I purchased this watch for myself as one of Amazon's Holiday Deals.  It was definitely a great deal!  I had been wanting an automatic watch and love the skeleton look, so this was an easy choice.  It is heavy, like most automatic watches, but it keeps great time and I haven't had any problems with it so far.  The only reason I don't give it five stars is that because of the mother of pearl edging and skeleton face, it can be hard to tell the time on it sometimes.  We gave my mother-in-law the same watch but with the black edging and hers is much easier to read.  Also, I wasn't crazy about having to spend more money to take it to a jeweler and have links taken out.  I had read a review earlier stating that it could be done at home with a very small screwdriver, but I couldn't get the link screws to come out with the screwdriver I had.  However, when I visited my mother-in-law, I was able to remove the links from her watch for her using a small screwdriver that she had at her house, so I suggest just looking around for different screwdrivers to try out.  Overall though, I have gotten several admiring comments on this watch and feel that it was a great buy!