I Beam Men's Elite Watch - 2 Color Choices
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I Beam Men's Elite Watch - 2 Color Choices Details
Manufacturer: Ibeam TechnologiesBrand: Ibeam Technologies
Product features:
- Patented Built-In, High Intensity LED Flashlight
- Patented Flip-Up 3X Magnifying Lens
- Illuminates and Magnifies
- 40MM Band
- Free Domestic US Shipping
Customer Reviews of I Beam Men's Elite Watch - 2 Color Choices
Customer Review: 1 Year Later, still happy I bought it.
Summary: 4 Stars
This watch works exactly as advertised and I am quite pleased with it. The magnifier is high quality, providing real resolving power -- more than enough for the smallest text. The LED is bright and is aimed right where the light is needed when using the magnifier, and works well as small flashlight. Expect the same flashlight performance as you would get with any of the newer mini key fob LED flashlights. The strap is comfortable even given a minor quirkiness.
Here are the quibbles that prevented me from giving it a full 5 stars:
- The magnifier lens, when covering the watch face, has front and back surface reflections. You may find that you have to adjust the angle of the watch face to read it clearly. An anti-reflective coating, such as those used on camera lenses and lately eye glasses would probably have helped, although such coatings are expensive and can be easily damaged. I'd rather move my wrist back and forth a bit than pay an extra $20 for the watch, and in the worst case you can always flip the lens up out of the way.
- The buttons are a little too easy to push.
- The back light illuminates the foreground (i.e the numerals) not the background. The watch face has to be tilted a bit away from you for the backlit numerals to be easily read.
- The end of the strap is hard to thread through the retainer behind the buckle, the end wants to go through a hole and end up under the strap instead of on top. But I found that this wasn't uncomfortable for me, so now I don't bother trying to thread it 'correctly'.
- The 'home' display does not have a distinctive beep. In other words, when you press the mode button to cycle through the displays, the watch will beep with each button press. But you have to watch the watch face to find the main time display. With a Casio watch, reaching the 'home' display sounds a different frequency beep, so you can return to the main display by just quickly hitting the button till the distinctive beep.
Again, these are all minor quibbles. Other features of the watch that work well include:
- four independent time of day alarms
- a count down/count up timer. Like my last Casio, the watch will beep each second when it reaches the last 5 seconds. A 30 second alarm will sound at zero, while the watch continues with a time count-up. Surprisingly you can set the count down timer to include seconds, as in 2:15:25 (2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds). The max count down time is 23:59:59 and I *assume* that's the max count-up time as well.
- The usual stop-watch function.
I've amused many people by showing off my "old geek" watch. So far the magnifier/crystal stands up to abuse, it's curved surface with no protection means it will inevitably get scraped against walls and objects. But either I've been lucky or the crystal is tougher than I thought it would be.
Description of I Beam Men's Elite Watch - 2 Color Choices
Standard 40mm style works for men and for women who prefer a slightly larger dial. Patented magnifying lens and LED flashlight plus date function. Luminous Hands/Hour Markers. Swiss Parts Quartz Movement. Available in either a Stainless Steel bracelet or black leather strap and dial colors of White or Black. Water-resistant to 100 Feet. Sapphire-coated, Scratch-resistant Lens. Lifetime Guarantee on Movement. Comes with Custom Box Case in Gold or Silver.Clocks & Watches
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