VIGOROSOMens Watches Automatic Mechanical Black Dial Leather Strap Wrist Watch

Great watch lovely

These GuTe and Vigoroso automatic mechanical wrist watches, that I recently purchased, appear to be the same watch in different colour formats, marketed by different companies. They both have the Winner logo and script on the dial just under the 12. I assume, therefore, that Winner is the watchmaker. For these reasons the reviews for these watches are going to be near identical.The Vigoroso version has a black striated dial, white fingers and white full sweep second hand. There are white Arabic numerals indicating the hours and around the very edge of the dial are minute / second markers with Arabic numerals at 5 minute / second intervals. The strap is black leather.This is not a high end watch. It could hardly be expected at a purchase price of merely £20.69.( My GuTe watch cost £26.99. Why the difference in price? ) Also, in the instructions, it warns that physical shock may cause the watch to malfunction. This implies to me that the mechanism is not shockproof. However at a price of £20.69 this watch could be considered disposable. If it only lasted 12 months, the cost averaged over the year would be 39.8 pence per week, considerably less than a half pint of premium English bitter, and it is guaranteed for 1 year. ( My GuTe watch is guaranteed for 2 years. Why the difference? )For all that, this is an attractive watch. It has a classical elegance about it.I am a big fan of mechanical watches, particular automatic / self winding wrist watches. They are always ready to use and there are no batteries needing renewal / disposal.They are really green. Best of all, the second hand rotates with an almost completely smooth motion.This watch keeps jus as good time as my Seiko and Tissot automatics. However the power reserve is not as good as these higher specification watches. This is nothing that can’t be solved by 10 winds of the winder, morning and night. How big a deal is that? I love this watch. It will be used a great deal. The only citicism that I would make is that the date window is very small. It makes it difficult to read for old codgers like me.

Nice looking watch, but it lost about a minute a week in time. The automatic winding element did not seem to be free enough to rotate itself sufficiently to keep the correct time.

I wanted a watch to wear in and when I'm gardening so I thought an inexpensive one will do.This one ticked the box for everything, stylish, easy to read at a glance and NO battery required!My 'Dress' watch is only a wee bit better methinks.