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  W. Dart says:

  July 29, 2013 at 2:26 pm

  58 of 61 people found the following review helpful

  
  Love this watch!, April 28, 2011

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  W. Dart (Eugene, OR) –
  
    

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  This review is from: Timex Men’s T49851 Expedition Rugged Digital Vibration Alarm Black Resin Strap Watch (Watch)

  I have 5 watches. From a Seiko self-wind to a WWVB controlled watch to a Timex Iron-Man. This is by far the best watch I have ever owned. Why? I cannot hear the wheezy anemic alarms on today’s watches. This watch has a vibration mode selection that works every time. It has three alarms and a “occasion” alarm to keep track of long-term reminders. I use all three alarms to remind me of appointments. The only downside is you cannot set any alarm to a specific day of the week. Weekdays, weekends and future dates are all that is available. The “occasion” alarm initiates at 8am on the day set, so that doesn’t do much good if you want Thursday at 2pm for example. I get around this by setting an alarm sometime the day before, or just ignore the alarm on undesired days. The watch also has a “snooze” feature. After the alarm stops, if you don’t turn it off, it will remind you again in 5 minutes.

  This watch also has another great feature. You can “hide” unused functions. The individual alarms, occasion, hydration, chrono and timer can be hidden so you don’t have to cycle through them all when setting the watch. A lot of thought went into this watch.

  The big plus is the timekeeping accuracy. It is well within 1 second per week. My Iron-Man is 1 second per day. The WWVB watch has unreliable lockup. The second time zone can be set to view 24 hour time which I use for GMT, leaving the local display on 12 hour.

  The first thing I did was change the heavy, irritating, hot rubber buckle band to a metal band for convenience. The unmovable N-E-S-W bezel is rinky-dink but I ignore it. The watch has a nice Titanium color.

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  Marty says:

  July 29, 2013 at 2:54 pm

  35 of 38 people found the following review helpful

  
  nice watch but doesn’t always vibrate without tweaking, May 2, 2011

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  This is a very comfortable and large watch. I like large watches, so this is a plus. The display is very readable! The crystal is slightly recessed for protection which is another plus. Oh, and I like how the extraneous functions (like hydration alarm and occasions) can be hidden so that they are in the background. It’s also nice that I can have 3 time zones on my wrist-1 for local time and 2 others of your choice.

  Something that’s really nice and adds to making the watch comfortable and getting compliments is the band. Timex took the nice black rubber watch band from their Iron Man watches and put it on this Expedition watch! The first time I saw this band on a Timex I didn’t think it looked as nice as a steel band, so I bought an Iron Man with a steel band that I still have. I put that on one wrist and this watch on the other and this one is definitely more comfortable. The rubber molds to every bend of your wrist. Just use a little Armor All original rubber car cleaner and protectant to make the rubber softer.

  Now for the cons…the hourly chime doesn’t vibrate out of the box. This is why I wanted a vibration watch. I work in a loud environment and cannot always here the hourly chime. But there is a way to work around this. First set the watch to combo vibrate and audio. Then set the watch to chime. On the countdown timer set it to countdown repeatedly to 30 min. Then at the top of the hour right after you hear a chime, start the countdown. Now leave the timer running all the time and you have a watch that chimes and vibrates on the hour and then vibrates on the half hour. Just take it off at night and keep it in a different room so you don’t hear it and then put it on in the morning.

  The other con is that when the watch is set to combo vibrate and audio that it cannot do both simultaneously. It beeps twice and then this is followed by five vibration and light flickers.

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  Joe B "Joe B" says:

  July 29, 2013 at 3:04 pm

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  Useless instructions but good watch, August 31, 2011

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  Joe B “Joe B” (Austin) –

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  Update – OK, Timex e-mailed me instructions for setting the vibration alarm, because the instructions they send with the watch don’t say a word about how to set the vibration alarm. Since the alarm was the only reason I ordered this watch, I was rather miffed and spent a ton of time looking for it. No phone number on the instructions either, and nothing on their website about the vibration alarm (at least nothing I could find). I did find a general customer service e-mail address, so I tried it and got a pretty quick response (less than a day). Setting the vibration alarm is not intuitive, you have to access it through the “set time” function – go figure. The quick response indicates to me they have to answer that question a LOT. Now if I could just get back the 2 – 3 hours I spent trying to find non-existent information…

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