Customer Reviews

Timex Men's T48581 Outdoor Performance Digital Compass Expedition Watch

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

My experience with this watch for over two years has been terrific. I do a lot of hand work and am very rough on watches. I logged in here to order myself two more of these watches because mine is looking pretty rough. It has been dropped, stomped, scraped, crushed, dunked and just all-round abused and it still works flawlessly. When I read that negative review I just had to share my experience with this watch. I can afford more expensive watches but why would I when this one fits my needs so well. Great display. Easy to see at all times in all light conditions. Compass, night light feature. The band has really held up well. Mine stays wet with sweat (Alabama) and gets soaked in all kinds of stuff and still looks great. I compete in handgun competitions so this watch gets hundreds of major shocks each month and it just keeps on working well for me. I hope this makes up for the one bad review. This watch will serve you well.

Overall this is a good watch over the past couple of weeks I have had it.

I love the larger text with the bright background-- it makes it very easy to read under most conditions. The curving of the text to the contours of the face is interesting looking and makes the font larger. I had an older Timex Expedition with the regular rows of numbers, and it was much harder to see.

The digital compass seems to work okay. It seems to read most reliably outdoors, away from cars and buildings. This is a shame, because sometimes it is nice to be able to get a read on which way you are driving when you are lost. Instead it goes kind of crazy and reads NNW then SSE then W while you are keeping it in position-- at least it is easy to tell that it isn't able to take a reading.

The biggest design problem has been listed in some of the other reviews... the buttons can stick. In my case this isn't disasterous. It just doesn't fully un-depress because rough surface of the button drags on the casing. In my situation it doesn't mean that the button function stays engaged all the time, it just makes it more susceptable to accidentally engaging. It most often happens with the Set button. I can generally jigger it back out without much trouble with my fingernail, but this is a bit of a nuisance. I'm hoping the buttons will loosen up when the rough surfacing wears down.

The backlight is great-- you engage it with the Indiglo button on the watch face. The functions are pretty easy to use, if the buttons don't stick.

Firstly, the buttons seem to protrude too much, cauing them to be depressed unintentionally. After about a week a couple of the buttons seemed to jam up. A week later the display turned off completely. All this after only 2 weeks of wear. This watch is a poorly designed piece of crap.

Use this watch until recently when battery went dead. It worked well, held up under adverse weather conditions, great daily watch for emergency services.

Love the watch...keeps me from wandering in the wrong direction. Big time numbers easy to read without my glasses.

Face of watch appeared much larger than the photo online. otherwise, worked fine.

This watch is junk. I bought it for my husband who likes to have the light so he can check the time at night, well that stopped working 2 weeks after he got it, and two days later the whole thing stopped working the display died. . We changed the batteries, and it still didnt work. This has been the worst purchase I have ever made. Dont waste your money.