Wrist Watch, Analog, Kinetic Quartz, Style: Dress, Round Face, Men's Watch
Seiko Men's watch Kinetic Collection. Dark Metallic Blue Dial with gold tone hands and markers. Luminous hands and markers. Solid Titanium case and bracelet. Date. Hour; minute and second hands. Precise Kinetic Quartz movement with automatic power generator. Power reserve indicator. 6-month power reserve capacitor. Scratch resistant Hardlex Crystal. Polished Bezel. See-Through Case Back. Push-button deployment clasp. Water resistant to 100m. Case measures 39mm diameter by 11mm thick. 3 year SEIKO warranty. Terms and Conditions: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=kenmarcollections
Price Range: $279 - $280
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(9 Reviews)
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Kinetic movement, Dress watch, Lumibrite hands and markers, Analog date display, Power reserve indicator function, Automatic power generator, Gold-tone indexes on outer dial, Polished titanium bezel with gold-tone accents, Gold-tone crown and selector button, Polished titanium case and screw-in caseback, See through caseback, Hardlex crystal, 100 meters/330 feet water resistant.
Style: Dress
Face Structure: Round
Dial Color: Blue
Case Material: Titanium
Case Color: Gold Tone, Titanium
Strap Material: Titanium
Strap Color: Gold Tone, Silver Tone
beautiful, but long term quality weak
Author's Rating:
This watch has a such a simple beauty I have bought it twice, though mine had a champagne dial, not blue. I like that the watch is titanium and lightweight. I like that at least my model had the saphlex cristal, virtually scratchproof. I liked that it would not need a battery.
However, after buying it twice and having the same problem both times, the watch has weaknesses that prevent me from recommending it.
In both watches,the band has gotten kinked, popped loose, and had clasp problems. The titanium links are bulletproof, but the pins that hold them together are not, and the design of how they attach the bracelet to the body seems failure prone. I had fortunately both times saved the extra links and pieces from resizing so I could get it repaired, and with the second watch used pieces from the first watch band, or the watch would not have made it even the two years each they lasted.
Second, the kinetic mechanism on both wore out. Don't know, but I suspect the capacitor ("permanent" battery)just wore out. Even though I wear it 24/7, run regularly, and am otherwise active, I could not get it to keep a full charge after a year or two. First time, after one year, I sent it to warranty service. They said nothing wrong with it, but still repaired it. It worked for two more years before same problem. Second watch also lasted two years.
Between the charge giving out and the band problems, I can't recommend it any more, so am switching to Citizen Eco-Drive for looks, or Casio solar for ruggedness and features, though neither has the sapphire cristal I liked about this Seiko.
Sep 12, 2008
beautiful, but long term quality weak
Author's Rating:
This watch has a such a simple beauty I have bought it twice, though mine had a champagne dial, not blue. I like that the watch is titanium and lightweight. I like that at least my model had the saphlex cristal, virtually scratchproof. I liked that it would not need a battery.
However, after buying it twice and having the same problem both times, the watch has weaknesses that prevent me from recommending it.
In both watches,the band has gotten kinked, popped loose, and had clasp problems. The titanium links are bulletproof, but the pins that hold them together are not, and the design of how they attach the bracelet to the body seems failure prone. I had fortunately both times saved the extra links and pieces from resizing so I could get it repaired, and with the second watch used pieces from the first watch band, or the watch would not have made it even the two years each they lasted.
Second, the kinetic mechanism on both wore out. Don't know, but I suspect the capacitor ("permanent" battery)just wore out. Even though I wear it 24/7, run regularly, and am otherwise active, I could not get it to keep a full charge after a year or two. First time, after one year, I sent it to warranty service. They said nothing wrong with it, but still repaired it. It worked for two more years before same problem. Second watch also lasted two years.
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Author's Rating:
great value...i did have to take it to a jewler to adjust the band...instruction on how to do it myself would have been nice...
May 03, 2008
