Customer Reviews

TAG Heuer Men's CAF1110.FT8010 Aquaracer 2000 Quartz Chronograph Watch

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I'm a bit of a watch geek, so when I saw this at a watch shop in Hong Kong, I picked one up. On its face, it's a pretty simple watch, but under the hood it has a stopwatch (with a full size sweep second *and* minute hand, separate from the regular time keeping dials, and a lap timing mode. (The thin silver (seconds) and red (minutes) hands are shown in the image above.)

It's waterproof down to nearly 1000 feet, which is kind of silly number, but that's in a test chamber. Take this puppy diving and that extra breathing room helps the watch take a pounding. When not adjusting the watch, the stem screws in tight to maintain a good seal, and keeps you from accidentally changing the time.

Pull the stem out half way to adjust the hour and change the calendar (with nice detents!) Pull the stem all the way out to adjust the minutes.

The top button starts and stops the stopwatch, the bottom button resets the stopwatch or triggers a lap time reading.

I'm a little embarrassed to say, but the black rubber strap is what pulled me in. Nice watches with metal bracelets are really not my thing and I've never found them comfortable. For my personality, this watch screams "hey this is a really nice watch that doesn't sacrifice its utility with a snooty band, and by gosh, it looks great on my wrist."

I compared this watch to other sites and even called one watch dealer online that said they would match any price. They did not. they said it had to be a watch dealer and insinuated that this watch was not new.They're price was about $300.00 more. We'll, the packaging was almost perfect. The watch is perfect aTAG Heuer Formula One F1 Mid Bracelet BA0851nd it was delivered faster than promised. I got a great deal and was very happy with the product and my husband and the rest of my family say I am very very picky.

I was looking for an analog watch, that had digital functions.
This watch has many flaws. First thing you notice when you first look at it is that its VERY hard to read the time, because there are lots of shining parts like the border of the digital window and other unnecessary adorns, and the worst part is that hands are hollow, and therefore hard to glimpse. So you look, and you have to MAKE an effort with you sight to read the time. You can NOT tell this in web pictures. I think is BASIC that you should be able to read the time just with a fast look...
2. the alarm volume is way to low. Way lower than a 45$ Casio. It wont wake you up unless you put it around your ear.
3. The digital numbers are hard to see.

I returned back to Amazon for refund. And I have not found replacement. Probably the Breitling Airwolf, but I would have to see it personally first.

Delivery time more than adequate. Nevertheless, despite being a new product (or sold as new), the box of the watch was not in perfect shape (how it should be), and even worse, the battery of the watch was old and just last less than 15 days... Once the watch was delivered as a Christmas gift it was not working.. then an urgent battery change inthe middle of a holiday travel must be done....

First time I have a quality problem from a purchase in Amazon... I assume that the double check of third party providers can be improved.

Thanks

Franklin Santarelli