This is one of the best talking atomic watches out there. I have had mine for about 6  years, and other than the occasional battery change ( twice in 6 years), I have had no problems with it what so ever. For those who have written less than flattering reviews for this watch, it is obvious that you do not understand that this an "Atomic" watch, and there is really very little that you have to do to keep the  time and date set on it. The watch is controlled by the clock in Fort Collins, Colorado, which is the official time piece for our military and government to  base their operations around. It is probably the most accurate time piece in the United States. For the person who said thay had trouble setting the time, all one really has to do is to select the United States in the Global Signal Selections setting by pressing the button at the lower left side of the watch until you hear this feature called out. Simply follow the spoken instructions to select the USA, and the watch will do the rest. These watches update themselves every morning around 3:00 AM. To the person who stated that the watch was always 1 hour off on the time because of living in an area that uses Daylight savings time all year round, please remember that most of the country does not follow this practice, so  you can overide this by  manually setting the time, although you may have to do this often. The best thing would be to simply add or subtract an hour to get the correct time. Not to difficult. And lastly, if you thing the watch is going haywire because the hands sometimes spin arount by themselves, it is not. Atomic watches will keep the spoken time and the hands of the watch set to the correct time at all times. If it does start to announce the wrong time, then it is most likely time for a battery change. Oh! and the watch will not announce the time while updating.