I purchased this watch about a year ago, thinking it would be great to have a wind-up analog watch - JUST IN CASE...(call it a bug-out, prepper idea that being able to tell time if you can't find watch batteries is an often-unplanned concept).

I had a similar looking watch long ago in the military, so I figured hey...Timex, right? Looks the same...must be the same (being as Timex DID make the military versions years ago).

Guess what? Timex does NOT make a wind-up watch at ALL anymore.  Period.  I called them and talked to them when I took receipt of the watch I purchased, only to find that it had a 2016 battery in it. Considering that I called their main company offices...their phone demeanor had a lot to be desired...they couldn't BELIEVE anyone would want a watch that they had to wind anymore, and weren't joking when they actually told me that 'if you want something like that, you'll have to look at the cheap foreign junk'.  Hello...Timex is PREDOMINANTLY cheap, foreign junk anymore...the last 5-Timex watches I have bought haven't outlasted the first BATTERY CHANGE, anyhow!

Needless to say, I had bought the watch, so I started wearing it...from going to office work, to mowing the grass, and all normal 'suburbia' life it would normally endure.  Without any impacts, known water events, or other traumatic events that sometimes befall watches...it stopped working.  It looked like new, but it just stopped working.  Dead battery, right? Well...ouch...about 6-months into it, and it died. Nice.  So, I go to the local pharmacy, pick up a new 2016 battery and have them put it in for me...and no dice...doesn't work either.  They try another...doesn't work either.  As she hands it back to me apologizing for it 'being dead'...the second hand just drops off inside the crystal.  Wonderful. The lady at the counter sees that and says 'it is a Timex...we see that a lot...most don't ever accept a battery change'...to this, I laughed.

Seriously...you could do better with most any other brand. Timex went downhill in the late 1970's, and appears to be at the bottom of the heap now. In my effort to find a 'wind-up analog watch', I finally went with the Rothco old-military style watch...and you can search for it by Rothco Watch on Amazon...Smith and Wesson also licenses a decent wind-up analog watch...but sadly, no one is making a good '$50' watch anymore like this...looks like a solid market, but then again...Timex told me 'there was no market for it'...and they know all about watches...so they think.