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Well postman pat delivered the orange sumo today, a wicked early Xmas gift. My brief impression of it is, wow! Totally on another level compared to my skx007 which I love. I got the orange dial and it's a great change to all the black dial watches I own, very doxa-esque. The bezel I like, I think the font goes well with the look, rotating the bezel can only really be done at the 12 and 6 o clock position bc of the case design, it's smooth and firm, maybe a tad too firm, but I don't have much to compare it too. The Lume on it is also top notch. Unlike the blue dial and black dial versions, which have metal hands thy match the metal lume pips on the dial, the orange dial has black trimmed hands; it doesn't bother me too much. The lug width is 20mm, and that's probably true only nit picking issue I have with the aesthetics, but I'm not too bothered since I'm just thrilled with the watch overall. I have it on the marine master 300 rubber, and I think it looks great; I'll be purchasing the oem bracelet or a yobokies one when I have the funds. I can't talk to much about the movement since I generally don't know too much about them yet, but I think this 6r15 is the current solid workhorse for seikos at this price. This isn't much of a review, but overall I'm really pleased with this; and a quote I read for this watch online "it (the sumo) is 90% the mm300 yet 25% the price of one". It is what is, a solid ~$600 dollar watch, which I recommend as a midrange diver.
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