The Hamtun H1, is the first watch from a brand new UK company Hamtun Watches who are based out of Southampton. As is fashionable nowadays (and financially prudent) they are crowdfunding the H1 production via Kickstarter .
They aim to rise above the sea of Kickstarter watch campaigns that fill
the site, and in their own words “build something that was both truly
affordable and high quality”
As aways the devil will be in the detail so let us delve deeper and
look at what they consider high quality in a watch and how that high
quality translates into affordability.
First and upfront so there is no ambiguity this is going to be my first
preview of a watch that has not even completed production, it's detail
is taken from press release and Kickstarter data, I intend to followup
with a full review once I have the product in hand (this should be in a
few weeks if review copies become available).
With a brand new company like Hamtun Watches I cannot give a large amount of background but I can fill you in on the basics. Based in Southhampton, UK, they are the brainchild of Ross Davis, who has been working on the H1 for a little over a year. It has been his goal to deliver a high quality automatic dive watch constructed of premium materials at an affordable price.
Outside of the movement (it would be truly unheard of for a new company
to build an in-house movement for its first watch and a little insane),
the H1 has been completely custom designed and prototyped by Hamtun,
with the manufacture being completed in China.

Hamtun H1 – Display Box
The Hamtun H1 comes in at 41mm, so it is on the smaller end of dive
watches, not that this is a problem, at 41mm it should still be large
enough to be legible and easy to use. It will be interesting to see when its on my wrist, but I doubt it will look undersized.
The H1 case is constructed from grade 5 titanium with a satin finish
and from the press shots it does look fantastic, it has a gun metal
colour and I think it would look great on the wrist.
Titanium is an interesting choice of material for a watch, it is
incredibly durable and very lightweight, it is approximately half the
weight of a comparable steel watch, which can be alarming if you are
used to a dive watch being heavy of the wrist, I personally find it
great when you get used to it.
Titanium is highly impact resistant and can be up to five times a
strong as stainless steel, it is unlikely that you could accidentally
break the case, in fact the force you would likely need would destroy
the movement long before the case would fail.
It is also incredibly corrosion resistant, it is almost impossible to
rust titanium and it is impervious to all acids apart from nitric, for a
dive watch this is fantastic, repeated exposure to salty water and
other elements when diving will have less of a corrosive effect than on a
stainless steel watch.
For us desk divers there is a softer side to titanium, it is
hypoallergenic so it will not produce adverse reactions with the skin
that other materials can do.
Titanium truly is a wonder material but it has to have an Achilles heel, and its one is scratch resistance. Depending on its manufacturing properties it can be more prone to scratching than the more frequently used stainless steel.
I do not at the time of writing have any information about the
manufacturing process used on the H1 so it would be prudent to assume it
will scratch easier than your standard steel watch.
Now given the upsides of titanium, the fact that it is slightly more
prone to being scratched is not a massive deal breaker, for a workhorse
dive watch I would take the anti corrosion and durability every day.
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