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The Croton Men's Automatic Watch and Winder is handsomely styled, making it a perfect accessory, whether you are making an important pitch in the boardroom or enjoying a classy night out on the town. The two-tone, polished, stainless steel bracelet is beautifully contrasted by a bold, black, unidirectional bezel and dial. The bezel features dramatic gold Arabic numbers in 10-minute increments. The dial features luminous, white indexes in a variety of geometric shapes, and a calendar window at three o'clock. The luminous, baton-style hands include a slender, white, sweeping seconds hand. With automatic movement, this watch is self-winding and is water resistant to 660 feet.
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It's great watch for the price and it came with a winder(usually pretty expensive on it's own). An outstanding deal for under (purchased mid-March 2010). The time-piece itself is substantial and of pretty good quality. The band is a little lightweight for my taste, but it's push-button release feature, on the wristband, is usually found on much more expensive watches. Since I have had it, it has keep accurate time. The plug-in watch winder is very convenient way to keep it working, since I don't wear the watch all the time. Another bonus feature of the winder is that it rotates in either direction for Japanese or Swiss movements. Thank you.
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Cloudy Crystals...3 times in a row! Winder works OK... - Pieter - Brooklyn, NY, USA
I should have paid more attention to what some other reviewers have already mentioned: this specific model often has a cloudy, opaque coating on the INSIDE of the watch crystal...and while it looks like condensation, it is most likely not, since it does not vary. Whatever foggy pattern is there, remains, unchanged.
My first watch had splotches covering about 2/3's of the interior crystal surface; Amazon very nicely sent me another, but I don't think they inspected it, since the replacement ALSO had a similar film, but in a different pattern of smeared splotches. After seeing these 2 defective watches, I then compared them to a 3rd one that my friend had purchased last year...and, AGAIN, there was a cloudy underside, but it was not initially noticed since the opaqueness was more uniform and it simply gave the dial a normal gray/black appearance if not compared to the splotchier ones.
[I tried to take a photo, but it's hard to get the lighting right.]
I wrote to Croton customer service, and was told it required "service" and to send it in with .95 and to expect to wait 4 to 6 weeks for its return...unacceptable for a new watch with an obvious defect. I wrote in again hoping for a better response...and I will post any updates.
For now, I would say: do NOT buy this for the watch...consider it a winder purchase...at least until they get their quality control under control! If they don't, Amazon will probably have no choice but to stop carrying it, because more people will probably return theirs as well...something I am hoping to help others avoid by posting this review!
Be careful with this one...
Great watch and Winder--Excellent Value - P. Kapur - NC
A good solid automatic watch, accuracy of the movemement about -9 seconds/day. It does not have an exhibition case back.
The watch has a nice, heavy feel to it and the automatic movement does keep it's charge, when not wearing the watch. The winder is very useful and easy to use and is bi-directional for Japanese or Swiss movemements. At a below 0 price point, would highly recommend.
I would have given it 5 stars, if it had a skeleton/exhibition case back.
Very Dissapointed, Read this and comments before you buy this watch. - S.L. -
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WERE 5 POINTS OF FAILURE IN THIS PURCHASE;
1. THE CRYSTAL IS DEFECTIVE
2. A PART FELL OFF THE WATCH WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF OPENING THE PACKAGE
3. THE POWERED WINDER WAS SHIPPED IN A DEFECTIVE STATE
4. THE WATCH KEEPS TERRIBLE TIME
5. THE WATCH WAS RENDERED USELESS BY THE FAILURE OF THE CROWN ACTUATED TIME ADJUSTMENT FUNCTION.
The only good thing I can say about this watch is that it looks great. That is, it looks great if you ignore the discoloration on the underside of the crystal. Within 10 minutes of taking it out of the box the little glowing bead on the rotating bezel fell off. Luckily it had been in bright light long enough that when I shut off the lights I found it by it's glow. I super-glued it back on, we'll see how long that holds but hey, superglue usually isn't super. It doesn't keep time and the winder was defective.
The discoloration/fog under the crystal is so bad it actually interferes with reading the watch dial depending on what kind of light you're in. I don't know what it is but it's not water vapor condensation. It looks like it might be some sort of lubricant vapor, or it could just be a flawed crystal. Whatever it is, it's on the underside of the crystal and it's sealed in there for life. About 75% of the crystal is affected in an irregular blob that spans the whole crystal. This is NOT some small imperfection that can easily be missed by Quality Control or ignored by the end user. It IS something that would be impossible to miss if ANY kind of quality control were exercised by Croton. The first glance at the watch was sufficient to detect this flaw so I have to wonder who the heck lets something like this ship from their factory? Obviously no one either at the Chinese factory nor the U.S. distribution center so much as glanced at this watch. When you see something like this the joy over your new watch evaporates because you KNOW that the only way this watch is going to be any good is if you got very lucky, this is proof positive that there is no quality control over this piece.
I expect automatic watches to be less accurate than quartz but this watch loses 3-5 minutes a day, which is unacceptable by any modern standard. It has to be set daily to be useful at all. If you forget to set it by a real timepiece for 3 or 4 days you're going to be ten minutes or more behind the rest of the world. It doesn't slow down and speed up so that it maintains a realistic time average, it just loses time and will make you late if you rely on it. My wrist is more than active enough to keep it fully wound, I've never had any trouble with any other self-winding watch. Although I like a watch to look nice, I don't buy it for it's looks. I buy it to tell me what time it is, at which this watch fails miserably.
Anything that functions this poorly and has parts fall off of it can't be a quality timepiece so I'm not expecting that it'll last very long either. (SEE UPDATE) I could be wrong and thus in for a lengthy span of bad time keeping behind a fogged crystal.
I guess I'll chalk this up to buying a watch sight unseen and wear it when I do things that would imperil a good watch. As far as I'm concerned it was a total waste of money and I'll never buy a Croton brand watch again. You only get to screw me once to end our business relationship.
UPDATE: I've had the watch for two weeks now and it's broken. When I pull the crown out to set the time, the hands won't move when the crown is rotated. Yes, I have it in the right position, believe me I checked very carefully and tried putting different tensions on the crown, holding it in or out just a little while turning it, etc. The time setting feature of the watch has completely failed rendering the watch unusable. The crown is also very loose and "wobbly" when extended to the time adjusting stop. Like I said earlier, the quality is terrible. This watch is useless garbage and I'm in the RMA process right now.
There is something I really like about this watch. The quality was SO BAD it failed before Amazon's 30 Day return policy expired so all it's going to cost me to get rid of this scrap metal is the postage to send it back to Amazon. Croton's main office is in New Jersey but that doesn't mean their watches were manufactured there. The people that made this watch should be ashamed of themselves. After such dismal experience with this brand I did some research and discovered that it's actually made in China so, besides poisoning our pets and our kids, this is one more reason not to buy things made in that country.
My advice to Croton is to run screaming away from China as fast as possible. Stop cutting costs by cutting quality. The shorter term gain in profit margins isn't worth the long term damage to your business, make a better watch and charge more for it. You may sell fewer watches but you'll have a lot fewer reviews like this one too, ripping people off will always bite you in the "end" in the end. Croton, you're NOT getting what you paid for either.
I just ordered an Orient brand with identical characteristics. I'll write that one up when I get it and have time to evaluate it. If you want to take a chance on an expensive piece of scrap metal buy these Croton's, you'll have very nice looking scrap metal if you don't look at that ugly, flawed crystal. With Croton brand watches obviously you don't "get what you pay for" unless you got the watch for free.
Again:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WERE 5 POINTS OF FAILURE IN THIS PURCHASE;
1. THE CRYSTAL IS DEFECTIVE
2. A PART FELL OFF THE WATCH WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF OPENING THE PACKAGE
3. THE POWERED WINDER WAS SHIPPED IN A DEFECTIVE STATE
4. THE WATCH KEEPS TERRIBLE TIME
5. THE WATCH WAS RENDERED USELESS BY THE FAILURE OF THE CROWN ACTUATED TIME ADJUSTMENT FUNCTION.
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