Seiko Men's Analogue Automatic Watch with Textile Strap – SNK805K2

I bought this on Amazon Prime and delivery was all you'd expect. I am generally happy with it, it came boxed with guarantee and instruction manual. It has a screw down crown which comes out halfway to adjust day and date (one in each direction) and fully out for the time. The second hand can be held in order to synchronise if that's your thing. I did that last night and checked some 14hrs later and it seems the watch lost about 8-9 seconds, which is in line with comments from other people. Updated: I checked time again after 5 days and it's still within 3 seconds, which is great. Note I also originally thought the hands/dial are not luminous but I guess they needed some sunlight to work and they are indeed luminous. An added bonus for me is that the second hand sweeps, which I wasn't expecting. The canvas strap looks pretty sturdy and has a plastic insert stitched over the buckle holes for added strength which should stop the holes from stretching. At the price point this is a nice watch, being midsize not massive helps its understated look. I felt slightly churlish not giving 5 stars originally and now I have changed my mind and added the 5th.

Superb, great watch. Just what I expected from Seiko. Great build quality, strap sturdy but comfortable, beautiful dial.... And no, it isn't too noisey as it self winds. Time wise, it's only lost 15 seconds in three days. I'm a radio presenter and time is an essential issue in broadcasting, the watch is well within tolerance. I've been using a Seiko quartz's for 21 years, never let me down, but became sick and tired of buying batteries. My new Seiko 5 is proving to be my new trusted companion. It looks good, and was a doddle to set up, day date easy....just be aware, it cycles through the other languages during it's change, don't panic, it's not broken. ;) Buy with confidence, this is a wonderful timepiece, slight time adjust once a week and your good to go. The watch has a soul, enjoy her personality....far better than a soulless quartz. Highly recommended.

Great seiko

Chose this item because I live in a rural area and I'm fed up with the journey to have a replacement battery fitted to a watch. This Seiko goes back in time to the days of the self-winding mechanism powered by movements of the arm or rotation of the wrist which keep the mainspring under constant tension. Of course if you put it aside for a couple of days it will stop; equally it will restart by means of a few gentle swings, the snag being the need to reset--in this case, time, day and date settings are required and the day dial is bi-lingual so you have to choose English or Spanish. The watch is quite big in itself but less so than many a fashion accessory and the ballistic nylon strap passes through metal loops and is leather reinforced round the holes; even so it is lighter in wear than many a metal bracelet. It can be read from very shallow angles and the 'Lumibrite' feature makes it easy to see in poor light. Running it for a week against my radio-controlled master clock shows only a few seconds variance--surprisingly good for a mechanical watch of this price. The watch came in a Seiko box with information in English and Spanish; had an internal Seiko price tag of $185 dollars so had probably been packaged originally for the USA market; there's a year's warranty extended to three if you live in California. It's still good value at the English price of £46 especially if you have a beefy wrist.

This watch looks as good as in the pictures. The colors are almost the same and it looks quite awesome. Dial is easy to read and the trilingual date is also a great thing. The materials are classy for a "casual wear" watch. (as expected from Seiko though...) The glass back is a really nice thing to stare at, if you are interested in the watch's movement. The strap seems to be good too, though I usually wear leather straps, but this nylon strap fits the body of the watch well, and its color is the best choice for this dial. I assume it would look quite strange with a leather strap in this colour, so don't worry about it. The lenght of the strap was my biggest concern until I opened the box. I have a thick wrist (approx. 19 cm's) and was not sure if it will fit me. Don't worry if you are a bit more robust than average - I can use the 3rd or 4th hole on the strap without squeezing the blood out of my veins. Strap lenght is about 20 cm's. The diameter of the body is smaller than today's average, it is 3.6 cm's. As I am a bit oversized, I am usually wearing watches with 4cm+ diameter, so I also had concerns that the watch would look like a ladies' timepiece on me. It doesn't. The Seiko 5 movement is okay, but needs bi-weekly time adjustments. Anyway, just don't compare a GBP 45 movement to an IWC. At this category it is quite all right. Automatic watches keep barely keep time for long periods. The power reserve makes it tick for more than 30 hours, so if someday you'd like to wear another watch you don't have to worry that it will stop in the meanwhile. All in all: go for it, it's a good bargain for this price, especially if you're new to automatic watches. (I have made a macro of the back of this watch, looks interesting)

Watch arrived couple weeks ago and I've been wearing it day and night so far without any problems. The watch and the band both feel comfortable, just keep the wristband snug but not tight to keep it from sliding and rolling around your wrist. Watch definitely has a quality and a classic minimalistic look on it in my opinion. Many say it is too small which is not true. I would say it's "normal" size watch and if it were any larger, it would look just plain stupid. Classic looking watch with a classic size. During the first couple days, the watch was really slow, like 5-10 minutes per day, but when I adjusted it second time it has been quite accurate. Only 3-5 seconds per day which is accurate enough for sure. Great watch indeed, I like the weight, looks and the feel of it. And the price? I just might buy another one...

Overall its a functional watch , face is a little on the small side and the degree of water resistance isn't shown so it probably isn't very good with regard to this ! To wear its comfy , overall fairly light which suits me as I don't like a heavy watch. So far keeping good time. Worth the£59 and a bit more but wouldn't like to have paid the 'full price' . To be honest it was the first watch I've brought on line and in the future I will always look through the shops for the style etc and then possibly return to the web to look for offers on the ones I like.

A very nice piece of kit, mine arrived on time and was worn for a week to test out before sending it to a friend. I gather a small number of these have had faults, but mine worked perfectly. A little smaller than many are used to these days, but smart, rugged, reliable and accurate - bearing in mind that it's an automatic and must be worn most days to keep its self-winding system active! Looks good, looks smart, decent though not brilliant strap, keeps accurate time, goes with both formal and casual wear. A nice piece of engineering and a good entry-level automatic watch for the price. Get one, else you're nuts!!

I was fed up with changing batteries in watches and considered simply buying a cheap watch whenever the battery died. Trouble is, cheap watches look cheap so i decided to try a decent automatic watch and found this for a good price. For the first week I was rather disappointed because it kept stopping in the middle of the night. To cut a long story short, you cannot wind this watch manually, all you need do is put it on your wrist and rotate your wrist about 100 times. Since I did that the watch has never stopped. I am very pleased with the watch. It looks good on my narrow wrist, keeps good time and best of all I will never get ripped off by jewellery stores charging too much to replace a battery. As others have said, the only improvement would be to provide instructions that relate specifically to this model. Update: 2 years on and I still like the watch. As others have noted, it does run a little fast. For me it is not a big problem so I do not bother to measure at what rate it gains, I just set it back a few minutes as needed. The case is tough, no scratches and I wear it all the time. The woven band still looks Ok even though the leather strip around the holes has worn a little. Update: the watch is now 7 years old. I have never replaced a battery, which is great. However it now loses about 4 or 5 minutes a day even when fully wound. This may not seem like much but if I forget to adjust it for a few days it can then be 15 mins slow which means that I can not rely on the watch. Update: the watch is now 9 years old. The strap is a bit tatty but otherwise it still looks good. Strangely it is keeping better time than it did 2 years ago. If I make the effort to wind it every 5 days or so (simply by rotating my wrist for a minute or so) it keeps decent time.

Bought on sale for ~30% off. For that price it can't be beat. It's small, light, clearly tells the time, day and date, without a battery. It's cheap enough that I don't mind wearing it everywhere, and risking scratches. It looks good (the dial is darker green than the pictures make out). The reviews regarding other languages in the day dial are correct - it does have other words in there, but I think it's an international market situation. Once you setup the watch correctly, which takes only a minute or two, the days tick over as you'd expect and maintain the language you choose (you can see how it works when you set it up). The watch is light, which some people have construed as 'cheap' but the watch is cheap. I'm wearing this watch everywhere so I prefer it to be light, smaller, and flatter than my other more expensive automatic watches. If you want a premium, heavy, all singing watch, spend 4x the cost of this and then realize you should've spent more. This watch is an everyday work horse. No frills time, date, and day. Simplicity. If you want a no nonsense watch that just works, this is it. Some reviewers have mentioned quality issues on their examples - mine was not one of them. Remember, if you got a watch that wasn't working, you'd leave a review. If it was what you'd expect, you'd almost never come back to review. So there's a review bias here. I'm here because it came up in my boxing day sales, and I thought I'd give a review of ownership since black Friday.

Everything is perfect . I want to buy it again .

Ha superado mis expectativas. Este Seiko automático tiene una caja de 37 milímetros, lo justo para mi gusto y mi muñeca. Es discreto y elegante. También muy cómodo gracias a la correa de nylon y a su contenido tamaño. Para rematar, se adapta a la perfección, ideal para utilizar a diario. La estética es brutal. Las fotografías que dejo en esta opinión no hacen justicia, ¡tienes que ponértelo en la muñeca para apreciarlo de verdad! Sólo un punto negativo. La correa trae un refuerzo frontal de piel, debería ser suficiente para evitar la rotura de los ojales pero como ves en las fotografías, en la parte trasera hay bastante desgaste después de un mes de uso (y de mucho poner y quitar). No debería ser un problema, a parte de eso la correa parece fiable, por eso mantengo las cinco estrellas. Compra maestra. Relojazo automático con mucha presencia y un precio inmejorable.

This is a great watch. So much has been said in other reviews that I won't add to the noise but one area that hasn't been thoroughly discussed I feel I may have something to add to is the color of this specific model (SNK807). As an artist color is paramount and something I'm sensitive to. So having only the pictures online to go on was something of a leap of faith for me, the luxury of holding something in our hands before we buy it is foregone when purchasing over the Internet. The user posted pics all seemed to vary from one another, either being super saturated green or nearly black. So I've posted my own pics which are very color accurate. The first pic is in broad daylight, which is as green as this watch gets. The other two are under normal room lights (daylight fluorescents). My point is, this is a dark olive drab with almost no green at all, which is exactly what I had hoped for. Another aspect of this watch I really like is its versatility. You can strap on a fancy leather strap and its a classy dress watch, or throw a NATO style strap on and head into the wilderness for years at a time and not worry about anything, especially batteries (this is a fully mechanical automatic watch). It may not be obvious, but this is also related to color. The neon green strap this watch is shipped with is bright and has the effect of making the watch face appear more green. Google "simultaneous contrast" for more, or believe me when I say your choice of strap color has a huge influence on what color the watch appears to the eye. I bought a very nice $30 "OD phalanx" strap from Crown and Buckle and am very pleased, plus the khaki NATO strap, both of which are pictured above. My sample ran less than 30 seconds fast for the entire first week I owned it, and has been plus or minus two seconds a day since then. From what I've read of other automatics, this is outstanding especially for the price, and I couldn't be happier with this watch. I have no idea what the negative reviews are talking about, unless they bought from someone other than Amazon and received Feikos. Another thing I'd like to clarify is the Lumibrite. It's brightness and longevity are directly proportional to how much light YOU expose it to before it's in darkness. Ten to twenty minutes in direct sunlight and it will glow like its radioactive for hours. Only room lights and it's a subtle glow for a couple of hours. I didn't really want this feature, but now that I have it I love it. Really, the pattern it has when all the lights are out is really classy. It's like an old Rolex design. Very nice, Seiko. Thanks for a great watch. Will buy again, even if it's just to get the other colors!