I've been wearing this watch for six months strait.

- No wear showing on the watch body so far, which speaks well for the cosmetic durability of it's plastic bits. The watchband's SS bracelet clasp is showing moderate signs of wearing off the matte finish, but is really barely noticeable.

- Crystal is deep set enough to prevent scratches, which is great.

- Buttons are easy to find without looking at the watch due to them being recessed well into button frames, which also prevents them from being pushed accidentally.

- Like most modern G-Shocks, the menus are easy to navigate without having to reference the manual.

- The Atomic Clock sync works well and doesn't seem to have any problem getting a signal indoors on the West Coast.

- The Auto-light feature (rotate wrist and light turns on) is a bit too sensitive and wears the battery down way to fast to use, unless you work outside all day for daily full recharges in sunlight.

- If you don't use the auto-light, the battery stays at full charge with just daily exposure to indoor lights.

- The watch sits pretty high on the wrist, but doesn't get caught on anything due to it's ergo designed corners and edges.

- The stainless steel band and watch-back stays nice and clean: no "stinky-watch" syndrome! The SS bracelet has no rubber to wear off and the latch is strong, durable and well designed... very fast to take off but has never accidentally un-clasped.

And last but not least, the numbers are really large and easy to read both indoors and out, making for a fast time check and good for "veteran" eyes. There are no "useless" LCD graphics on the watch face, just a big time in the middle, with the day above and the "mo-day" date below. Some G-Shock models have gone way overboard with useless LCD stuff and poorly designed faces... this is one of the best I've seen from Casio.

If the Auto-light feature was a little less sensitive and the light itself didn't suck all the juice out of the battery when set to Auto-light, I'd have rated this watch with 5-Stars.

- Highly Recommended!

ONE YEAR UPDATE: Watch is still going strong. silver coating over the plastic light button (bottom center) has started to wear off, but the grey color of the plastic doesn't make the watch look too bad. Battery Recharging is still flawless, Atomic clock sync is still flawless. It's really tough to beat these Casio Atomic/Solar watches!

1.5 YEAR UPDATE: watch is still going strong. silver coating over plastic bits starting to wear heavy now. Watch changed over to DST on time. Shame Casio didn't use stainless steel instead of plastic, as the solar cell and radio time sync will probably outlast the wear on the plastics.