Month: November 2023

In the past, I made a comparison review about black Submariner homage watch between Cronos, San Martin and STEELDIVE, many readers love my reviews, some sent emails to me and hope I can continue to share such type of reviews, because a majority of them often buy products from China, absolutely including the watches, so, sometimes such type of buying guide reviews are very helpful to them. On my blog, except the big three companies, I mean Shanghai Watch, Beijing Watch and Sea-gull, most other Chinese brands are actually making homage watches, a lof of watch fans like homages, so in future, I will share reviews on other homage watches made in China. Today, I want to give an introduction on the green Submariner made by Hruodland and Heimdallr, I will show you the difference between them objectively.

Hruodland, a very strange watch name that is difficult to pronounce, this watch company is located in Changping Town of Dongguan City of China, I have discovered that a lot of Chinese homage watches reviewed here are coming from this town in Dongguan City, you guys must know this city, which was more famous 15 year ago than today because of its sexual services. And about Heimdallr, whose watches are also made in the same town as Hruodland, but they are two different companies, the exact address is different, Hruodland has some quality Rolex homages, while Heimadllr is more famous for manufacturing Seiko Diver’s homage watches. In this article, I posted some pictures to compare the hulk Submariner homage between the two brands.

Box and Accessories

Both come with a black box that is made with hard paper sheet, the Hruodland comes in a cube, the Heimadllr’s box is rectangular, Hruodland box seems to be better and it has a card and an instructions book inside, while Heimadllr does not offer a card and a user manual.

Case

Both watches have a case that is in similar size, the Hruodland has a case diameter of 40.7mm and case thickness of 12.4mm, while the Heimadllr watch is measured to be 40.9mm in case diameter and 13.5mm in case thickness, the Heimadllr is a little thicker, perhaps the higher rehaut increases the thickness of the Heimadllr watch, you can check the comparison photos of the inner bezel in the end of the article, the engraved rehaut of the Heimadllr is much higher.

Bezel

The bezel on both watches is made with real green ceramic, while we can see different bezel markers and the bezel pearl, the green color on the bezel also looks a little dark. On the bezel of the Heimdallr, we can notice the engraving depth, which is more obvious than that on the bezel of the Hruodland. The bezel markers are also thinner on the Heimdallr, but they look too white on the Hruodland, because Hruodland applies white lume material on each bezel marker. Two watches have a wrong bezel pearl if comparing them with genuine hulk Submariner, the lume pearl on the Heimdallr looks larger and a little yellow, the bezel pearl on the Hruodland is actually just a lume dot, which is totally in white. By the way, all these bezel markers on the Hruodland can emit a blue lume light in the darkness, while on the Heimdallr, only the bezel pearl is luminous.

Crystal

Both watches use sapphire crystal, which is highly scratch resistant and also has a good transparancy, the crystal on each watch stands a little high above, the date magnifier on both watches has been applied with anti-reflective coating.

Dial

I like the green color of the dial on both watches, not too green, which looks very close to the green color on genuine Submariner watch. The hour markers on the Heimdallr look a little larger than that of the Hruodland, each watch has a sunburst finish on the dial, I like the anchor logo on Hruodland’s dial, there is a word “SUBMERSIBLE” on the dial of the Hruodland. On the dial of the Heimdallr, it is printed “300M”, while it is “200M” on the Hruodland, well, I think both watches can not dive to that depth, the Heimdallr looks stronger and perhaps has a deeper water resistance. The inner bezel, both watches have engravings on the rehaut, while on the Heimdallr, the rehaut is higher and the engravings are more noticeable.

Bracelet

Put the two watches on the table, you will find the Heimdallr has a longer stainless steel bracelet, for people who have a large wrist, I think this Heimdallr is more suitable. The entire Heimdallr watch is also heavier, which is 165.4 grams, while the Hruodland is about 159.9 grams. Both watches have a similar clasp structure, I like the bracelet of the Hruodland more because the buckle has a more exquisite anchor logo.

Movement

At last, I want to talk about the movement. The Hruodland uses a PT5000, which is an automatic movement developed in China, this movement has a 28,800bph, 25 jewels and 38 hours power reserve. The Heimdallr is equipped with a NH35A automatic movement that is developed in Japan. NH35A beats 21,600 times per hour, it has 24 jewels and 41 hours of power reserve. Actually both movements are widely used by these homage watches made in China. By the way, Hruodland also offers a higher end Swiss SW200 movement option for this watch.

Price

This Hruodland has a higher price than the Heimdallr because of the more expensive PT5000 movement, no need to upgrade it with a better SW200 movement, that will cost a lot of money.

Conclusion

Among Hruodland and Heimdallr, there is no need to tell which watch is closer to hulk Submariner, in my opinion, every watch has their own selling points, for example, perhaps a lot of people like the fully luminous bezel on the Hruodland, some people may like the engraved rehaut more on the Heimdallr, I can not tell you which watch is better, but in appearance, the Heimdallr has a closer outlook to hulk Submariner. You can decide by yourself, the Heimdallr is sold at $165 on their official site, while the Hruodland is sold at $259 on its site.

More pictures comparison between them.