“Excellent basic everyday watch. Tough with swiss mvt. and tritium lume.
Price doubled because of recent inflation but still a worthwhile purchase.
Longislandwatch.com is a go-to site for watch enthusiasts!”
“It's plastic and the back fell off the first day I was wearing it. The waterproof rating is only 50m, but I can read it in the dark and it looks way cooler than I was expecting from the photos. Its light weight and comfortable and I think it may end up being my daily wear watch.”
“First of all, I love this watch. It's comfortable, looks great, and the Tritium rocks. But, after a few months of casual wear, I noticed a significant chip in the bezel at the 4 o'clock position. It had not seen any hard use. Must have been knocked by something in a fluke way. Joe at Marathon did take care of me and replaced the bezel, covering the costs too. He and Marathon provided the best customer service you could hope for. I'd buy from them again solely based on that. When I got my repaired watch back, the old bezel was with it. I could see why it may have been easy to break. The outer edge of the ring is VERY thin, which made it vulnerable in my opinion. I could take my fingernail and pull off a piece of the thin plastic easily. The watch looks and feels great. Marathon's service is great. The bezel is iffy. Had I known, I would have made a different choice. I wanted this watch to be my EDC, but now cautious to take it out.”
“Overall this watch is well constructed and meets it's goals. I like the design, light weight, using tritium as "markers", and the ETA quartz movement rather than automatic.
Recently Marathon upgraded this watch to include sapphire for its crystal. Certainly the cost of including either one or two A/R coatings would have been minimal and it would certainly help reduce the glare. Frankly i cannot believe any military personnel would use a watch with such a huge reflection problem. All the others "military" style watches I have seen use A/R to keep reflections to a minimum, to reduce the possibilty of showing yourself to the enemy.
Second, I wish Marathon would slightly reduce the rather sharp edges at the 4 points on the bottom of the watch "case". A simple curve would solve that problem and retain all the strength needed.”
