Timex Men's T5E901 Ironman 30-Lap Resin Strap Watch

 (28 customer reviews)

I just received the T5E901 Ironman Triathlon watch. It seems like a nice watch for the price. Being an aging baby boomer, I appreciate the large, easy to read numerals. I am a little disappointed with the Indiglo night display. I was expecting it to be easier to see in the dark. That was my main reason for purchasing a new watch as the night light on my 20-year old Casio no longer works. UPDATE: I am very disappointed with the quality of the band. I've had to replace it twice in 5 years. Unfortunately, the generic bands don't fit properly and I am forced to buy the overpriced Timex band.

Watch works very well. Have had it for a few years. Band keeps breaking after 1 to 3 months which was getting expensive - not to mention annoying. However when I complained to Timex they suggested a metal link band as a replacement to the resin band, which solved the problem. It looks great too.

My husband has worn this exact kind of Ironman watch for about 10 years. He got his first one a decade ago as a gift from my mother, and since then has had 2 replacements, the most recent being one I got him for Christmas this year. He wears the watch primarily to work in a factory, so it gets banged up quite a bit. If he didn't wear it to work, the watch would last much longer.

This version of the Ironman watch is an improvement over the last one he got a few years ago. There's now a way to toggle the options on the watch on or off, so you don't have to scroll through all options every time you want to set just one. There are 3 alarms while the previous version had 2, and my husband prefers this kind of Indiglo rather than the older kind. The only problem with the watch is the band. It was the weak spot in the 2 previous watches my husband wore, breaking long before the watch itself broke.