Hruodland, have you ever bought watches from this brand? I just found it and it looks like other brands I reviewed before such as San Martin, Proxima and Heimdallr, Hruodland also makes homage watches like them, many of them are diver’s watches with strong dial lume, absolutely I do respect these homage brands, although they directly copy the designs of Swiss watches, their quality is usually super. My friend in China did some research and found this brand shipped their watches from Dongguan city in Guangdong province of China, some of these brands I mentioned above like San Marin and Heimdallr also make their watches in Dongguan, so some people may think these Chinese homage brands are operated by the same company, sometime I guess so, but I will ask my friend to do more research on their background, after all there are too many such homage watches come from this city, some of them have the connection, but not all of them operated by the same company. I will write an article about them in future. About San Martin, Proxima, Heimdallr, Rdunae and other brands from Dongguan, there is one common ground behind them, I guess they all earned money by selling fake watches before. By the way, there are several websites online selling watches from these homage brands, like WRWatches and WatchDives, they are also not the company of these brands, they are just sales agent.
This Hruodland has a special shape that looks like an old TV, I remembered the first television my dad bought is like the case shape of this watch. I never thought I will buy such a watch in this unique shape, but I was deeply attracted by this beauty when my friend found it on Taobao and sent me, even it is a digital quartz watch, I still decided to buy, the beautiful blue dial, well-finished case and bracelet, practical functions, it is the most distinctive digital watch in my collection. I know it is a homage watch, but I am not sure which watch it copies from.
The watch has a heavy weight even it is only 39mm in diameter, both the case and bracelet are made with solid 316L stainless steel, they have fine brushing, which is in high contrast with the polishing finish on the bezel. The blue dial is the place I like most on the watch, besides, the finish of the stainless steel bracelet can also beat many watches, the edge of each link on the bracelet is polished round and smooth to guarantee a super wearing comfort, and among all my homage watches, the bracelet finish on this Hruodland watch is the best, I think this is one of the reasons why it is sold at a little higher price than other digital watches.
The blue dial is beautiful and has a very reasonable layout design that does not look crowded even it has a lot of elements to arrange. Under different light condition, the blue color looks different, the three small dials have their own roles. Small-second subdial is at 6 o’clock, the other two subdials at 9 and 12 are for chronograph display. Two separated windows at 3 o’clock, one for week display, the other is for displaying of date. “HRUODLAND” lettering is on top of the window. The fixed central second hand will start to move when you push the chronograph button at 2 o’clock, this is a watch with working chronograph, the font of week and date is also aligned exactly in the middle of each window. By the way, the central second hand has two wings that look like a airplane.
The watch is driven by a Citizen 0S00 quartz chronograph movement, it is said to have a serice life of about 3 years. Hruodland does not offer an extra band for this watch, I still have not configured out which other type of bands will fit it well except this steel bracelet.