My son was due to join university soon and I wanted to give him a good quality watch that could also serve as a trendy accessory for the hectic lifestyle of a University student. A lot of brands out there create fashion watches; I came across Michael Kors, Fossil, Diesel and many more. I was looking for an all-American watch brand and came across Nixon. Nixon is a popular American brand that makes wrist watches to fit personal styles and tastes of the youth. The brand’s aim was to create comfortable watches that kept up with the current fashion trends and typically meant for the youngsters.
Nixonbrand started off with just 7 models in 1998 when the brand was founded. Today, the success story of the Nixon brand has created a brand value of $500 million. With more than 90 different models on sale Nixon caters to every budget and taste and is well known the world over as an affordable fashion watch brand.
Effortless chic is what the Nixon brand is all about, a lifestyle preferred by the youth. Free-flowing designs from Nixon bring a unique style to everyday wear, leading me to conclude that a Nixon timepiece would be the best choice for my son.
From the online collection at Downunderwatches.com, theNixon Sentry A405-1258-00 Chronograph Quartz Men’s Watchlooked promising. Apparently, the Nixon Sentry Chronograph series of timepieces come in a variety of colours like brass, gold, gunmetal black and several other shades. The bright blue dialled Nixon Sentry Chronograph looked like a vibrant choice of colour for a young guy and that’s what I got from the website of Downunderwatches.com.
The round, stainless steel case enhances the bright blue dial with stainless-steel markers. The watch features three sub dials including a secondary 24-hour sub dial. The silvery stainless-steel sub dials stand out to give a unique definition to this timepiece. Skeleton hour and minute hands are complemented by a needle point seconds hand in red.
A date window is placed at the 4 o’clock marker and the watch is water resistant to a depth of 100 meters. A black leather strap and buckle clasp with a couple of colourful stitches near the lugs gives the watch a sturdy look. The Nixon Sentry Chronograph boasts of a Japanese quartz movement well known for accuracy. A solid stainless-steel case back with screw down crown completes the picture.
I chose the Nixon Sentry Chronograph which is a mid-range watch. Nixon also offers some good timepieces in its Time Teller Collection which is at the lower end of the price range. My focus was on getting a watch that looked good, kept accurate time and was easy to read. The Nixon Sentry Chronograph fulfilled all these criteria, but the best part was that my son loved the timepiece.
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In response to your request for a review on my purchase from DOWNUNDERWATCHES I can say the following, I address myself for this particular watches to DOWNUNDERWATCHES since they claim to be Australia's premier online watches store. This particular model is not available in store in Australia, not that I know off, therefore the advertised Australia's premier online watch store induce me to believe that the item was available in Australia but only from online orders. It turn out not to be so but from Singapore apparently. So, the claim that delivery is made within three days turn out to be three weeks. This detail should be indicated clearly to people in Australia. Other than that the delivery was made by DHL and the watch received in good condition some ten days latter. The watch is exactly as I expected it would be, well packaged, no complaint whatsoever to make about it. It would be better for the retailer to indicate that the delivery to Australia will required two weeks instead of saying next to day of dispatching leaving the impression that the goods is from an Australian distributor which physically it is not. Orient watches are not well represented in Australia by retailers if not at all. Seiko dominates the market amongst other brand. Orient is no more made in Japan as it was in the past, the factory with the name Epson is now in Thailand, the product is still of high quality and genuine as it has been expected from the original manufacturer in previous years from Japan. Epson has absorbed the brand name Orient which remains nevertheless a high quality product originally exclusively from Japan. Orient watches are of high quality until today.
Hi Patrice,
Thank you for taking the time to share your detailed feedback. We’re glad the watch arrived in good condition and met your expectations. We also appreciate your notes about delivery times and origins—this helps us improve how we communicate shipping details for our Australian customers.
The watch was as good as I expected, being refurbished and works accurately with minor blemishes. "Downunderwatches" is Singapore based, so I was surprised to have to pay additional fees for the foreign import.
Hi Herman,
Thank you for your feedback. We’re glad to hear the watch is working well and meets your expectations. We understand the surprise with the import fees and appreciate your understanding regarding international shipping.
Hi,
Thank you for your feedback! We’re glad to hear you’re happy with the quality and value. It means a lot to us knowing our customers are satisfied.
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Downunderwatches
