About Sugess, have you heard this brand? If having checked their watches on aliexpress, you will know they are totally a homage watch brand that was founded in Shenzhen of China. Many watches they are making have the exact models in Swiss watches. I only introduced one Sugess watch before on my blog, but their watches are really sold very well on aliexpress even with a bit high price, I decide to bring reviews on more Sugess watches in future, today, the Sugess watch I am going to share with you looks like a Day-Date model made by Rolex, with an ice blue dial, the watch looks nice, many people like the ice blue Day-Date from Rolex, and this Sugess watch is a great homage of the Day-Date.
The watch comes with a hard plastic box, just like the box of STEELDIVE and Parnis I introduced in reviews before. Inside the black box, there is a watch, a manual book, a screwdriver and a warranty card inside. On the card, the purchasing date, model number and other information are empty. The watch is under a good protection inside the box, we can see from the pictures.
The Sugess is made with 316L stainless steel, its case is measured to be 40.3mm in diameter and 12.2mm in thickness, the entire watch weighs about 123.9 grams, the screw-in crown has a satin-finished “S” logo on the mirror-polished face. The bezel is fluted and fits the middle case head perfectly, the gap between them is not noticeable. The case is finished very well, especially on the edge or corner, which is polished and very comfortable when wearing.
I love the dial, first a lot of people like its ice blue color, second, the finish of the dial is superb. The Sugess logo at 12 o’clock and Rome hour markers are tri-dimensional. All stainless steel hour markers are polished and forms a high-contrast with the sunburst finish of the dial, every marker is well finished and I did not find the burr on the edge. Having checked the black font in the day and date window, it has a very close size to that of Rolex Day-Date watch. By the way, I found there are “SUGESS” engravings on the inner bezel, on other Chinese watches I reviewed before, I did not find this feature. The sunburst finish on the dial looks ok, but not as good as the super clone that is sold at more than 600 USD. Any way, the dial finish of this Sugess is much better than the other watches I bought from China. This is also one of the reasons why this Sugess can be sold at $239.
The bracelet is president style like Day-Date and you can see two obvious finish including polishing on the middle and brushing on the two sides. The clasp can be opened through the “S” buckle, and in the video below, you will hear a crisp clicking sound when open or close the buckle.
The watch is driven by a ST2146 automatic movement from Sea-gull. The movement beats 28,800 times per hour, it has 28 jewels and about 40 hours of power reserve, I found specification of this movement on the internet, not sure if they are correct. Any way, the company shipped the watch out the day before yesterday, the watch still worked very accurate when I received it yesterday.
Conclusion:
The Sugess watch is a bit expensive just because of its better dial finish and Sea-gull movement inside. It is a classic stainless steel watch with date and week functions with good case and dial finish. If you are looking for a perfect homage watch of a Day-Date that is much better than the replicas around 200 USD, then this Sugess is a perfect choice. Besides the ice blue dial, Sugess also offers black, blue and green colors for the watch.