My Timex sports watches have held up better than my Nike sports watches, for the most part. My solution is to have a nice dress watch that I don't wear for play -- and then I don't really care how my sports watches look (although mine really haven't gotten discolored or scratched from riding and running and casual wear (I don't wear them swimming though). I have one Timex Ironman (it's a triathlon sleek model) that's probably three years old and really doesn't show any age. I'm not helping here , I'm partial to Timex for sports because the placement of the lap/split button is so intuitive and they have a lot of features for the $$$.