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Overall Rating

It works and not nearly as complex as a polar
I bought this watch to replace a hand me down Polar S210. Let me just say that I can set up a vcr, but I could never properly set up the polar. I wanted a hrm that told me my heart rate and yelled at me when I was out of my zone. That’s it. I know what my heart rate zone should be, I didn’t want to go through the endless options of the Polar to setup a single stupid heart rate range.

This Timex is not complicated. It does not have the advance features of the Polar. I know my way around the plain Timex Ironman and when I got this watch it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to manually set the heart rate zones and to arm the alarm. There’s also a dedicated button to simply turn on the heart rate. The manual’s there and it’s complicated, but it doesn’t need to be read.

The Heart rate is a little goofy every now and then when jogging but that’s usually because I’m not sweating enough. The watch is probably half the volume of my old Polar and not nearly as fugly. The watch face is appx 3cm high by 2.5cm wide… just a little larger than a plain Ironman Timex. The watch band’s max accommodation is just over a 8 inch circumference. If you’re a bigger guy, I’d go for the other model the T5H9xx

There’s probably other features of this Timex that I’ll never use. 4 out 5 stars because I’m pretty sure the watch amazon sent was a previously returned item.