Short version. Buy this watch. You won't be disappointed. It isn't too big that it will look funny. The features were well thought out. Ill explain in the longer version below.

Long version. Ive always owner Timex watches and other brands. But when I think cheap digital, I always went Timex. Hey, they have indiglo right? Ok, why this watch changed my opinion. And it wasn't instant love out of the box, it took me some time to get used to it, but now I think this may be the perfect beater watch.

Cons. 2 - 1st the crystal is plastic, so it has the potential to scratch very easily. 2nd - This isn't a Timex so you cant program an alarm to go off on a specific day of the week. That is my most missed feature. Example, every Thurs night, oh garbage night. 7:30pm alarm. Done.

Pros - This Watch has all your basic features and I LOVE the way the stopwatch feature works. Ive been using it for when my child takes naps. You start it like any other watch. Then you hit stop when you're ready and you hit stop again to reset to zero AND it stores the time automatically. Heres why its so great. This is a more advanced screen than any Timex watch. You have the option to keep the time showing on the bottom of the screen. So when it stores your time at the top it tells you the date, then it shows your laps/time in the middle and then the starting time of the stopwatch at the bottom. The detail and thought into that is fabulous. When I had a Timex I never cared to save times. I didn't know how and didn't care to know how, but this one is just intuitive.

Also, new reason I like this watch. Remember how I said I use the stopwatch feature for timing my babys naps? Casio mutes the start of the chronograph as well! Timex doesnt do this. So when I click start there is no beep that could wake the kid up.

This is also solar and if you aren't wearing it just put it in a window and no worries about a dead battery. When my Timex died I needed to buy a new battery and then take the straps off to even get to the back of the watch, replace it, which then ruined the seal most likely for waterproofness and then I had to put very difficult straps back on. J thought I bent a pin bc one popped out but they are set into a plastic watch and basically yeah, a pain and its a toss up if it was with all the time and trouble. You avoid all that with this watch.

This was my first Casio Watch and I love it. I just bought a G-shock - the small one that ppl say looks like one of the originals. Its a digital, solar, atomic watch. More basic in features than this, but you can tell the quality is supreme. That one has indiglo and a glass crystal so already upgrade. Unfortunately, no memory for the stopwatch, so I still wear this one during the day most of the time.

If you buy this watch you won't be disappointed and remember its a what, $27 Watch? So don't get all uptight if it isn't up to specs with a $100+ Watch. I never said it was. But this watch is definitely worth every penny and if they upgraded the crystal to glass and improved the waterproofness I would easily spend up to $70 on this watch. Blah blah blah, now Im ranting. Hopefully you didn't read this far. Just buy the watch already. Youll be happy. Oh, and if youve never owned a Casio like me, SAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS! There are some times when you need to click 2 buttons at once and hold them. Thats also different than a Timex.