Benyar 5109, the black golden beauty

Is this the most interesting model from Benyar? It sure looks cool in black and gold! There’s also a working chronograph and a date wheel.

Review video and lots of pictures is at the bottom of this page.

The specs

Model: Benyar BY-5109-1M
Case dimensions: 48 mm and 15.1 mm thick
Weight: 117.2 grams
Materials case: Alloy
Materials glass: Hardlex
Material bands: Stainless steel
Bands dimensions: width 21.8 mm, length 225 mm
Water resistance rating: 30 M
Movement: SUNON PE90
Accuracy: +0.5 sec/day
Price: About 22 USD
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Design

This is definitively a very interesting looking watch. Although i’m usually not a fan of painted watches, I do like the colour combination here. Black and gold looks good together, and there’s not too much gold, so it’s not overwhelming.

The bands also look good, and it matches very well with the pattern around the bezel of the case.

Case

This watch is available in a few different colour combinations (see product links), but I found that the black/gold combination looked the best to me.
The case is made of alloy, and is mostly standard looking, except for one major detail. The bezel. It has a rough surface all around and four golden screws on the sides. The golden screws match up with the golden details in the dial, and the rough pattern matches very well with the bands.

The watch is rated 30M water resistance, so you can’t really use it under water, but it should handle daily use, like rain and splashes etc.

Dial

The window is made of Hardlex, is flat and is flush with the bezel.
There are three sub-dials on this watch, and of course they all work (fake sub dials are not welcome on my wrist). All sub dials are used by the stopwatch. Top dial shows milliseconds, bottom dial shows seconds and the left dial shows minutes.

As usual the top button is used as start and pause, while the bottom button is to reset.

The back of the dial has a carbon fiber looking pattern, which looks very nice indeed. This in combination with the golden details is a very good look. Time is also easy to ready, because of the contrast between the golden hands with white marks, and the black background.

The date wheel at 3 o’clock is also easy to ready as it’s black text on white background.

The lumed areas on the hands are quite big, so it’s easy to see the them in the dark. Hours are also lumed, so we got all we need to tell the time in the dark.

Bands

The bands are made of metal, and are of the mesh-style type.
As mentioned before, they look good and match the rest of the design very well.
They are also comfortable to wear, and the material quality is good.

The lock is a hook buckle, and it both functions and looks good.

Wearing

Conclusion

This is truly a very nice and cool looking watch. It might draw some attention though, as it looks a bit unusual. At the same time it also looks very interesting!
I like the colour combination, black with gold looks good.
The watch is not too big, but also not small.
There’s a working chronograph, and it has a date wheel.

Remember to check out the video below.