Have you ever known this brand? Berny, there are a lot of other brands in China making the similar watches, affordable price, acceptable quality and sports outlook. I made some searches about this brand on the internet, and found Berny is registered by a company in Shenzhen of China, the company name is Shenzhen Berny Industrial Co., Ltd, which was founded in 1995, but this watch brand was created in 2013. Well, I checked the website of Berny, and have found they make a lot of watches in different styles, not only the homages. About this Berny watch, it is claimed to be 200m water resistant on their website, I do not know if it can resist that deep pressure under water, and why they did not print “200m” on the dial.
This Berny watch has classic features of a diver’s watch, big case, highly-readable dial design and rubber band. Berny offers black, white, blue, green and yellow dial color options for this watch, I like the one with yellow dial, it has a brighter color and will easily catch the others’ attention in the crowd when playing on the beach. Checking the appearance, it just looks like a professional diver’s watch, and the watch company indeed claims that this watch is 200m water resistant on their website. The watch has a big case that is 42mm in diameter and 14mm in thickness, a bit thick, but I usually would like such a thick case for a diver’s watch. The two crowns on the case are big, the purpose to make them big may be for easy operation when the diver needs to wear gloves under water.
Everything on the yellow dial looks reasonable. Hour markers, hour hand and minute hand have a wide design so that they can be applied with enough lume material, when under water or in any other dark conditions, the dial can emit considerable lume light from the dial. The central second hand is in red, which enhances the dial readability of the watch. There is a white triangle mark on the slopy inner bezel, you can rotate the inner bezel by adjusting the crown at 2 o’clock, the white triangle mark will also move when you rotating the crown to help you fix the diving time. The big crown at 4 o’clock is used to adjust time, day and date.
The watch comes with a see-through crystal back, well, I do not know what movement inside, the watch company said the movement is from Japan. This black rubber band looks well on the watch, and it is more suitable to be worn outside your diving suit.
Buying advice:
The black rubber band looks better on the Berny watch than the stainless steel bracelet, and it seems to be more in line with the diving style.