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| Home » Orient #CEM5J005C Men's Multi Position Calendar Self Winding Automatic Watch | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | About Orient: Orient Watch was formally established in July 13th, 1950 in Tokyo. However, the history of Orient Watch really dates back to 1901, when Shogoro Yoshida, the founder of Orient, opened a wholesale watch store in Ueno, Japan. Orient Watch has always focused on mechanical watches, primarily automatic watches with its own in-house automatic movements Orient was once part of the "Big Three" watch companies in Japan along with Citizen and Seiko. In the 70s, when mechanical watch companies faced hardship from the mass introduction of inexpensive quartz watches, Citizen and Seiko took the path of mass producing quartz watches, Orient stuck with what it did best, making mechanical watches. Today, Seiko owns a controlling stake in Orient. Orient, however, continues to make its own mechanical movements. For its quartz models, it uses Seiko's quartz movements. What sets Orient apart from other watch companies is really the fact that Orient has always been focusing on making its mechanical movements better and more reliable. It is unusual today to find a watch company that makes its own movement selling watches at prices offered by Orient. Most of the watch companies that do make in-house movements are big name specialized watch companies such as Patek Philippe whose watches ranges from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To find a specialized watch company that uses in-house movements selling its watches at prices that are affordable to most people is truly refreshing. | | | Features: | |
• Orient 21 Jewels Self-Winding Automatic Movement
• Stainless Steel Case and Band with Fold Over Deployment Clasp
• Mineral Crystal, Unique Day/Date Display, Silver Luminous Hands and Markers
• Case Size: 38mm Diameter, 11mm Thickness
• Water Resistant - 30M, Screw Down Caseback
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 4.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
| | | Watch Information: | | | Crystal Material:
| Mineral | | Clasp:
| fold-over-clasp | | Case Diameter:
| 39 millimeters | | Case Thickness:
| 11 millimeters | | Case Material:
| stainless-steel | | Band Material:
| stainless-steel | | Bezel Material:
| stainless-steel | | Dial Color:
| gold | | Movement:
| japanese-automatic | | Calendar:
| day-and-date | | Water Resistance Depth:
| 165 feet |
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Great Value / Nice Look - Amazon's description inaccurateMar 13, 2011
By Andrew Kinney
Overall Summary: A nice looking watch. It has some quirks, but it is a great value at $50 to $100 prices.
Pros:
-Beautiful watch.
-Steel case is durable, shiny, and inexpensive. A little less shock and horror if you scratch it.
-Lightweight.
-Unique day of week layout.
-I like the date at the bottom.
-Band looks nice with alternating brushed steel and polished steel segments across the width.
-Keeps time well. Mine looks like about +4 seconds a day when compared to my computer that is synched to an atomic clock about once a week.
-Dial takes up most of the diameter of the watch case, so there is little wasted space.
-Dial has an iridescent quality to it with rays radiating out from the center that rotate around the dial as the light and your viewpoint changes.
-It doesn't look huge and ridiculous on my thin wrist, but it's still large enough that it's obviously a men's watch.
-Crown doesn't stick out very far, so it doesn't dig into the back of my hand like some watches I've had.
-Nice metal and imitation leather box with satin-like nylon padded lid interior with imitation velvet watch holding area. Rivets and stitching outside.
-Nice printed manual and "International Guarantee" booklet.
-Attached to the band is a nice little plastic logo tag with the model information printed on the back.
Cons:
-Band is a little difficult to adjust. It took some serious scary force with a sturdy pointy object to get the clips out.
-Band is a single snap mechanism rather than a double snap mechanism, which might come apart unexpectedly. No trouble the first couple of days around home.
-Band can pull hair, but it does that less once it is properly adjusted. It's just something to get used to if you use steel bands. I've been wearing a steel band for more than 8 years and I know they do get better with age as they loosen up some.
-The sticker on the back of the watch has cheap ink that rubs off and the adhesive is very gummy, so leaving it there doesn't make any sense and removing it is a bit of a chore. It cannot be removed without leaving behind half the sticker and a big gummy mess that you have to scrub off.
-Amazon description as of March 12, 2011 said it has a screw down crown. It doesn't. It's just a regular two position pull out crown. Someone did a copy/paste job from the description of an Orient dive watch and that slipped through. The official Japanese Orient web site (this is a Japan market only model) makes no special mention of the crown on this model.
Other thoughts:
-The "Champagne" dial color was darker than represented in the photo here on Amazon as of March 12, 2011. It is a light gold color somewhere between pearl white and gold, but it is probably more gold than pearl white on that scale. I'm not familiar with Champagne (the drink), but I probably would have known this if I were.
-The red or blue on the day of week indicator doesn't seem to hold any particular relation to AM or PM as some have indicated. It advances to the next day about 1:20AM, starting with red. Sometime between then and 11:00AM, it switches to blue. I'm not sure exactly when because I wasn't looking at it when it switched from red to blue. Apparently, after reading several forum discussions, this is normal for this particular movement.
-If, like me, you're not experienced with day/date mechanical watches, setting it can be a bit more complex than you'd think, but the instructions do cover this, somewhat. Basically, set the watch hands so the hour hand is at the 6 o'clock position and start following the instructions from there. Pay special attention to when the date changes. It changes just as the time goes from PM to AM at the 12 o'clock position.
-I'm still getting used to wearing a watch on the weekend. Since it requires motion to keep it wound and only runs for about 40 hours on a full wind, you can't just take it off Friday evening and put it back on Monday morning without resetting it. With quartz/battery watches, this wasn't anything I had to think about. That said, I think I still like the mechanical automatic better than my quartz/battery driven watch.
-If you move the watch back and forth next to your ear, you can hear the winding mechanism do its thing. It sounds strange. Coming from a IT tech person point of view, it sounds like when you shake a dead computer hard drive next your ear when the read/write head has fallen off the actuator. It's kind of tinny sounding, like a metal spoon dragging across a formica counter-top, but not loud. It has a little bit of a squeakiness to it as well. You really can't hear it over a typical computer fan unless you wobble it back and forth right next to your ear.
-I understand that these watches sold for around $30 a few years ago, but it is still a very good value at $74 (includes tax and 2 day shipping). If it's durable, it should really be selling for more. I guess time will tell.
-Other colors of this same watch: Search Amazon for "CEM5J005". There's Black, White, Brown, Blue, and Grey in addition to this Champagne (light gold) color.
A Regular Watch?Feb 17, 2011
By Alex
I thought i was buying a regular watch. Boy was I totally wrong. Turns out it is an epic watch.
Not Your Everyday SeikoFeb 15, 2011
By Metal Polisher
"Plaubelfarfner"
After just buying a Seiko 5, I decided to try the Orient watch in the same price range. I've since stopped wearing the Seiko and only wear the Orient. The Orient not only keeps more accurate time, but the band hasn't gotten scratched up like the Seiko band in normal wear. The Orient also has the extra button for changing the day which makes date/day adjustments easier. Finally, I prefer the interesting arrangement of the Orient face, with the days displayed radially and the date at the 6 o'clock position, rather than the standard of both at the 3 o'clock position as in the Seiko 5. Mine also has a rather unordinary color, the face being a pale gold, or champagne color.
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