OrientSTAR 2nd Gen"Classic" Power Reserve Automatic Collection SAF02003W

Orient star classic5 reason to buyThe dial: simple, clean and classic. Too often watch companies vandalize a dial with nonsense writing. On this watch just an simple logo and Orient Star. The hours are marked with trapezoids and the minutes with a thin painted line. The silver/white dial is beautiful and refined. The starburst pattern is barely noticable. The dial is not too flashy; it screams old money.The size: it’s an appropriately sized dress watch. To me 35 mm to 38 mm diameter is reasonable for a dress watch. It's not that my wrist is small, rather 90% of watches are too big. I wish they pushed the limits and dared to make it smaller, as it is on the large size for a dress watch. I don’t understand why anyone would desire a modern sized dress watch. Isn’t watches and dressing up antiquated, so how can it also be modern.It's an Orient Star. Watch snubs will cringe, and the average joe will be clueless, but is exactly why you should be proud to wear it. If a Grand Seiko is stealth, a Orient Star so classified it doesn’t exist - well except on a need-to-know basis.The movement. It's a quality in house movement with a power reserve. I'm averaging less than a second per day slow over a week. However, I'm regulated it by position. I'm getting up to plus 7 sec / day wearing it to minus 6 sec /day resting dial up. If I can keep it off my wrist just the right amount of time, I'll only need to use the crown to adjust for daylight saving. It makes me really question the need for a hacking feature, that makes travelling between time zone as unbearable as wearing a quartz.The bracelet. Its truly 5 links, the polished sections are separate. The edges are a bit sharp, but otherwise it's a very decent bracelet. I like metal bracelet that matches the watch. The claspe is pretty decent. They paid a little more attention to the watch, but the bracelet is not too far behind. For the price point, I don’t know if it can be beat.Five reason not to buyThe finish on the watch case is a bit underwhelming. I understand why they brushed the top of the lug to match the bracelets outer links, so I guess to alternate the finish leaving the side polished make sense, but I almost like the Bambino case with the side being brushed a bit more. I somewhat understand whyI almost feel like I'm paying a surcharge to fix the screwed up case dimensions on the bambino, but orient otherwise didn't make the case any better. Sorry Mr. Orient display case back with a thicker watch is not an improvement. If you have an Bambino side by side, like I do, there is something overwhelming similar as far as the cases finish, and one watch cost twice as cost. No big deal the Orient Star makes up for it in many other way, and is well worth the price. My point I guess is if you are not hung up on the Bambino’s oversized face, and bastard 21mm lug width - the OS isn’t a huge upgrade.The all blue hands. I wish the power reserve and seconds hand were blue, and the hour and minute hand silver. Come on you offer the watch on a leather strap with silver hands and a white dial. Be bold and mix the hand colors. Think GS snow flake, run with it, and make it your own. I've delayed buying the it, because I want Orient to come out with this. Be that as it may, Marc at Long Island Watch, twisted my arms ‘til all my hands turned blue with a great Black Friday sale.More just a comment… how much more would it cost for a sapphire crystal with the same awesome dome? I have no problem with the mineral crystal today, but I worry about scratches in the years to come.More just a question… why the expedition caseback? Even insecure companies like rolex, that needs to list every feature of the dial, just stick a solid case back. Perhaps it more of a marketing gimmick than a must have extra. I like seeing the movement, but how much extra does it cost me, both in dollars and thickness. This watch would be better if it were thinner. The bambino with the solid case back is thinner, just saying.PURE SARCASM - I didn't have 5 bad things to say. If you regularly use the one fifth of the second marks, you be completely frustrated with this dial. Oddly they decided to only mark the seconds/minutes. There are many more things missing from the dial... AUTOMATIC, 5 BAR (or a good old WATER RESIST), 22 JEWELS, POWER RESERVE, it almost seems like OS marketing team wasn't given a chance to help improve the watch before it hit production. The ascetics of the dial were spared, but it's at the expensive of functionality and marketing. I’m not at all frustrated to have to turn my watch over to find out this information, but it may be a problem for others. Say your casino boat is on fire, and you are consider jumping in the water, but you are concerns about the WR of your timepiece. Precious seconds could be lost taking your watch off, until you find the 5 BAR engraved on the caseback. I encourage anyone that agrees to alway wear a 1/5 second chronograph on their other wrist, and a tee shirt listing all the specs of the Orient Star Classic, to correct these shortcomings.In conclusion, Mr. Orient go back to your bosses in Japan. 1) Demand the white dial orient star classic Be made with silver hour and minute hands, and blue seconds and power reserve hands oh yeah dont forget the metal bracelet . 2) have a frank conversation about the thickness of the watch. Feel free to use my ideal about the solid case back as your own idea. 3) do not let marketing make any changes I wouldn't approve of. 4). Mention the sapphire crystal idea. I realize the dome makes it expensive, but at least have a conversation that customers would be willing to paid more for this 5) Ship the prototype free of charge to Marc at long island watch. He can make a quick video and pass it on to me.