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 Orient 2er00002d Automatic Divers Mens Watch By: Orient Average Rating: 4.5 Total Reviews: 6 More Information Solid Watch  On: 2008-02-14For the money you cannot go wrong. This is a solid watch that holds up well to hard wear. Mine runs a little fast; my sons is spot on with time. Nice gift box. Orient Diver's watch  On: 2007-11-29I am not a watch collector but purchased the watch for daily use. I am in the health care professions and frequent hand washing is required. The watch is beautiful, keeps great time, stands up to wear and tear very well (I have owned it for three months). The price point is fantastic. If I lose the watch in that I have to remove it frequently I will feel saddened but not deflated and would buy another. I held this watch next to a colleagues similar Rolex and it was difficult to tell the difference. I am pleased with this purchase. I love this watch! On: 2007-05-02The Orient 2ER00002D is a great watch bargain. While Orient is not widely known in the United States, the Japanese watchmaker is half-owned by Seiko. This watch looks and feels almost exactly like a Rolex Submariner (at about 1/20th of the price). This is a great-looking well-made watch, and the picture really does not do it justice. So far its keeping great time, which can be a problem even with far more expensive self-winding watches. My only quibble has to do with the luminescence (or lack thereof) which seems to last for just a few minutes at a time, but given everything else, that seems a relatively minor complaint. If youre looking for a high-quality, inexpensive Rolex-style dive watch, travel to the Orient! Beautiful watch, pretty good timekeeping, excellent value, but not shock-proof! On: 2007-01-28Ive had mine for 11 months and love the look, love the weight, love the compliments. Unfortunately, something seemed to have happened after I dropped it on thinner carpet the other day, although it seemed fine for a couple of days after. The oscillator inside has been stopping intermittently, even when I let it sit overnight in my watch winder. Im not sure if Ill buy another one, not because Im really disappointed in Orients quality, but because Ill get a quartz replacement. Out of the box, mine lost only 8-10 seconds a day. Thats quite accurate for a watch in this price range. (Strictly speaking, an "accurate" watch gains or loses the same amount of time every day. Its not necessarily how much time it gains or loses compared to a baseline timepiece.) I was able to adjust it gaining only a few seconds a day, so Id have to set it back one minute only every couple of weeks. The band is a little prone to scratching, but unless you want to spend thousands of dollars instead of under $150, you wont get super-hard stainless steel. The band can be buffed out easily, anyway. Someones review of the black Orient diver (same watch, different dial color) said that the inside of the band is a little sharp. The same is true of this blue-faced model. In fact, I sanded down the inside edges of mine, which made it feel much better. Tutto bene On: 2006-08-31Il prodotto a Voi richiesto, e da Voi consegnato celeremente, risponde perfettamente alle caratteristiche da me volute. Grazie My first Orient! by: ninom61 On: 2006-01-25 I love Japanese watches, but I have to confess I never heard of Orient watches before. I know Seiko, Citizen, and Casio watches very well. All of the sudden, I heard Seiko bought into 30% of Orient ownership and my search was on. I discovered Orient was founded as early as 1901, and Orient Watch was formally established in July 13th, 1950 in Tokyo. Orient Watch has always focused on mechanical watches, primarily automatic watches with its own in-house automatic movements. Orient was once part of the "Big Three" watch companies in Japan along with Citizen and Seiko. In the 70s, when mechanical watch companies faced hardship from the mass introduction of inexpensive quartz watches, Citizen and Seiko took the path of mass producing quartz watches, Orient stuck with what it did best, making mechanical watches. Today, Seiko owns a controlling stake in Orient. Orient, however, continues to make its own mechanical movements. For its quartz models, it uses Seikos quartz movements. What sets Orient apart from other watch companies is really the fact that Orient has always been focusing on making its mechanical movements better and more reliable. It is unusual today to find a watch company that makes its own movement selling watches at prices offered by Orient. Most of the watch companies that do make in-house movements are big name specialized watch companies such as Patek Philippe whose watches ranges from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To find a specialized watch company that uses in-house movements selling its watches at prices that are affordable to most people is truly refreshing. Orient Watch is not a name that is known to many in the US besides avid watch enthusiasts because Orient doesnt really market its products in the US. As a matter of fact, it is often difficult to find Orient watches in the US. Most of the time, these watches are imported from elsewhere in the world. So the first Orient watch to cut my eye was the submariner date-style. It is 100m water resistance and has a 21-jewel automatic movement. For $139, this is an extremely well-built watch, it is not atypical for this watch to offer less than 8 seconds of variation per day. Why people today keep spending $4,000 and $5,000 on submariner style watches just blows my mind. Nowadays, Im happy owner of four Orient watches: The 100m Black and Blue Subs, the 200m Sub (I love the quick change botton on this one), and the M-Force Power Reserve, named the Beast among us aficionados and discontinued by the way. M.T. Nino Watch Aficionado |