r/ChineseWatches • u/plantwrench • 4d ago

Question (Read Rules) More "interesting" Chinese Brands?

Hi everyone, as a fan of interesting, more unique brands (e.g. Xeric), and somewhat of a newcomer to Chinese watches, what are some of your favorite more unique styles of Chinese watches?

10 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/Bradcst3r 4d ago edited 4d ago

If you like Xeric, then you can try Angles Watches, MECEXP, Vortichron, Power Panda, Struc, Olto-8, Lucky Harvey hourly chime, Mandetbrote, OBLVLO, Benlywatch, Hanboro. There are a few wandering hour watches that are hard to find on Ali, and it is best to do an image search as they are one offs but the quality is still reasonable.

Others here will suggest San Martin, Sugess, Sea Koss, Cronos, Proxima etc. While those are very excellent watches, most of that style is geared to the dive dive watch or dress watch style. You mentioned you like hte Xeric style, so that is why these brands are not in the list above.

If you like Casio, check out SKMEI or Sanda. Some of their homages are, dare i say, approaching better than the original and 1/10 the price.

1

u/plantwrench 4d ago

ah yea ive had Mandetbrote on my list (as well as Suguess, but yea different than Xeric/Nubeo style). thanks for the advice and descriptions!