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Abacus Atomic Watch | List Price: $69.99
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Brand: Fossil
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Fashionable Stainless Steel Design
- World Time using all 4 Global Atomic Clocks
- Displays Dual Time Zones, Date, Day-of-Week and 12/24 hr display
- Provides World Time, Date and City name for 23 preprogramed cities located around the world
- Chronograph (1/100 sec), Countdown Timer, 4 Daily Alarms, Backlight and 30 Meters Water Resistant
Too Heavy & Too Big [Posted on 2007-04-22]
Be aware - this watch weighs 156 gms (5.5 oz) which is approximately double what most watches weigh. The watch body itself is equally large and awkward. Perhaps the watch needs to be that large to house all the electronics to receive the time radio signal.
I will have to take the word of the previous reviewer that the watch does not set the time zone as other atomic clocks do by using the radio signal, because my watch has yet to successfully receive a radio signal. It is currently off by 6 minutes and losing a few seconds every day.
I would return it, but I got it on woot (for $24.99). Perhaps this will make a good emergency gift for someone I do not like very much. :)
Where's the beep? [Posted on 2007-05-08]
I too got one of these on Woot and mine does not receive the much vaunted radio signal to sync with the exact official time either...maybe Woot was saddled with defective units that have nothing to do with what Amazon has to offer, but you'd think that Fossil, no discount brand they, would produce a better product and police the distribution of clunkers.
Poor timekeeper [Posted on 2007-05-18]
I got mine from Woot and had trouble with it from the git-go. The tiny manual is poorly written and not clear.
The watch does not reliably synch daily with the radio signal as advertised. Today for example, it is reading an hour off--possibly because it has defaulted to the DST mode. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't waste my money or time on this item.
Coiuld Use more Info on Watch [Posted on 2007-06-19]
Needs an index in the instruction book listing the name of the city for the 3 letter code displayed. And a listing showing what batteries are used.
Works fine [Posted on 2007-07-11]
Those who have the watch knows that it is a big watch and there are sync problems. But the sync problems go away with reading the book. Once I set my watch for Chicago and the sync signal for Chicago, my watch was fine. It would sync every day and I have had no complaints since. My only complaint is lack of on-line documentation. I don't carry the book with me and I'm afraid to lose it, because I have to force a resync on my watch, pressed to many buttons and made numerous unnecessary changes. So sitting at work, I can't change anything, I have to wait until I get home and read the book.
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