UPDATE: 10/03/2011 ********************************************

I purchased this watch originally back at the end of august, and it was a gift for a friends birthday. I had the watch neatly packaged in gift bags where they sat untouched for approximately a month until i gave him the gifts a couple weeks ago.  He wore this watch for ONE day and one of the watch hands had fallen off inside the casing. I was pretty upset as I come to expect waaay better quality from Emporio Armani and fortunately we found out about it on the last day of the return window.  I called the Amazon watch department and they were extremely nice, and very pleasant about it as well as apologetic and over-nighted me a brand new one the same day before i even returned the old broken one. I'm hoping maybe it was just a fluke and this watch will be okay, he's been using it about a week now so fingers crossed. But amazon certainly did come through for me and fix the problem no hassle no questions no nothing.  It still is a gorgeous watch and very classy and the guy i got it for likes it a lot so i would still recommend it. But just wanted to put out there that i did have this issue with this particular watch.

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This watch is absolutely STUNNING in person. I know from the posted photo the roman numerals look like they are tone on tone, but they are actually polished on top of brushed steel, so they aren't black either (like one review i saw somewhere had mentioned) they just reflect and look black.

There's a lot of nice details on this watch that the stock photo doesn't show, like on the little dial there's the armani eagle logo, as well as on the back of the watch too, and under one side of the clasps, and on the other curved side opposite the dial its engraved "EMPORIO ARMANI" with a logo between the words as well.

Also this listing doesn't mention anything about packaging but it does come in a nice sleek black clam shell casey from Armani inside a 2 piece flush box with an outer gloss cardboard wrap around it, and an instruction manual inside. so it comes ready to gift

HOWEVER, if you're going to gift it check the bottom of the hard box, it says the price on there, but it just looks like numbers, not in dollar format so its easy to miss, and it also comes with the original Armani hangtag on the watchband itself with a perforated price tag listing its original price of $245.

All in all its an exquisite watch, very classy, masculine and shiny. will definitely be a convo piece for any lucky man.