Replica IWCA nice touch.The lume is quite good; plenty applied to the hands and glowing for a solid 6 to 8 hours.One nit: the manual arrives on a mini-cdrom which most Apple laptops and desktops can't use. You have to dig around a bit on the Helix site to find a PDF. And of course there's the bottom line. I found mine on a blowout deal for $58, but a bit of searching shows them around the $110 mark with a list price of $285. For a hundred bucks, a nice analog-digital with usable illumination, SuperLuminova, and sapphire?! That's a steal. Replica IWC
On the plus side, the functions are easy to navigate, the dial and hands are superbly readable, the domed sapphire crystal is an excellent touch, and the EL backlight works great -- just push the crown. The use of the crown as function selector reduces the number of buttons to two which cleans up the appearance a bit as well. While garish, the strap works well, and the buckle is an impressively machined chunk of solid steel. Replica IWC
