Well it has happened again; my new Timex Ironman watch has flooded and died for a second time.
This is now my fourth Timex Ironman watch to fail in the pool.
Take a look at the earlier failure of this watch just a few months ago HERE.
It is really the 5th family Timex to fail if I count the flooded and very expensive Timex GPS Body Link watch that I purchased for my wife in 2005.
Just for your information I do not:
- Push the bottoms under water
- Slam the watch into the pool wall
- Use it to hammer in nails
- Soak it in any sort of acid at night
- Give it to my son to use as a hockey puck
- Scuba dive on the Titanic in the watch
- Ascend Everest with the watch strapped to the bottom of my shoe
- Use my bare hands to dig for buried treasure and diamonds
- Bear Wrestle heavy weigh Greeks and
- Arm wrestle on the weekends
In fact, I only do what it shows athletes on the watch box doing with this Timex. And that would be swim, bike and, run in a manner completely appropriate to an Ironman training regime.
So either I've been the unluckiest consumer of Timex watches of all times or...Timex has some serious quality control issues in the manufacturing process.
Please note that on the back of the watch it does indeed say "water resistant 100 meters." And perhaps that is my biggest problem. Had I actually swam with the watch at 100 meters perhaps it would have been alright. But since I only used it in the pool for hour long swims well above 1 meter, I may have caused this problem myself....not.
Or perhaps Timex means that the watch is only water resistant at 100 meter of altitude, and I of course live at a much higher elevation.
At any rate I'm pretty fed up with sending the watch back and writing a $7.00 check to Timex just to have them send me another watch that will eventually fail like so many before it.
I feel I'm am well within my rights to pronounce the Timex Ironman watch the complete and total Ironman Weenie Watch.
Sorry Timex but your watches no longer take a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. I fear those days are long gone. Now they just get wet and and refuse to reset.
Time to moveon.org.
If you have any suggestions for a new watch brand that is Iron worthy and won't leak...I'm all ears.