They are certainly interesting

Urban dwellers looking for an interesting new timepiece design may likely be taken by this fresh collection from Dzmitry Samal. The former car designer now has a brand of watches and eye wear. His unique designs mirror dual influences from big city life and pop art culture. Each of these appearance is elegantly represented in the new watch collection which have the very first watches I have seen with actual concrete cases.

According to Dzmitry Samal, the cases involve a patented new process with specially machined and finished concrete. Dzmitry Samal intentionally chose this "megalopolis inspired" material given its ubiquitous presence in city life. The concrete cases come in two forms and are cut into interesting shapes. The inner watch cases are in steel. Both cases are 42mm wide and attached to them are plastic connectors.

While Dzmitry Samal is French, the watches are reported to be Switzerland made. He does not claim that concrete is inherently a luxury material. He does however think that their utilization in watches represents an urban fashion ideal, as well as concrete being a "modern, honest, and robust material. inch The watches are waterproof to 50 meters and the deposits are AR sprayed sapphire. At least I think it is sapphire. The Dzmitry Samal website generally seems to contradict itself on whether the very is sapphire or nutrient glass. Usually are not knows what it is? His website is of interest, but not very well written. I am very inquisitive about the type of concrete used for the case, and the finishing used. I have a feeling it is well finished and smooth to the touch versus overly porous and rough.

Rather than having names, the watches are just given numeric names between the One and the Eight. Yes, there are eight models total in the first limited edition set. The knobs play with monochromatic colors and hints of blue, red, yellow, and green. The switch designs look like creative fusions of maps, buildings, and construction plans. The hands all look like buildings or building spires. It is congratulations, and certainly well evocative of a theme. I like that some of the knobs themselves are created from cut and then etched concrete, that is pretty cool.

I recommend you also check out the Dzmitry Samal eye wear collection. They are certainly interesting if anything else -- and if you like pixels or 8-bit era video games, they will be right up your alley. Check them on his website to see spinning program so well. Anyhow, the watches all secure the same Switzerland quartz chronograph movement. Here is where you start to see the super fashion side of the watch. I don't mind that a watch like this is quartz, given its modern personality, but if you are going to have a chronograph, at least give the additional hands actual knobs or indicators. With maybe just vague indicators for any of the chronograph subdials, that feature is more or less there just for show. The time is easier to see, but I am grieving the "almost" useful chronograph that we see on the knobs. Dzmitry Samal even went as long as to create elements on the knobs that look like subdials, but he didn't go far enough to add clear indicators or anything like that for the hands.