This beautiful watch was my Christmas gift to myself to replace all those watches that take batteries that are now not working.  What I wanted was a self-winding watch and this is exactly that.  And the workmanship and quality are top-notch.  I love the color of the watch band - am thrilled with it.  Pray it lasts for a long long time.  Great presentation in a lovely box with all its papers too! Merry Christmas!
ADDENDUM:  Well, have now been using watch on a daily basis and it is lovely BUT why did they ever make the hands such a light silver in color!?!?!?  Very hard to read, can't glance at it while driving and must be in good light to see the hands and the time properly.  A shame really, they should have seen this themselves and just made the hands a DARKER silver color.