Casio Pro treks

Has anybody got or used one of these Hi-Tech watches with compass/altimeter/barometer/thermometers built in? How useful are they and how accurate are they?
What price did you pay for it?
Thanks

Ian
I've not used the Casio Pro trek but have a Suunto Vector (which cost me £115). The Vector is very accurate, providing you remember to reset the altimeter when at a known height, this is especially true when the weather is changing as obviously the barometric pressure will change too. The compass is Ok though uses a lot of power. As far as the thermometer goes, the watch is attached to your wrist so the normal reading you tend to get is the temperature of... yep you guessed it... your wrist! The temperature sensor is normally use to compensate the barometric measurement for increased accuracy in altitude (check the Casio does this). On the subject of wrists, make sure the strap is large enough to fasten over your waterproof, mid layers, etc, as you don't want to be faffing around removing gloves and rolling up your sleeves in the middle of a Scottish blizzard.
They tend to be more useful on big pointy hills and less use on plateau style hills. If the Casio has a "Rate of Ascent/Descent" function it can be very useful for calculating your ETA to the valley floor or summit.

Oh and the usual disclaimer.. It's a gadget and you should not totally rely on it, you must be able to navigate without the aid of any artificial devices. So that's on a hill, naked, using nothing but the position of the Sun and Moon and the migratory passage of wild animals. (I think I'd hide a GPS up my .....) :-)

Hmmm are you still sure that It will work after experiencing such ah"adverse!" conditions, and are these expensive mini computers on your wrist all their cracked up to be and I thought GPS was not very accurate? and Bloomin expensive?

Most GPSs are waterproof up to a metre (eyes water at this point). Mind puts a whole new meaning on the phrase "Couldn't find his ar*e with both hands behind his back"!
As a thought, how many of us would be able to navigate without a compass?

easy
whip out your WAP phone and go to this site

I knew someone who had s=one, and we tried to breeak it, but failed. It's reasonably accurate. To within 3 or 4 degrees. However it wasn't a canstant thing, you pressed a button, and the N, and S arrows came up, and your bearing was displayed. It was pretty good, but pretty expensive.

I've got one, its a triple sensor model. Not used it very much, but the altimeter seemed pretty accurate, as long as you set it at a known height at the begining of the day. Thermometer is useless unless you take it off your wrist (err, its a wristwatch?) and it draws a pretty graph of altitude against time!

Only paid £60 for mine (not the £150 RRP) as it has a scratch on the "glass".

Compass also is fairly accurate (quoted to within 2deg) and useful for quickly finding north.

Hope that helps,

Si

My wristwatch compass only cost me £5!

I do own a Casio Pro Trek - AFAIK one of only 4 of it's type in this country. No compass, but a pace counter instead - since it's got a motion sensor, it also does a neat trick of turning on the backlight if you tilt your wrist! Designed not to be worn on your wrist if used as a pace counter, so I've used it attached to my rucksack strap, where it gives an accurate temp reading. Oh, and cheaper than the above mentioned compass, as I won it!

Damn, mine cost me £7.50!