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Originally Posted by Wildlife
I've had the same Timex Expedition on my wrist for 15 years now; one of the old analog/digital combo ones. (I prefer an analog clock, but the digital features (timers, lap counters, etc) are useful.)
It's survived immersion in industrial solvent, a 40 ft drop, two electrocutions, and a car accident that very nearly killed me. It's been used as a playtoy for countless sticky-fingered infants, a makeshift bra strap, and, on one memorable misadventure, as a fishing lure. It's been to numerous BC mountaintops, and two glaciers. It spent a night submerged in a lake on a particularly disastrous kayak trip.
The compass ring no longer spins, and the digital bit needs occasional resetting these days, but I'd say I got my $80 worth.
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I had an Ironman and the buttons fell out about 3 years of wearing it daily and I couldn't use it, but yet the internal still worked until the battery died. I also had an analog one that stop ticking after 4 years..
That was my experience with Timex. Now I have a Seiko that I paid 150 7 years ago and the watch is still on my wrist. I wear the watch every where, including dragon boating, camping, hiking, swimming, mountain bike riding/racing, and other things.
I guess every one has different experience with watches.