Timex Men's Ironman Data Link USB Watch #T5C291 Buy Now

Great design, easy-to-read, nice band. I chose this over the newer one because I prefer metal and not plastic for the watch and band. While parts of the watch are plastic, the back is stainless steel.

Some customers complained the watch was too big. I did not think so. It is slightly bigger than a watch without the additional data functions, but not significantly larger.

Some customers complained about short battery life. On my first of these, the crown, which you push for the indiglo light, stuck. The light would stay on for long periods of time and the watch would also become nonresponsive. This would explain short battery life.

I suggest testing this when you first get the watch (it needs to be dark). If the Indiglo light does not go out when you release the crown, you might need to return the watch. Amazon courteously replaced my watch at no cost to me and the new one works fine.

The only things I would improve...

The crown which you turn to scroll through information, sometimes does not respond perfectly. I expect an action with every "click" but sometimes I have to turn multiple clicks to, for example, scroll to a previous phone number.

I love that on the three time zones I can format them differently; local time in 12-hour, GMT in 24 hour with no daylight time, etc. You have to set this in the software. I don't like that I can't easily change the "where I am" time zone or just the hour of the local time FROM THE WATCH when travelling. I have to select one of the other two time zones that I have preselected with the software, or reset the local time completely (hour and minute). I think I will name the main time zone LCL instead of DEN, so the label stays correct when I travel across time zones and reset the local time.

I wish the import from Outlook would display either name or company and not say BLANK when a name is not provided (you can edit this in the Timex software before downloading to your watch, but only one entry at a time). You also cannot import contacts that are in an Outlook Connector (Internet Mail) account. You have to copy these contacts to your local contacts folder before the Timex software sees them.

The watch stores credit card numbers in the Notes function and you can password protect them with a two-digit password. I haven't tested this, but I suspect anyone with the Timex software and connecting cable can see that data if they find your watch. And all this information scrolls across the bottom line of the display, rather than using all three lines of the display.

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