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I'm always interested in very accurate watches. I got one of those radio ones once, but it rarely picked up the signal so I returned it. Since I will soon move to Hawaii, I don't think even the radio clocks work out there.
My present watch is a Timex Expedition. I've had it for years and it started out keeping extraordinary time - the first 50 day it lost less than a quarter second! Then it started to run gradually faster and now it gains a second every 3 to 3.5 days. Very good, but I'd be happy to find something better at a decent price.
I'm not into the big watches that are supposed to be extra tough (not that I want something easiy broken). This one is about as large as i would want.
Aside from accurate time, I only seriously need the following:
Stop watch - pretty standard.
Alarms - LOTS of them. I once had one with 60, which is more than I need, but I can easily use 6-10.
Ability to easily read the dial - Indiglo is acceptable. Some watches that used a different light were too hard to read and it seem that their light killed battery power faster.
Any recommendation?
One other thing, about the alarms. The 60 alarm watch was nice, but not consumer friendly.
I'd like to see a watch that let you specify when it would go off (once a week, every day, every week day, etc). I can imagine the interface - just have 7 positions you can mark or unmark, representing what days you want it to work.
Also, there should be some kind of easier temporary deactivation, either by turning them all off at once or perhaps having "banks" of alarms (perhaps 10 in each if you have 60 alarms) which allows you turn turn off or on a bank at a time.
Anyway, those are my ideas. Does anything come close?
Bob
My present watch is a Timex Expedition. I've had it for years and it started out keeping extraordinary time - the first 50 day it lost less than a quarter second! Then it started to run gradually faster and now it gains a second every 3 to 3.5 days. Very good, but I'd be happy to find something better at a decent price.
I'm not into the big watches that are supposed to be extra tough (not that I want something easiy broken). This one is about as large as i would want.
Aside from accurate time, I only seriously need the following:
Stop watch - pretty standard.
Alarms - LOTS of them. I once had one with 60, which is more than I need, but I can easily use 6-10.
Ability to easily read the dial - Indiglo is acceptable. Some watches that used a different light were too hard to read and it seem that their light killed battery power faster.
Any recommendation?
One other thing, about the alarms. The 60 alarm watch was nice, but not consumer friendly.
I'd like to see a watch that let you specify when it would go off (once a week, every day, every week day, etc). I can imagine the interface - just have 7 positions you can mark or unmark, representing what days you want it to work.
Also, there should be some kind of easier temporary deactivation, either by turning them all off at once or perhaps having "banks" of alarms (perhaps 10 in each if you have 60 alarms) which allows you turn turn off or on a bank at a time.
Anyway, those are my ideas. Does anything come close?
Bob