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I'm just curious - is this an informed comment on the quality of Timex, or just a knee-jerk, conditioned-by-competitors-advertising reaction? Have you even owned a Timex watch made in, say, the last decade?
I ask because I'm checking my timex I bought last Nov against my computer clock reset daily against an internet timeserver and I see it is off by 3 seconds. Mind you I have never reset it since buying it, and I'm not sure I had it precisely set even then. It's reliable, it looks good, it has all thefeatures I wanted (analog, date display, thick real leather band, waterproof to 50 meters, indiglo -- a fantastic feature! -- and an alarm that I can set in 3 seconds without squinting by twisting an outer band and pulling a pin, and can be set for either just the minute hand or the hour+minute hand (invaluabe for setting timeouts for the kids or when I'm cooking and need a second timer). all for $16. my wife's timex and mother's are equally reliable AFAIK. FYI the watch it replaced was a Seiko so don't tell me I don't know the competition.
I guess my point is 1) maybe you like to pay more for brand name+less features, but not all of us do, and 2) what on earth were you contributing to the deal post anyway, other than dissing it to show off you have a "status" watch"?
p.s. it's not an exact match, but
this is very close to the one I have (the main diff being I don't have that black band around the face, on mine it's white). Needless to say, the $16 I paid is looking even better.