What I LOVE and HATE about my Orient Kamasu [Long term review] 

just got my long island watch bracelet yesterday .. love it

I did a long island bezel replacement on it, really upgrades the look. Its become a favorite now. Lots of compliments

Personally I find the stock bracelet comfortable and I don't understand the problem with hollow end links. I even prefer the aluminium bezel insert. A bigger crown would be better, I won't deny that, but it hardly matters in day to day use.

The size is the main problem i have with these watches. My fav size zone is 37mm to 39mm diameter. For some reason these legendary watches always come in 41mm or more.

I have a blue dial Kamasu as my everyday watch (Got it from Big Camera Hiroshima). I kinda like how it fits well on my 15.5 cm (6.2 inches) wrist and doesn’t look too large, probably because of compact lug-to-lug. I kinda hate its stock bracelet though, the clasp is overly large that it pushes my watches off-center all the time.

Very accurate. The crown is quite annoyingly small

What a great vibrant red sunburst. The mods you made are a huge upgrade. I feel like a 22mm nylon strap might be better than a 20mm. Makes the strap more substantial, less flimsy.

I like the stock bezel the best - the bezel indents add a bit of charm IMHO. You are right about the bracelet - a rubber or steel strapcode bracelet is the way to go.

Almost sold mine sometime ago but it grows on me overtime. Bought it used at half of the retail prices, green dial. Unique and has its own design language. Legible, strong long lasting lume with the long and distinctive handsets. Comfortable wearing on wrist with many strap options. Original sapphire crystal, in-house within 10s/day accuracy. 200m WR. So many positive things of this watch. Only gripes: - small crown - bezel markers aren’t align (not precisely correct)

Good tip on the thread screw in brother

I like the stock all black bezel better than the Coke look.

The stock crown on the Kamasu is fkn terrible. If you can find the stock code and supplier for a replacement crown for the newer Mako3 (I have the RN-AA0820R) then I recommend you buy it and put that crown into the Kamasu as it's a huge improvement.

I never had problems with screwing the crown on mine. The trick is to push it first before you screw it in.

I think swapping out the original bezel sort of stripped away some of the original Kamasu DNA. From a distance I’d swear you had a Seiko- looks good though!…

I think I found my next watch haha. I wanted the white dial Seiko field watch but the price went up on that by a lot.

I just got mine. Same red dial as yours. The crown is solid and is not hard to turn or screw out. My main issue is the unadjusted movement running 15 seconds fast per day. I am going to regulate it.

Nice review

I wish RU-vidrs would waste more of everyone's time, and complain a little more about the Orient bracelet🙄 Every RU-vidr acts like no one has ever mentioned the Orient bracelet.

I find the stock bezel action is sloppy, does the Long Island watch replacement make that part better?

Can you go casual swimming with the orient kamasu? Ive gone swimming with my orient kamasu and forget to screw down the crown.. is it still fine? Or does the water could potentially get in. (Swimming dept is around 1.5 meters)

Hoping I can one day find this for a good price in Canada.

i love this watch. my first watch and got it in green. the dial is so dynamic and beautiful. i dont agree with the lug width con. i think it looks great with the bracelet. the only thing is the rattling of those hollow end links which can be fixed by pliers very carefully. Mine runs at like +2 seconds per day and just looks so damn good. The green dial is such a perfect shade of green and so dynamic with light. I think I will order up a second one in red just because its my favourite color and I dont really see any negatives in this watch. Stamped clasp? sure but how many times you take the watch off from your wrist and think: oh no that is a stamped clasp i must feel bad now? Ive had no problems with it at all. Its just a beautiful watch and a highly functional at that. I use the bezel to time things all the time.

I bought an Orient " Panda" months ago and share the same dislikes. Bracelet is cheap, date window is absolutely useless and the lume is the worst of any watch I own. The price and the fact it's solar make me overlook the dislikes though. Gorgeous grey dial.