Gail Smith
Third Update: I have been wearing this watch day and night for almost two years. (Will be two years in August) and it is still running great and has given me no trouble at all. I have to say again that it is the best watch I have ever owned. You can't lose with this watch. It has gone thru a lot on my wrist and it doesn't even have a scratch on it and still looks like a new watch. The glow in the dark paint on the dial still is a bright at night as the day I bought it. I am oh so happy with this watch. I live on a farm and this watch has been thru a lot and has even gone thru several rain storms where I got soaked and it has not broken or stopped running. I highly recommend this watch. This watch is made of very durable metal and the crystal is very hard. The crystal on my watch does not have even one scratch after all the work I have done while wearing this watch. A very rugged watch that stands up.Second Update: I have been wearing this watch day and night for about two years now and it is still running great and has given me no problems at all and it is still the best watch I have ever owned. I recommend this watch highly to anyone who wants a good dependable watch.Update: I have been wearing this watch day and night 24/7 for well over a year now and it is still working perfectly and it keeps time very well. It has not given me any trouble at all. I am so proud of this watch. It is the best watch I have ever owned and in my 74 years I have owned many watches and this one is the best.My Seiko 5 Sports Automatic Watch made in Japan arrived in great condition. It came in the proper Seiko box with pillow and instructions and tags in English and Japanese and with Made in Japan stamped on the watch face lower edge, and on the edge of the glass back, and the word Japan is stamped into the metal of the half moon shaped rotor weight inside the watch so it truly is a watch made in Japan just as advertised.My watch came from Yorozuya Japan sales company to Amazon Prime and is covered under Amazon Prime. Yorozuya has an approval rating of 99% and that is why I ordered from them. The Seiko movement in this watch is one of the best automatic movements made. A automatic movement is a movement powered by the movement of your arm movement which moves a half moon shaped weight inside the watch. The weight rocks and spins when your arm moves. This rocking and spinning of the half moon shaped weight is what winds the watch. ( Remember little movement of your arm means little winding of the watch). If you set at a computer all day, the watch probably will not wind very well because your arm has hardly moved. In that case shake your arm sided to side like a dog shaking his wet fur. Do this for a minute or two and it will wind the watch. No automatic watch is as down to the second accurate as the battery powered quartz controlled watches. However if there is ever a EMP event your mechanical watch will still be working when the battery powered quartz watches will burn out from the EMP and will not work. Also, with this watch you never have to worry about replacing a battery because it does not use a battery like the quartz watches do;The glow in the dark paint on the watch dial works great. It usually glows most of the night with one pass over from my flashlight. Much of the time I don't even have to use the flashlight to charge the glow, it just glows by itself. As far as the strap that comes with the watch, it is functional if you like straps, but I don't like straps so I took off the strap and replaced it with a 20-24 mm ,Hadley Roma, Titanium, twist-a-flex stretching watch band from Milano Watchbands Co. It looks great on this watch. A Twist-A-Flex type of watch band is the best band for these automatic watches because it makes it very easy and quick to slip your watch off, or slide it up higher on your arm, before washing your hands. It makes it easy to take your watch off before taking a shower or working in water. Yes I know, the watch is waterproof up to 100 meters, but I never take a chance with a mechanical watch. I always believe it is better safe than sorry so I do not expose a great automatic watch like this to water at all if I can help it.Don't be afraid to buy this watch it is the best watch for the money that you can buy.

Tamara Stephens
I bought this watch a month ago. So far, I’m very pleased with the accuracy, and it’s soothing to watch the second hand NOT going “tick, tick, tick” like a quartz watch. I’ve had automatic watches before, but it’s been a long time. I’ve not had it in water yet, but with my lifestyle it WILL happen eventually. Great everyday watch. Only negative is the luminescent markings don’t seem to stay luminous for very long after dark. Update - nothing scientific or exact, but my watch has lost about 5 minutes (compared to my IPhone that I used to set the time about a month ago. Seems pretty decent for the price, as I was expecting to gain or lose about a minute per day. Maybe I’m being too generous, but I still really like this watch. 2nd update - after several more months, I’m still pretty satisfied. Very durable, attractive everyday watch. Has stopped twice after very sedentary days of binge watching TV and laying around in the house on some bad weather days. That’s not really any fault of the watch. Still loses around a minute or so per day. Not really unexpected for an automatic watch in this price range I guess, but also seems a little ironic that a much less expensive Timex quartz watch keeps almost perfect time. Overall, I’m happy with the watch, just wish it was more accurate.3rd update - I still like this watch, but it really doesn’t like when I have sedentary days - it will stop during the night after a day spent lazing around the house. Accuracy seems to be getting worse - I have to reset the time about weekly and I set it to be a few minutes fast. The band is starting to show wear around the hole where I buckle it every morning. My $25 15 year old Timex keeps time almost exact, so if absolute accuracy is your concern - buy a cheap quartz Timex and save yourself some money and aggravation.

Richard Carrillo
My watch was ordered on 5 March 2020 here on Amazon, shipped from and sold by Watchsavings, and it is just what the doctor (or at least just what I) ordered. It gives every appearance of being the higher-quality, Japanese-made, 23-jewel version of this watch that some others are selling for about three times what I paid, and it appears brand-spankin' new at that. Well...for the most part, at least. The watch itself appears to be in brand-spankin' new condition and came with protective plastic sheets on the glass caseback and the buckle; I haven't gone at it with a loupe or anything, but to the naked eye, the entire thing - watch, band, all of it - appears flawless. The band was flat and stiff, as a new fabric band should be, and needed just a little massaging to make it pliable and comfortable on my wrist. The only thing that gave me to raise one eyebrow a little is the fact that it came with a generic instruction sheet "for quartz and automatic watches" that makes no reference anywhere to either Seiko or any other watchmaker. But because the watch appears to be the real deal and new, I'm not concerning myself too much with the generic instruction sheet (should I be? : /I've only had the watch in my possession for about seven hours so I can't really speak to the long-term accuracy (automatic watches often have to run for some days or longer before they settle into their long-term accuracy pattern), but since it appears to have gained about one second in its first approximately seven hours of service, I'd say it's gaining about four seconds a day straight out of the box.It looks and feels fantastic on my wrist, IMO; it seems to me the perfect size and weight, and I think it's just a gorgeous piece of machinery. And for my part I have no reservations about the stock band; I think it looks lovely and feels very comfortable, so I'll probably just use it until I see some functionality-related reason to swap it out.Well, okay, maybe the buckle is a touch goofy-looking. But nobody's likely to be scrutinizing that, so I'm sure it doesn't matter.If any issues arise with the watch in any unreasonably short period of time, I'll come back and revise this review. But for the present I'm pleased with my purchase and can recommend buying this watch from Watchsavings. Enjoy!*Update*: My apologies for the imprecision, but I can tell you that I last set this watch about three weeks ago, and it's about two minutes fast now. That's not bad, is it? Two minutes in three weeks?Plus it's fast, which I regard as being better than its being slow. A slow watch can make you late for things, while a fast watch is more likely to make you early. More worms for you! :PBottom line, I remain happy with my purchase.