This is a high quality, rugged watch with solar and atomic clock sync.  When I got the watch in person and wore it for a few days, I found the contrast between the watch face and the watch hands to be lacking and not as easy to read at a glance as my other watches.  The three sub-dials are difficult to read unless you have the watch in very good lighting.  Watch is smaller than most G-shocks, so if you want a smaller G-shock that is blacked out, this might be a good watch that you would like; it just wasn't to my liking.