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Lorus is sub brand of Seiko and as such comes with Pulsar and Alba to cover lover end of the market. They are more expensive than your regular Casio or Timex and somehow on part with simple Edifice or more posh Timex models. Why should you buy it? What is special about it? Not mach actually it may win on some design aspects like this model with luminous dial. Let dig into it and go through cons and pros. I will start with covering watch itself as is no design perk in it. It fairly cheap watch with slim profile, date only. Movement have metal build and been around for quite time. Nothing special. Bracelet is flimsy and sometime borderline uncomfortable as you may expect from affordable watch. 100m WR is sufficient for all. Shape is nice and size is on smaller side but sits perfectly. Hands have too much of free play when you set up time. Lorus as well as Pulsar did not win my heart as reliable watches. Unlike Seiko if you pick used one (like i did) you may get another dead weight. Despi...

What is a sport watch? What should sports watch deliver? Many watches can be sports watch, however long ago Timex figured it out nearly perfect. Among plentiful examples which are mostly same with some small additions I going to describe it on example of T5K4299J which is run of the mill Timex triathlon digital watch with 200m WR and “Shock” build. If you want good sport watch for running or any other regular activity this could be the watch to buy.   So more details below. What makes great sports watch? What you need in a sport watch? Checklist is personal and will depend on activity. If you running and doing laps than lap count/stats is THE thing to have. If you just running and all you need is time than you may not bother ever to remember how to recall lap times or are they listed as functionality of your watch. After running, biking and going to the gym I have clear grasp on differences between what you need in each and every case. However I want to describe a l...