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4.5
Nice, comfortable watch with lightweight bearing on the wrist. Good to have the day & date info.Great clean style, form and function - IF the Rules for setting are followed to avoid damaging watch.Easy to set and size and works well. These watches have bands made from folded, not solid, metal links. This gives them a lightweight bearing on the wrist, compared to solid links and heavier watches. If you prefer a heavy piece of machinery on your wrist, these watches may feel a bit "flimsy," but that isn't because the watch isn't legit in all it's ways, but likely because you may be used to a heavier band with solid links. I have been wearing a heavy watch for years, so the lightness of these watches is taking some getting used to.Great customer service and comfortable, stylish timepieces.On water issues in reviews: If you can't take off your watch in the house and have to wash dishes and/or shower with a watch on your wrist, get a diving watch for such lifestyles. The basic everyday watch isn't designed to protect the mechanisms from water's challenges.SPECIAL NOTE: If ordering the day & date version, it requires SPECIAL CAREFUL SETTING or you can damage the watch!This is an analog watch and if you've never set one, you can look up on the net "set analog watch day date" and find a comprehensive instruction for doing so.READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE SETTING THE WATCH!The basics are:1. Never try to adjust anything on the watch mechanism between 9:pm to 3:am. Wait until 6:am to 4:pm to do the setting, and this includes when you advance your dates on short months.2. Analog watches generally have a Day wheel with TWO languages on it. This is normal and fine, if one contains your language. The day will advance Past the other language you don't select.3. To adjust the Day mechanism, turn the dial Away from you at the 2nd crown extension (or Toward you, I can't recall) to select your language's Day.4. To adjust the Date, turn the dial at 2nd crown extension Toward you (or Opposite of Day direction).TO SET THE WATCH, AT 6:AM FOR EXAMPLE:Pull the crown to first extension and advance time to 6:00.Pull the crown to the second extension. Turn the dial Away from you to set Day (or Date) for Yesterday's Day.Turn the dial the Opposite direction to set the Date (or Day) for Yesterday's Date.Push the crown in fully. Pull the crown to the first extension and advance the hands/time past 12:00, and past 3:00. You should see the Day & Date turn, advancing past the secondary language, to today's date. If it does not advance when you reach 12:00 to 3:00, the watch thinks it is still in the afternoon, so Advance it to 12:00 again to reach the 12:00 to 3:00 a.m. tipping point phases for the Day & Date, thus making sure your watch knows it's noon from it's midnight!CAREFUL! The mechanism that advances the Day & Date for you takes a few hours for EACH WHEEL (day and date wheels) to build up the tension in the little spring, so to speak, to trip the wheel to it's next position. If you pick English and are up at 2:am, you'll see the Day wheel going thru and past the second language to your next English day selected.This is a delicate set of mechanisms and should NEVER be adjusted between 9:pm and 3:am - the Danger Zone.Understand what you are doing first, then do the settings. This is a safe and easy way to ensure you properly set and get to enjoy your watch. Don't rush thru it; do it right.
