I had a plastic "basic" one for a few years, I remember liking it and it worked very well. It even kept working after I spilled gasoline/oil and similar liquids on it--I only buy water-proof watches for regular wear anyway, but spilling gasoline or oil or similar on them is what usually killed them. It is easy to read in the dark, without fumbling with buttons like on digital watches or those "luma-whatever" LCD light ones they have now.
---->What finally killed the watch was that the plastic case wore out: the holes that the two pins (that hold the ends of the watchband in the watch case) fit into finally wore out, until the watchband could be pulled pretty easily from the watch. So I would only buy a metal one now--but the plastic one did last a few years, and I wasn't gentle with it--it got caught on edges of things a lot.
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