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Review on Waterproof Men'S Digital Sports Watch With Large Face, Stopwatch, Alarm, And LED Back Light For Enhanced Performance And Style by Jim Bijelic

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Would otherwise be a very good watch, EXCEPT.

.the display is awful -- every difficult to read at all unless you look at it immediately head on and even then the display is pale and hardly what I would call acceptable. The thing that is most annoying to me is that the image they show onsite is NOT what the watch display looks like in real life; it it were, I would be fine with it, but it's not, ant that, to me is deceptive. In reality it does have a black background, but the numbers are NOT white as shown, but are a very dark orange color with low contrast which is bad enough, but the to make matters worse, you need to be look directly at the numbers, and I mean DIRECTLY. Move slightly off axis to the left or right (when you glance at your watch you rarely are looking directly at it with you nose pointed directly at the center of the dial. Look at it at any angle and the number which were hard enough to see, become even more difficult to see, in fact, just by moving my wrist to the left or right, I could get the number to almost disappear.Yes, the watch does have a lighted screen that you need activate with one of the buttons on the side of the watch, and they, yes, the numbers light up a very nice, bright blue green, but even that button is hard to press (strong spring), so to glance at your watch to see the time, you need to have both hands free to reach over to push that button. To me, this was unacceptable enough that I decided to return the watch. And believe me, I am a very tolerant, not a persnickity perfectionist type; I would much rather not have to trudge out to the Ebay locker to return this, but it really is that bad, at least for me. I am not saying anything with the workings or quality of the working of the clock's accuracy -- it's a very nice looking design -- very masculine, (you know bragging about how it can go down to some absurd water pressure for those macho men who feel the need to go deep sea diving every morning after jogging 110 kilometers). All of that is fine, it's just the display that is simply too difficult to read without pressing the backglow button. When you want to nonchalantly glance at your watch, you don't want to have to reach your arm over to your other hand and press a button, or hold the watch up to your nose so you can read the numerals. Nope. The button I am hitting right now is the RETURN ITEM button.

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Pros
  • Bought this for my grandson..it loved the military aspect and wears it all the time.
Cons
  • used for utility not for dress