Everyday Carry

Orient Mako

Authored by:
Mikey Bautista


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A great dive watch under $150 teaches you many things. You appreciate how automatic movement removes your dependence on a battery, and how a well-maintained watch can keep on ticking for a lifetime. You benefit from the watch's more rugged construction with better quality materials than your garden-variety department store quartz. You learn to love lume, and enjoy taking the watch with you everywhere, land or sea, thanks to its underwater resistance. The Orient Mako teaches all these things and more, and with its classic design, no-nonsense face with day/date window, and stainless steel case and band, this is the perfect timepiece to get your feet wet with.

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Mikey Bautista

Director of Everyday Carry Operations


About the Author
Mikey Bautista is an everyday carry (EDC) expert who has been working with the EverydayCarry.com team for nearly a decade, starting with an interest in EDC as a hobby and ending up as a writer for the site in 2014. Through the years, he’s led the site in editorial content and writing about products across every category, from knives to bags to flashlights and everything in between, as well as discovering, bringing exposure, and building bridges with many brands in the industry. Today, he is the site's Director of Everyday Carry Operations, leading the editorial team and managing day-to-day operations.

He has lived through many personal and professional lives, spending nearly a decade in the workforce management industry, a minor career in gaming, and has lent a hand with entrepreneurial efforts back home in the Philippines. He has also been an active participant and helped build a number of significant social communities online, both for EDC and his other hobbies.

Mikey has been at the cusp of gaming, technology, and the internet since the ‘90s and continues to lend his experience, expertise, and authority to all his pursuits. When not online, in a game, or watching movies, you'll find him in the gym, speedrunning his next hobby, or talking at length about EDC with anyone willing to listen.

Discussion (4 total)

DevoD ·
I'm glad to see this watch get some mention. I've had one (pepsi Mako) for quite some time. It's a solid, non pretentious dive watch with a modest but respectable pedigree. The blue dial Makos are exceptional in their color and their accuracy is pretty consistent for an automatic. Some of the drawbacks are a very stiff bezel and weak lume but at the price point it's quite a steal. Orient is a very underrated brand and a well kept secret among watch enthusiasts.
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Mikey Bautista ·
I was debating between this and the Monster for a VERY long time, and in the end I was just too enamored with the Monster lume. And yes, Orient is a sleeper of a brand.
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Kyle Lars Gjolberg ·
This was the first nice ($100+) watch I bought, and it's still going strong several years later. It looks good and it keeps time well providing you wear it semi-frequently.
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