Timex

Timex Men's T5F841 Ironman 30-Lap Shock Resistant Watch

• Quartz movement
• Strong mineral crystal protects dial from scratches and scrapes
• Case diameter measures 44 mm

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Rock your body during extreme workouts with the extra-large Timex T5F841 Ironman Triathlon multi-function, performance sport digital watch, which features a black resin body and stainless steel top ring and a top pusher for easy access to lap and split times. It's also shock resistant to ISO standards--enabling it to withstand breakage under adverse conditions. It has a number of customizable sport timing features that can be turned on and off, including 100-hour chronograph with lap or split option, 30-lap memory recall, and 24-hour countdown timer with countdown/stop and countdown/repeat functions, three alarms with 5-minute backup, and golf score keeper. Other features include a 5-year battery life, water resistance to 200 meters (660 feet), and a black polyurethane strap.

It incorporates the Timex Flix system, which activates the Indiglo night-light with a simple flick of your wrist. To activate FLIX, put the watch into Night-Mode by pressing and holding the Indiglo night-light button 3 seconds until it beeps. With the watch in Night-Mode, a forward "flick" of the wrist with a sharp "stop" will activate the Indiglo night-light for three seconds.

The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illuminate the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, regardless of the mode or function.

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This Timex Watch (but not any battery, crystal, band, or strap) is warranted to the owner for a period of ONE YEAR from the date of purchase against defects in manufacture by Timex Corporation. Timex will not repair defects relating to servicing not performed by Timex Corporation. This limited warranty applies to US Customers.

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 3.9 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009352FQ
• Item model number: T5F841
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Metal batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,431 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, not Great, December 31, 2005

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Voodoo Chili (New Hampshire, USA) - See all my reviews

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I've owned a number of incarnations of the Timex Ironman over the years, and I was a bit disappointed in this one.

Useful new features:
* Golf scorekeeper (I don't play golf, so I can't say how well this works, but I assume some will find it handy).
* Occasion timer (I can't figure a use for this myself, but, as with the golf above, it's probably useful for some).
* Three alarms - each with a different tone.
* The ability to turn off certain modes so that you only have to cycle through the ones you actually use. E.g., if you don't use the golf function, you can turn it off and never have to see it.
* Flix function. When you set the Indiglo to "night" mode (same as previous models - hold the Indiglo button until it beeps), you can turn it on by flicking your wrist. You have to snap your wrist pretty quickly, so you look like you're shaking down a thermometer, but it's handy when it's dark and you only have one hand free (such as when driving).

What I don't like about this model compared to many previous ones are the following:
* Too thick - this watch is 5/8" thick. That may not sound like a lot until you see it. It's sometimes hard to get shirt cuffs over it.
* Indiglo is a bit weak. The watch is hard to see in twilight - the black background with light numbers only shows up well in bright light, and the weak Indiglo only helps in darkness.
* The alarm tones are way too quiet. I've slept through them twice in the three weeks I've owned it, and this never happened with any of my previous models.

Other things that I wish Timex would have changed on all models long ago:
* The Indiglo doesn't stay on long enough in "night" mode. Five seconds would be much more useful than three.
* Why can't the "night" mode be turned on or off permanently? "Night" mode turns itself off after a few hours, which is frustrating.
* The alarm tones turn themselves off too quickly. They should beep for a least a minute if they are going to be an effective alarm clock. Best of all would be for the user to be able to set how long the tones beep for.

Overall, it's not a bad watch. It's got some neat new features, but has also taken some steps back in some other areas. That, combined with the ungainly thickness, make it less than ideal. It's not so bad that I wanted to bother returning it, but if I had it to do over, I probably wouldn't purchase it again.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Damned Big, November 9, 2006

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Roger Gilfert - See all my reviews
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Functionality of the watch is fantastic...and the ability to "hide" undesired functions keeps you from having to scroll through a bunch of functionality that you don't care about (like "Occassions") and get to important functionality (like "Golf") quicker. My complaint about the watch is that it's "HUGE" and looks stupid on your wrist.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Swiss army knife of watches, December 1, 2007

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granger (Ithaca, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Basically, whatever you need a watch for, this does it and does it easily. I've noted that the fifth button really makes it easier to use all the functions on a watch, and the functions on this watch seem intuitively arranged. I'm going to read the manual someday but I haven't yet.

The overall color scheme is actually very sharp looking, better in person than the picture. But, yes, its a big boy - more like a fat boy. It took me a couple of days to get used to it. But hey I'm a big boy too so it looks fine on me. In addition to the shock absorption, the bigger size also buys you total waterproofing even when the buttons are pushed under water.

I will say though that while the black face and white numerals look cool, they are a bit harder to read. Readability is fine in fairly bright light and when you need the backlight, but in other light you may need to take a closer look.