Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Product
Comment: I purchased the watch from hiking. I love the ability to get the temperature of the air and the accurate readings from the compass. I am involved in Scouts and this has been very helpful in teaching upcoming Eagle Scouts.
This it's not a $1,000.00 watch with pinpoint accuracy. However, I challenge the best of breads in this category to stand up to the features of this fine inexpensive tool.
I give this watch a 5 star and 5 thumbs up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great watch!
Comment: I love this watch. The Indiglo is dark, but if you notice it generates a glow from the hands and dial indicators, which you can then use to read most functions. Compass is fun and works well. Tide clock is good once you calibrate it, but you will have to reset it periodically, depending on your location, which is expected and doesn't hurt its purpose, which is to give you an indication of the tide state and direction. Thermometer gives you an average of wrist temp and room/outside temp, but as it says in the instructions if you want the real temp remove the watch for a few minutes. A bonus is that the watch can be used to get water temperature. I never write reviews, but this is just an excellent value and a fun toy for us guys.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good looking watch but limited night viewing
Comment: This watch looks really nice and the functions work well. The compass is very accurate and easy to read. Much nicer than the HighGear digital that I also have. The temp readings are 'accurate' except that it is the temp on your arm. You need to subtract 10 to 15 deg. to get the real temp or take the watch off for at least 5 minutes.
The tide clock was a bit of a disappointment to me. It is accurate but tides are affected by the sun, coastline, rivers and other geographic conditions so you get an 'estimation' of the high and low at best. Still, it is not the watches fault - I did not understand tides that well until I tried to figure out why the watch was 'wrong'. In the Everett, WA area, the tides are not the standard 6 hours and 25 min. so you have to check a local tide chart and not just rely on the watch.
The biggest downside of this watch is the night visibility. Unlike other Indiglo watches, where the entire face lights up like a flashlight, this watch only has a small band of Indiglo. It is actually harder to see the hands with the Indiglo on. The temp/tide/compass hand is totally invisible at night. The hour and minute hands are almost exactly the same length so it is also hard to tell which is which. You really have to shine a light on it to see anything.
Other than that, it is a great watch for the $. Much cheaper than some others and the analog face is much nicer than a digital watch. I'd still buy it but maybe would go for the white face model instead.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A litte large
Comment: I own a fishing kayak and this is the perfect compliment. It has a tide function that can be programmed very easily, so that local info can be loaded just befor launching. The only thing I can criticize is the overall size, otherwise a great value.
Customer Rating:
Summary: most horrible timex I ever had
Comment: Expedition(tm) E-Tide Temp Compass
This watch is so bad, that within 2 months I get 2 new pieces from the service . In Colombia I lost the buttoms within one day and so the watch is absolutedly not suitable for expedition-purposes. The compass doesn' t work correctly and the whole item is horrible.
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