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Timex Men's Ironman 100-Lap FLIX System Watch #T5E241

As a Police Officer, I'm hard on equipment. I bought this watch about 2 years ago and love it. It has taken a beating and continues to work perfectly. The FLIX technology makes reading the display in low or no light easy with just a quick shake of your wrist.

Great watch! -- Great watch for work and workouts

So I just bought this watch. I actually placed an order for the $250 Casio pathfinder T2000 that has all the functions of this watch plus solar charging, atomic clock synching, a thermometer, altimeter, barometer, and sunrise and sunset times, plus the perpetual calander..... But then cancelled it because, really - I mean do we need all that?

Here is a watch with 5 alarms, an incredibly powerful interval timer/workout tracker. It looks decent, and it's $50.

Well, some people may say that this watch is a cheap, mass produced watch and other watches have better craftsmanship and are more personal with their nice stories... Because with more expensive watches, people can - theoretically - take them up to the top of the Himalayas and have the watch give you the temperature, altitude, and barometric pressure. Such watches are said to have some "story" or "mystique" to them that this watch allegedly does not.

Well being that there was an earthquake in Haiti a few days ago, and they need help more than I need an altimeter on my watch, I went ahead and took out a nail from my toolbox and engraved the word "Haiti" on the back of this here Timex I just bought. I then took the $200 I saved and used it to make a donation to the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. I'd say that's a pretty powerful "mistique" or "story" to my watch. Now, when I look at the time, I'll think about the people that have quite literally been housed, fed, and treated at a hospital with the money saved by getting this watch.

By the way, as you can tell from the other reviews here, the watch wears beautifully. It looks clean, sporty, and isn't tacky. The blue parts of the case material are a rubbery material that really absorbs shocks enough to avoid scratches. They use a combination of plastic and metal for the rest of the case, but it's done in a way that doesn't make you think this watch is a cheap watch. Then when you go into the features of this watch, you realize that this is a pretty nifty piece of engineering. You get dual time zones, a 24 hour 1/100 second chronometer, count down timer, 100 lap workout tracker, interval timer, flix system where you can shake your wrist a certain way to get the light to come on instead of pushing the button, and a really comfortable strap. Oh yeah, the indiglow is a really nice "advanced" indigo light that actually lights up the black parts of the LCD instead of the background.

For an extra $5 bucks, Timex also warranties your watch for four years from the date of purchase.

So people, I'd strongly urge you to take a good hard look at your cash before you spend it on another time piece that may be percieved to be "higher quality" but is actually an overpriced hunk of metal that hangs off your wrist. This watch has value, functionality, and decent looks to boot. Happy watch hunting! -- Get this watch and donate your savings to a good Haiti

Received this promptly and it was exactly what I've been looking for: a digital watch with a timer! -- nice watch

The watch was large, bulky, heavy and not attractive. I returned it and purchased a Timex Ironman 75 lap OVA watch, which is light and fits nicely on my wrist -- Ironman 100 lap watch

I really like the 5 separate alarms. It has large numbers for us old folks. -- Nice features and easy to read