LOL. 😀 I hope so. If so, it will give me many years of serice.

It's a chunky one, but wearability is surprisingly good, it's packed with functionality, and is easy to read.

Yes. They are much, much dimmer than any marketing picture you'll see. I should have made that clear in my original comments.

I could not have been more disppointed.

I have nothing against pink, per se, it's just that that particular pink does nothing for me. The Grand Seiko is gorgeous.

Yeah, it is a shame. Thanks!

Yeah, way too much going on, reading the time is much harder than it should be.

Rugged and easy to wear, but doesn't suit its primary purpose!

It depends... If the company makes the watches in their home country, I don't care. If the company outsources manufacturing to another country, I'm far less inclined to buy it, and would only do so if there were no other options. For example, Seiko makes some models in both Japan and elsewhere (e.g., China). If I have the option between buying the Japanese-made version of that watch over the outsourced version, that's what I'm going to do, even if it costs a little more.