I read a lot of reviews about the same type of band that this watch has. That it was very hard to remove links from the band and that just about everyone had to take the watch to a watch repair place in order to get the band shortened.  I had no problem taking out a couple of links. I went to the Casio Web Site and typed in "Shorten metal bands"  A video came up and showed just how to take out a link or more without any trouble.  The watch, wasn't hard to set up the time zones that I wanted.  The manual that came with my watch had very small print, again I went to the Casio Web Site and looked up the manual for my watch and I was able to read all that I needed to set up my watch.