- mannequin: TW2W59300
- measurement: 40mm width x 13mm thickness x 20mm lug width
- motion: Miyota 21-jewel hacking/hand-windable computerized
- water resistance: 50m
- crystal: Domed acrylic
- and so forth…:
- Exhibition caseback.
- Fast launch “eco-friendly” leather-based strap.
- Retro-style utilized indices.
Accessible with a brown strap & champagne dial, or black on black.
It’s good, it’s attention-grabbing, and it’ll discover its followers. However for many, the Timex Marlin Computerized won’t surpass Orient’s Bambino 38mm small-seconds computerized as the perfect go-to reasonably priced computerized gown watch in the marketplace.
Classic seems. Delicate sunburst to the dial.
40mm in diameter with a mid-century impressed dial, the Marlin Computerized is a reasonably sized “massive brother” to the positively doll-like 34mm hand-wind authentic. “Oh however watches are too massive as of late. A 34mm wristwatch is extra in line to the scale watches was once.” Yeah effectively, individuals are larger as of late too. And proportionality issues.
A 40mm watch is the candy spot for many of us in that common top/weight vary.
13mm thickness. On the thicker facet for a gown watch,
however ought to slide underneath a shirt cuff for a lot of.
It’s a bit on the “tall” facet although. At 13mm thick because of a domed acrylic crystal, it’s someplace between deep-dish pizza and birthday cake. 13mm is getting up there for a gown watch (the Bambino 38 is 12mm tall) however the clean, domed case helps it slide underneath shirt cuffs.
Domed crystal is “interval appropriate” acrylic. So it’ll decide up scratches.
Some discover that charming and simple to repair. Others discover it a trouble.
That domed crystal is acrylic. Not mineral and positively not sapphire. So count on it to select up (fixable) scratches, similar to many a wristwatch from the mid twentieth century would.
The font used at 3, 6, 9, and 12 is clearly impressed by that point interval as effectively, and the subtle-sunburst champagne dial can also be evocative of sunken dwelling rooms, bar carts, and different trendy gadgets of that period.
The hour and minute palms are lumed, which frankly may have been finished with out. It’s a gown watch, not a diver or discipline watch, and the white-in-light lume sections don’t look as elegant as a pair of all silver palms would.
Mid-century type font at 12, 3, 6, and 9. Indices are utilized.
The leather-based they use for the strap is labeled as “Eco pleasant real leather-based,” and its acquired a mushy, properly textured appear and feel to it recent out of the field. No stiff plastic feeling junk right here. It additionally comes with fast launch pins, which is able to assist if you wish to swap out the 20mm broad inventory warm-brown leather-based strap for black.
The exhibition caseback exhibits of the hacking and hand-windable 21-jewel motion from Miyota. So no battery adjustments will probably be wanted, because it’s powered both by winding it fastidiously (and never overwinding) on the crown, or by your motion as you put on it.
Exhibition case again exhibits off the hacking and hand-windable motion.
It’s exceedingly… nice.
With a way more wearable measurement than the unique Marlin 34mm, and a presence that’s attention-grabbing however nowhere close to as quirky as the Marlin Mod, the Marlin Computerized 40mm anchors what has rapidly turn out to be one of the necessary strains within the Timex catalog. Or to place it one other method, it’s the top of the category for that exact college of horological “fish.”
