ISO durable long-lasting watch

[VeloVT]

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 $$$.

[woohoo]

For exercise and on the bike I use a relatively cheap polar HRM that has stopwatch/laps etc and then I just wear my regular watch (another Omega Seamaster - good choice Veronica!) when I'm not training. That way I don't have to worry how beat up the training watch gets as I mostly don't wear it out and about. I think that some of the more modern polar watches have slightly better styling than mine, though, and you could probably wear them all the time. For durability, mine isn't too scratched or anything, and it's 4 years old. One note on the Nike Triax ones though is that if you wear your watch on your right hand the angle of the display can work against you...

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