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The Fastrack ‘review’

I have never really been a ‘watch’ person or a junk mail reader for that matter, however, the mail from the company called ‘BlogWorks‘ caught my eye, it basically said that they wanted my feedback on either Fastrack’s new eye wear or their new watch collection, I chose to get a watch ;) It took kinda a while to reach me, and plus I didn’t get the watch which I had asked for, however, this won’t really affect the review.

Why am I reviewing a watch? Isn’t this blog about more serious things? Oh well, this how ‘we’ keep the blog running, even though practically we don’t spend a dime to run it, but we will soon, however I wasn’t forced to blog about my feedback/review on it, but I still am doing it , as a simple ‘thank-you-for-the-free-watch’ gesture.

So, I open up the packaging, and I see this tin which reminded me of my first Fastrack watch (because it had the same packaging, like ‘duh’) I obviously don’t remember the model number of that watch, as its been more then six years.

Anyhoo, let’s start the reviewing on the Neon Disc 1443SL01, it was requested by their side that the feedback be on the below given points. (The photo’s of the watch which I have reviewed : Neon Disc 1443SL01(On Flickr) | Photo’s shot by me(On Imageshack))

The style of the watch is quite original (not like it had a triangle dial or something) It’s ’subtle’ and it’s crafted well, it has backlight, which is obviously a boon for a person like me, who doesn’t want to strain his eye’s to look hard at the time, during the late hours in the night XD However, you can’t see the date in it which was kinda a bummer for me, and plus the backlight is no novelty as such :P Though, the watch looks cool when the backlight is on XD

The comfort level was not bad either, though it had a leather strap, I wore it for a 40 minute brisk walk in the morning, and it didn’t feel heavy, nor did the strap feel moist (I sweat like a pig, I do), the watch happens to be quite light, which is nice.

Now, we come to the main part of it, is this watch worth 1895 bucks? No, it’s not, when you can get a fake Rolex watch for 200, even though you won’t really get a ‘warranty’, of that watch, and even though the warranty is important to alot of people, but as this watch is trying to be more youth friendly, or as we call it, nowadays ‘Youngistaan’ friendly, it should make the watch available for a little less dough, because the college people don’t really save money, and most of them don’t get so much of pocket money and because they believe in the ‘use and throw’ system, however I do understand that you can’t really be a well established brand and then make products which are used and thrown away, however, the company which wants to make a special connection with the college going crowd, has to get their price right, I am not saying, people don’t buy Fastrack, I am saying, more people will buy it when the prices go down, then again it’s a honest opinion.

To compare Fastrack with another brand is difficult. Fastrack has it’s own place in the market, and it’s dominating the lower/mid range in watches.

And no, I don’t write reviews on my blog XD And I’d like to thank my mom, my dad, and my brain for the free watch, oh and obviously the Fastrack team XD Oh and Manpreet Kaur, the person who contacted me on behalf of BlogWorks.

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