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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Time for a change, 26 May 2008
After 11 years' pretty faithful service my old Gul watch started showing its age, its umpteenth Velcro strap fraying and the time showing a quarter to Jesus. It was time for a change...
I spotted this model in a local jewellers' window and went home and looked it up on my old mates Amazon, where it was going for about 17 quid less. Regrettably there was not much by way of description, but the remote setting sounded cool, it had an analogue face and showed the date, so I went for it.
What I got is pleasingly chunky without being brutish, the face is clear and the hands are luminous. The batteries are light-charged, so no need to faff with all that.
Lamentably there is no second hand, the digital read-out has to be in fairly bright light in order to be able to read it, you can't read it at all if it's quarter past or three something, and the instruction book is about the right size for the hands of a five-year-old seamstress, otherwise you are doomed to fumbling with it as you try to decipher the text, which appears to have lost something in the translation from the original Japanese through every native language on the Silk Road and on westwards to London. Nevertheless, through a process of deduction and trial and error I did manage to make a connection with the atomic clock at Rugby and reset the time. It'll be interesting to see if I can repeat the feat next time I go abroad!
But though it's by no means perfect, overall I consider this to be a good buy and well worth the money.
Footnote added after 18 months' use:
As I suspected, changing the time on this product has its challenges. In three visits to Canada, two of them to Toronto, and three to Spain, including one to Madrid, I have yet to succeed in getting the time to change.
On the other hand, en route to Philadelphia I got the time to change mid-Atlantic, but it was an hour out, a sitution I managed to remedy eventually in Philly. On return to the UK, I changed it back immediately.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Can't get better for the money, 5 Dec 2008
Technically speaking you won't beat this watch for the money. Solar powered, automatic atomic clock setting every 24 hrs, WR to 200m and G-shock, so tough as old boots. I've had this watch 6 months and cannot fault it. Design wise, that is a personal thing - so it's up to you whether you think this will look stylish or not. But it's light, comfortable, rugged and definitely worth the money
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great watch, poor manual, 2 Jan 2009
I needed a rugged watch for outdoor use and bought myself this for Christmas 2008, after watching the Channel 5 Gadget Show on G shock watches in general. I knew the negatives - poor manual, difficult to read smaller dials - BUT it is still a great watch. Sealed for life with solar batteries means durability, together with the tough water resistant mechanism. I like the comfortable "round fit" to the wrist, but it does mean it can never lay flat. Persevere with the manual and it becomes logical. I think it looks good. Loses a star for no second sweep hand.
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