Men's Easy Reader Watch

I'm far-sighted and I need to remove my glasses to see up close. With a typical digital watch checking the time was a two handed maneuver. This watch is EZ to read on the fly, with a big face and bold numbers. And lemme tell you about the backlight! Bright as heck, you could use it to flag down a jumbo jet (almost). I appreciate that it's thin, and most of the face is used for the watch, not for some slidey compass gizmo that makes you look like Chuck Yeager or Indiana Jones. Loud ticking? BFD. It's a watch. If it keeps you up at night you have bigger problems than a loud watch. On the nightstand it's gonna be loud, so put it on top of something soft, you'll be surprised at the difference. Thank me later. The thing about analog: I'm not a runner or an aviator, so I don't need precision chronometrics. If I really need an alarm, I use my phone. I bet my phone has a stopwatch if I really need one. When I check the time, I don't need to know that it's 7:56:48, I just need to know that it's almost eight. Loosey goosey. Analog vs. digital: My kids have trouble reading an analog clock, and they're almost teenagers. If I walk into the TV room and say, "It's time for bed, it's ten o'clock," they'll say, no, it's nine-fifty-eight!" The main thing is, Analog shows the time in a relative way, Digital in an absolute way. The idea of "a quarter past one" doesn't exist in digital time; it's 1:15. The hour is shown in an elapsing, progressing, way, quarters, thirds, halves, VISUALLY, like a sundial. You don't need to know if it's precisely noon, just that it's lunchtime. Digital reduces time to a technical statistic, like cholesterol. Your brain has to interpret it into Time-time: "It's 11:26, um, let's see, thirty four minutes to lunch," too much mental energy. A glance at an analog watch and you know it's time to start those gastric juices a bubbling. A digital watch is useful only on New Year's Eve and at the birth of a baby. I wear a watch 24/7, sleeping, making whoopie, showering, changing the oil in my car. I like to be able to check the time in the middle of the night. "Thank God, it's only 3:30. Back to sleep." My main worry is about getting a tan line in the summer. But my life is relatively worry-free. I hope yours will be, and this watch will help. Update: This watch works with the Men's Rubbertech (TM) Silicone Rubber Watchband Stainless Steel Deployment Buckle Black 18mm available on Amazon. Outstanding product. Update June 2019-- After wearing this watch nearly 24/7 for 8and a half years, including bedtime, shower time, executive time, construction work, swimming, everything except when I got an MRI, it finally showed some age. First the light dimmed out, then it started slowing down. I reckoned that a replacement battery would nearly match a new watch, if I were to go to a jeweler. BUT NO, and new battery was 4.65, and i prized off the back with a Swiss Army knife can opener blade and replaced it. Good to go. Now all I need is to polish the bezel, due to the construction work effects.

This is just a classic well priced watch. It looks good and it functions just as it should. The leather band is nice and comfortable to wear. The watch is quiet and has Indigo lighting to light the dial. There is nothing negative to say about this watch! It looks classic.

No manual in box. Otherwise a great watch. Very clean and easy to read at a glance.

I had been patiently searching for a simple, clean, and small watch like this for some time. I have small wrists, so the new trend towards gigantic full-service wrist-appliances has left me behind. I have no particular affinity for Timex, but I kept coming back to their newer Expedition series which were stylish but still ran a little big--a compromise I was going to accept begrudgingly until I stumbled across this one. I bought it on a whim (after seriously considering watches in the $150-250 range, the ~$25 for this is nothing) and I have been impressed so far. I consider Amazon reviews gospel so some of the other reviews on this watch gave me pause, but I am happy to say I haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned. This doesn't tick any louder or quieter than any other watch I've owned. I can't hear it unless it's up by my face--I can live with that. I also didn't have any issues setting the date or day dials, although I will say that setting the day takes some time and determination (you need to manually cycle through 24-hour periods and mine was shipped three or four days off). Also, after about a week of daily use, I can say that this has kept time as well as I could reasonably expect for a bargain watch. My measurements are unscientific, to be sure, but I haven't noticed that it's running slow and I've compared its time against digital clocks in the morning and afternoon each day. The only reason I withheld the fifth star is that there is a small spot at the top of the watch where the indiglo cuts off before the edge of the case. Obviously, I can't tell until I engage the light but it's just one of those things you notice. I'm sure it is just a lapse in quality control. The watch band is what you'd expect for a watch at this price. I replaced it with a black 18mm NATO strap and have been pleased with the look. The face is versatile and fits nicely with my outfits, whether I'm at the office or running around town. The numbers are easy to read but aren't so big that it draws attention. When worn, it looks very classic and understated. In passing, somebody mentioned that it looks like it came out of Mad Men--I don't know if that's necessarily true, but it isn't the worst compliment.

Cercavo un orologio a lancette, dal design sottile e compatto perché ho il polso piuttosto piccolo per un uomo. Di "cipolloni" pesanti, spessi e ingombranti è pieno il mercato e non me ne interessavano altri, perciò questo modello della Timex è sicuramente una scelta alternativa poco comune e interessante. Tra l'altro è "Made in Olanda" non in China e la confezione è elegante e molto curata. Il cinturino è di pelle abbastanza sottile da risultare confortevole e leggero anche in piena estate. Certo non di qualità eccellente, del resto cinturini migliori costerebbero molto più dell'intero orologio in questione, perciò decisamente valido rapportato alla classe di prezzo (l'orologio l'ho preso in offerta oltretutto). La sagoma dell'orologio è sottile e leggera ma sobria e a mio avviso elegante se si apprezza il genere "old fashioned". La regolazione delle lancette risulta pulita, continua e scorrevole. Le cifre sono ben leggibili e l'illuminazione Indiglo efficiente e pratica. Se devo trovare proprio un neo a tutti i costi, la lancetta dei secondi color argento su sfondo bianco non è il massimo della leggibilità, soprattutto con poca luce, ma in effetti quando la si consulta? Piuttosto silenzioso, al polso non si sente mentre appoggiato al comodino accanto al letto nel silenzio della notte si potrebbe sentire il ticchettio. Ma nel caso basta metterlo in un cassetto. Certo bisognerà attendere qualche tempo per vedere la durata dell'insieme, ma di sicuro l'impressione è ottima e lo ricomprerei subito. Dopo alcuni mesi d'uso posso confermare che anche la precisione è buona, basta regolarlo di pochi secondi ogni due o tre settimane!

Love my watch . Replacing the one I had for 20 yrs ! lol

This is a really good and plane watch for someone with smaller wrists. I enjoy the day-date feature! I personally feel that the watch looks less expensive than it's priced. It looks to me, if I didn't know what it is, like a drug store watch. However, knowing TimeX, and having another watch by them, I know this will be a great watch that you will have for a very long time! Great simple watch for people who prefer practical and more understated daily watches. The indiglow is crazy strong too, you can use it as a dim light in the dark.

Possiedo molti orologi, perlopiù di famose marche, dalle dimensioni normali o generose. Questo Timex, invece, ha un diametro di soli 35 mm, ma visibilità e leggibilità molto buone. Davvero ottima la lettura notturna, col sistema Indiglo che illumina, in modo omogeneo, tutto il quadrante, semplicemente premendo la corona. Molto leggero, nemmeno ci si accorge di averlo al polso. Inoltre, la precisione è molto buona. Bella e sobria l'estetica; buono e morbido il cinturino in pelle. Decisamente un valido prodotto che consiglio

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