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Okay, so there are something like a million different Skmei out there. But we only talk about a few. Granted the 1628 is amazing. What about the 2218? The 2218 looks best (my opinion) with the black display. The problem is the black display isn’t really a good choice for seeing what time it is, if viewing conditions aren’t idea ( inside in indirect light). When it’s in daylight (even indirect) or dim indoors you have to use the backlight. To do that you press its single button for a second—or is it 1.5 or 2 ? My backlight doesn’t work at all. So, an unforced qc error on Skmei. But get used to using the one button pressing for varying lengths of time to get it to do anything other than look okay. The strap is worth $5usd (perhaps), so it’s a break even proposition (sort of).

After a week with it, I’m moving on to another lesser known Skmei.

So, I’ll bet a lot of you AliEx watch hunters have seen these and had the same WTF. No dimensions or real specs in the listing. I have 6.5” or 16.5 cm wrists, so, I do look for smaller watches in general. This is old school small. Looks like a 20s Rolex (sized for the period), but it dinky and won’t look good on most of the meat logs we call “arms” in the USA. Nice materials and the movement (whatever is in the tiny case) has been accurate for a week.