I purchased this watch aboard the Oasis of the Seas. My wife purchased the original Blue Angels in 1998 and it has taken a licking and has been an accurate E6B on all my flights. I fully expect the same if not more from this watch. I do not believe that a future purchaser would be disappointed.
This is an excellent and reliable everyday piece that sees a lot of wrist time. The strap is cheap (that’s its only weak spot), but a blue 23mm silicone strap from Barton evevated its look and durability perfectly. The watch also wears more like a 41-42mm, which is good for small wrists like mine. Atomic accuracy, global timezones, waterproof, perpetual calendar, 24hr readout, stopwatch, radio sync, eco drive, what more can you ask for out of this thing? It’s my daily beater and top travel watch for these reasons. Great product. My only difficulty has been setting it, which is a long process but a set-and-forget-it. Haven’t set it a single time since and its been over 2 months now. Very happy. And yes, it looks great—much better than the pictures.
Very nice time piece excellent quality easy to wear and comfortable
I have been a fan of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron ever since the mid-1950s when my Dad started taking me to their air shows. It is an honor to wear a watch dedicated to them, stamped on the back of the case with their official seal and displaying their blue and yellow color scheme. Although not an inexpensive watch, I purchased mine on board a cruise ship at a substantial discount off the list price. Aesthetically, I frankly prefer the wristband to the more expensive metal bracelet model. The watch is perfectly accurate to the second thanks to a radio signal it receives daily at 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM. Even on those rare occasions when it does not receive the signal, the watch is still extremely accurate. Powered by ordinary light, the watch never needs a battery. The sapphire crystal is virtually scratch-proof and there's even a thoroughly impractical slide rule on the bezel it would take an aeronautical engineer to operate. Although it took some doing to program, now my watch never needs adjustment. It converts from standard time to daylight savings time automatically. I'm still holding out the hope that at one of their air shows the Blues will see me wearing “their” watch and offer me a ride in one of their two, two-seat, supersonic F/A-18 Super Hornets so we can punch a hole in the sky together. :-)
