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 Posted: Tue Apr 2nd, 2013 05:27 pm
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stew77



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 Well Phil...glad to see the Cayman finally made it to you, but bummed to hear your BOR arrived with not enough links to fit your wrist (sounds like Ana has already sent additional links your way, but it would sure have been nice to have them from the start after all of your anticipation). Also bummed to see that your Cayman box and pusher were damaged during transit! crap.gif

Hopefully this rough start (with a bit of disappointment) will work it's way out and you will enjoy the Cayman overall...as you said, the Cayman looks sweet on your wrist, has sweet build quality, and the double thick Cayman 2-piece Zulu is a killer strap too!

I'm loving mine (and as you know it's been strapped to my wrist almost constantly since getting it).thumbsup.gif

Agree with you on the conical lugs...makes fitting a 1-piece Zulu a bit of a challenge for sure.

I also (initially) found the lume to be in the not-as-bright-as-expected category, but once I had a chance to get it charged under natural light, it's pretty darn good in my opinion for BGW9 and extremely well applied to give very uniform lume even though the lume markers at the 5-min marks are narrow by design.

I compared it to my Megalodon III (which uses BGW9), and while the Megalodon has MUCH more lume surface area and does glow a bit brighter than the Cayman BGW9, they are pretty close IMO. In my opinion, almost nobody does lume as well as Benarus, as their C3 is nuclear and their BGW9 is amazingly bright and well applied too. I compared it to a few other pieces that I have that I think are BGW9 from Dievas and Kazimon, and the Cayman lume is at least as good as those, if not just a bit brighter. My 2 cents anyway.

Did you order the accessory leather strap that Jacobs Strap designed for the Cayman? I had him tweak/customize mine and do it in a dark brown instead of the black that was designed for the watch.

Again, sorry to hear about the long delivery torture my friend...the Cayman looks killer on your wrist though!!! bravo.gif