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05 January 2017
Great looking, well built quality watch, BUT really terrible functional design
All right, I've been wearing that watch for about a month now, so time for feedback.
First, the unexpected: I got really surprised by its color at first, which looks almost black except in very bright light. I got quite a bit disappointed to start with (even wondered if I would return it), but it finally grew on me, the dark deep blue shades being quite elegant. Just be aware that the picture on ebay shows it in a way lighter blue that it actually is.
Then the good:
- quality: the watch feels really well built.
- style: it looks dashing.
- power source and accuracy: ecodrive, no shifting of battery ever, and automatically synchronized on atomic clock every night.
- legibility of the LCD screen: easier to read that I expected, since LCD screens are so tiny. But the digits are clear, and one thing really smart, the reading angle is such that you have a clear picture looking from six o clock, which is where you're looking from when the watch is on your wrist. So bigger digits would be welcome, but I expected worse.
- world time functionality.
- rotating E6B bezel is readable, and usable.
Then the bad:
- to be mild and polite, the guy who did the functional design of this watch should just change profession. The need to pull the crown and rotate it to switch from one mode to another is a NONSENSE. In practice, consider that you need to remove the watch from your wrist to switch mode from date to stop watch, or timer or to world time... I tell you what: I'm happy I'm done with the time I was flying hard core IFR and had to time the outbound legs of my holding patterns - FMS be thanked. This design is such a hassle I don't even bother to switch to timer mode while cooking some eggs as I did without even thinking and in two clicks on my previous Casio... So this "pilot watch" is fine if you fly an airliner and basically don't need a functional watch, but stay away if this is your primary stopwatch and you need to switch mode on the go.
Conclusion: I still love it, since I don't need a functional watch as badly as I did earlier, and because it is just dashing. And we forgive things we find beautiful what we would have hated the rest of the world for. And also because it goes on its own, keeps accurate time and allows for different time zones which I have use for.
So I guess I would still recommend it, since it's quite a beauty, but it depends on what one is looking for, and be aware of its limitations.