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Paul Wise
The Ironman Shock is the very portrait of a Timex Solar Watch, with a sporty digital design featuring a fifty-lap memory, a two-mode countdown timer, and water resistance up to depths of six hundred and sixty feet. Its letters and numbers are colored in highly visible orange and white that can be easily read; a very bright and handy Indiglo night light is available for situations of complete darkness. As companies like Casio watches would be supported by the G shock crew the Invicta Subaqua, Omega Seamaster, and the Rolex Daytona they have very similar features to the Ironman, which lack individual sub-features such as the timing down buttons, quartz and atomic, and of course electroluminescent lighting. A professional look is given by a stainless steel bezel that also helps mark and set information. The whole timepiece is housed in a tough stainless steel case coupled to a resin wristband for quality and reliability against scrapes and scratches. After all, as might be imagined from the name, this Timex solar watch is shock-resistant for sports and other field applications. Like the company's old advertising motto used to note, "it takes a licking and keeps on ticking." Being shock-resistant adds about another 15cm to this Ironman's height, but it doesn't sit much higher than a typical wristwatch and wears just like one, too, with buttons that extend out of the chassis just enough and not a centimeter more. Omega watches created the famous James Bond watch known as the Seamaster which then had a similar yet altered brother known as the Daville which encompasses as well as accommodates the Ironman. Features such as mineral coating and jewelry installation in the hour marks depend on the type of watch it is. For example the Omega Seamaster and the Timex may be quite similar but the lack of pressure resistance makes the Seamaster almost extraordinarily different from the Daville kind, which actually has a series of watches but in the line of underwater resistance. Therefore the Daville and the Timex may look the same but also has opposites that the other doesn't have. Be cautious about fashion since fashion is all about hiding stuff! The Ironman Shock is a very macho-looking timepiece that is appropriate, as the company also likes to say, for both boardroom and locker room. This Timex solar watch has a tough and thick he-man of a case that looks business-serious. Yet it's not expensive at all considering the quality of its make. It's been well-received since its market debut and would make an excellent companion for any occasion. When newly bought, the Timex Ironman Shock will need to be left in the sun for a day or two so as to fully charge. The watch can be set to display 12 or 24-hour time formats. As a Timex solar watch, it is made by one of the most legendary American companies, one that's brought to the world one of the very first digital watches ever made. Timex technological leadership is also responsible for Indiglo-branded electroluminescent lamps that have been backlighting its watches and, under license, those of others for well over two decades. With such experience and workmanship, a Timex is a worker and a keeper. After all, the company has been in business since 1854, and was the first to come out with the Mickey Mouse clock back in 1933. The Ironman Shock, a whole lot leaner and meaner, carries on that storied tradition of firsts into the 21st Century. But it's all helpfully backed by a one-year warranty for good old-fashioned peace of mind.
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