The box it came in was very nice and tactile: a bright yellow but despite the color you do get the impression of quality. Removing the watch you find it carefully wrapped in plastic that was actually quite hard to remove.

This stainless steel watch has a timeless classic look though it is larger than I expected a woman's watch to be.  I wonder if it's the Lara Croft look that is popular in some circles.  In any event, the large roman numeral numbers on the face make for easy reading. The face is made of  synthetic sapphire that doesn't scratch as easily as glass and the edge has tiny (and I do mean tiny) diamonds embedded in it. They're so small you can hardly tell they're there.

The one problem I had initially was that the strap is huge; it fit my husband who doesn't have particularly skinny wrists. Luckily, he was able to remove some links and shorten the strap. I had to have four links removed.  I watched him doing it and while it didn't look all that hard, he said it wasn't particularly easy either. There are arrows on the links showing which side to push the pins and from what direction to remove them. However, you will need a very thin screwdriver or something to push out the pin.

The watch actually looks much nicer "in person" than it does in photographs on amazon. Whoever took the photos with the white background did the watch a disservice by making it look somewhat dull and lifeless when it's actually very shiny with a flat face that has no distortion.

At first I thought it was too big and heavy, but I soon got used to it. My only problem with it is that there is no illumination so it's not that easy to read in low light, even with the large numbers and bold black hands. It looks good with formal or casual clothing because it has that traditional classic look that doesn't clash with anything.  So this is a good piece to wear at work. It's also supposed to be waterproof for 165 feet.  While I can't vouch for that, I can tell you that  it hasn't suffered from a dunking in the sink when washing my hands.