New (to me) Dive watch

For the past couple months I had been looking into cheap depth meters. My dad suggested some ancient technology he used to use where water in the gauge pushed a needle around...:crazy: anyway I came across an older timex helix depth model. I saw some mixed reviews, most bad reviews were that its huge and ugly, but I don't care what I look like underwater so that didn't mater to me. I decided to buy it off of ebay for $38, far cheaper than anything else I could find. It came in the mail today and sure enough its big and ugly. I'm going to go get a battery for it and ill test it in the pool later. Heres a picture:

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My wife got me one a few years ago for Christmas. The battery was dead when it arrived. Each time I replaced the battery and wore it, it died in minutes. It has not flooded. Just a waste of money. If anybody wants mine, they can have it. Hope it works out for you.

My battery was dead when I got it, but its new old stock, I think they stopped making them in '06 so I expected that. I went to fast fix in the mall and it was $25 bucks for them to replace the battery and it has a 5 year warranty, if it dies within 5 years take it in and they replace it free of charge. I couldn't beat that.

LB I heard they had flooding problems too but only when a) the case was opened and improperly reinstalled (there is an o-ring inside) OR b) people played with the buttons underwater. Which in the manual it says specifically not to do.

Test #1 in the pool: FAILED!!! it filled up with water and I wasn't even at the bottom or pushing any buttons

The place that installed the battery is going to look through it and try to find the cause free of charge. Hopefully I'll hear something back from them by tomorrow afternoon.

On a side note tomorrow morning I will be down at the title place doing all of the paperwork because I decided to buy the boat in this post: http://spearfishing.world/boat…at-do-you-guys-think.html

Update: contacted the original seller about the watch and since it was shipped to me with a dead battery he was nice enough to send me another one free. Dropped it into the pool tonight and its watertight and measured depth and temp accurately!!!!!!! WOOHOO! Now if I could just get it salty I'd be much happier

The original one is still being "repaired" unfortunately. I don't know why it's taking 2 weeks to dry out, but when I went by to check on it last week it was working. SO hopefully he can get it watertight and then I'll have a spare.