Looking for a watch...

In My Humble Opinion
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It appears as if I am in the market for a new watch. Mine went crazy last night, and while I thought I fixed it, it appears as if I “broke” the beeper, so it now has no alarm.

I think I’m probably very picky about watches. The last few times I’ve looked at watches in the stores, I haven’t found anything I like. I don’t want a basic analog watch because I like the feature of having a stopwatch and alarm. And all the digital watches I’ve seen lately look goofy, with oversized digital numerals and other stupid stuff.

Here’s a picture that’s CLOSE to what I have now:

Mine has a grey face and black leather strap, but feature-wise, I think they’re the same. It has day, date, alarm, 2 time zones, chronograph, and my favorite feature, a count-down timer.

This one was about $35 when I bought it 2 -3 years ago.

I had the same model before this one, and it also died an odd death. It started beeping uncontrollably, and I couldn’t get it to stop. In an effort to shut it up, I removed the back, thinking I could take out the battery until I could get it to a jewelrs. Unfortunately, the whole works came out the back and went into pieces. Dead watch.

The one I have now started the crazy beeping thing again last night. I was near a jewelery store, so I took it in and they made it stop. But now the beep doesn’t work at all.

So…I’m looking for a replacement. I don’t think I’ll try the same model again, as this one seems to have a flaw I can’t deal with.

I don’t want to spend a lot of money - under $50 if possible.

I don’t mind either a leather-type strap, or a metal strap. But I don’t want a pocket watch.

Suggestions?

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I bought a Wrangler Hero Metal Bracelet watch at KMart a few years ago. Analog with digital window where the 3 would be, and on the left side of the face arranged in a triangle are 3 function windows, the day window where the 9 would be. It has a stopwatch, alarm, hour chime, and 24hr display. Hands glow and the digital lights up at the press of a button. Cost me maybe $20, and I’ve had it for over 2 years problem free. The exact same style watch came branded as Joe Boxer, and cost $5 more.

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If you must go digital I recommend lookingat the Nike Triax series. I thought these watches were substantially overpriced until I used one, but they are suprisingly good, and much better than your usual digital (Casio, Timex etc) WRT visual clarity, backlighting, and logic of functions. They also have a mineral glass lens face which is less subject to scratching than a plastic face.

Nike Triax digital watches are around 70- 150 retail, but are often half that (new) on Ebay as the models change rapidly.

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I have two Seiko watches-one dress and one everyday. The everyday is just under 30 years old, and the only thing which failed is the backlighting-it’s LCD display, but it’s the best darn $35 watch I’ve ever seen.

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How about a catapult watch?

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My SO had several of those Timex watches, and they all died mysterious Screaming Deaths (man, thats annoying, isn’t it?)

Don’t buy Timex!

Levis Strauss has some nice digita/analog watches. I couldnt find it on their website, but the one I bought for my SO last Christmas came from the Bay. It has a leather band, and a nice metallic blue face. He loves it. I hope you can find one!

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i have a timex 19281 model . its completely analog, but has an indiglo light and an alarm. i love it. YMMV

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I’ve noticed that the Timex website does have a pretty nice search engine for all the features you might want in a watch. I’m just worried now that all Timex watches with alarms will suffer from the “screaming death”…