Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #18310 in Watches
- Color: Silver
- Brand: Seiko
- Model: SYME49
- Released on: 2011-11-04
- Band material: stainless-steel
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Clasp type: deployment-clasp-with-push-button
- Dial color: white
- Dial window material: hardlex
- Movement type: automatic-self-wind
- Water-resistant to 99 feet
Features
- Automatic self wind movement
- Case diameter: 24 mm
- Stainless steel case
- Scratch resistant hardlex
- Water-resistant to 30 M (99 feet)
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great self-winding watch
By Fine Print
I've owned this watch for about one week, and so far I'm very pleased with it. The numbers on the face are silver, not black as they appear in the photo on Amazon. The hour & minute hands and also 12 dots on the face are luminous (glow in the dark), which is handy. (But they only glow if you expose them to sufficient light.)
The watch came without a warranty card or official owner's manual (despite the fact that the Seller Profile on Amazon says ALL their watches come with a "full warranty," although they don't claim to be an "authorized" Seiko dealer.) I contacted the seller, and they said they will mail me an official warranty card and warranty booklet.
The seller included a generic sheet of paper entitled "Automatic Watch Instructions" that explains some things about self-winding watches. It says: 1) the watch does not contain a battery and is powered solely by the movement of your arm while you're wearing the watch. If you don't wear the watch for long enough every day, you won't provide enough power to keep the watch running. 2) An automatic watch is less precise than a quartz (battery powered) watch, therefore the time can be off as much as 10 seconds per day. So even if you keep your watch powered up, you'll probably have to adjust the time every now and then.
A few tips:
1) The seller's instruction sheet said in order to wind the watch, gently swing it in a 12-inch arc for 2-3 minutes. But I found that you can also wind this watch manually by turning the stem (while it's pushed in) for 2 or 3 turns. To me, that's much easier than swinging my arm in a 12-inch arc for 2-3 minutes!
2) To set the date & time, the instruction sheet says to pull the stem out. The 1st click out is where you can adjust the date. The 2nd click out (stem fully pulled out) is where you can adjust the time. But there are 2 date components -- day of the week and day of the month -- and the instruction sheet didn't explain how to adjust them both. Here's how: rotate the stem away from you to adjust the day of the week (MON, TUE, WED...); rotate the stem toward you to adjust the day of the month (1, 2, 3...). (By the way, the days of the week are in both English and Spanish on this watch, so you'll have to rotate past the English abbreviation "MON" then the Spanish abbreviation "LUN" for each day of the week you want to skip.)
3) I needed to resize the watch band. Instead of taking the watch to a jeweler, I purchased the 16 PCS Watch Tool Kit on Amazon. Although it came without instructions, it worked for me once I found out how to removed L-shaped pins from a Seiko watch band like this one (as I explained in my review of that product: http://www.amazon.com/review/RREQ47S3JWH01/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000T9VK56&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=).
All in all, I'm very happy with my purchase of this watch.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Love it!
By YENVAN
Made my life so much easier to deal with... beautiful in design, running mechanisms and I wouldn't trade this watch for anything. I recommend this watch to anyone trying to simplify their lives. This watch will be running for a long time- I'll be passing it onto my kids.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Great watch!
By Erica
This is a great everyday watch. I wear it everyday for work, and I love that there is no battery to replace.
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