I am using Seiko watches since my teenage years. This one features the new solar technology - with no batteries or wind-up mechanisms (as cool as they were in their time) it seems to be virtually maintenance free. Yes, the flashy dial can be confusing until one gets used to it, but other than that this is a great watch. I own it exactly for a year now. I am in the Service Business and live in South Florida, so my watches see and feel a lot of dirt, sweat and rough handling.  This one is just going fine except some minor scratches, and the sturdy all stainless steel construction is a huge plus. Despite the watch is labeled only "water resistant" (means it not a diver's watch, those are rated "water resistant XY meters or feet!) the occasional dip in the pool did no harm to it. Highly recommended!

UPDATE April 2014:
Unfortunately I got moisture in the watch. That's not good. I never used the watch while swimming, or in the shower; it only got wet in rain or while cleaning the pool filter, and when I washed it carefully a couple times in the past years under the tap & dried immediately afterwards.

Even not being a diver's watch it should have handled the water resistance a lot better, more that the spec sheet claims "99 feet" resistance.
It keeps running great, though. Has a scratch on the glass but all my Seiko watches got small scratches there in the past so that's no surprise for me.

I will have the watch taken apart and cleaned / dried out by the local Seiko dealer; and plan on getting myself a diver rated watch with resistance to 100M, (also solar; also a Seiko), in a near future.