The engine was enough pleasant to give me an autumn outside for the evaluation. It is a watch ready for the hard treatment. The engine mills a stainless steel billet and includes a Japanese movement of the first rate under a resistant and arched crystal. The bracelet is attached with the machined stems of steel with capscrews hex. This thing better is made than a Russian tank.
Mounting is fullest I ever saw, with an increased edge which protects the crystal. The crown has the protective ears which are as full as each other piece of this watch. The crown is threaded, and the stem does not have any play. The back is also a piece full of steel machined rather than a estampillage. The bracelet is broad and thick with the bolt triples most positive that you can imagine.
Yes, I like this one much. I spent several days striking it in each full object which I can, but to stripe the crystal or not to notch mounting. _ it be more thick than I go usually with, diameter of 40mm and 13mm thick, but the bracelet be enough with far that it be well proportion. Milling on mounting, stem, and the pins of bracelet is a not very common model, but functions well with resistant, extreme aspect of environment. The hands are well projected, enough large to be easily indicated, but formed to prevent confusion. The inscriptions of dial, in the same way large, clear, and are easily read. The luminescent inscriptions are luminous and keep their luminescence well. The day and the date is a device which I like date better than just.
It is not perfect. The inscriptions on mounting are an embarrassment, with a simple hatching between the numbers which throws me to far. This thing is the heaviest wrist watch which I ever used, with 192 grams, but it is low-costs to pay longevity. The bracelet is so broad, 22mm, that some tools for classification by size will not adapt it. Although resistant to water with 200m, to be a watch of piqu, you would like the small prolongation of bracelet, or a belt resisting water thus you can carry it above a wetsuit. And it is a quartz movement. Obtain with the movement of Seiko 5 watches, and this thing would be the bomb.
The weak points are unimportant, to fall it is the watch for the hard environments and the approximate use. I would not carry it with a costume, but anywhere differently, anyhow abusive this situation would be with a little of watch.