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List Price:$ 69.95
Sale Price:$ 53.27
Product Description
With a large elegant case and a refined easy-to-read dial this combo design provides a fresh look in a classic analog style with an easy to read digital display
- Metal case construction for enhanced durability
- 24-hour chronograph with lap and split option
- Easy to use 24-hour countdown timer
- Daily alarm
- Easy to view in low light conditions with INDIGLO® night-light
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Tags: Expedition, Field, Men's, Metal, T498269J, Timex, Watch
Great watch, good price,
I love this watch. Not only is it failry fashionable, but it also has an LCD screen with all the digital functions that one typically desires on a watch. Most importantly, and the reason I chose this watch, is that unlike the similar Casio combi (which I had for the past few years), this one allows me to set the watch face by hand, which is far easier to do, and doesn’t rely on the motor winding seemingly endlessly to set the time an hour back once a year or to correct the time. Also, when I travel, I set the face of the watch to the current time zone, which is also MUCH easier to do than on the Casio which has the radio auto-set function. The down side of the radio-driven auto-set function is that it doesn’t always work (it requires the watch to be in a southern exposure with little obstruction, and that just doesn’t work so well where I live) due to location or weather conditions. Also, the hands on teh face of the watch have to be set digitally, which is more of a pain to do on teh Casio, as I mentioned earlier. Suffice it to say, that this watch meets all of my requirements, and is tough, good-looking, reliable, and just works. What else does one need in a watch?
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|The quality went down the hill.,
I had exactly the same watch for 4 years, it worked flawlessly. I loved it for its digital/analog feature, and the indiglo light. Unfortunately, I broke it last summer. I found the identical replacement in Walmart and bought it. After 2 weeks the analog part started stopping for few minutes and then taking off again couple of times a week. I didn’t want to mess with it and returned it.
Walmart didn’t have anymore of these watches and I was determined to find it. So, in September I found it here on Amazon and bought it. After a week the analog part stopped. I pulled the 3v battery out and tested it. It only had .24v in it, (it was probably stuck somewhere on a shelf for a couple of years) so I replaced the battery. For the next couple of months everything was fine.
Few weeks ago, I looked at the watch and noticed that the analog was about 30 minutes behind the digital time. I adjusted it, but the next day the Analog was 3 minutes behind again. I pulled the battery and tested it, it was showing 2.94v, almost full. So, since then so far everything is good, but I can not trust this watch anymore. It is too late to return it to Amazon. The warranty is 1 year, but I have to mail it to their repair facility in Arkansas at my expense with $8 check attached to cover return shipping. This is a complete BS warranty policy.
Do I want to spend around $12 to fix the $40 watch? Probably not. So, since I had same problem with 2 different units in a row, obviously Timex let me down on this one.
I would not buy it again.
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|Excellent design/look for price range,
Watch feels solid and really like the combination of analog/digital [FUNCTIONS: time, date, stopwatch, countdown timer, alarm]. Love the gunmetal finish though not sure how long the finish will last. Obviously, it’s no Tungsten Carbine Movado watch but for the price range, the design looks great for daily wear or as a formal dress watch. Owned the Casio Edifice previously and I find the Timex Expedition easier to set and the screen easier to read. Weight feels pretty close to the same. Really love the backlit function though the button position of top left took some getting use to. My other Timex or previous Casio had the light button located on the top right. No big deal. Adjustment of band is not too bad if you have the right equipment. Your “miles may vary” but I placed a push-pin into the hole on the SAME side as the arrow emblem. NOT on the watch band side where the arrow is pointing. The goal is NOT to push the push-pin completely into the hole. I gave the push-pin a couple of LIGHT taps with the hammer just enough to push the WATCH BAND PIN inside the hole out on the otherside. I then used needle nose pliers to pull it out the rest of the way. As a precaution, I recommend wrapping the watch and the section of the band you’re not removing with a couple layers of masking tape to protect from scratches in the event the push-pin slips out or you miss w/ the hammer.
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