I just received this watch today, so I can't speak to its endurance, however, it works fine.  The date is too small to read but I don't depend on my watch for the date, so that doesn't matter to me.  If you want to clearly see the date, this isn't the watch for you.  Also, the casing, which appears gray in all the online photos of this watch, is actually black, without a hint of gray!  I liked the gray look so initially this bugged me, but not enough to send it back.