It is a beautiful watch but I had to take the watch to a jeweler to have the band shortened, it doesn't have regular pins and I could find no info on how to do it, cost me $20. I was also told that this is not a true seiko, apparently seiko sells their brand names to other companies and this watch doesn't have true seiko parts. No wonder seiko is going downhill. This should be illegal I would think to sell a product on the premise of the brand name when it is made by another company and with different parts. If I had known this before they sized the band I would not have had it done and I would have returned this watch.
 The hands are also hard to see because the whole face and hands are gold.