Priced and designed for me
As a US Army helicopter instructor pilot, I need a good watch for a low price that I don't have to worry about getting rained on, beat up, scratched, knocked around, dropped and surviving the heat and the cold. It needs to give me military time with an easy to see sweep second hand. It needs to look military with a
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flat black case and an olive drab face. It needs to provide me with an easy to see date and the ability to easily stop and restart the time so I can synchronize my time with the mission. It needs to have a comfortable flat black nylon velcro closing band so that it will come away in an emergency but stay firmly fastened on the outside of my flame resistant flight gloves in a 100 knot wind when the doors of my helicopter are removed. It needs to have a guard to protect the crown from snagging on my flight equipment. Sure, I could buy a $300 dollar watch that could do all of that, or, I could buy this watch. Thanks Timex.
Great watch. Good price. Dependable.
I usually buy cheap watches, in the $5 range, from WalMart, and they fall apart. I'm a welder, and the sweat from wearing thick leather gloves and welding melts the cheap glue holding the straps together and they fall off. Decided to splurge a bit, bought one of these.
Haven't had any issue out of it. The illuminated watch hands are great and easy to see in the dark, and the light up face is clear. There is a small section at the bottom of the watch face that doesn't illuminate, but it's the size of the moon on my fingernail and so low that it doesn't affect my ability to read the watch. That's the reason for the 4 star rating of the built-in light.
The 4 star rating for water resistance is because I refuse to wear it while bathing or swimming, so I can't say I've tested it thoroughly enough to say with certainty that it's as water resistant as it is. Feel free to test it yourself if you want, I always take it off personally.
It's a 5 star rating for readability, easily. The only problem I have with the watch is that it requires being adjusted monthly to keep the number of days correct. If you don't correct it, at the beginning of the next month you'll be off by a day. It's caused a bit of confusion for me for the first month or two, but if you reset it once a month it's fine. I just wish that it didn't require any tinkering after setting it; I'd prefer something that I can slap on my wrist and only have to finagle it once a year to adjust for the loss of a minute or two, as is inevitable.
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