Konifer Wooden Watches

Disclosure: We received a watch to test in exchange for this blog post. All opinions are our own.

For this review, I enlisted the help of my husband, David.

Here’s what he has to say about the wooden watches by Konifer.

I’ll be honest: I stopped wearing watches several years ago because I got fed up with wearing them. If I needed to check the time, well, there was my phone or other electronic devices and, besides, the last couple of watches I had were chunky, heavy, metal-band affairs that were, well, a pain in the… wrist.

I tried the Konifer wooden watch at Laura’s request, and from first setting eyes on the Konifer collection at their website I was intrigued.

The watches themselves are beautifully fashioned from wood, which means that every watch is unique – the grain and shape of the wood is different for every single one.

I picked the Navigator Army, purely because I liked the colour, and it arrived in only a few days from the date of order.

I really, really like this watch, for the following reasons (I admit, some of them are down-to-earth practical reasons, while some are “feeling” reasons):

1. It’s a substantial watch – and it feels substantial on my wrist.

But, because it’s made of wood, it is astonishingly light, to the point where it feels more like a bracelet than a watch. That feeling I used to get with my older, metal watches? Not with this one. At all.
2. It’s made, beautifully, out of sandalwood, which means that it gives off that wood’s very pleasant but subtle scent when it’s on my wrist.

3. It’s easy to adjust the band. Several spare links are included in the box and it’s a very simple matter to pop out the holding pin, insert (or remove) links and reattach the pin. It took me about two minutes to set it up just to my liking.

4. Konifer says on their website that the watch has “natural style” and, yep, that’s how it makes me feel when I wear it.

My professional life revolves around environmental studies so I feel like my one-of-a-kind Konifer wooden watch really reflects my attitudes toward the environment, in a way that a traditional watch, or even more a tech-heavy watch like a Smartwatch, simply wouldn’t.

Plus, I really like the fact that for every watch they sell, Konifer undertakes to plant a tree through the WeForest initiative, which has planted more than 13 million trees since it started in 2009.

So, all in all, I am very happy to recommend Konifer watches.

The company is eco-conscious and they offer watches that are stylish, unique, and very comfortable.

I’m pretty sure they’re durable too: even dropping my Navigator in a river on a recent kayaking trip did it no harm (although I’d not recommend doing this too often!).