I bought this watch on eBay from a used watch dealer in Great Britan about 5 years ago. Since then I had it cleaned and serviced by Turno once. Sure it was expensive but what do you expect?

The crystal is plastic so it is going to scratch. The crystal on the original watches were plastic also. That's life. If you want exactly the same watch that the astronauts wore you deal with it. Also, there is not a mechanical watch in the world that it going to be as accurate as a digital quartz watch. This watch is very accurate but if you want super duper accuracy buy a $50.00 Casio that connects to the atomic clock every night.

In my opinion this is a masterpiece of a type of engineering that is thankfully making a comeback, the mechanical timepiece. I am not disparaging quartz technology...but traditional mechanical watches are very cool. That plus the fact that there is some great history behind this means a lot to me. I am old enough to remember Apollo which is why I wanted one...I got it and I am very pleased.