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(More customer reviews)I ordered my Orient 2ER "Submariner" from Watch Pavilion's link on Amazon.com, on Nov. 11. The watch was delivered exactly one week later, on Nov. 18. I don't consider this bad at all for "standard shipping".
The watch was wrapped in protective plastic, with the Orient hang-tag, and nestled inside an attractive black-and-silver Orient box. The box itself is interesting in that it appears to be covered with leather (or something resembling leather) with a brushed aluminum top panel riveted onto the top. This box was enclosed in a plastic wrapper, and these items were contained by an "outer" box of cardboard, with the Orient logo. This entire assembly was contained in an Orient "shopping bag", black-and-silver just like the inner box, with the Orient logo on it, and with black rope "handles". The bag also contained instruction manuals and an international guarantee.
The watch itself is fairly impressive looking, especially to those who consider the Rolex Submariner attractive.
The overall effect is one similar to some 35 mm cameras of the 60's and 70's, or high end audio equipment of that era, that of a precision tool with just a little bit of added styling, enough to make it look nice, enough to be a little bit more than merely functional, but not so much as to make it impractical to use, or to make the product appear gaudy in any way. It is an timeless, classic look which adds greatly to pride of ownership, and which one would be hard pressed to improve even if given the opportunity.
The case is tastefully executed with highly polished sides and bottom, and a lightly brushed finish on the top surfaces. Measuring diagonally across, the case is 39.5 mm wide, and 43.9 mm when measured straight across to include the crown. The uni-direction rotating bezel has a highly polished coin-edged rim just slightly wider than the case at 39.75 mm, to give wet fingers an easier purchase. It rotates easily in the anti-clockwise direction, yet not so easily as to accidentally be moved. It makes a satisfying mechanical ratchety sound while turning. The bezel insert is black with silver numerals, and a triangle with a luminious dot at the "zero" position. The watch sits 12.4 mm above my wrist. The gracefully tapered and curved strap lugs extend 46.3 mm tip to tip, and are 20 mm apart. The screw-in back has a brushed, flat bottom and a polished, beveled edge, six notches for an opening tool, and bears the words "All Stainless Steel Orient Water Resistant". The crown is also screw-in type, 6 mm in diameter, and polished but unsigned. The case tube onto which the crown screws has impressively sturdy appearing threads (unlike my old Fortis) and turns three or four times before sealing. The crown is mounted on a stem which appears to be quite sturdy, and doesn't wobble at all when extended to set time or date. Nicely sculpted guards stand on either side of the crown and flow together to partially enclose it on the dial side as well.
The face of the watch appears to have been brushed in a radial pattern, which lends a satiny black finish which shows attractive highlights when a bright source shines upon it. "Orient" "Automatic" and "21 Jewels" are printed in three rows of text just above the hands, while below are printed "Water Resist" and "10 Bar" in two more lines.
Hands are shiney chrome "Mercedes" style with luminous material applied. The hour indices are a familiar collection of geometric shapes in which12 is represented by an inverted triangle, 6 and 9 are rectangular bars, 3 is a window for the calendar, and all other hours are circular dots. Each of these appears to be "chrome" or similar near the edges, with a luminous center. Luminosity is nothing to get excited about, and the less said about it in this instance, the better. Nothing beats Timex Indiglo in this respect, although it might prove difficult to include this feature on an automatic watch. Suffice to say that if viewing in very dark places is a high priority, perhaps a small keychain-sized flashlight should be considered as an accessory. Minutes are shown by fine white radial lines around the perimeter of the dial. The dial meets the inside edge of the case, which has a natural machined or brushed finish, giving an precision finished look to the face. The crystal is mineral glass, flush with the bezel, with a lens properly centered over the date window. The date window itself thankfully has no white "frame" around it, and the date wheel appears to have a silvery grey background, with black printed numerals. IMHO, this presents a "balanced" appearance to the dial, although some might argue that the silver colored date wheel has less contrast with its black numerals.
The bracelet which came attached to the watch is all stainless steel, with solid links (except for the end-pieces which fit between the lugs), and looks to be of good quality. I cannot offer further evaluation of the bracelet, as upon opening the box I immediately removed it and installed a thick rubber Citizen diving strap, my favorite means of attachment for my wristwatches (no offense intended to those who like Seiko straps, I've just never used the Seiko product). When I removed the bracelet, I was pleased to note that the case surface between the lugs, normally not seen, had been given the same gleaming mirror polish as the sides and bottom of the case.
The movement of this watch is said to be made by Orient themselves. I've not seen it because the back is not see through. I chose this watch over the Invicta 8926 (and paid a few dollars more) partly because I prefer the solid back for functional reasons. The movement runs at 21,600 oscillations per hour, so the seconds hand isn't quite so smooth as on my ETA-driven Hamilton, let alone a Seiko Spring Drive, but neither is it objectionable. In fact, the seconds hand moves with the same rhythm I remember from some hand-wound watches I owned when in middle school. As an experiment, I tried tapping the crystal of the watch with my fingertip, and did not observe the seconds hand "pausing" as some have mentioned occurring with their early-model Invictas. Also like the Invicta, and most Citizen and Seiko automatics, the seconds hand keeps moving when setting the time. There is a technique of causing it to stop by applying very slight torque to the crown while it is in the time-setting position, for those who simply must set their seconds hand. Additionally, the movement apparantly cannot be hand-wound, however the automatic winding is quite efficient, and mine remains wound up sufficiently, even with being off my wrist when I sleep, and during most of my workday (some jobs are just too dirty, or too dangerous, to perform while wearing a watch on your wrist).
Automatic watches are inherently less accurate than quartz models, simply because the balance wheel swings back and forth much more slowly than a quartz crystal can vibrate. Automatic watches also vary from one example to another, some may gain a few seconds each day, others may lose a few seconds, while even a cheap quartz watch can easily remain within 1 second each day. So, an automatic watch is probably not the best choice if you are obsessed with absolutely perfect timekeeping. My own example runs slightly slow.
What I do is to set the watch a couple of minutes ahead at the beginning of the month, and it slowly loses time until it is a couple of minutes behind by the end of the month. By then, its usually time to adjust the calendar anyway, so it is never very far from actual time.
In sum, the Orient 2ER appears to be an attractive, well engineered product which also benefits from a high degree of quality control.It works well, and is in fact hard to fault (aside from luminosity of the hands and dial). It is comfortable to wear, looks good and draws admiring looks and even spontaneous compliments. Products such as this disprove the expression "You get what you pay for", implying that one must spend a great deal to obtain high quality. While one can certainly spend much more than the reasonable price of the Orient 2ER (I paid $142, shipped), they may not always get a better watch.
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The Orient Men's Automatic Diver Stainless Steel Watch features a durable, athletic design with a unidirectional bezel and superior water resistancy. This handsome diving accessory is constructed with a stainless steel case, a unidirectional stainless steel bezel with unique edging, and a stainless steel link bracelet secured with a push-button-fold-over safety clasp. A durable mineral window shields the black dial, which features luminous dot-and-bar hour markers, slim silver minute indexes, and luminous watch hands. The dial also includes a date calendar at the three o'clock position. Featuring Japanese-automatic movement, the watch is water resistant to 330 feet (100 M).
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