I've seen some wonderful reviews of this product and I was really hopeful that I would be adding to that pool but unfortunately I couldn't drink the kool-aid.

The watch's self-winding mechanism (rotor etc.) failed to work properly even though I wear my watch 24/7 (too lazy to take off for sleep). Either the rotor was not winding the clockspring properly or there was some other mechanical defect but I noticed the watch would "stop" for short periods of time. On day two, I was 20 minutes late for a meeting so I became suspicious of my new watch. Over the next two days the watch stopped three more times. One morning I woke up and the watch was stopped dead at 2AM. Even if you gave the benefit of the doubt that the rotor doesn't turn while you are sleeping, by stopping at 2AM it would mean the watch only had a 2 hour power reserve (went to bed at midnight). Woke up and printed my RETURN GOODS FORMS.

It would be unfair to rate this watch solely on the fact that I got a bad one so let me give you my take on the rest:

1. The watch looks cheap. Despite having the 'skeleton' face and seeing the movement (which is fun) the rest of the watch face looks very cheap. The lack of rotating bezel renders the diver's marks useless. And because the bezel in part of the watch body it blends thus creating a cheap look (it's impersonating a function it doesn't have).

2. No Date - may or may not be a deal breaker for you but for an everyday watch date is important to me.

IMHO you can do much better than this for the same price. Take a look at the Amazon ORIENT Watch store. I have two of these watches now and both are stunning and <$150. If you can invest an extra $100 ($250) you can get yourself a watch on Amazon that you'll possibly hand down to your children. This Armitron is NOT that watch.