How long did your Timex IM watch last you? (Page 3)

I had the 30 lap HRM verson for about 3 yrs or so.  I started getting really wonky HR readings after about a year, so I sent it in and they repaired it for me for about 5 bucks...  It started doing it again about 2 years later - HR all over the place (saying I was at a 70 BPM during a sweatshop of a trainer workout, then jump to 160, then back down.

And yes, I did all the checking - new battery, HR battery, etc.  I had been wanting to get the upgraded version anyway, so I just decided to get a new watch instead of sending in the old one to get fixed.

I didn't have it long enough to worry about band issues.  I'm currently looking at the one I have on my wrist, and I'm a bit concerned because it looks like the watch body and band are integrated.  It's not like my polars or old Timex with the bands you can take off and secured with the pins.

dp

6 months. What a huge pile of elephant mess. It was the 150 lap TAP watch. Luckily I purchased it for 30 bucks of the classifieds on ST. The previous owner stated it close to new, and I believe it because there were 5 workouts stored on the watch. It was as described and it came with everything that it should come with when you purchase it via retail. 

 It’s a poorly designed watch. The TAP technology is so sensitive that it records a lap while I am swimming when I did not tap the screen. This always happened even when the tap setting was set on hard, as recommended by the manual. Also, the crystal is absolute garbage, it stained. I could not get the water spots off the crystal, or soft plexiglass…  Then the battery died. I took it to the watch guy, whom I use for my other watches, to replace the battery. Well, the watch worked as expected, for 5 days. The screen went blank. The audible hourly chimes were still working, but there was no visual time on the watch. I am done with the watch.

Only if the watch was as robust as my G-Shocks, they are solar powered and some of them are even atomic clock synced. Follow suit Timex, they are called “Ironman” watches correct?

Mine lasted 4 years. It was a HR model with the integrated looking band. The chlorine just ate away at the connection over time. I wore it for a year with rubberbands holding the excess past the buckle because that piece had already fallen off. I still have it and may try sending it to Timex. I use a Garmin 305 for HR now, but it was a nice casual watch I could still swim in.

My new Timex Ironman watch has 50 lap memory and is water resistant to 100m... but I read in the instructions that you can't press buttons underwater or it won't be water resistant... Seriously?! It's a pain holding my arm up out of the water to press the lap button. But sure enough, the one time I forgot, the lap button got all squishy and water came out when I pushed it dry. It still works so far.

I know what I want for Christmas.

Just don't push any buttons at 60 feet deep     That's how I killed mine.  But they replaced it for free.  Pushing it in the pool isn't a problem, it's the pressure at deeper depths.  I've done several hundred dives with the couple I've had.

Bonus is I found a basically brand new one on the beach last weekend 

Mine is about as old as the original post in this thread.

I usually don't have any problems with Timex watches until the first battery change.  That's when  the Indiglo feature normally stops working.

Mark

I got mine on clearance about 6 or 7 years ago for less than $10.  The battery has been weak (so the backlight wasn't working) until the strap broke last fall.  I looked at replacing the band and a new watch wasn't a lot more money than a new band plus a new battery, so that's what I did.  The old watch is out with my bike on the trainer.