Adidas Runner Chronograph watch (Raymond Weil Watches)

Member Name: aaxec

Product:	Raymond Weil Watches
Date:	23/08/00 (2002 review reads)
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Advantages: This Adidas timepiece is a worthy addition to your wrist, especially when it gets dark. Good value.

Disadvantages: None

With a 100-lap memory and no less than six timer modes, this titanium-shielded, blue-backlit timepiece is about as far from a traditional watch as it's possible to get. You'd expect it to be utterly bewildering to use, though amazingly it's a pretty simple affair. One of the first tests we perform when we get a new watch in to review is to see how quickly we can work out how to set the thing - without the use of the manual, of course. Thanks to the big button with the word 'Set' next to it, this task took no more than a few seconds.

Accessing the rest of the watch's functions is equally easy - one of the other big buttons toggles through the various alarm and timer modes; get the one you want, wait a second for it to 'load' and then use the start/stop and lap/reset buttons to make stuff happen.

Truth is though, hardly any of us wear these nifty sports watches because we're exercise mad. More likely, we wear them because they look cool and they make us look like we have a vague notion of what happens to be fashionable. And this piece of Adidas-originated jewellery is among the more acceptable we've seen. And that blue backlight looks incredibly smart. In fact, it's the best thing about it. Especially if you've not been running since you were twelve and haven't got any intention of doing so again in the immediate future.

Key features: Two daily alarms, hourly chime, 1/100 second chronograph, 100 lap memory, six timer modes.

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