ArmitronMen's 408188GMG Digital Watch

I LOVE this watch. I tend to prefer analog watches, but I love this digital watch. I love the orange accents on the gunmetal-ish face. I love the features it has (dual time, alarm clock, backlight, stopwatch, countdown timer). I love the size and weight of it. I love that it's cheap enough that I don't have to be paranoid about scratching it. My $400 kinetic Seiko is watching me with judgmental eye, gathering dust as I type this.What I DON'T love is how this watch comes with no instructions. It's not super complicated to figure out, but some of the basic things:-MODE switches between clock, stopwatch, alarm, countdown timer, clock #2 (completely separate time)-ADJ button shows month/date (when in clock mode), starts/stops stopwatch (stopwatch mode), turns alarm sound on/off (alarm mode), stars/stops countdown timer (countdown timer), and nothing in clock #2.-SET, when held down, resets the stopwatch (stopwatch mode), or enters you into set mode.SET MODEWhen you're either trying to set your clock time, countdown timer, or alarm, you first need to hold down SET until part of the display starts to flash. Once it flashes, press the ADJ button until you have correctly set it, then hit the MODE button to move to the next adjustment. Once you have set everything, hit SET.For example, if you want to set the countdown timer for 1 hour and 20 minutes: Hold down SET until it flashes. Hit ADJ once to set 1 hour. Hit MODE to switch to minutes. Hit ADJ 20 times to set it to 20 minutes. Then hit SET to finalize and exit out of set mode. Then once you want to start the timer, hit ADJ.Hopefully this helps. If not, then sorry to waste your time. I love this watch though. I have never owned Armitron watches before, but they will be my first search when this watch eventually dies.

This is probably the best value in watches from a perspective of features and aesthetics/price. It has dual time, countdown timer, and a stop watch. There is also a button to illuminate all fields.There are a couple of quirks:1) It took me quite some time to figure it out, but in the setting where you can chose to activate the alarm and activate the hourly beep mode, when the choices are obscured by the the black outline (the box that has the picture of the alarm bell and hour chime will be have all of the pixels filled) it doesn't mean that these choices are disabled. Very counter-intuitively, it means that these selections are chosen. In other words, when you can't see the pictures depicting your selection, there are activated and when you can see the pictures they are not active. I'm not sure if my watch is defective but hopefully this will save someone some aggravation. Very confusing.2) I hate that I can't deactivate the beeping noises when I push a button. My kids love this and it attracts them to the watch like magnets but I find no practical value in this.I have gotten NUMEROUS compliments for the watch, most of which assume a very high price point. I have taken it into the river and as mentioned above it has passed the "kids test" proving its durability. I have no regrets and at this price if you have gotten as far as reading the review I suggest you just buy the watch. It will cost you less then the price of taking someone out to dinner and you will actually have something to show for it.

I bought a watch from Armitron before and that watch lasted I think 3-4 years, because the rist band got too worn out and broke, but it lasted a long time for a 20 buck watch. You can't go wrong with Armitron. They are just great watches at a great price.Also, just for some untold info about the way this watch works is that the days of the week in the big circle darken for each day, like if it was sunday the middle of the circle would darken. And in the smaller circle were it says T2(time two) it shows the date (like 06 or 15). It shows PM and AM next to the time on the left. IT COMES WITH A VERY DETAILED MANUAL. The stainless still is very nice and is located where it says set, adj, light, and mode. The sides where it has the buttons is also stainless steel and the two parts on the band. This watch is also very shiny and sharp looking, which makes it looks very expensive.This watch has exactly what you need for every day use. It shows the day, date, time, seconds, and PM and Am all on the face of the watch. All of the features that this watch has is as follows...1.A time telling Mode (hours, minutes, seconds, date, and day of the week).2.A Calendar Mode (month, date, and day of the week, but there is NO YEAR).3.(2) 24 hour alarms.4.Hourly chime: One 'beep' every full hour.5.A Chronograph Mode: hours, minutes, seconds, and 1/100th of a second with lap operation.6.A Countdown Timer7.A Second Time Zone8.A 12 or 24 hour clock9.Water resistant 330 feet.10.And a light you press when it gets dark to lighten up everything.A perfect watch indeed.