I know it's not a lot of money but what a waste of money it was.

First, even the description doesn't match the photos. The band is clearly brown in the photos and I doubt it's leather. If anything it's a bonded leather that doesn't look good and won't last long.

The dial was not blue. It wasn't quit red either so I'm pretty sure I didn't get the red version by mistake. The dial is a wine/burgundy color. In person it looks very unattractive and doesn't go well with the band and I don't think I own any wine colored clothes that would go well with the watch.

It didn't come with a box either as the description stated.

The case feels way too light to be stainless steel when compared to other watches I own that I know are stainless.

There's a subdial at 6 o'clock for seconds which is completely redundant since there's a second hand. The big seconds hand is necessary because of the tachymeter bezel. The two seconds hands are not in sync. You can even see that in the photos.

It's nearly impossible to set the time accurately as there's no way to stop or set the seconds. On most mechanical watches the seconds hand is either stopped on it's own when you go to set the time or it can be stopped by turning the crown backwards (back hacking). The only way to set the time accurately is to wait for the watch to lose energy and stop, then set the time and wind it and you can get close.  Even then the accuracy of the watch doesn't seem that great. Some days it's been off a few seconds, others a few minutes.

The case back says water resistant but if you unscrew the back there's no o-ring so I wouldn't think it could even handle being dropped in a sink.

If you're wondering what those 2 readings are on the sides of the dial.... They're purely there for decoration apparently. They serve absolutely no functional purpose. Someone had the bright idea to cut out 2 holes in the dial, I guess to make it look like a chronograph watch, to expose some of the date markers. Putting random numbers on a watch seems just stupid.

They say the watch has a Japanese movement. Considering it's price and that the rest of the watch comes from China I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a very cheap Chinese automatic movement. There are no markings on the movement but the rotor seems too light which makes it hard to spin to wind the watch. There are some nice automatic movements coming from China, this one however seems of lesser quality.

The movement isn't great but it isn't completely horrible. The watch was actually still ticking when I opened the box. The jostling of the package for the week or so it took to get from China was enough to keep the watch wound. It appears to be a jeweled movement which was surprising. That's the only reason I gave it two stars.

Winding the watch by hand is difficult because the bezel gets in the way. You have to rub the crown from the back to wind it.

This is a poorly designed watch made of cheap components that doesn't look as good as the photos.

For not too much more you can get a nice Seiko automatic on here. The lowest priced one is about $50 currently. It should be more accurate, last longer and not have any stupid designs made to look like features.

If you're intent on getting an ESS watch, don't go with this one if you're expecting a nice blue dial. Maybe try something with basic colors like black, white, gold, silver, etc. Just don't have high expectations for the quality.

The only thing I think I'll be doing with this watch is playing around with the movement. Maybe take it apart and put it back together to see if it's something I feel comfortable doing and might tackle cleaning some of my better mechanicals.