I Bought 12 AliExpress Watches & Ranked Them (Best to Worst)

I'm about to spend $500 in the next five minutes buying the cheapest watches on AliExpress to find out if you can actually get good watches for cheap. Why would you do this to me AliExpress? Do not buy this. Oh my God. And at the end of the video I'm going to rank them from absolute garbage, gimmicky, mid, and finally the baddies. So let's get into it. Okay, we're here on AliExpress. We're going to go ahead and jump into finding a watch. Let's see if we can find something that's cheap, good, reliable, and also looks good on the wrist. These are incredibly cheap. These are cheaper than I was thinking. I'm almost scared to buy a $5 watch because I already know this is not going to be good. Now when I'm shopping for these watches, the first thing I'm looking for is just what the is happening on the screen. But also I'm interested to see if this is a watch that's actually going to function well. What movement is inside of here? It's probably going to be a quartz movement, but it could be a reliable quartz movement or absolute Chinese trash. Oh boy. Luxury diamond men, women watches, gold watch, ladies, wristwatch, luxury rhinestone, unisex bracelet watches, female clock 2024 new. You can also just call this a Cartier Santas ripoff, but I think they can't say that on AliExpress. Although there is no logo on the actual back. I say we add this to the list. We're going to get the gross rose gold version of this watch. Now I don't know if this is breaking rules because it's technically a watch. It's like the trend for finger watches. I mean, it's a watch. It just goes not on your wrist. For 93 cents. I don't think I could say no. You know what? We're going to get this disgusting green dial gold finger watch. Now if it can actually tell time for 93 cents, I'm going to be impressed. Okay. Let's keep hunting for more interesting watches. This is a Geneva high quality men's luxury watch. It looks like a knockoff Patek. I think the common consensus on a lot of these watches are going to be homages or knockoffs. So this is arguably a Patek for $2 and 32 cents. This looks different. Interesting. Might as well add it to the cart. All right. So this is obviously a bite and rip off of Jacob and co, but you don't have to spend almost 300 K to get this watch. So 42 bucks, 25 cents for a Jacob and co roulette. Not a bad deal. All right. This is a Celiola men's watch. This is obviously kind of like a brew retro, but this style specifically looks kind of unique. And I can't tell the design because for some reason the photographer decided to be super close for this. But if it's anything like the other ones, this could actually be a pretty good find as a cool little art on the dial. It's like a weird Manhattan room matchup. I kind of rock with this and for $31, let's just see what happens. Wow. This is a very odd looking watch. This is like one watch with four different dials for $15 and 21 cents. What in the world is happening? How can you get this much value out of a watch like this? It's actually kind of incredible that for under 16 bucks, you can get a really crazy complication. Is it actually going to look good on the wrist? I don't know, but I think this would be pretty interesting to find out. And I'm really digging the Brown version. I think the Brown version might be the banger here. Now this is starting to look like an actual watch, but you're also chipping away at the budget because this is $103, but it looks pretty well made and a really cool textured dial on the watch. Now you have different variations of white dial, Brown, blue, and some with the logo and without the logo. Honestly, I think we found the logo. It's very clean. All these colors look pretty good. All right, we're going to go with the ice blue version of this watch. This looks like it could be a banger at 36 millimeters, a lug to lug of 46. I mean, this is going to wear good. So I found essentially the 1963, which by the way, is the cheapest chronograph that you can get with a seagull movement inside of it for way cheaper than what it's actually worth. So I think the Suggest one is right under $200. This is $32 and 26 cents and it looks very identical. So we're going to try and see if it's worth it. This is another pretty crazy complication, basically another Celestial Jacobico knockoff. It's going to be interesting to see them pull off this complication at $160. I'm kind of interested to see if this is even possible or this is going to come back broken, but it is here and it's available. So let's just add it to the cart for 160 bucks. If this watch works, not saying it's a watch any of us would ever wear, but if it actually works for 160 bucks the way it's supposed to, it could be a good contender. Oh, this is kind of sick for $3 and 85 cents. We can have an ultra thin 6.5 millimeter thickness watch. Incredible. Let's just see for four bucks if we can get the thickness watch and it actually functions well. This is the PRA Pauling Jumping Hour Complication Salmon Dial watch. It looks very good for $121. This might be another banger to add to the list, but we don't know until we see it. But from the picture, this looks phenomenal. It has a bunch of different color options too, but this salmon dial is pretty nice. All right, nine watches for around $500. Do I actually want to do this? I feel like I have to, so let's do it. All right, everything's here. $500 for about 10 watches. Some came in nice packaging like this and others, yeah, that's concerning. So let's see how much value we can get with all these different AliExpress watches. We're going to open up every single watch, look at the quality, find out which one is actually worth your money and time, and which ones are complete garbage, starting with this one. I have no idea what this is, by the way. Let's see what we got. I ordered a lot of watches. Oh, I do remember what this is. It honestly has some weight to it. I'm kind of shocked, but this is our bedazzled Cartier Santos Rose Gold Edition. And she is stunning. This is marketed to be a women's watch, but this is a big girl for a lady. Oh, this feels bad. I don't know how much we paid. I think we paid like a dollar for this, but yeah, this feels like something you win from like those little coin machine games and they give you like a free item for 50 cents. It's not metal, it's like plastic. Does this clasp open up nicely? Yeah, that's a no. Well, that's okay because it's not just about the quality of the bracelet, but how does it wear? I'm afraid that when I put this on, I might get like gangrene or something. It does come with a little crown protected piece so that the movement doesn't get damaged while shipping. I mean, it winds okay. Let's see how it works. What do you think of the size? Very bold. Wow, what a great first watch. This is absolute garbage, trash. This one looks redeeming, maybe. It's bigger, so is bigger better? Yeah, this looks like a pretty standard packaging. Honestly, if someone handed this to me, I'd be like, this is like a Seiko or a Casio. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be a baller watch, hopefully if everything functions the way it's supposed to. This is like their Astro Stellar watch, which is on the pricier side of the watches that we bought, but for a complication like this, priceless. Come on, this is a million dollar watch all day. First impressions, box is okay. Comes with this really bad little spring bar link removal. Oh, you know what? This hole winds the watch. I will say, for what it is, this feels okay. This doesn't seem too crazy. The way it works is you hold the back of this little hole here, as you can see, and there's your time setting. We see how it functions. Let's see how it wears. It does come with a deployant clasp, which feels absolutely cheap. What do you think? This does feel very cheap in every way possible. The metal is fake. It's very fake. It's like a level above plastic. The strap is horrendous. Do not wear this strap. I think this is a gimmick. It's definitely a gimmick watch. It's not garbage, but I mean, I would say it's sort of like light in between. For what I paid, I would buy 10 million different types of watches before I even considered this one. But I guess if you're just going for looks, like a Jacob & Co wannabe look, this is okay. Very gimmicky watch. Jason's going to stress test. I think it's mineral. Oh, sure. No, I think it's mineral. It's mineral glass. I think that's why it's got a little heft to it. Yeah, it looks like the components that they've chosen to spend on are like the robust aspect of it because everything else feels so cheap. Next watch. Oh, I know what this is. This is the Addi's Dive Sand Texture watch. I'm actually very excited for this one because I've known about this brand for a little while now and I've wanted to handle their watch. Ironically enough, we've actually got another watch from them and I have high hopes. So hopefully my dreams aren't crushed. Here it is. It feels, it has some weight to it and I think I've got the 36 millimeter. See that? It's the same tool except crooked, so this is no good. This is why you buy something like a Bergeon spring bar, link in the description. I'm excited for this. This is the watch that I was looking forward to. I really do want this to be good and it feels good so far. The watch looks absolutely beautiful. This is a stunning looking watch. I won't lie. This is how it looks like on the wrist. Honestly, pretty good. I opted in for no logo on the dial because I just thought it was cleaner than the Addi's Dive logo. I can't even complain for under, what, 200 bucks that we spent for this. This is probably the nicer one out of all of them. Oh, look at that. Screw down crown as well. That's very nice. We're getting a lot from this watch. Now this is quartz. It's kind of flat. I was expecting more of like a, like a green texture on there, but it looks clean. This is a good size, 236, I believe is what we picked. I would honestly put this in, it's between mid and baddie for me. I might say this is a baddie, just dependent on how all this has gone so far. I would definitely buy a watch like this from AliExpress. Okay. Next up we have quite the questionable packing material here. This is an ultra thin quartz watch in rose gold on a black strap. This looks like, you know, when you're like in a market, like a flea market and they're just hanging and you can just buy one for like 10 bucks. This is, this is those watches. You know what? This was cheap. I remember, I think this was like a dollar or two. Honestly, this doesn't feel or look that bad, but is this a great watch by any means? No, this is not. I wouldn't even call this a real watch, but for what it is and how much I paid for it, it's fine. What do you guys think? It's not terrible. The rose gold has a really reddish, is not my preferred type of rose gold. I'll give this to like my son when he's 12 or something, you know, like that type of watch or like an uncle that I really don't like, but I have to give him a gift. Oh, I just noticed something, a little buckle piece on the strap does not match the same color of the actual watch. And that is very frustrating. If you've ever had a watch mismatched and I had one where it was a gold on top and then it's silver on the bottom, it's the most frustrating thing because yeah, maybe no one else notices, but you notice all the time. I'm going to put this gimmicky, but it's like definitely garbage, so don't buy it. Next up, we have a package of plastic. You know how much I love plastic around here. Dude, this thing's a pain, my God. This is a Patek Nautilus, my favorite watch of all time. The sarcasm is real. I think this was a cheap watch too, this was like 90 cents and it feels like plastic, just like the Cartier Santos did as well. I will say though, the dial looks okay, has a Mercedes hands for some reason with the baton and then the indices look like a Patek Nautilus, except for the bracelet. This has a lot of plastic on it, this is a quartz movement obviously. I don't want to take off the plastic, but I have to. Date window, it works. That's asking for a lot for a dollar watch. Let's take the 20 sheets of plastic Saran Wrap that they put on this thing and put it on the wrist. You can just hear the plastic, that's bad. Well, you know what? As far as dimension and case size goes, this feels appropriate. This looks like a 38 millimeter case size, that's probably the most positive thing I could say. Other than this, this feels like a fake, bad, rip-off watch. I definitely wouldn't recommend this for anyone. That is terrible. It has a pull clasp release that is so freaking difficult to use. This feels like a toy watch and I'm not happy about that. This is another watch that is absolute garbage. Up next we have the different one from the group that we picked out, because this is not just a watch, it's a freaking ring. You remember when Casio released the digital watch rings for like, what, a hundred or something bucks? Yes. This is kind of falling in trend with that. Imagine this on your wrist, that'd be crazy. That's the dial. Honestly, it looks okay. Obviously, this is fake gold, but before I try it, I do want to wind it. Honestly, it's pretty good. And now for the moment of truth. Wow, she's a little tight. It does have this little flexible, almost like my E-line. Reissue, a little flexible bracelet, which is kind of cute. There it is. Let's do a finger roll. It is what it is. This is what I bought. I bought a finger ring watch. You know what? I'm actually going to get this a gimmicky rating, because I wouldn't recommend buying it unless you really want this. If you want to be hip at the club, maybe, I might wear this. You know what? Go become a member on thewatchbros.com and let me know if I should wear this at the club. I'll send pictures. And if I get one good comment, I'm going to let everyone know I'm there. If you love watches and you just want to be something different than, you know, just having it on your wrist, you want it on your finger, it works. And by the way, it does tell time. Gimmicky rating to the finger watch. Next up, this is going to be disgusting. I already know. This is a chronograph plus moon phase. Oh my God. The more I look at it, the worse it is. It's obviously quartz. I paid for a three sub dollar watch. I got a two hander with fake complications on it. This is not acceptable. You can't just promote that it has these. Why even put it on there? Save yourself some money. I was wanting a chronograph with a moon phase and I got a regular two hander. No date, by the way. I mean, all this is just plastic. The leather feels like ----. Fake chronograph buttons. This does nothing for me. I'm tired of being disappointed. I had low hopes. This is it on the wrist. I think this is like a 39, 40 millimeter case. Yeah. I would say this was well better designed and the idea was implemented to a real watch, which by the way it is. It's called Patek. Patek does this, but I'm saying another brand actually did it. Microbrand did it. This would be a good looking watch. Unfortunately, this is absolute garbage. Do not buy this watch. It looks bad. Up next, I have a Siloa watch. Designed from Paris. Let's see the quality. I'm actually very excited for this one, by the way. Have even more plastic on it. This looks good, man. The bracelet feels cheap. It's just not like good real metal. Well, here she is. Feels and sounds like a automatic movement. I need to double check, but I think it is probably like the NH35. Honestly, I kind of like it. If you consider everything that we just went through, I'm not going to say that it's a baddie because I think the quality of this could be a little bit better and approved upon. I do like the design on the dial. I think it was the coolest one. I could very lightly recommend it to someone just getting into watches. I think this is a good deal. So for that, I'm going to put it in mid. Not terrible. Don't love it, but I can wear this for a day. Why not? Next watch. This is a Merkur designed watch. I don't understand the case on this, but I do appreciate it. But this is nice. This is a nice case. This is going to protect your watch. Look at that. We have a nice little warranty card. We have a whole manual in here, a legit manual. This feels like something you would actually buy from a microbrand, like a legit microbrand. Thank God there's only this freaking one part that's wrapped in plastic. As far as quality, this strap feels nice. This is probably the most premium strap that I have felt yet on this whole entire video. It's a beautiful Pierre Pauline, obviously very close to Patek Philippe. This is like his cousin. Okay. He didn't quite make it in life, not as successful, but he opened the shop next door and took his customers. They're like, you're outrageous for your prices. And they went next door and bought one of these instead. I will say this. So far, if it's less than 200 bucks, buy this. This seems really good. It's well designed. Oh. This is mechanical, baby. Wow. Very smooth. This is unique, man. This is actually a watch I might even consider keeping because it's well done. And I know they have a bunch of different colorways on the site, MileyExpress, but this salmon doll looks really freaking good. This could look really good on a lot of different straps all day. I hate to say this, but this might be my number one pick so far on this list. So this is a certified baddie, just absolutely beautiful. And by the way, the steel on this does feel like real metal. It's not that fake plastic stuff that we keep seeing on these other watches. Whoever it is that we have to thank for this watch, you did a good job. Ladies and gentlemen, in front of me, I have a Mark Farewell watch. Now, I know what to expect when I open this. Obviously, we just shopped for it, but I'm so excited to see this in person. So this is the Mark Farewell watch. It's a roulette style watch, similar again to the Jacob & Co Roulette. The only difference is I think the roulette on the Jacob & Co, you press a button to make it move. This one is just always moving, so I feel like that kind of defeats the purpose a little bit. It always settles in one spot, but it does work. If you're a huge gambler, this could be a watch for you. The bracelet feels okay. It does feel like real metal, but it's like really hollow. All right, hands move fine. It's honestly a pretty fairly good looking watch. Yeah, obviously quartz movement on this. Pretty nice looking watch. I won't even lie. I can't complain there. It looks good for what it is. First impression, it's okay. I don't remember how much we spent on this, but it's fun. It's kind of fun, and the rose gold is fine for this. I don't know. I don't hate it. I obviously do not love it or even like it at that, but I think it's okay. I think if you want a roulette watch and you don't have Jacob & Co, a few money, you buy this. I'm not putting this at garbage. I would just put it at gimmicky. I think this is a better watch actually than the other Pindu design one. I would prefer this one. Next up, we have an unnamed watch. I think this is literally called like a minimalist black watch or something like that. It has the Arabic numerals, the Eastern Arabic numerals, as you can see. It feels like $2. This reminded me a lot of the, I don't remember the brand, but the sketch watch that was going around. There's a sketch watch with the light, whatever, and that actually kind of feels similar. I felt that watch before. It's not bad for two bucks. It looks fine. I could actually see people wearing this. I mean, bro, this is not that bad. If you know what you're buying, this is not that bad. I love black watches and black design, as you can see by my shirt, by the way, concert club members, tier three members on our website can buy this exact shirt, get a good deal out of it. So premium. Very good freaking shirt. I love this shirt. I wear it all the time. Anyways, this is pretty good. Honestly, I'm going to put this on mid tier. Very surprising probably, but I think that's pretty suitable for the amount of money that I spent on it. And what I got back, I got back exactly what I was expecting. It's good plastic. You know what I mean? You know, you have some bad rubber, good rubber, bad leather, good leather. This feels like good plastic. Next up I have, Oh, I forgot about this one. Next up we have one watch in four. How do you fit these many dials on one little contraction like this? And even more interesting, how is this going to look like on my wrist? I feel like I'm going to be like a steampunk outfit, you know, with like the coat and the hat and the glasses. And then this, I don't understand what's happening. This is two separate watches. So you have a compass down below. It looks like you have in Celsius, the temperature of the room, which I don't know how accurate this is. And then you have two separate watches. So imagine a GMT without the need of having a GMT because you have two watches on one wrist. I don't know if this is a mechanical watch, but this is not winding and it's also not ticking right now. That's what's happening. This side might be fake, but why would they do that? Why would they go through the hassle of making it seem so real? This one right here is fake. This is the actual watch. Stop lying to me, AliExpress. I told you. I need this in the description. Big ass strap. It's very thick boy. I can't even say anything good. Quite the impression, I would say. What sucks about it is the gimmick of the watch is not even like functional, which kind of sucks. Does the compass work? The compass does not work. Who is this watch for? You have a 0.0001% possibility of selling this watch and I'm one of those suckers. You know who it's for? It's for people making videos like this who want a crazy watch and they're like, these suckers will buy anything. I'm the sucker in this situation, okay? Don't do that to me, Mr. Olya, whatever your name is. This isn't even gimmicky at this point because it's not even like functioning gimmicky. I think this is just garbage. This is an absolute garbage watch. Do not buy this. Why would you do this to me, AliExpress? Don't ever make a watch like this again. And for the last watch, I have no idea what this is. Oh, I hope this is good. I don't think it's going to be great because this is already a knockoff of a cheap watch, but I have some type of hope. We have essentially a Sugest 1963 chronograph. Please work. I just want the sub-dials to work. This would be the only chronograph that actually worked. By the way, this is a handsome watch because it's obviously a rip-off of a Seagull movement. I'm pretty sure the whole point of this watch is that you can see the movement and see, like, it looks good. It looks like my Sudy Underdogs movement. But this is a close caseback, which I don't remember if that was shown in the picture. This NATO feels bad. I think this is quartz. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it is quartz and the chronograph works. Thank God. Although the, like, minute timer is not tracking correctly, so that sucks. Let's see how it is on the wrist. I would say, if you're a watch guy, you probably won't be buying something like this. You'd buy the real thing for 200 soap bucks. If you weren't a watch guy, I could see how you might like this because it's well designed. It's a good design already. It's just not as quality as the original. So it looks good on the wrist, I think, just, like, looking at it, but I can't recommend buying this. After what I've experienced today, we've gone through some trials and tribulations together as a team, collaboratively. I can't put this in garbage. So I'm going to have to put it in gimmicky. It hurts me to do that anyways. If you're not into watches, I could see you buying this. Would I recommend it? Zero. No. Do not buy it. Buy the real thing or buy a better chronograph if you can, but if not, buy the real Suggest that's out there. It's a way better deal and it's so much value for that watch. Ladies and gentlemen, 13 different watches. If I were to say, do I have a favorite, it'd be between this one and my number one spot, the Pierre Pauling. Congratulations. You win the best watch, the baddie of the group, and then second, the Addie's Dive. The dial and the look of the watch, honestly, I have so many points for it. Not a big fan of the bracelet. Best deal on the table, aside from this one, I think maybe this one. Again, $2 and it's not a great watch by any means, but it's not terrible for what you're getting. You know, give it to your son or cousin or something like that. The absolute worst watch on this table, my God, there's so many to pick from. It's actually embarrassing, but I think for the money that I spent on, because this was actually the most expensive watch on this list and it's not a good watch. Don't buy ---- like this on AliExpress, you old people, but thank you so much for watching this video. 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