DDro, I appreciate your comments, as I had a similar, suboptimal experience with a predecessor of the Seiko kinetic GMT offered here. Indeed, I wish I had done a little more research prior to buying that watch (an impulse purchase at a Seiko outlet store). OTOH, my experience with that watch made me consider which features I valued most in a watch. So, without my experience with that Seiko kinetic watch, I may have never made the transition...