Men's Easy Reader Watch

Great watch. Light up feature is bright and easy to read. The leather band is very good quality. Great value for the price.

I'm far-sighted and I need to remove my glasses to see up close. With a typical digital watch checking the time was a two handed maneuver. This watch is EZ to read on the fly, with a big face and bold numbers. And lemme tell you about the backlight! Bright as heck, you could use it to flag down a jumbo jet (almost). I appreciate that it's thin, and most of the face is used for the watch, not for some slidey compass gizmo that makes you look like Chuck Yeager or Indiana Jones. Loud ticking? BFD. It's a watch. If it keeps you up at night you have bigger problems than a loud watch. On the nightstand it's gonna be loud, so put it on top of something soft, you'll be surprised at the difference. Thank me later. The thing about analog: I'm not a runner or an aviator, so I don't need precision chronometrics. If I really need an alarm, I use my phone. I bet my phone has a stopwatch if I really need one. When I check the time, I don't need to know that it's 7:56:48, I just need to know that it's almost eight. Loosey goosey. Analog vs. digital: My kids have trouble reading an analog clock, and they're almost teenagers. If I walk into the TV room and say, "It's time for bed, it's ten o'clock," they'll say, no, it's nine-fifty-eight!" The main thing is, Analog shows the time in a relative way, Digital in an absolute way. The idea of "a quarter past one" doesn't exist in digital time; it's 1:15. The hour is shown in an elapsing, progressing, way, quarters, thirds, halves, VISUALLY, like a sundial. You don't need to know if it's precisely noon, just that it's lunchtime. Digital reduces time to a technical statistic, like cholesterol. Your brain has to interpret it into Time-time: "It's 11:26, um, let's see, thirty four minutes to lunch," too much mental energy. A glance at an analog watch and you know it's time to start those gastric juices a bubbling. A digital watch is useful only on New Year's Eve and at the birth of a baby. I wear a watch 24/7, sleeping, making whoopie, showering, changing the oil in my car. I like to be able to check the time in the middle of the night. "Thank God, it's only 3:30. Back to sleep." My main worry is about getting a tan line in the summer. But my life is relatively worry-free. I hope yours will be, and this watch will help. Update: This watch works with the Men's Rubbertech (TM) Silicone Rubber Watchband Stainless Steel Deployment Buckle Black 18mm available on Amazon. Outstanding product. Update June 2019-- After wearing this watch nearly 24/7 for 8and a half years, including bedtime, shower time, executive time, construction work, swimming, everything except when I got an MRI, it finally showed some age. First the light dimmed out, then it started slowing down. I reckoned that a replacement battery would nearly match a new watch, if I were to go to a jeweler. BUT NO, and new battery was 4.65, and i prized off the back with a Swiss Army knife can opener blade and replaced it. Good to go. Now all I need is to polish the bezel, due to the construction work effects.

I dare you to find another watch that has all these features. I tried and this was the only watch to meet my criteria. This is a very classy, lightweight, easy to read, affordable, water-resistant, analog watch, with a night light and a day/date display. Its style is a very understated classic round face with only one side button and no phony tachometer/compass or built-up "rugged" appearance. It has a very demure chrome appearance with a leather strap which works well for everyday use at home, work, or even for a night out. Being lightweight, it does not slide up and down on your wrist like some of the heavier more "manly" looking watches do. Since it's not overly large, it also does not yell out "look at me", rather it simply does it job quietly and out of the way. It is easy to read on many levels. The numbers are large, the font is a san-serif style without any fancy end strokes, plus they are bold and black on a white background. Amazon has some of the best prices out there, but even without Amazon's great deals, this watch will still run you under $50. A great price for a rare find. Some watches at this price range are not water resistant, however, this one can be taken into the shower or while washing dishes without any worries whatsoever. I used to think digital watches were easier to read and made more sense, yet the truth is, analog watches give you a better "sense" of time, as one can see visually what percentage of a particular hour has been "used up." A digital watch simply does not give you that same feeling. Plus, with its constantly moving second hand, it is very easy to orient oneself to the passage of time. Timex's Indiglo back light is quite unique and hard to find in other watches. A simple press of the one and only side button activates this glowing light that lights up the entire watch background for a super-easy to read dial in any grade of low-light or even pitch black. I think this feature alone makes Timex watches a must have. Finally, the best feature, in my mind, is the fact that it tells you what day of the week you're on (i.e., MON, TUE, WED, etc.) as well as the date (i.e., 12, 23, 31, etc.). Yes, maybe I'm a bit forgetful, but there are times, when you just need to verify the day you're on. Especially when there are holidays and you're thinking it's Sunday, when really it's a Wednesday. Sometimes it's a regular day and you just can't remember, it happens. In summary, this watch has a brilliant set of features you are not likely to find anywhere else. I was ready to spend $300 on a watch that fit the bill, and this one did it for under $30. Hands down, the best watch you can get with all these features at this price-point and even higher ones.

Functional, accurate, cheap - light provides great utility. I will replace the band with a leather quick release clasp. Other than that - it's a Timex. I don't like to wear jewelry, much less a watch I can't read in the dark. Push the crown, you can always see the time. I have no idea how often the battery needs to be replaced but the utility of the light makes up for it not being automatic. Great value, no name quartz watch.

Cercavo un orologio a lancette, dal design sottile e compatto perché ho il polso piuttosto piccolo per un uomo. Di "cipolloni" pesanti, spessi e ingombranti è pieno il mercato e non me ne interessavano altri, perciò questo modello della Timex è sicuramente una scelta alternativa poco comune e interessante. Tra l'altro è "Made in Olanda" non in China e la confezione è elegante e molto curata. Il cinturino è di pelle abbastanza sottile da risultare confortevole e leggero anche in piena estate. Certo non di qualità eccellente, del resto cinturini migliori costerebbero molto più dell'intero orologio in questione, perciò decisamente valido rapportato alla classe di prezzo (l'orologio l'ho preso in offerta oltretutto). La sagoma dell'orologio è sottile e leggera ma sobria e a mio avviso elegante se si apprezza il genere "old fashioned". La regolazione delle lancette risulta pulita, continua e scorrevole. Le cifre sono ben leggibili e l'illuminazione Indiglo efficiente e pratica. Se devo trovare proprio un neo a tutti i costi, la lancetta dei secondi color argento su sfondo bianco non è il massimo della leggibilità, soprattutto con poca luce, ma in effetti quando la si consulta? Piuttosto silenzioso, al polso non si sente mentre appoggiato al comodino accanto al letto nel silenzio della notte si potrebbe sentire il ticchettio. Ma nel caso basta metterlo in un cassetto. Certo bisognerà attendere qualche tempo per vedere la durata dell'insieme, ma di sicuro l'impressione è ottima e lo ricomprerei subito. Dopo alcuni mesi d'uso posso confermare che anche la precisione è buona, basta regolarlo di pochi secondi ogni due o tre settimane!

Possiedo questo orologio da qualche mese e finora sono soddisfatto. Non si può pretendere di più in questa fascia di prezzo: il design è pulito, il quadrante è chiaro e facilmente leggibile e non è fastidioso da indossare. Oltre ai numeri delle ore, sul quadrante, c'è la finestra che indica il giorno della settimana (in Inglese, tre lettere) ed il numero del mese. Impostare data, ora e giorno della settimana, sul modello che ho acquistato, richiede grande precisione perché tutte le funzioni si raggiungono attraverso il solo pulsante laterale. Premendolo, invece, si illumina il quadrante di una luce verde-azzurro, particolarmente comoda quando fa buio. Ricordo che è necessario reimpostare la data ogni volta che il mese ha meno di 31 giorni. Inizialmente, all'acquisto, ero stupito dalla rigidità del cinturino e delle altre parti mobili, mentre ad oggi tutto risulta molto morbido ed anzi ho paura a fare movimenti troppo bruschi. Tutte le parti sono ancora perfettamente intatte, solo il cinturino è leggermente deformato dove abitualmente lo allaccio. È dotato di 9 fori sufficientemente ravvicinati, e due passanti di cui uno mobile per adeguarsi alla lunghezza desiderata. Come resistenza, non posso dire di sottoporlo a sollecitazioni particolari, se non che mi capita di sbatterlo spesso ed il vetro non presenta nessuna alterazione. Consiglio l'acquisto a chi ha bisogno di un orologio semplice ed immediato, senza spendere troppo.

This is a really good and plane watch for someone with smaller wrists. I enjoy the day-date feature! I personally feel that the watch looks less expensive than it's priced. It looks to me, if I didn't know what it is, like a drug store watch. However, knowing TimeX, and having another watch by them, I know this will be a great watch that you will have for a very long time! Great simple watch for people who prefer practical and more understated daily watches. The indiglow is crazy strong too, you can use it as a dim light in the dark.

I have worn one of these watches every day for years. Clear and legible, superb backlit dial, and it looks smart! This is my second, as I finally wore out my previous one. I cannot recommend it highly enough. As a bus driver, the ease if use and indiglo is indispensable. My favourite part about this watch is that it's wearable all the time. As a dress watch, at work, at the gym. You can even wear it whilst swimming.

Que dire de mieux.