Customer Reviews

National Geographic Men's NG06GKBS Watch

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This watch is an attention getter. The hands and lettering contrast nicely with the dial, and the 21,000 beat second hand is very visable. The all metal band has a nice finish and compliments the watch.

Functionally, the watch has the standard hour, minute, and second hands along with two additional hands on sub-dials for date and 40 hour power reserve. There is a moving inner-chapter ring that displays the time against a settable outer-chapter ring listing twenty different cities. So the watch is busy, but pleasantly so. There is a presentation back that displays the sutomatic rotor and the balance wheel when the rotor is not blocking it.

There is no stem-wind function. The watch requires some arm-movement to get it going from an unwound condition and so it is best to have a watch-winder device if you're not going to wear it all the time becuase setting all the dials to be in synchronization is a bit tedious.

The watch has proven to be a good timekeeper, staying easily withing it's 15 second/day accuracy claim, but only if the reserve wind is greater than 10 hours.

Putting all this into perspective, this watch makes a great entry into the mechanical watch realm for the collector looking for the best bang for the buck.

I've had this watch for about 3 Months now and was drawn to it by its sleek metal finish and man-like appearance.
Its a fantastic watchm it feel sturdy, solid and it is a pleasure to wear - it seems to mould around your wrist. And lets be honest, its a looker - the clean crystal face to its shiny metal finish to its large face. And all this you get knowing that you NEVER have to replace the battery! One bug bear I have with it, is the date dial as some small numbers on it, but I just have to look carefully at which digit the hand it pointing to.
I would recommend this watch in terms of quality and in my opinion style.

Great Looking Watch. I ordered mine today but at [...], they currently (4 Mar 09)are running it for [...] plus [...] dollar shipping.