Travelwey Digital Stopwatch - No Bells, No Whistles, Simple Basic Operation, Silent, Clear Display, ON/Off, Child Friendly, AAA Batteries (Included), Black

I absolutely LOVE this stopwatch, it is exactly what I wanted. So easy to use, even I can 'work' it!Running my own cleaning business & charging by the hour, I have now gotten into the habit of setting the stopwatch when I arrive at my client's house & checking periodically to ensure I am within my time. Far easier than trying to remember to check the time by your watch or a convenient clock when you get there, something I frequently used to forget to do.Great value & sooooo simple.

The back of this product keeps falling off and now I have lost it altogether. This means the batteries are not held in place and therefore they drop out. I put it back several times but now it is lost so I have put an elastic band round it to see if I can stop the batteris falling out. Only bought in May but Amazon give you no where to complain and get a refund.

This review was written in September 2018. There are multiple reviews for prior versions of this product, please disregard those, as it has changed.It seems more often than not we suffer products that have too many unusable features, unintelligible instructions, and require complicated procedures for achieving simple functions, yet fail to perform the most basic of tasks. Thankfully this is not one of those products.Pushing the on/off button turns it on or off.Pushing the start/stop button starts or stops the timer.When timing, pushing the Lap/Reset button freezes the display so you can see the lap time, but the timer continues to run in the background, and lets you know it’s still running by flashing the colon (:) between minutes and seconds.Pushing Lap/Reset again unfreezes the display and displays the running elapsed time.You can push Lap/Reset as many times as you want to freeze/unfreeze the elapsed time.Pushing Lap/Reset when the timer is stopped resets the timer to zero.That’s all. No beeps, no memory, no lap splits, no countdown, no clearing previous data, no programming of dates, days, years, current time, daylight savings time, alarm times, zulu time, backlight intensity programming, Bluetooth interface with mobile app, magnetic flux variations, relativistic tachyon beam distortion factors or any other useless and complicated procedures that engineers and marketing departments hopelessly pile on as “features” that no one can possibly remember, much less use.The display is easy to read and it times to the 1/100 of a second, which is far beyond my needs.It takes 2 AAA batteries, which are included. That’s a nice change, and much preferred over those stupid button batteries, with seemingly hundreds of different types out there identified by slightly different numbers which are never compatible with each other.It’s also accurate. Like a previous reviewer, I timed a 12 hour period to the second as given by the time on my phone, but unlike his results, mine came up dead on.The only quibble possible is that the case feels light and a little flimsy, and dropping it pops opens the battery compartment. Solution: don’t drop it.If you just need a stopwatch that times things and doesn’t assume that you need to perform integral calculus via voice command on the fly, this is it.For the price, I don’t think you can beat it.

The stopwatch works very well and it keeps excellent time. I tested it against a clock running on the atomic clock and it turns out dead on by my observations. The easy to read part doesn't work so well in low light conditions. Still, one can read it well enough. I like that it doesn't have a dozen functions that I would never use.The only significant problem is how hair trigger the start -- stop button is. As I am riding along the watch may start to swing back and forth as I hang it from my neck. IF the swing causes the stop -- start button to hit something, NO MATTER HOW SLIGHTLY, the watch stops. I often do not notice the watch has stopped and that simply kills the ability of the unit to keep time. IMO, the stop -- start button needs to be a lot harder to start or stop; that is, more of a push should be required to stop or start the watch. This one small flaw makes me constantly check to see if the watch is still running. Very frustrating. I have tried putting it in my shirt pocket, but even then I am afraid the thing might stop as I put it in and I wouldn't know it. Too bad they can't put in a loud ticking sound! Ha.AD2

This is what I have been looking for; a simple stopwatch. My previous stopwatch had many features that I was not interested in, and confusing multifunction buttons which, if accidentally touched would launch into something that could not be easily stopped without looking at the manual.This is cheap, easy to use, runs on three AAA batteries that are easy to replace and has an on/off button to save batteries.It is a little bit inaccurate but the good thing is it is consistent. In comparing it with the US Naval Observatory time signal, over twelve hours, it proved to be 1.45 seconds fast per minute. So I put a label on the back that said: “True time = measured time X .9876.” I know have a ten dollar stop watch that is as accurate a one of the very much more expensive models.If this stops working in a month, I will buy another one because it only costs ten bucks.