am not necessarily it's not that I'm not a fan of it but I would have preferred
if they had done this there is no loom on this dial which is going to make dark
or low light visibility a challenge on these washes especially if you're
looking at a darker face like this one but again different watches different
times different price points as well as design
this does have at the 4:30 position that date will that you can see right there
so that's that's a nice design but overall a very very basic very basic and
simplistic minimalistic design dress watch in these two TUW RUHLA THURINGIA now I'll
go on and show you a little bit more here in a few minutes but this watch is
actually available both in this Seiko nh35 movement as well as they make a
quartz version of this watch as well which uses the Swiss RHONDA of 505 quartz
movement so if you're looking for this watch if you come across this watch and
you see one in a really really good price just verify what movement they're
actually using in this verify that it is the automatic versus the random or I'm
sorry versus the quartz movement if that's specifically what you are looking
for now the clasp on this I'm going to talk about as well so this clasp and
forgive me because I don't remember the name of this class but basically in
order to use this watch you has a little loop there you loop it over the bar and
then snap it down and then that will hold the band in place adjustments for
sizing of this watch take place by popping this little stopper right here
and then you can slide this whole carrot assembly up and down the band if you
look on the back of the band there is indented marks on the band to kind of
catch and grab that carrier that they should be lining up with that line right
there to give you the best secure now one thing I will point out and you guys
may or may not have noticed I'll set this down for a second I am wearing a
citizen navihawk now that I've had for a number of years
with a very very similar band on this Navihawk though one of the things you can
see is that's got the quick deployment clasp I'm sorry the double hidden
locking hidden clasp now if I was to compare these two clasps on which I like
better personally I'm not real a huge fan of these type of bands for a couple
of reasons not necessarily the band I'm sorry the
clasp not necessarily a huge fan of these clasps for a couple of reasons one
if you're a rough on your watch or you tighten it too tight these bands this
carrier over time can slip can pull and end up not getting a really good fit the
second thing that I don't like about these specific clasps is that once you
get them connected and you look in there you've got this extra thickness of this
band that goes underneath now for me personally
everybody's gonna be a little bit different but for me personally what I
find with these especially with these mesh bands in this type of clasp is that
I'm constantly pulling my arm hair on that little gap in there it almost acts
like tweezers when you're when I'm wearing to watch anyway and I don't you
know you guys kept seeing my arms I don't have extremely hairy arms or
anything like that so that's just one thing to keep in mind if you are looking
at this watch that's you know that's one thing that I like about this Nana hawk
is it does not have her it has the double hidden locking clasp and you
don't run into that same issue so if we want to jump over and learn a little bit
about the value of this watch that I received as I mentioned as part of my
watchgang black subscription for January 2018 ring quick reminder watch gang black
subscription is $99 plus shipping from watch gang here's a
hint if you want to save money on that $99 you can pay three months in advance
and it will knock the price down I forget what it is specifically but you
pay in advance he'll knock the price down a little bit per month so you don't
have as much invested in each individual watch but this watch actually both of
these watch actually started out is a Kickstarter campaign part of the two
gentlemen that reinvigorated the company they started Kickstarter campaign to
build these watches and bring him back to life looks like this came my guess is
that campaign probably started in 2015 as they had an estimated delivery of
April 2016 now if we look at what the earlybird backers price was these are
automatic watches so we'd be looking in this 250 price range and if we do a
conversion on that that's roughly three hundred and thirty six dollars give or
take some change in US dollars so to the twenty four backers that originally
purchase this watch that's what they paid for this watch is a reminder we
paid ninety nine dollars or less to receive these watches now jumping around
a little bit as I often do jumping over to Amazon real quick um these watches
are available on Amazon one thing I just want to point out to people is these
swatches do come in two separate flavors they come in a quartz version which I
believe uses a Swiss rounded movement and then the of course the Seiko nh35
movement automatics that we have right now on Amazon they're going in the three
hundred and sixty six dollar range now the one thing I will point out again is
the color options that I have with both the mesh band sharp mesh band as well as
the the dial color options I have not been able to find but that doesn't
necessarily mean anything like for instance right here this is the quartz
version the quartz guys going for 243 dollars on Amazon and
again automatic version 366 dollars and this dives a little bit into the watch a
little bit more so that you can see I'll post up links to these in the
description section below and then finally jumping over to ebay which seems
for me anyway to give me a more accurate representation of what the watches are
selling for or not selling for at this time you can see this specific version
of watches are going in the hundred and fifty hundred hundred and fifty dollar
range my gut tells me these are just because of how the packaging is in these
pictures these are watchgang black subscribers that aren't a fan of their
watches and they're looking to dump them hence why we're seeing at them in one
hundred and fifty to ninety nine dollar two hundred and fifty dollar range I
think personally I think what we're seeing with this price point right here
has a lot to do with the we'll call it the the hate that this watch brand has
received in the watch gang exchange I mean we have to remember that that's
over sixteen thousand members in that Facebook group alone and I've seen this
happen all the time where a one or two people or even a whole faction of
percentage of people dislike watch right out of the gate for whatever reason and
it's a everybody has their own preferences as to what they like about
watches what they don't like about watches but when you flood a market with
watches in the way that watch gain does and then you have a percentage of that
market that is flooded that dislikes the watch for whatever reason you end up
running into situations like this where you see the value drops significantly
and rapidly in the watch and if you like the launch this is a really really great
time to pick up a good deal on the watch if you dislike the watch and you want to
jump on the base living with everybody else and just get
your money back that's fine too I mean that's the beautiful thing about the
watch collecting industry and the wristwatch hobby industry is that not
everybody likes the same thing that's okay that's that's completely 1000% ok
so right now you can pick up this watch in the 90 99 dollar to 150 dollar range
depending on what you're looking at why you want to eat in the exchange you
might even be able to get it looked cheaper from somebody that's really
disgruntled overall I would say in in my estimations at the $99 price point that
we paid for these watches very very good deal alright so that was my deeper dive
into these TUW RUHLA THURINGIA if I'm pronouncing that right models that I
received is a part of my watchgang black subscription for January 2018 overall I
think if the price point on these watches the price we paid $99 or
sometimes a little less if you pay in advance price point with the Seiko NH35
movement the build quality don't have an issue with paying $99 for these
watches at all I know they're getting a lot of hate but again that's personal
preference and for me I I think I'm going to enjoy these watches one thing I
will point out though I do have two I don't need to so if anybody out there is
interested in trading me for one of these watches you can take your pick on
color definitely hit me up at my watch addiction calm or you can direct message me
on instagram at instagram / watch addiction dot us anyway guys thank you
for watching don't forget over this weekend and maybe into the beginning
next week by the time I get to all that we're going to be posting of the
in-depth looks at the watchgang platinum subscription that I received as well as
the watchgang centum that I received for January 2018 thank you very much guys
and have a great weekend
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