I like the watch but......

I like the looks and feel of the timepiece but I am disappointed in what I perceive is its inability to "wind itself" much more than 24 hours, hardly the "automatic" feature I was expecting. It holds its time well, I know that because I've been pacing it alongside my battery powered 15-year-old Timex. I wind the Bulova upon rising each day to make sure it is always functioning.

It's good, but at this price it could be better

Bought this watch because I wanted something mechanical that wasn't going to look like a hubcap on my wrist and which didn't have half a dozen tiny, useless dials on the face. This watch tells you the time and nothing more which, to my mind, is all a watch needs to be. Accuracy is decent. I've set the watch to the NIS website every morning for a week, and noted a gain of about ten seconds a day. The hacking feature makes this easy to compensate for, if second to second accuracy is important to you. The lume is decently bright, but fades quickly; curiously, they omitted to add any to the second hand. Time will tell whether this watch holds up to the rigors of daily wear. Already the watch has several tiny nicks in the bezel, which is surprising to me since it's stainless steel and I've been careful not to bang it around. By comparison another automatic I've owned for years, and haven't been particularly careful with, looks brand new, and it cost about 1/3 of this watch. At this price point, I would have expected more durability.