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Old 15 June 2017, 01:00 PM   #1
Eva123
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Seiko Astron review

Finally I have got my Seiko Astron SSE041 (titanium + ceramic) watch. I weared it for few days and my impressions are the following:

Watch is very nice and extremely light. This is due to the fact that ceramics and titanium are light. Dial looks quite busy but not so busy as Chronograph version. Titanium is very sturdy but prone to scratches. This watch has some coating to prevent scratches. As all we know, ceramics is scratch resistant. Accordingly, my expectation is that this watch should like new even after long-time of wearing :)

Dial: very nice 3D look, glass is sapphire. When I look at dial I have impression that there is no glass at all as it is so transparent and there is no glass glow (I guess due to some coating).

Case is polished by using the same polishing technique as it is used in Grand Seiko. Ceramic bezel is good quality and shining.

Bracelet is very comfortable, clasp is very soft. Overall feeling wearing watch is very satisfying.

Watch accuracy: I am a bit accuracy freak and it really satisfies me that this is the most accurate watch in the world (1 s / 100,000 years). When I opened watch box it sensed GPS even in the premises and watch automatically reset to local time. GPS connection is really fast and reliable (in a city I easily got reception from >4 satellites. Solar power reserve is 6 months and watch is charging when it catches light (also, there is a function which prevents overcharging).

I travel a lot and, accordingly, dual time function is very useful for me as I like to track local time and time in my home country. If I travel to a new location with different time zone, local time / home country time adjusts automatically.

In summary there are the following pros and cons:


Pros

1) The most accurate watch in the world;
2) High quality of case and bracelet
3) Very good glass coating which makes impression that there is no glass;
4) Very easy to operate (solar charging, automatic time adjustment).

Cons

1) there is a time (for few hours) when second time subdial is covered by the main dial hour hand and it is hard to see what is time in smaller subdial;
2) Pins in bracelet are not screwable and I am a bit afraid that after some time they call fall from bracelet;
3) Crown is also not screwable and I have concerns that during swimming it is possible that crown could open and there might be water leakage (watch has water resistance of 100 m but I still not convinced that it is 100% safe to swim in a water).
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