I had really high hopes for this. I saw the negative and the positive reviews and took a chance. I may have just had bad luck. But the description said it would have a leather cord...what I got sent had a cheap, shiny, somewhat unpleasant brown plastic cord. The knot was huge and would have snagged hair if I had worn it for any significant period of time--as in more than the minute or so I had it on. The plastic was so unyielding that whoever had strung the pendant on it had to sew the knot holding the pendant in place and the final knot with fine black thread. The face was pitted along the sides and in front of the actual watch face making it difficult to read. It also made the pendant feel dirty and unpleasant to handle. It also wouldn't hang so the watch faced forward--instead it hung so the bottom with the tassel/bell thing hung forward. Not the look I wanted there. The tassel thing was cheap feeling and plastic like--I had the impression it would have broken off pretty quickly with regular wearing. The watch *did* work for the five minutes I had it out of the packing material, so at least that was good. I didn't expect a high class piece of jewelry for $40, but this wasn't even worth $20 to me. Returned.