Timex Kids T78181 Rotating Watch

I may do not forget my basi watch when I was a kid. I was in third grade and I saw this cool watch with the luminescent hands and indices, a slick black rubber strap and a red rotating bezel. I may do not forget always spinning the bezel and getting in trouble because it made that ratcheting noise. Back then those were the cool watches, but these days kids have so galore more choices and in this article we’ll take a look at the standard kid’s watches.

Sports Watches

All kids love to be active and you need a watch that is going to be competent to take the beating. Modern kid’s sports watches are actually rather cheap as most of them run off of the Timex Ironman modules. These watches include features such as a stopwatch, multiple alarms, the day and date display, and a choice amid 12 and 24 hour time. These cheap kids watches are rather powerful in what they may do and when matched with the shock immune quartz movements, the lasting hard resin casings and the solid homogeneous inorgani substance watch windows that are nearly scratch-proof, you’ve got a great option. Not to mention that these watches are normally water immune to very deep levels (watches aren’t waterproof; they are water resistant) often achieving 100+ feet making them outstanding for playing in the pool or keeping on in the shower.

Watches for Young Kids

I was in all probability 8 or 9 when I got my watch, but by that point I had learnt to tell time. But if you have a child that is younger and wants to be like mommy or daddy and wear a watch, there are watches that are designed to help a child learn how to tell time. These watches are childlike in that they integrate designs for young kids such as cars and trucks, tractors or flowery patterns. Each one labels the hour and minute hand so that it’s easy to distinguish the two and helps them learn when to use past (as in 22 minutes past an hour) or to. These watches work great for children around the age of 5 or 6.

Toy Watches

Then there are the toy watches that are great for getting a child’s imagination going. There are the military styled camouflage watches that are outstanding for boys (or girls) who want to pretend that they are in the army. There are the spy watches that have walkie talkies built in and let them commune with their fellow spies up in the tree house. Or the fun Lego watches that look just like the Lego pieces that your child plays with everyday.

Timex Kids T78181 Rotating Watch

This Timex Watch (but not any battery, crystal, band, or strap) is warranted to the proprietor for a amount of time of ONE YEAR from the date of buy versus defects in manufacture by Timex Corporation. Timex will not fix defects relating to servicing not performed by Timex Corporation. This fixed warranty applies to US Customers.

Designed for active, outdoor lifestyles–as well as the rigors of harsh urban landscapes–the full-sized Timex analog/digital men’s watch (model 45171) adds a stylish yet rugged supplement to your each and everyday wear. It features a big black resin watch case that’s topped by a silver bi-directional rotating bezel with black elapsed time markings. The black dial includes big stick markers, arrow-tipped luminous hands (with red seconds hand), and little minute indexes. It likewise features a digital window at the bottom of the dial, which offers the capacity to track three time zones, a 24-hour chronograph (with lap/split option), 24-hour countdown timer, and an alarm. Other features include a comfortable black nylon Fast Wrap strap (with Velcro fastener) and water resistance to 100 meters (330 feet).

The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illumine the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, no matter of the mode or function.

The TIMEX Story
The Timex Watch Company

Timex Group B.V. is one of the best-known American watch companies. Timex’s U.S. headquarters are located in Middlebury Connecticut and it has significant operations in China, the Philippines and India and full scale sales companies in Canada, the UK, France and Mexico.

The company begun in 1854 as Waterbury Clock in Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley, known for the duration of the nineteenth century as the “Switzerland of America.” Sister company Waterbury Watch fictitious the firstborn inexpensive mechanical pocket watch in 1880. During World War I, Waterbury begun making wristwatches, which had only just become popular, and in 1933 it made history by creating the original Mickey Mouse clock under license from Walt Disney, with Mickey’s hands pointing the time.

During World War II, Waterbury renamed itself U.S. Time Company. In 1950 the company introduced a wristwatch called the Timex. Over the next three decades, Timex was sold through a series of advertisements which emphasized it is durability by putting the watch through “torture tests,” such as falling over the Grand Coulee Dam or being strapped to the propeller of an outboard motor, with the slogan “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” With the aid of former Olympic broadcaster, spokesman John Cameron Swayze, sales took off. The company later became Timex Corporation, then Timex Group and, to date, has sold over one billion watches.

The company has remained very competitory and the Timex brand proceeds it is dominance through present day. Its essential market remains the United States and Canada, even though the Timex brand is sold global due to it is capacity to capitalize on it is strong brand effigy and reputation for quality.

One of the most successful and essential features available on a great deal of Timex watches is the Indiglo backlight system. Indiglo is a brand name of Indiglo Corporation, solely owned by Timex for licensing purposes. Timex electroluminescent lamps, branded Indiglo, were introduced in 1992 in the Ironman watch line. They were an prompt success. The Indiglo® lamp uniformly lights the surface of the Timex’s watch dials in a manner that makes the dial read very effortlessly in a great deal of dissimilar light settings. In a great deal of newer watches the Indiglo backlight only lights up the numbers, rather than the entire LCD display, which is achieved by means of a specialized film that inverts the LCD transmissivity.

Today, Timex Group merchandise are fabricated in the Far East and in Switzerland oftentimes based on technology that proceeds to be devised in the United States and in Germany. With a huge and varied line of watches, Timex has the style for everyone. From the locker room to the board room, there is a great Timex style time-piece for you.

The Basic Coverage:
This TIMEX Watch (but not any battery, crystal, band, or strap) is warranted to the owner for a amount of time of ONE YEAR from the date of buy versus defects in invent by Timex Corporation – not by the merchandiser from whom the watch was purchased.

What Timex Will Do:
If this watch gives rise to such a defect within the one year period, it will be repaired (i.e. a new or exhaustively reconditioned and inspected module will be installed or substituted and a watch of equivalent value and similar aspect will be supplied) at our option, provided it is returned with a $7.00 check or cash order to cover costs of postage, handling, and service, and you provide proof of buy and date of purchase.

This Limited Warranty Does Not Cover:

• Timex will not repair defects relating to servicing not performed by Timex Corporation.
• Timex will not provide any warranty service if your watch shows proof that it has been tampered with, misused, abused, or altered; for example: moisture harm sufficient to affect the proper function of the watch; harm to the case; or visible cracking of the crystal.
• Timex reserves the right to charge you for a substitute battery, if the battery in your watch is depleted. No further and added charge will be made unless the one year warranty has expired or servicing is necessary for reasons beyond our control, in which case a moderate charge will be made.
• TIMEX IS NOT LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not grant the exclusion or limitation of incidental, special, or consequential, damages, so the above exclusion or limitation may not apply to you.

Your Rights Under Implied Warranties and State Law:
THIS LIMITED WARRANTY IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESSED WARRANTIES, OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES. TIMEX LIMITS THE DURATION OF ANY WARRANTY IMPLIED BY STATE LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TO ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL PURCHASE. Some states do not concede limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not utilize to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.

• Avoid exposing your watch to water, steam, or other forms of moisture, if it is non-water-resistant.
• If the lens becomes damaged, have it substituted at once to keep away from harm to the module.
• When your battery is depleted, have it substituted promptly. The peculiar type of battery is indicated on your caseback.

Service of Your Watch:
If your TIMEX watch ought to ever need servicing, either send it to Timex addressed as follows:

HOTLINE WATCH SERVICE
P.O. Box 2740
Little Rock, AR 72203

Because of possible loss, we commend insuring your watch, return receipt requested, when using the mails. If you do not obtain the proper receipt within a reasonable time, begin a tracer through the originating post office.

NEVER INCLUDE A SPECIAL WATCHBAND OR ANY OTHER ARTICLE OF PERSONAL VALUE IN YOUR SHIPMENT. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE MAY SUBSTITUTE A WATCH OF EQUAL VALUE AND SIMILAR APPEARANCE FOR YOURS ON BOTH IN-WARRANTY AND OUT-OF-WARRANTY REPAIRS.

For your comfortableness in obtaining factory service, taking part Timex merchants who sells goods at retail will be pleased to provide you with a postage-paid, pre-addressed Watch Repair Mailer.

TIMEX is a trademark and a service mark of Timex Corporation. REG. U.S. PAT. & TM. OFF.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Wunderbar! Supertoll! Perfect!
By Jonathan Huckabay
This wristwatch may have a narrow armband but I find it to be comfortable, sturdy and strong; I do not perceive what all the fuss is about! I found the controls for the settings to be easy to comprehend and remember. I travel a lot and the three time zones are a great feature, the compass features is great too and it is light weight, waterproof and shockproof and it has stood up to the wear and tear of journeying thru plane, train, auto, foot, bicylcle, motorcycle and even hunting and skinning the kill, it makes a great camping watch too. The only thing I do not need is the lap time feature but do not register that as a complaint for it IS a feature that works outstanding and might be of some use to someone, just not I. You will not regret this purchase!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Nice watch but strap has to go!
By Marty
I purchased this watch closely a week ago and like it a lot. It has a lot of features and since it is all plastic it is light equated to my metal watch. I found out that it has a feature I didn’t know about-a snooze alarm (do not one thing when the alarm sounds and in 5 minutes the alarm sounds again). Also, you may put this watch into night mode which means that the indiglo stays lit for 3 seconds while rotating though functions at night. The directions included were wrong and it was by calling Timex that I figured this out-hold in the upper left button (button 1) for 3 seconds to switch amongst day mode and night mode and not the lower right button in the directions (button 3).

The rotating bi-directional bezel dial is a will have to for me. Some other expedition watches with bezels are only for show and not operational so be careful. Unfortunately the bezel is plastic on this watch and reminds me of gray PVC piping with black paint.

It has 2 digital time zones and 1 analog…hence the 3 advertised but if you sync the digital and analog time then it’s only 2 time zones. The second time zone only allows you to set the hour so I put the GMT time zone here.

I like the calendar function on this watch. The year needs to be set on this along with the month and day. This means that it knows when a year holds a leap day and when it does not. Also, setting times, dates and alarms are simplified by this watch permitting you to switch amidst whole numbers-to set 5:55 it gives you the capacity to switch amidst each of the 3 fives.

Then there’s the included black velcro band. What a waste. It needs a black twist o flex or black commando watch band. I opted for the black commando watch band since it may also protect the watch.

3 times now in the last 5 days the digital functions have frozen on me. Twice when the chimes were on it stuck with an annoying ring that wouldn’t stop. I found that this watch may be reset with by simultaneously pushing all 4 buttons at the same time. This resets everything except the analog part of the watch and then you need to spend time setting the alarm and 2 time zones.

Bottom line is that the watch is nice but not aesthetically pleasing. It would have been nice to have an all metal watch with a rotating metal bezel that was analog and digital. This is a nice casual watch that is comfortable since it is light.

EDIT:

After having this watch for a month and looking at other brands of digital/analog watches I am convinced that Timex has a corner on this market and that I made a good buy. Other digital/analog watches I’ve seen don’t have a second hand and the digital display looks squashed and ugly. I like how the second hand makes a neat quiet sound and the time is effortlessly visible from any angle… while the every hour chimes and indiglo light give me the best of both the analog and digital world!!

I wound up getting a nice gray and black plastic/metal clasp band for $10 at a local jeweler that looks great!

EDIT 2…3 months of use now!

Well I’ve had this watch 3 months now and there isn’t a scratch on the bezel or crystal-this is a very lasting watch…even if it is plastic. I love this time piece! I’ve been looking at other brands digital/analogs and haven’t found anything yet that I like more than Timex.

Oh, more in regards to the band. I’ve substituted the band with 3 dissimilar styles now. You will need a 20 mm band where it goes into the watch (the distance amid the lugs). I tried a black Twist O Flex but didn’t like how the one I had moved side to side…it was adaptable different from the ones you buy on the watch already. I’ve now settled on a black metal fixed band that effortlessly adjusts at the clasp (I found both on ebay for under $20 each brand new). Hopefully Timex will just do away with the velcro band and trade these watches with black Twist O Flex bands that are not adjustable.

Did I mention that the bezel actually moves and is useful! Why do watches have stationary bezels?

EDIT again…6 months of use now!

I’m still lovin this watch. I put another watch band on it…4th band now. I went with a black 20mm MODENA Ridgo ridged Italian rubber watch band with a metal locking clasp (I purchased it here on Amazon for $12 and like it a lot). Something that I realized not long back regarding it is that the crystal is recessed just a bit because of the bezel. Not all dial watches are this way. I have a Relic dial watch that is flush with the crystal-this is not good if you hit the wall with your watch. Recessing the crystal the way Timex has done protects your watch crystal. Another reason Timex has a client for life!

7 of 7 persons found the following review helpful.
Great watch, gone bad.
By photojon
AT PURCHASE TIME: This is a outstanding each day watch! The light weight, and fast wrap band are so comfortable that I wear it around home when other watches would be taken off. Though I have had Indiglo watches before, the neat thing with regards to this one is that it reverses what you normally see, i.e. the black face is the lightest part, and the light numbers turn black when Indiglo is engaged. The timing is right on as well. Soon after it arrived, I set this watch to the time on my computer, which is controlled by an internet server. Several days later, and it still matched my computer’s time to the second! I closely purchased another watch at twice the price. I’m sure glad that I chose this one instead.
UPDATE March 2011: As I prepared to “Spring forth” to daylight savings time, I found that my adjustment knob was no longer there. I don’t recognise when or where it fell off, as the time was accurate, and never necessitated adjusting, except for daylight/standard time alter twice per year. It’s a shame, but I will now need to shop for a new watch. This watch might still be usable for frequent time for the duration of the winter, until the battery dies. But that’s when it comes to it.
This is just another aspect of the world we live in, where things need to go bad, and fill the landfills, so that we will buy the next version, at a higher price, to keep the venders in business. Not likely a sustainable scenario.

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