Watches

I was totally shocked by the size of this monster watch. 5/8 inch thick .66 inch and two 1/8 in diameter 2.07 inches by my calipers. That’s why I’m giving the watch one star off, good luck wearing it with a shirt that has a buttoned cuff.

The watch band is really thick and heavy responsibility, 7/8 inches large with the common metal buckle/slots. The watch band is SCREWED into place. Need two flat bladed screwdrivers to take off. Good luck finding a substitute band with Velcro or something.

The plastic face is recessed a bit by the movable compass ring. Seems it’s lasting enough, no idea how easily it scratches. Will learn soon I’m sure.

As for the watch functions. Wow. Amazing watch. It has a big screen one 1/4 inches large and holds two layers of LCDs with different colors, green for functions and blue for the compass. The time shows up in 1/4 inch numbers readable across the room literally. Modes besides compass, barometer/temperature, altitude are Min/Max altitude and stop watch. Can have many surprisingly small numbers and symbols for a watch this size. The P for PM is about the bound that my eyes can read. Lots of alarms. Easy to change pretty much anything on the watch, time, date, compass, temperature, etc. Luckily everything is changeable to degrees F and mm of mercury for us non metric people. Compass is a little jerky 1 2 second delay and haven’t still time to see how well the altitude setting works. Temperature looks to be sluggish in updating.

The background light is quite bright and everything may be read easily enough. Of course, with that much square footage of screen size, I can use it to find keyholes and such. Heh. There’s a tip to light feature.

THERE ARE four BATTERIES SR927W. The back come off with just eight phillips screws, no prying needed. Four screws on the back, two screws with half threaded on the buttons side, and two screws completely threaded on the sensor side. There are two bottoms, a rubbery plastic which goes against your wrist and a metal one with the serial number on it. No talk about of battery types unfortunately. The metal back has the thin water seal gasket that seems a ache but isn’t really. Just put the seal in place,hold the bottom flat with the seal up, and place the watch on top, bending out the wrist band tabs so it’ll go on.

If you like BIG watches that appear like it’ll go through hell and back bring extra batteries while telling you what the temperature is and how deep you’re, this is your watch.

UPDATE! 12 10 09 Well, I returned the watch, one of the not many things I have ever returned. Some good reasons. One is the watch was just too big. I had to roll up my sleeve or unbutton the cuff just to wear the thing. The second is the poor performance of the altimeter. I could set the altimeter to zero in my living room and have it read 20 or 40 feet when I went UP the stairs. When driving over the Berkshires and using the GPS for correct altitude readings, I never got inside 60 100 feet of the true altitude after many tries and zeroing the damn thing out. For MT Everest, this is no deal breaker. For the NE US? Unacceptable. 3rd is the compass and temperature. The temperature gauge was totally useless as it took a good 45 MINUTES to agree the temperature , then, like the altimeter, could be off by five to ten degrees when I tried compensating the setting many times. The compass could work but it was jerky and them could just shut down in 15 20 seconds locked into the last reading. What good is that?

Well, it seemed to keep good time though!

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Four of four people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of five stars
Great Watch!,
December 1, 2009

By&nbsp,HikerJoe Colorado / Germany See all my reviews

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