written by on 24/07/2009
Bought the Certina DS Podium as something special. It looks good but has been unreliable. The sweep (chronograph) hands lose their position and the watch often stops or loses the time for no apparent reason - this started when only a few weeks old. The UK has no retail support so it has to be sent off which is pretty useless. Have emailed for support and wait with baited breath
written by rakov on 10/01/2008
It looks good, great even, potentially 'Certina is the new black'. A real man's watch. If Jack Bauer was going to be a watch, he'd consider being a Certina at least. When it was working, for those first 15-18 months, kept very accurate time. Now... between that and the watch band breaking (glad it happened at home and not somewhere out and about as I likely would have missed it), the watch is more poser than real watch. That and the customer service issue, where I feel I was treated as a suspect before any of the repair work is carried out...
I'll persist with the one I have but I doubt I will go with Certina again.
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