Vibrating Watches – not a lot of choices out there

I had this Japanese made analogue/digital watch for about 10 months now – a black Wake-V analogue watch. Its vibration is powerful enough to wake me up whatever state I’m in. It does tell the time and has a backlight. That’s about it.

As you can see below, it looks like a cheap $10 watch from the 1970s and materials feels cheap too:

Water proofing? None whatsoever, even sweat will upset it – and that killed my watch after numerous showers, handwashes and, er… sweaty moments. It’s a shame as this is the one functional aspect where it really need sorting out to become a usable work-watch. Don’t believe its splashproof claims and if you go to somewhere like Cambodia, the humidity will kill it.

So qu’elle surprise when it stopped working! Time to order another vibrating watch – if you need one, there’s plenty on offer at Conevans.co.uk – see http://www.deafequipment.co.uk/store/productSearch.do?query=watch

However, the styling of most of the watches and features are very limited – most are variation on a theme – blue straps instead of black, for instance. Not many seems to be waterproof – an absolute must for my needs. I don’t care it if can tell me the temperature, but if it’s not waterproof, it won’t last.

I dug deeper and see what else is available – there is a Timex one that looks nice to me, more suited to my natural taste and looks “manly”. Pink watches just doesn’t suit me.

Expedition Watch with Vibrating Alarm
Price: US $70.00
Product Code: T417319J

Now, try and find the same watch on timex.co.uk – not there! Tried ordering it on timex.com, but it won’t ship outside the USA.

Casio have a vibrating watch in its G-SHOCK range, great – I’ll go for that. However, I changed my mind when I read this review – the vibration is barely noticeable and one would have to be incredibly light sleeper to be woken up by it.

I understand from my googling skills, that it got superseded by the Casio G-Shock GL-7500HD in 2006, but there are scant information on its ability to wake up the dead.

It seems www.watchreport.com is a good resource, so I will have to investigate further to see if I can find a decent vibrating watch that can wake me up in the morning, can cope with baths and showers and high humidity, while not looking like a cheap £9 Timex watch or costing more than £400 like this Tissot High-T MSN Direct SPOT Watch.

Tina found a really funky one according to her blog article – but it’s only a designer’s drawing, and not made into reality – even its features like a fire alarm notification would be very useful.