Watch said Aluminum and was $100 more than the plain black. Not a hole lot of details on the band, but it sounded like the band would be aluminum as well. Nope, it was rubber. I have large wrists and i was on 4 notches from the last making the band loops useless. So the band was small. The watch casing was aluminum, but not a whole lot different than the plain black (which I saw on a friend). Everything about this watch was just OK, nothing special. Compass was always off even after calibrating it and setting true zero (which was -7 degrees in my location). Altitude seemed off as well. Barometer was pretty close to spot on. Light was dim but OK if you were in pitch black. Button lock was nice, but a pain in the ass when switching screens. If button lock was NOT on, every time I bent my writs it would switch menus, which for some reason always changed to compass and stayed there. I was debating on returning it. When I saw the price drop $25 a few days after I bought it, my mind was made up to return it and look for something else.