StauerReviews of stauer.com

I have never ordered from this company and despite emailing dozens of times and telephoned them they insist on inundating me with their rubbish brochures. I wish they would stop

Purchased the Jetsetter chronograph for $29.95, added up to $49 with S&H. Poor quality and quality control. Chronograph minute hand won't zero and clock second hand misses the marks. Chronograph numerals on bezel are wearing off on my shirt cuffs after two weeks of wear. Warranty return costs $29, payable upon return for repair. The watch is probably a $9.95 value.

I knew about Stauer going in. So, I went ahead and got the "$300" watch for $30 (+ $15 S&H). So far, it has kept very good time, even though watch geeks call it bottom-of-the-barrel bad Chinaesium. I don't expect it to be durable and long-lasting, but for $30, it has performed well and looks more $$$$ than it is. If it lasts a year or two, I'm not going to be upset over a $30 expenditure.

i by 4 watches work for 6 days and stop work

I am a (now retired) jeweler and gemologist with a GIA (Gemological Institute of America) certificate. I owned a jewelry store in New Jersey and did free gem identification for my customers. I had gemological equipment: microscope, refractometer, polariscope, dichroscope, spectroscope and more. I wrote 69 newsletters mailed to my customers over 23 years with a variety of topics, some of which were about gemstones. Stauer runs ads for "Diamondaura" which it touts as "The ultimate Diamond Alternative." It says that Diamondaura is clean and colorless and "in purely scientific measurement terms, the refractory index of these stones is vey high, and the color dispersion is actually superior to mined diamonds." First off, the term is refractive index, not "refractory index." The ad foolishly gives the actual measurement of dispersion, the difference in refractive index, how much the gem bends light, between red and violet light, .044 for diamond and .066 for Diamondaura. Bingo! only cubic zirconia has .066 dispersion. The ad also states the hardness of both diamondaura and diamond as "cuts glass." Just about anything will cut glass, including a tooth, since glass is very soft. Refractive index determines brilliance. Diamond is 2.417, cubic zirconia is 2.15-2,18 A DiamondAura ad was so irritatingly bogus it inspired a gemologist colleague of mine to call the company. Brandishing her credentials as a Phd scientist and gemologist, she was able to get the company to admit that “DiamondAura” was actually cubic zirconia. This article about the ad that inspired a gemologist colleague of mine to call the company and get them to admit that “DiamondAura” was actually cubic zirconia had some interesting consequences. As usual, I posted the newsletter, Holiday ‘05, for download on the web site, and thought nothing more about it. In November, 2005 I got an email out of the blue from a criminal defense attorney in Texas. He had a client accused of some sort of gemological fraud. He had read the article in the newsletter and wanted some more information on diamonds and diamond imitations. When I got my web site statistics I noticed that traffic had tripled, due to downloads of the newsletter and 450 people had used “DiamondAura” as the search term that brought them to the site. When I googled DiamondAura, the link to the newsletter was on the first page. So people who searched for DiamondAura were treated to a second opinion. Then I got three more emails, from a woman in California and two men in Texas, saying they had read the newsletter article and had decided not to purchase DiamondAura. In January, 2006 I got a phone call from a couple in California. They had bought DiamondAura under the impression that it was actually man-made diamond and had taken it to a number of jewelers who had told them it was cubic zirconia. They were mad. They called the FBI and complained and sent them the newsletter article. Cool! Then there's "helenite" which Stauer claims is green glass obtained by melting ash from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980. The GIA found helenite to be man-made glass, containing little or no volcanic ash. They melted ash from the volcano and it came out black. Especially telling was a huge difference in melting temperature between their ash glass and helenite.

knife is stainless, damascus blade it pattern welded, easier to go to carazy crow and get your own kinfe making kit

I bought a Chipaway Bowie knife plus a Land of the Free folding knife and am very sadly disappointed in both of them. In checking, could have bought them cheaper (still not worth the price) on eBay. No more from this company.

I bought my watch for £100 through a Newspaper advert 4 months ago but haven’t used it because the strap was way too large. Following COVID lockdown I was finally able to get the strep shortened. Although the watch keeps time the date is not centred so the left digit on dates 10 to 31 cannot be seen. The hand on one of the smaller chronograph dials resets to the right of the 60 dial. Seems all Stauer watches appear fancy in their brochure but are the usual cheap Far East manufacture. My fault for buying on line. Recommend avoiding buying this brand.