Customer Reviews
It's a beautiful watch and the quartz model is much easier to set than the mechanical automatic models despite its two stage setting procedure. It seems to be easier for me to read as a low vision nearsighted person compared to the automatic models.
In future versions, I hope they can further improve them to have more distinguishable hour and minute markings either on the face itself or if it's along the side of the face with bolder or more contrast to the marks to be able to be more precise in reading the time. It would also be nice if they can figure out how to streamline the time setting procedure to use a two position time set with the crown on either the quartz or mechanical movements along with a crescent moon to replace the generic sun/moon to read the hour during the day or night.
For those people who like to see how time flies, pun intended, while admiring the beautiful artwork, how about having the seconds go by by watching flocks of birds, butterflies or dragonflies or clouds and stars traveling around the skies?
All in all this watch will give a lot of joy no matter how you see its value as a watch or art piece.
Kudos to the fine work of the artists and the engineers who are working together as a team along with the stellar customer service people who have the difficult responsibility in keeping their external and internal customers happy no matter what is happening in their own lives.
All of the National Park watches look great, but the Arches one stood out to me, and I'm so glad I picked it! It's a smaller sized watch than I usually wear, but it's eye-catching and I've received many compliments on it already. It looks amazing, and the watch movement is so unique and makes it fun to look at the time.
I got this because I went to the arches a couple of years ago. The watch is so beautiful, I smile every time I check the time. It's a bit tricky to get used to because the twelve hours are over the 180 degrees of sky, I was surprised how quickly my brain adapted though. The minutes are in the window beneath the arch of you want to be more accurate.
It's a really high quality watch, it looks, and feels, great. It comes packaged in a stylish box and would be an impressive gift.
I figured out the instructions and this watch works out with so many of my clothing color options. Totally helps when I am at work since I need to keep an eye on my break times. Plus it fits my tiny baby bird wrists! I hope to go out to Arches in the near future!
I pre-ordered this watch late last year for the georgous day/night dial not realizing just how good of a value of watch I'd be getting. This watch has a signed buckle/crown, an in house branded strap, and exhibition caseback. The case has this straight luged and very retro look to it, with a mix of polished and brushed finishing. The movement while quartz seems to be high quality and is super quiet. All of that for the price of a Seiko 5, I am floored. The dial is the main event, it's super dynamic changing from day to night and really is a treat to look at! I do hope that in their next launch the crystal recives an anti fingerprint coating because the matte dial really makes fingerprints pop on the crystal above, and I hope to see a mechanical offering with a seconds indicator seeing as that would make these watches even more dynamic. That being said for a first iteration product its 99% of the way there, overall I am very pleased with this watch and look forward to seeing what Asterisk comes up with going forward!!
