Orient's Bambino collection launched in 2012, built around one distinctive feature: a steeply domed crystal that gives the dial depth and a vintage look most affordable automatics don't bother with. For more than a decade since, it's been credited as a gateway watch — the affordable, in-house-movement automatic that convinces a lot of first-time buyers that mechanical watches are worth the trouble.
This RN-AK0702Y version adds a day-of-week display at 10 o'clock, a 24-hour indicator at 5 o'clock, and a date window at 3 o'clock around the same Roman-numeral dial the line is known for. It runs on Orient's in-house F6B22 automatic movement — hand-winding, hacking seconds, roughly 40 hours of power reserve — inside a 40.5mm case just 12.6mm thick.
