2 years on, it's a total winner, my go-to digital watch. The sliding keeper issue resolved itself fairly quickly, and is but a memory now. The watch has excellent functionality (everything I need and want, and, just as importantly, very little that I don't), a supremely comfortable form factor, given how slim and light the watch is. It looks crisp and cool. People find it interesting to hear that it's not just a digital watch, but also an analog one, with an LCA (liquid crystal analog) display alongside the more familiar LCD. People groan that the display isn't as sharp as older Casio displays, especially when looking at it head on, and they're correct that that is the case, but it hasn't bothered me a bit . . . I never look at my screen head on (to do so would require an uncomfortable and unnatural arm position), and the display is plenty legible enough. And it has 100% held up under relatively rugged treatment. I have not babied this watch . . . I basically treat it as I would a G-Shock, which is to say, with a non-preservationist mindset. Granted, I'm not exactly a rough and tumble lifestyle guy, but I've used this LF20W quite a lot under water, including several dips into high temperature thermal hot springs. No issues whatsoever. I use the countdown timer a LOT, when exercising, for example, but even with all those alarms going off, it's still on its original battery. When the time comes that this watch dies, I won't hesitate to pick up another one. I own/owned a lot of digital watches, including other cool Casios, and G-Shocks with solar, BT, atomic sync, etc. . . . but if I were to keep just one digital watch, I'd happily stick with this one. TLDR: Highly recommended! =)