Like the Skmei I introduced several weeks ago, Sanda is also one of the best-selling digital sports watches, I did some searches on the internet and found very few dates about this watch, I mean the background of this brand. I saw this watch brand is registered by somebody, no need to mention his name here, and Sanda watches are being sold by a lot of watch companies, this marketing model of Sanda is different from that of Skmei. In September, I bought one Skmei watch and did several tests on it, the result is good, Skmei watch showed a good performance in the tests of toughness, shock resistance and water resistance. Today, I will give a brief review on a Sanda watch and do the same tests on it, let’s see what will happen.
The Sanda watch came with a black box made with hard paper, not like Skmei, it does not have a black iron box, on the black paper box, there is also no brand logo. The box of Sanda looks very simple and ugly, I do not like it.
Now you see the watch, it is big, both the width and height of the watch are over 50mm, the thickness of the watch is over 18mm, I weighed the watch, it has a weight of 70.8 grams, very light for such a big watch. From its dial displays, the watch has several functions, time, date, week, you can gain current time from its central hour hand and minute hand, also the small dial at 9 o’clock also displays time. The watch also has a chrono function, you can start, stop and reset it by pressing the buttons at 2 o’clock and 4 o’clock. There are two buttons which you can press to open the light behind the LED screen. There is a paper written with instructions on how to adjust time, date and week on the watch.
Please check the first video, which shows the outlook and all features of the watch.
The second video is a test of the toughness and shock resistance of the watch. please watch the full video. A the beginning, I pulled the straps hard with a great strength, nothing happened and everything looks good, the band is solidly connected on the case. Then I hit it hard on the desk, from each side, after I knocked the front side on the desk, I found the LED screens have issues, which are not broken but can not read the full digits. And then I pulled the straps again with a great strength, one strap that has the buckle on were torn off, it is because the screws have been loose when I knocked the desk with the watch, at last, I installed the strap back and tighten the screws.
The third video is a test of water resistance. I put the watch in a bottle that is filled with water, I shaked the bottle hard, and the result is the water did not enter into the watch. Perhaps I need to buy a more professional equipment to test the watch’s water resistance, but for this Sanda watch, it is absolutely no problem for you to wear it when swimming in the pool or the ocean.
After making the three tests, my opinion is the quality of this Sanda watch is not as good as that of the Skmei 1988 Dual Time I introduced before. Because I used the same method to test the shock resistance, which is knocking the table with the watch, the LED screen of the Skmei still shows everything correctly after the test, while this Sanda could not show the full digits then. The band does not have quality issue, but before wearing it out after receiving the watch, I suggest you check if the screws that help to fix the straps are loose.