This watch has the flat out best, clearest, most readable display of any watch I've ever owned, and that assessment includes one of those less expensive "military" style tritium watches and the alternate Mondaine night vision model with black hands against a white face.  This watch is really something special - unique for the price.  In ANY light - sunlight, room light, dim light, or total darkness, the watch is never less that instantly, unambiguously readable, without hitting any buttons, even if you happen to forget your reading glasses.  And the big date is a major improvement over the typical single-wheel small-numbers date display.  I wouldn't have minded a day display as well, but I can't dock it any points for that because it is otherwise so much better at the basic task of just telling you the time than just about all other watches, short of maybe a $3000 Ball watch.  If readability is important to you, you should snap up one of these beauties before they're gone forever.