Timex Watch
The band on my watch is getting very frayed, so I figured it was about time for a new watch rather than spend money getting a new band. I've had fairly good luck with Timex watches so I went to their site to see what they had that would be similar to my current watch.
During the search I came across a Timex Ironman watch that has the interesting feature of having analog hands over a face with an LCD display that can be turned on or off. In the comments for the watch at Amazon people mentioned the Will Ferrell movie Stranger Than Fiction. According to Wikipedia the watch practically co-starred in the movie (I haven't seen the movie yet). That article also identifies the watch as being a Timex T56371 model. I guess Timex paid a bunch of money to have their watch in the movie, but it would still be kind of neat having the same watch as in a movie.
Not enough for me, though. I opted for the less snazzy T42491 which has no digital component. I debated between it and a similar one with a white face (T42501 after deciding against a neat chronometer model. The moving parts of a chronometer appeal to the engineer in me, but it doesn't offer that much utility. I decided it was better to have the day and date than 3 different dials for seconds, minutes, and hours and the date shoved off to one corner. They're really pushing the chronometer because it comes in a several different color schemes including red, blue, and beige. Susan said the red one was ugly.
Anyway, I should get my new watch this week.
Putting together these links it looks like the Timex website is just an Amazon store. Their URLs for their watches use the same ASIN number as Amazon.
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Comments (4)
Today I went to Target to take a look at the watches in person. The Ironman watch had a sign on it saying "As featured in Stranger Than Fiction." The face looked gray to me, like a regular LCD, instead of white like it looks in the picture above.
Posted by UT | January 17, 2007 10:53 PM
I'm really stuck on the Expedition variations that have that are analog with built in digital. I use the alarm, lap, countdown alarm, date all the "time".
Posted by Jeb | January 19, 2007 12:50 PM
I got the watch Monday. Here's my Amazon review:
4 stars
I've had this watch for about a week, my third Timex Expedition in about 10 years (the first two were from the Aluminum Trail series). I liked the plain looks and the day and date windows; Indiglo is a must-have for me now. Unlike the picture, the numbers on the face are white with a shiny metallic border. The metallic border gives the numbers kind of a double-vision look in some lighting conditions, but I guess it makes them show up better. The watch is fairly large, but not huge. It is also heavier than I thought it would be which makes it feel solid. The turning bezel (counterclockwise only) is kind of useless, but has a nice stiff ratcheting motion. I like that the crown is protected since with my last Expedition the crown would pop up sometimes when I took my hand out of my pocket, stopping the watch. The band is kind of cheap-looking: gray nylon with leather sewn on top. Hopefully it will last a while though. One quibble, which hopefully won't matter very often, is that you can only set the day by adjusting the time, so you may have to do a lot of winding the first time you get the watch to get to the right day.
Posted by UT | January 24, 2007 3:56 PM
The band on this watch was falling apart after two years of everyday use. I have used Voguestrap's website to get Timex bands before, but after visiting there to see what they had in a metal band (not as comfortable but they last a lot longer), I decided to see if Walmart had anything. In fact they had the exact same bands for less money than online. I picked out a heavy $14 band, but the salesperson couldn't make it small enough for my wrist (she was very nice but not particularly talented) so I wound up getting another metal one ($8) that she also couldn't make small enough. However, she showed me that some links have arrows indicating they can be removed and when I got home, I was able to remove several links and get the band to the right size.
The watch is in perfect shape other than its band, and hasn't needed a new battery yet. It worked fine in the salt water on vacation though I wasn't able to test it to 100 meters. But if 6 feet is any indication, I think it would be fine.
Posted by UT | July 19, 2009 6:58 PM