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I had the cheaper expedition watch, about £25 i think, and no problem at all, 'til i lost it 
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 I love the way the site has RRP £70.00 crossed out, and Our price £74.00. Its like they want to rub it in that they are going to rip you off. Hahaha
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 My own Expedition watch was one of the cheaper basic no compass models a few years ago, and if anyone wants it, it is somewhere or other in a bush on the New Forest where I lost it! The trouble with it was always the strap fixtures coming away where the strap met the watch face. 
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 Brian, I have a Timex Expedition watch that must be well over 10 years old. It's on about its fifth strap, though the Timex strap it came with lasted much longer than the replacement non-Timex ones I've been able to find! It's a great watch, though one of the basic ones, very tough, and I like the 'Indiglo' light. When it dies, I'll buy another.
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Will you bury it though, bring flowers and hold a ceremony? 
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 Thanks for the replies everyone. I think Ill go it then as they seem to be OK. Not from "rip off" site though.
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That sort of a listed price discrepency-where the lowered sale price is actually obviously above the original one-is fairly common on a lot of websites I have seen over the years; and is far more usually due to the mistake of an operators input of typed figures, rather than to being a case in fact where they are trying to 'rip one off' deliberately though! I suggest that this is in fact likely too the self same case here as well! 
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 <strike>Isn't the RRP 79.99? </strike> I'm intrigued what a 20sec timeout is. Edit: Hmm, I can see the tags in the message when it's posted but not edit them.
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Looks pretty though, don't it just!
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Mines been back twice to Timex bits keep falling off.And the light failed and the strap fell apart.Must say though they did not charge me last month when i sent it back as the adjuster had fallen out.
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 I picked up a Watch with Alti/Baro/Digi compass for TWENTY QUID!!! from Lidl. Ive been using it and the Alti/Digi Compass are accurate and Im impressed!! My Suunto cost me NINETY!
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 Wayne, someone on uk.rec.walking bought one and found that the waterproofing isn't very, ummm, waterproof. So do be aware of that before assuming the same reliability! I've got a Stormlite (Field & Trek own brand) alti watch which has good and bad points. Got it for £40 from their bargain bin, wouldn't have paid the £80 it was meant to be. Main problem with them all is they're bulky beasts, so i only wear it when I want the altimeter, not actually that often outside of hillwalking. For general watch duty I use a cheapish Casio, which is light and slim, reasonable waterproofing, an alarm and a decent backlight. Can't see much else to need in a watch aside from telling me the date (which it does) as I can never remember it! Also has some spurious features (30 number tele-memo, so I can put 'phone numbers into my watch rather than my 'phone, yeah, really handy!) that you can't avoid without losing useful bits like the back-light. Pete. p.s., with Timex's industrial relations history in Dundee I just wouldn't buy one of their watches on principle.
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