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Totally decent dive watch
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If you haven't ordered in the past you have to sign up but they have it $59.99 today.
Totally decent dive watch
It's only rated to 100m so not a true dive watch. The only point to this watch would be the depth meter, which apparently doesn't work well.
QuoteDisplay MoreAs I am a cheapo who doesn't do enough diving to justify an expensive watch, I thought this watch could be useful as a basic rough depth and time indicator. As a watch it's fine, however if I wanted something that was just a watch I'd have bought just a watch, or if I wanted a watch that spewed out random numbers I'd just have bought a calculator watch and periodically mush buttons randomly .
The first day I got the watch I decide to test it in my 1.7m deep pool. Bam, turns out my pool magically grew to 2.9m! And then shrank again on the second dive down 1.6. After that they were within .2m. I could live with that. Easily.
The next inaccuracy was the day afterwards. Let's go for a freedive I said, it'll be fun I said, we can know roughly how deep we go I said.
As soon as I entered the water and was making my way towards the site, the dive mode kicked in. The mode that's only supposed to turn on when you are below 1.5m of water. I was barely below the surface, in all seriousness the watch would have been, at a maximum, 30cm (1 foot for you imperialies) below the surface.
So how do I know how far down I went I hear you ask? Literally no idea is my reply.
On the next day of christmas, my dive watch gave to me a stuck-in button that was faulty. (Read to the tune of 12 days of christmas).
As I'm not a complete cretin, and I like to get my moneys worth out of things, I always rinse off my gear in freshwater after going for a splash in the sea. This watch was no exception, I dunked it in a bowl of freshwater and pressed the buttons. Later that night, as I was dozing off, I checked my watch for the time. And it was blank. Turns out if you hold a button in for a while the screen turns off. This isn't super fantastic if the buttons are prone to sticking when accidentally pressed. Which they are on this watch.
On the plus side I ordered if with Amazons express shipping and it came so much earlier than I was expecting. That's where the extra star comes from!
So in conclusion. If you want an oversized time telling piece that also has the date, a stopwatch and a countdown timer that all work fine unless a button sticks, this is the watch for you. If you want to accurately measure how deep you've been and how long you've been under for, it is probably worth spending a bit more money. I've been trying to learn for so long that usually buying cheap means buying twice, but I love a bargin.
Thanks
Andrew Mortimer
EDIT!
Wow, so I've now had this for 2 months, and, apparently, for the last 24 hours I've been under 3.3metres of water. Honestly, what the s***? Watch is clearly buggered and I'm about to begin the long, arduous and, most likely, unsatisfactory process of getting my money back. Damn you Pyle!
Rotating bezel on a digital watch :laughing:
Shazame !!
There are other dive watches out there that are only rated to 100m though, like the Omer MK1? Still a pretty good price for a watch that tells you depth the temp. (i don't have one so can't comment on the quality, have read mixed reviews though).
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