Very disappointing that this watch did not work straight out of the package.  Very pleasing to the eye so I was very excited to receive it.  Upon the watch not working at onset, I attempted to try the contact # for Akribos listed on the literature that was included in the box to see if maybe they had some off hand suggestion to get it to start working and the # was not active.  Pretty unacceptable in my terms as I could not even speak to them.