Svalbard Tilbake Owner Review : Different, minimalist and sporty

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Published on 2/2/2023 - Last modified on 2/6/2024

Yes it is possible

This minimalist-looking watch, of Scandinavian design, and very simple challenges several preconceptions of the conformity in which we bathe without realizing it. -The hands turn in the indirect direction (anti-trigonometric) -The crown is on the right -The small hand is for the hours and the large one for the minutes -The hands are full and point towards the railway from the outside Well this watch challenges these commonly accepted principles. The indirect direction has no real reason to exist except that most of us do it like that. A bit like driving on the right, the opposite works very well or even better: in the United Kingdom for example. Changing direction can lead to mistakes, which is why it is often preferred not to change. But changing allows you to do some healthy gymnastics for the brain to keep it in shape. It is a very simple brain sport. Similarly, reversing the hands is done quite well. The logic of the big hand for the minutes is to have a greater precision in reading. Here the problem is solved by making a second railway and an indicator that points precisely to the minutes. The second hand is red and extremely visible which allows to clearly see the direct direction of rotation and to avoid possible reading errors linked to its sinister non-conformity. The crown is at three o'clock as is often the case, but since we turn in an unusual direction it is on the left side which has the advantage of not bothering the hand if we wear the watch on the left wrist (although personally the crown on the right has never bothered me in the least and since the watch is quartz it does not pose a problem for winding). As for the manufacturing, it comes from a Chinese factory and it is rather neat for this price range (around 100 euros), the movement is a Japanese quartz Miyota 2037. As is often the case with Svalbard, it is a limited series of 500 copies and each copy has its number engraved on the back around the polar bear, the mascot of the brand. But also an animal that is better admired from afar given that last summer on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard (the name of the brand by the way) a French woman in her forties was injured by a polar bear that was subsequently shot. There are said to be 3,500 polar bears in the Svalbard archipelago, hence the choice of the mascot. If you turn the watch over, you can dream of these northern lands (only 1,050 km from the North Pole), or imagine the hands turning clockwise behind the engraving of the bear and the quartz mechanism because if you turn an anticlockwise mechanism over, it turns clockwise. Or think of a Jules Verne novel where polar bears are fought like wintering in the ice. In short, it is a watch with a very simple appearance that breaks many watchmaking codes, which is well thought out to be readable and not to make a mistake in reading the time. It is practical, beneficial and opens up the imagination of the far north and this fascinating archipelago of Svalbard. Corresponding adjectives: Anti-conformist, minimalist, sporty-cerebral

Wind of change own this watch for 1 to 3 years

4.5

5.0

Emotion

5.0

Design

5.0

Accuracy

4.0

Comfort

3.0

Robustness

5.0

Value for money

Secondary

Significance in a collection

Main

Rarely

Frequency to be worn

Often

Pleasure

Main motivation for buying

Investment

Different
Minimalist
Sporty
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