Actually I knew this brand many years ago when I was finding watches for my clients in Zhanxi watch market, few people knew and bought Smael watches before. It is Aliexpress that makes Smael well known all over the world, now I found more than 600K fans have followed this brand, that’s crazy, because there were only one or two stores selling Smael watches in a building of Zhanxi Road, now Smael has becomes one of the best-selling digital watches on Aliexpress. The background of Smael is simple, the brand trademark is registered by a person whose name is Peng Jie, and the watches are being sold by his company that is located in Jia Tian Clock Building in Yuexiu District of Guangzhou. Many Chinese watches and fakes are in that building.
Today, I will show you a digital watch which I just bought from Smael, model number on their site is 8058, I chose the black and golden model, actually they offer a lot of other colors that are also very attractive.
During the introduction, I will make three tests on the watch, including toughness, shock resistance and water resistance, this watch has a very good performance in all tests. If you want to buy a G-Shock style digital watch at a much cheaper price, while strongly made at the same time, I think Smael is a perfect choice, besides, the Skmei I made tests before is also a very good watch.
The watch comes in a hexagonal iron box, which looks similar to the box G-Shock uses but a little bigger, the center has a see-through crystal window to let you see its inside, the box is very good, but Smael does not offer it for free, by the way, they did not send me the instruction book.
When I received the watch, I was very surprised that it has a very light weight, much lighter than the other two digital watches I have, I weighed, it is less than 67 grams. The watch has a thick case that is made with the same material as most other digital watches. I tested its toughness by pulling the straps hard, the band is connected strongly with the case. The watch also has a very good shock resistance because I knocked it on the table from all sides, it still worked accurate and the LED screen not broken. The case is thick and the dial is lying inside safely. The case is thicker than that of the Sanda 6030 I reviewed last time, but it is a little lighter.
The time on the dial is displayed in two formats, including the central hands mode and the digital display on the LED screen at 3 o’clock. The small screen above “6” shows the seconds, the round LED screen at 9 o’clock is telling you the week and current date. Well, without the help of the back light, it is a little hard to read the digits from the LED screen, you can press the light button. Or choose another model that has a different dial background color.
I also made a test on the watch’s water resistance, just put the watch in a bottle that is filled with water and then shake it, the result is no water enter into the watch. I found Skmei, Sanda and Smael all have no problem in water resistance. Smael claims this watch is 50m water resistant, perhaps I need a more professional equipment to do the test.