r/NivadaGrenchen

They have now sent me two watches bought from their website brand new that do not work out of the box.

Bought the F77 Mk. II Mecaquartz and it had big chip out of the lug when I bought it. I reached out to customer service right away because I thought that seemed kinda ridiculous for a brand new watch. They are reply extremely slowly and they finally say they are going to replace it. Another 2 weeks pass and I randomly get a email from them saying “Your agent has closed the ticket”

I had to then reach out another 5+ times over another week and a half for them to do anything at all. Finally they apologize for closing it and basically admit they weren’t going to do anything. Finally I get a tracking number for a replacement. Another 2 WEEKS go by before it actually gets shipped. I am now months removed from the original purchase and the replacement arrived today.

I open the box and it looks great no chip at least this time. But of course same problem it won’t even run out of the fucking box. Absolutely ridiculous incompetence from this company once again. Anyone looking for two piece of shit broken F77 chronos DM me I might give them out for free.

Have had a MkI about a year, been great but the MkII improvements seemed too good to pass up, ordered 3 weeks ago I think. Arrived today.

Hi! Have you come across any Nivada Chronosport watches with the bracelet that has the quick adjust button?

I formerly owned the white indices variant, and it only had the micro adjust within the clasp, no quick adjust button.

I believe I saw the variant with the quick adjust clasp on ebay, but wasn't interested at the moment. Now I'm curious.

Thanks!

Took a moving picture :).

Uploaded the vid directly vs. via YouTube to avoid self-promotion - just want to share my new watch.

First watch I bought for myself and really happy with it. I have a small wrist 6.25 - 6.5 so was hunting for a long time for smaller watches (had to give up on so many nice watches that were larger b/c of fit).

Things I like:
- Design: it’s not loud and I feel I can wear it daily + huge fan of vintage & vintage looking watches in general. The chamfer on the lugs is really nice
- Size: 35-36mm is perfect for my wrist
- Manual wind: I actually enjoy winding this up every morning
- History: There is actually a bit of history to the original version of this watch from the 1950s
- Quality(?): I’m still new to watches but it feels like pretty good quality build

Things I don’t like:
- Strap: I think I have to cycle through a few straps to see what I like/goes well
- Lume: it’s not really that visible