Croton

Croton Men's CA301079SSGY Gray Carbon Fibre Dial Automatic Watch

• Quality Automatic movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arm
• Mineral crystal
• Case diameter: 44.1 mm

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The lightweight Croton Men's Gray Carbon Fibre Dial Automatic Watch is elegant enough to wear to business meetings and durable enough for pickup games at the park. Constructed with a stainless steel case, the watch includes a stationary stainless steel bezel and a stainless steel link bracelet with a secure push-button deployment clasp. A strong mineral window protects the textured black dial face, which features silver-tone Arabic numeral hour markers at even intervals beginning at two o'clock. It also includes red Arabic number indexes at 10-minute intervals encircling the dial, as well as silver dash minute markers, and a day-date display at three o'clock. Powered by automatic movement, this versatile timepiece is water resistant to 165 feet.

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CA301079SSGY Croton Mens Watch on Stainless Steel Bracelet ICE Style: WYM_017605.

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001B801YK
• Item model number: CA301079SSGY
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,188 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 48 minutes in an hour?, July 25, 2009

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Walter Kovacs "Rorschach" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

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When I got this, I read the reviews and thought, "Sure sounds like a good value at $40." (Note, it is now, as of 7-5-09, priced at $69.95.) I was happy with my old Citizen, but it was in the shop getting the face replaced and I happened upon this Croton, which appeared to be a nice looking watch at a decent price. If nothing else, I figured it would suffice as a temporary replacement. Well, a little over a month later, my Citizen is almost back to me, but the Croton is done.

First off, there are tick marks between the big hour numbers (1-12) and that's normal and fine, but there is also an outer conical ring where there are tick marks and minute numbers every ten (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60). Now take a moment and zoom in on that outer ring and count tick marks between the numbers. That's right. There are four ticks where there should be five. Now, I was willing to give on this because how often am I really looking that close. I know there are five minutes between "two o'clock" and "three o'clock". So that was strike one. Maybe a fowl ball, but a strike none the less.

Strike two. This one is a swing and a miss. I'm not one to water ski in my watch. I don't wear it into the shower or swim with it on although it is rated for 165 ft. Heck, for that matter, I usually take my watch off when I wash my hands because I hate that wet watch feeling. Over the past few days (maybe just a month old) I noticed condensation in the watch. Granted I've been wearing it every day, but I would estimate it might have gotten wet all of once or twice a day. So 60 times of getting wet, not submerged, but wet, and the thing has water in it. Maybe I just got the one bad gasket, but it's a definite strike against.

You're out. At this point, I'm thinking, "Okay, I'm past my 30 days. Just last till I get my real watch back." Last night the band breaks. It appears that the pin closest to the body just sheared. Now I'm not exactly gentle with my stuff, but that's just silly. I could probably find a pin to fit, but considering the other problems with the thing, it's not even worth that. So to continue the analogy, this one is caught looking 0-2 right down the middle.

In conclusion, this thing is definitely not worth the list price of $450. (Are you kidding me?) And I would say it's a pretty poor value at $70 or $40. I would say considering how the thing DID succeed at keeping time and looking nice for a few weeks, it may have been worth a max of $20. If you are going to spend $70, I would think there are plenty of other options out there.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Croton Men's gray carbon fibre watch, April 23, 2009

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W. Edmonds "Bill" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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The watch is great looking and very solid - a bit on the large size, but not huge. Love it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Water resistant, Not, August 3, 2009

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J. M. Lane "Urbanite" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This watch claims to be water resistant to 165 feet. The first time this watch got wet, a quick accidental dip into room temperature water, significant condensation developed which several days later has yet to dissipate.