Originally, I rated this watch as 3 stars. The watch is attractive, works well. I haven't owned it long enough to tell whether or not the solar battery is all that it is advertised to be. I prefer an expansion band so was excited to see Seiko come out with one. The band is quite short, which works well for me since I have small wrists. With all other watches I have owned, I have had to have links removed but not so with this one. My only complaint is that on the back of the band, there is a solid piece of metal, presumably to make it easy to remove links (no extra links were provided to increase the band length). My skin repeatedly gets caught in the place where the expansion part of the band joins the solid piece of the band. I would be much happier if the entire band was expansion, as with prior Seiko expansion bands I owned and didn't have a problem with pinching. Or

This is an update to my original review and I have decided that I HATE this watch and it is all due to the poor watch band. It continued to pinch my wrist episodically. Then the links started stretching out. I got them replaced by a jeweler and soon the new links also began stretching out. There is no replacement band so the watch is now garbage long before it's time. Conclusion: a pricey piece of junk from Seiko.