I introduced an Olevs watch before, it was a digital watch, today, I will give my honest review on this brand, just my opinions, if you have any other thoughts about their watches, please share with us in comments, if my review helps you, I appreciate.
There are different opinions about Olevs in China, a lot of people think it is a Swiss watch because Olevs uses “Switzerland” on the product title on their Taobao site, especially they also hire a celebrity as a spokesperson, but people who have some watch knowledge won’t believe this. Olevs is a Chinese brand that is shipped from Huizhou in Guangdong province of China.
On reddit, people are talking Olevs, on Amazon, Olevs watches are being sold very well, even having a better sales than Sea-gull, I saw the prices of Olevs watches on Amazon are a bit higher than that on their Taobao, but there are still people willing to pay extra prices. The photos on Olevs website are beautiful, the finish on the watch looks bright and it seems like the watch is high quality, actually the pictures of these watches have been photoshoped, you need to see actual pics before making your order with them.
Do not be fooled by the appearances. If you are looking for high quality watches made in China, you can completely ignore Olevs, which is far from being high quality, just look at their prices, you can get the answer. There are three obvious features on Olevs watches, bright finish, premium look dial and shining gold, all these they have made are to convince customers that the watches are high quality. If you have a high expectation on the quality, you will fail. Take this Submariner homage as an example, it is popular, many micro brands make a homage of Submariner at the start of their career, but not every homage is good, this two tone model looks attractive but is not made with good stainless steel material, the crystal is common mineral and movement is cheap automatic movement made in China, which is not as durable as Japanese movements and will have a big inaccuracy after long-time usage, you will know this if you have bought such watches from China, homage watches at the same price level, I will say Steeldive is a better option. The gold on the case and bracelet makes the watch look luxury, but it is a weakness, the gold will fade easily, after that, it will become ugly. The case and bracelet lack of good chamfer polishing, so sometimes there will be scratch feeling when wearing on the watch on hand, the flutes on the bezel, you can even see metal burr if check carefully. In a word, the watch is okay-looking overall but poorly made in details.
All watches like Olevs made in China, do have bright finish, but no bright future.
