Timex Men's T5E911 Watch Review

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(More customer reviews)This watch has nice features but here are the drawbacks. 1) The red indiglo is very dim and you will have to focus your eyes to see it, in other words not that easy to see 2) The main rim on the face after only a week of use has had multiple places where the paint has flaked off...pretty bad paint job. I previously had a ironman #T5C441 and I'm just going to buy another one. The face is stainless steel and lasts a while (I lost my last one).

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Keep your sports training focused with the sporty Timex T5E911 Ironman Triathlon multi-function, performance sport digital watch, which features a deep red Indiglo night-light as well as the hands-free Flix Indiglo activation system. It features a durable silver resin case, large buttons for easy access to timing functions, and a comfortable polyurethane strap. It also offers a 6-year battery life, water resistance to 100 meters (330 feet), three alarms, and three time zones. Sport timing functions include:
100-hour chronograph with lap or split option in large digits
99-lap counter
50-lap memory recall
24-hour countdown timer with countdown/stop and countdown/repeat functions
Forward or backward setting
Built-in setting reminders
Top pusher for easy access to lap and split

This watch incorporates the Timex Flix system, which activates the Indiglo night-light with a simple flick ofyour 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 thewrist with a sharp "stop" will activate the Indiglo night-lightfor 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.

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Timex Ironman Traditional 100-Lap w/ Flix System - Black/Silver Watch Review

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(More customer reviews)It's difficult to find a watch that meets all my criteria. This holds true of this watch. I wanted a watch under $50 - check; resin strap - check; large digits - check; easy to use - check; and scratch resistant face - not so much. So the watch is great at meeting most of my criteria, but I was disappointed at how easily the display window can scratch. I believe the display material is acrylic plastic. I noticed a fine scratch that shows up on close inspection after only a week. While the display window is protected a bit by being recessed, I can only imagine more scratches as time goes by.
The other annoying thing about this watch is the delay when entering any one of the modes such as Chrono, Alarm, Interval, or Timer. The watch takes about one second to get ready. So during this time, the watch only shows what mode you are entering with a blank display. What this means is that you can't immediately start your chrono timer beacuse of the delay. One second delay may seem short to some people, but I expect the mode to be instantly ready to use.
Aside from those weaknesses, the watch is really nice. It's very well designed with nice placement of buttons, small lettering, and highly legible display. I think this is one of the most attractive and elegant looking Ironman watches I've seen. The material quality aside from the plastic display window is relatively good. I like the fact that the display is recessed and protected by a hardened rubbery crown. This gives the watch decent protection against accidental bumps. Also the rubbery ridge is raised at the sides to protect the buttons from incidental contact. Fit and finish cannot be faulted for a watch in this price range. In other words it feels like a quality watch that is built to last and withstand daily wear and tear.
I like the all black color scheme of this model. It makes it stand out less, and so can be used for many different daily activities or settings. The strap is comfortable and has the right amount of flexibility and thickness. The Flix feature is nice to have, although I generally don't activate it since I prefer to just press the Indiglo button. There is a night mode which allows the Indiglo display to light when pressing any button. This is useful when one wants to use various modes in the dark. To activate either Flix or night mode, one just needs to hold down the Indiglo button for three seconds. As for the readability of the Indiglo I like that it's bright and only lights the digits, not the entire watch face. This looks cooler and stylish to me than the older version of Indiglo.
I find that this watch has all the functions I need on a regular basis, and nothing I don't want. I love the ability to set five different alarms that you can program to go off daily, on certain days of the week, or weekends. Neat! I find that the volume of the alarm is adequate to wake me up in the morning. The chronograph holds 100 laps which is more than I will ever likely need. You are able to store multiple workouts until the memory is full. When recalling the workouts, it's simple to cycle through the laps, and the watch even calculates the best lap and average lap time for you.
One thing I find immensely useful with this watch is the onscreen instructions and clever user interface. You really don't need instructions.. in fact I just toss mine after reading it through once. The interface has words on the display next to the buttons to remind you which buttons you should press. The text blinks to remind you of the mode you are in. You can use the Stop or Start/Split button to cycle up or down, for example when setting up the time or when recalling laps in your workout.
Overall I am very pleased with this Timex Ironman 100 Lap Flix watch. I would buy it again, even considering the few weaknesses I mentioned.

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Strong design and high-level functionality create a powerful sports watch with a large display.

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

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(More customer reviews)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.

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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 ofyour 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 thewrist with a sharp "stop" will activate the Indiglo night-lightfor 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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Timex Men's Ironman 100-Lap FLIX System Watch #T5E241 Review

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(More customer reviews)When you search for a very long time to find a watch that actually is setup perfectly and then luck would have it you are video-shopping (window shoping on amazon) and see the perfect watch...
...then you order it knowing it just can not live up to your expectations.
I was wrong!!!
I have found absolutely nothing I do not like about this watch. It is easy to setup/encode/set/reset/learn. The face of the watch is quite large making it easy to read under stressful situations and when you just "have to know the time or date NOW." The "FLIX" system I have not used much (because I can hit a button, ok) but it seems very easy to use (simply hold down the "indigo light" button: upper right hand button) until the watch beeps, FLIX is then "enabled." You cut it off the same way. When it is "on" you simply turn your wrist with a fast "stopping action" (as if you were checking your watch fast) and the light will auto-on for a brief time.
The crono setting and lap settings are the easiest to navigate and figure out ever. The buttons actually have "labels" which show up next to them. It has never been easier to learn a fairly complex watch. For the runners among us this watch has 100 lap memory, can remember your best times, do a countdown to crono function, and it even tracks your "best lap" if you do it in series (like you simply start the crono, and hit the big black button on the front for each lap). Then at the "end" of the race you hit stop and can "save" your results and then know your best time.
I love it. It is a large watch but who cares as it is light. The strap is not cloth, something I really like as I would never wear a cloth strap and it has a nice TAB IN HOLE locking feature on the belt that I like as well (all rubber). I can not say enough about how pleased I am with this purchase.
Last but most important: Almost all watches I have seen put the date in the upper right hand corner. This makes most dates unreadable ESPECIALLY at night. Is that a 7 or a 1? Is it the 1st of the month or 7th? I am terrible with remembering the date and to put the DAY and DATE in the lower display location was utter and total genius. If you were the designer of this watch face I owe you a beer and will gladdly buy you one. The setup is perfect for those that have a hard time reading "normal" digital watch displays.
FIVE OUT OF FIVE EASY. I would give it higher if I could. Timex has a winner here folks and if you look someplace else you will either not get the cool FLIX system, not get the 100 lap memory, not get the easy to read day/date display or get some crappy cloth band. Take my word for it, if functionality, easy-to-use, and value are the things that get you to purchase something, this is the watch for you. (Oh, and it just so happens that blue is my fav color so win win for me.)
Thanks Timex and Amazon for providing a quality product which was SO good I had to break my rule and actually do a review, my first one.

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Keep your sports training focused with the stylish Timex T5E241 Ironman Triathlon multi-function, performance sport digital watch, which features a blue resin top ring sitting upon a metallic silver case and top pusher for easy access to split and lap times. Sport timing features include a 100-hour chronograph with lap or split option, 100-lap memory recall, 199 lap counter, on-the-fly recall of lap or split, and interval timers settable up to 24 hours (9 timers with countdown/stop and countdown/repeat). The training log stores workouts by date, with best lap, average lap, and total segment time, and the total run format/synchro timer maintains total activity time (less time paused during workout and overall running time. Other features include two time zones, built-in setting reminders, water resistance to 100 meters, and a black polyurethane strap.
It incorporates the Timex Flix system, which activates the Indiglo night-light with a simple flick ofyour 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 thewrist with a sharp "stop" will activate the Indiglo night-lightfor 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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