Orient 'Bambino Version 5' Stainless Steel Japanese Automatic / Hand-Winding Dress Watch

as far as cheap watches goes this is up with the best. my only complaint is the mineral crystal instead of sapphire. the movement is accurate to within 3 seconds a day on average. the worst i saw was it was off by 10. wears great on my giant wrist. gets no compliments from anyone, thats a good thing. its not made to be stupid and blingy. just elegant and nice for $200. very happy

I like orient, this is my second bambino. Great looking watch. The hands are a very dark blue, not like the bright blue pictured.

This watch has a lovely open mechanism in the rear. I've had it now for a couple of weeks and indeed has a 40-hour reserve. The band is of high quality. A great everyday watch.

Beautiful. Orient watches always very well done. Excellent piece.

Not everything Orient makes is great. They're trying really hard to fill the void Seiko created when they decided to go down this Seiko 5 route and jack up the prices of everything, and in some places they do well, others they don't.For me on this one, they do. I've got what I think is considered a Bamino 1 on a leather strap and it's a nice, clean, simple quasi-dress watch. It's thin enough to fit under cuffs, but I don't like leather on a dress watch generally (not a huge fan of leather bands at all, really). Don't get me wrong, it's a nice looking piece and I wear it frequently.But this version is much improved as a dress watch. The stainless steel bracelet is not the best I own, but it isn't obnoxiously 'rattly' and the clasp is sufficient. It was easy enough to resize to my ~7.25" wrist, though I do so hate the pin system Orient is using on these bracelets.The dial really does look great. On mine, the blue does pop, and the steel dial markers are all well polished, placed perfectly and stand out exceptionally well against the blue. I think it looks really nice against blue shirts and jackets. I generally think that color-matched date windows are the way to go, but something about this one being white really works for me. It would look good color-matched with white text, but this doesn't look bad at all.The piece is very thin and slides very nicely under shirt and jacket cuff.The one major difference between this and my other Bambino is the movement. On my original the rotor is noticeably loud when it spins, as many Orient movements do. This one is not at all noticeable. I'm not sure exactly what they did to improve on this, or if perhaps mine is just a rare positive fluke, but I love it.I can't speak enough to the value I think Orient is providing these days across their whole product line. Getting good automatic movements that will last and look good enough as they age to give them to your kids doesn't mean you have to spend their college money to do it. As Orient moves more and more into that value segment Seiko is abandoning, I hope they will continue to refine their movements and pay some attention to their bracelets and straps to up their game a little, but right now, this piece really works for me.I highly recommend it and think if you like value timepieces you'll enjoy this one being in your collection.

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Muy buen reloj, elegante, limpio y de muy buena calidad para su precio.

The hands were black and not the blue that was advertised. However, It’s a beautiful and well crafted watch especially for the price and the black hands give it that classic look that reminds me of the watches my grandad wore. I’ll be keeping it and adding it to my collection.