Timex Women's Marathon Radio Control Atomic Watch #T5G341 Review

It took me awhile to find a watch with the specifications that I wanted: It had to be a woman's watch with atomic time,and it could not cost too much. After searching all over the web, I found this one right at home here on Amazon. To be honest, it was not my first choice because I saw pictures of other watches that seemed to look nicer, and I was afraid that this one would be too big for my wife's wrist. But, after rejecting everything else that I found (for various reasons, usually price), this was the default.

When my wife got it for Mother's Day--yeah, yeah, I know, but my son helped to pay!--she was very pleasantly surprised. For one thing, it doesn't seem too big for her, yet the numbers and letters on the face are very easy to read. Better yet, the watch lights up with Indiglo. I guess I've been out of the know concerning changes to the technology, but this is not the Indiglo of yesteryear. Now when you push the illumination button, the letters and numbers light up, not the whole face. This is a very nice feature! My wife says that several of her coworkers have asked where to get this watch. They like the easy-to-read display.

You can't go wrong with this watch. What could be easier? It updates the time for you (daily? Continuously? I don't know) and there are no mechanical parts to break down. It looks nicer on the wrist than the picture of it seems to suggest.

The only drawback that I can think of is that the wrist band is Velcro. After a while it might start getting gunked up with lint and not work so well, but right now, it is great because my wife can adjust it to the right size.

My wife thinks that it is a drawback that in some places the watch doesn't seem to get reception for the automatic time updates. In our bedroom, it doesn't seem to receive the signals, but in our bathroom it does. There is an indicator on the watch to show whether there is reception. I don't think of this as a drawback. After all, how many times a day does your watch need to be updated? Or even, in a week? Eventually, it will receive, and this is by no means a "problem" that only this watch has. I own an older watch from a different manufacturer that doesn't always receive the signal either. But it usually does when it needs to, and it is extremely convenient. All my life, my watches have never had the right date on them, but now--with atomic updates--I can always be sure that the date is right too now.

Very much recommended.

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