My old Timex, after 20 years, started doing weird things, so I decided it was "time" for a new watch.  :) I must admit I didn't spend a whole lot of effort looking for the right one, being one of those guys who just want to know what time and day it is without taking a whole lot of trouble about it.  So I picked out this watch.

It looks very nice, kinda chunky, like the expensive watches.  It has a lot of functions, including one for storing phone numbers, and for us older guys who can't remember their and their wives cell phone numbers at the same time, that's a plus.  The ten year battery also caught my eye.  Seems like I've been going through one a month on my old watch.

But there is one ironic thing about this watch.  Daylight savings time "fall back".  With my old watch, it was always a bit of an annoyance when I had to reset the digital hour twice a year by trying to remember the sequence of button pushes.  Resetting the analog time was so much easier, just pull out the stem winder and turn, either an hour forward or back.  On this watch they tried to address this problem on the digital time by adding a DST switch which sets the digital time either forward or back by an hour.  I still have to remember how to get there.  But they took away the stem winder!?  Now to "fall back" I have to enter the proper "mode" and press and hold one of the buttons.  For about a minute or two.  Which is a loooong time when you are pressing and holding buttons.  And if you lose concentration and go past.  Oops, there's no reverse.  Nice try, Casio.

I'm sure there is some advantage to eliminating the stem winder, I just can't think of what it is.

The night light is a couple of LEDs, not the nice blue glow that suffuses the entire watch face that I found so comforting on my old watch.  But it does look very nice on my wrist, and whaddaya expect for less than 20 bucks.  So I guess I'll keep it.  In 10 years, when the battery goes, I'll start looking for my next watch.  :)

I wonder how Rollex handles the time setting issues.  I'll probably never know.