This is one of the better watches that I've had. The only thing that I'm not real crazy about is its pretty thick and sticks up on my wrist higher than is really comfortable. But, this does allow it to have bigger buttons on the sides that are easier to use than the tiny little pin heads on some of the other watches I've had.

As for setting it up, that was real easy to do also. The instruction book had me a little worried when I first seen it. It's pretty thick for a simple watch but then it is in three languages, English, Spanish, and French. It seems a little complicated at first but if you can work any other watch this one shouldn't be any problem. You need to have the right coordinates for where you are, longitude & latitude, to have the watch give you accurate times for sunrise & sunset, and fishing/hunting times. There are several cities listed at the end of the book that can get you close if you live near one of them. I'm lucky, Denver Colorado is listed and I live about 120 miles south of Denver.

Besides the Fishing/Hunting times it has another function that I haven't seen before. It has a "time memo" button that you can use to mark the time that you caught a fish, bagged some game, or mark the time for anything else you need. The "time memo" records the time, date, & moon phase. You can record up to 40 time memo's. After recording 40 time memo's if you record a new one it deletes the oldest one. For me I will use it to mark when I take my medication for pain management. I've used the stop watch on my old watch for that but this will be easier to use. There's one function that it doesn't have that most multifunction watches have and that's a count down timer. But the stop watch works just as well for that or the easy to set alarms.

The vibrate alarm is something that I haven't had on a watch before and it's really nice. I have bad industrial hearing loss from working in machine shops for over 20 years and my hearing in the higher ranges is completely gone. The high pitched beep of the usual watch alarm is impossible for me to hear. I had one watch that had a very loud but high pitched beep that I couldn't hear. Some how an alarm was set on it for 11:30 AM and got me a lot of funny looks when it went off during Church service. I used the vibrate alarm this morning and it worked fine to wake me up. But, its not completely silent. What ever makes the vibration also makes a soft low pitch buzz that I can hear. But its nothing like the beep alarm and isn't very noticeable.

The light in it is very bright and easy to see. If its dark enough you can see the watch face continue to softly glow for several seconds after the light goes out. And the light itself is bright enough to see something like the key hole in your door to unlock it at night. The light can also be set to turn on automatically when the watch is moved from vertical to flat when you hold your wrist up to see the time. But, that can also be distracting when driving at night, or in the movie theater or something like that. And it will also shorten the battery life. It is easy to turn this function on and off. You just press the light button and hold it down for a couple of seconds to turn the auto function on and off. I had another watch that has the auto light but it was some complicated thing to turn it on and off. After I lost the book for the watch I never could figure out how to turn the automatic light on. At least I didn't get it turned on and couldn't get it to turn off.

The band on it is a bit stiff and a little difficult to get it buckled the first few times. The strap with the holes has a narrow plastic strip sewn inside it making it pretty stiff. The band itself is made of a heavy but soft nylon canvas like material. After wearing it long enough it molds to your wrist and is pretty comfortable. It's pretty long too. My wrist is about 8 inches around and it still has a few holes left after I put it on. From the end of the buckle to the last hole in the band is 9 3/8 inches or just under 24cm.

One other thing I like about this watch is the ring around the face of it. The surface of the lens is recessed below the chrome ring around it. This will help protect the lens from getting scratched or possibly cracked. I've had other watches with the bubble shaped lens over it that got rubbed and hit by everything it came near to causing all sorts of scratches in it. It wasn't long before it was hard to see through and tell what time it was. The raised ring around this one won't protect it from everything but it will protect the lens from casual contact with things like walls and doorways and things like that as you walk by or through them.

  Overall I think this is a very nice watch that was well designed to be easy to use. It looks like a outdoors sportsman watch without that clunky look. And the combination leather & nylon band looks a lot better than the solid plastic band on a lot of watches. If it just wasn't quite so thick and was water proof it would be the perfect watch. But even though its a bit on the fat side I still love this watch.