Seiko should be applauded for avoiding the trends of over engineered and over sized watches currently on the market.  I wanted a simple analog display without the multiple "chrono" dials popular on many of the current men's watches.

These are the features I wanted:
* solar power
* second hand
* date
* 100M water resistance
* sub 40mm face diameter
* sub 12mm case thickness

Limiting the wide world of watches by these restrictions left surprisingly few choices and this Seiko was my pick.

Only negative I find is the slightly decorative bezel.  If it was completely plain without the indented tick marks this would get 5/5 stars for me.