"Decent for the price" - Review of Highgear Summit Altimeter Watch

This watch will put out for you, though the barometer needs a bit of attention to keep it honest. Right now as I'm wearing it there's a few splotches of salt on the inside of the watch face. It's water resistance apparently went to hell on me 2 years in. However, after drying the sucker out for a couple hours it works like new with some salt splotches courtesy of the wiring inside. The compass works fairly well, though it gets confused sometimes (indicating a calibration is due). Temperature gauge will only be accurate when you take the watch off and place it on something that doesn't have a radically different heat capacity than the medium you're in (i.e. hold it in the atmosphere for a spell). Weather forecasting feature is nice, and sometimes comical when inaccurate, for example it's raining today, hmmm that's funny because there's no ceiling. But I imagine these complaints are true for most watch-borne weather stations, you just have to keep calibrating the suckers. All in all it's a burly piece that has taken the abuse I've put it through. Finally this watch, like most altimeters, will leave you with many hilarious comments, like "wow I can hardly read the time on that thing!"...priceless.
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