Peter's Blog

I was passing a shop selling watches and spotted a 'closing down, everything half price' sign. Needless to say, I have a new watch.

I haven't worn a watch regularly for years and the last one I had was a basic analogue hands plus day-of-month thing that served me well until I got out of the habit of wearing it. Since then I have been content to get the time from my mobile phone.

New watch has:

• continuous display of date, including month, year and weekday, should I need reminding.
• world time
• stopwatch with lap times and graphic of a little man running
• three alarms
• countdown timer
• backlight (indiglo but not timex)
• can go beep on every hour.

The beeper is very quiet: while the hourly chime won't get me thrown out of cinema's, the alarm is unlikely to wake me up.

It's huge and heavy but I'm very happy with it. Online I have found it for $85, I got it for £19.