![]() ![]() The 41mm case in steel isn’t finished to the highest degree, nor the lowest, but where it’s at leaves just enough to catch your fingers when you turn the 120-click bezel or screw down the crown-in a very satisfying way.Īnd the looks: in isolation, the crown guards are too wide and stumpy, the lugs too cumbersome, the bezel too thin but together, combined with a total thickness including the double-domed sapphire of just 12.4mm, it just works. The Halios Seaforth feels like it was designed to be felt. The Tudor Black Bay 58 is a watch that feels boring. The Cartier Ballon Bleu is a watch that feels good. Some watches look good and feel boring, others look boring but feel good. The Seaforth is immediately a tactile watch. ![]() What about the watch itself? Well here goes trying to explain why Ryan Gosling is handsome. Not the cheapest, but cheap enough for more people than you’d expect to buy one on a whim. Some may be changing hands for more than that in the secondary market, but new-well, the fourth generation is listing at $690. The Seaforth is a sub-$1,000 watch, comfortably. Let’s start in the most vulgar place possible, because it’s a point that will need to be raised several times to make sure the context sticks. Question is-is the Seaforth worth it? Review Lim moved from not needing to market his products because he was conversing with his market base directly to not needing to market his products because they would sell out as soon as he set them live. Throw in a marginal amount of customisation-steel, titanium bezel, no bezel-and you’ve got yourself a hype train. Had we been paying attention, we’d have noticed the Seaforth’s early warning signs for certain popular colour preferences. Before brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe realised they could sell more watches by not being miserable and painting everything black, Halios was going for it pumping out more colours than a Skittles factory. Putting your finger on why is like trying to decide if Ryan Gosling is handsome or not. You wouldn’t be able to pick out a Halios in a drive-by line-up, but give it a bit more time and it’ll be the one that stays in your memory. Simple ingredients, carefully chosen, is all it takes. ![]() It doesn’t need a stuffed crust, layers of five different kinds of meat and a whole gallon of dipping sauce. So, what are the raw ingredients to this extra special Seaforth? It’s like a good Italian pizza. Intime watches review series#There have been three series of the Seaforth so far, and each could’ve given the Moonswatch a run for its money. He found a balance in price, quality and looks that tickled people just right. Of course, that doesn’t always go to plan, but apparently it did for Lim, because his dive watch design, the Seaforth, pulled off a disappearing act impressive enough to make David Copperfield scratch his head in wonder. Imagine that, skipping all the guesswork and fanfare employed to dress up bad decision-making, taking all the risk out of it and just outright asking people what they actually want. He didn’t try to guess what people wanted, he just went ahead and asked them. So, like you can these days, he went straight to the source: the internet, the forums. That didn’t strike him as particularly sensible. Usually that entails designing and building something in secret, only to find out afterwards if it’s a hit or not, usually requiring extraordinary amounts in marketing spend to convince people it’s something they want. That’s because Canadian-based Lim decided in 2009 that he wanted to build a watch. All the talk about Halios has been word of mouth-or rather, word of key. Intime watches review tv#There’s been no TV adverts or billboard posters, or glossy print in the front pages of a magazine. If you’ve heard of Halios but you can’t quite remember from where, that’s understandable. There’s been more chatter than a bag of wind-up teeth in the freezer. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about founder Jason Lim’s endeavour to bring affordable watches built in Asia to a wider western market, but nevertheless for certain pockets, Halios is a big deal. You’ll either have heard about Halios watches or you won’t. If you have a collection of interesting and unusual watches that really stand out, please get in touch at Background A big thanks to the owner of this watch who very kindly loaned it to us for review. ![]()
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