Ironman Classic 100

This is already my 2nd TIMEX which I use for my swimming practices.. This one beats the older model (Timex 51931 Ironman Triathlon) with some interesting changes: 1) The larger digits on this model makes it easier to read the numbers (as some mentioned to do so when running) even when I am swimming, with a quick flick of the wrist at the turn, it's possible to see the minutes and the seconds.... The older model had smaller number, thus not making it possible to do this. 2) The navigation on this model became quite easier. It was already easy on the older model but this one included instructions on screen, such as NEXT, DONE, + or - in order to advance with your practices and training... Plus a chance to change the way you want to see the information of the your laps (Laps in the big digits and splits at the smaller one, or the oposite) A Real nice add on by TIMEX. 3) A simple but effective wrist band "clip" (the tiny piece of strap that attachs the "extra" wrist band that is left after you put the clock on) It has a piece of rubber on the inside that locks on at the wrist band and does not make it loose or even letting it go as some other watches do sometimes. This is more effective underwater I think, as it remains the way you set your wrist, as the older model I had did not quite held in place all the time. 4) Plenty of memory (100 laps is really a nice number), maybe more then most will need but, as a swimmer I use to count splits over 100m (or yards) with many laps during one training... It is quite usefull. I go easily on 10 to 15 laps of the memory in one training. And with the date feature, that reminds when you did these times, it is quite usefull to keep track on the training with a spreadsheet, for instance... (as I do !) 5) A really big START/SPLIT buttom that is great to press when I am swimming laps and have to press myself at each turn at the pool. Just perfect. Never a miss ! And the feature which was already at most of the models, of the repeat countdown, and the start of a chrono, or a repeat (what I use the most) in order race agains your average rhitym inside a certain time frame that you can set it up ! And of course the flix technology, which is very good to have it... Just flick your wrist (when you set it to ON) and it will show you at night all info that you need. It is another great watch from TIMEX and it deserves a look, specially for the price. It is worth to pay a bit more if you are like me and uses a lot of the memory for the laps on swimming pool. Maybe for runners it can be quite a lot of memory, but the price difference is worth the change, for some of the options mentioned at this review. This is a really good watch to have.. Will you definatelly like as we all are at these reviews. :-) It deserves the 5 stars rating !

These ironman watches just last. I typically wear mine till the battery dies (3-4 years) and I just buy another. I currently own a classic 30 and a classic 100. Bought the 100 because the numbers were bigger. :) I wear mine all the time ... in the shower, swimming, bicycling, camping, etc. I only take it off when painting or working on the car. I've never had one fail and I've worn them forever. Maybe decades. Pros: 1. ultra reliable 2. rugged ... yeah it may get paint on it or take a ding but it keeps ticking 3. batter life is crazy long ... 3-4 years 4. appearance ... I like the simple look 5 timers are awesome and simple to use ... I find myself timing stuff almost every day 6. you never have to take the watch off before doing something ... swim, run, workout, hike, camp, .... Cons: 1. I wish the watch would put the month/day on top of the display face. TOD is centered on display face. 2. I wish that the watch used the entire face to display more info. 3. I wish that the watch came with altimeter and barometer 4. wish it was easier/possible to change the watch band 5. wish it was a simple matter to change the battery. kinda hit/miss. I destroy the watch trying to do this. 6. wish that the classic 100 skipped the "lap timers left message" when you switched modes to use the stop watch timer

This watch has many key features I needed in an everyday watch. - 5 separate alarms which you can set to a single day of week, weekend, weekday, or all week. useful for let's say trash day reminders or school day pickup reminders. The flexibility of the alarms is really key. - 9 interval countdown timers (repeats when done) - 1 countdown timer - stopwatch100 lap (more than enough) - indigo light, excellent nighttime illumination - excellent water resistance and durability. i've had mine for nearly 2 years and it still looks sharp. some of the lettering on the front has rubbed off, but most still visible, colors hold well. and i've put mine thru all sorts of abuse over the years. - large screen and digits for easy viewing at work. i have to record times at work so this was key. date and day of week is easily visible as well. - good battery life. if you don't use light a lot but use alarms regularly can last easily between 1-2 years - excellent price for about 30$ CONS: - no vibration, but i don't really need this - dual time zone... actually not ideal because you switch by pushing & holding the start/split button below the face. i accidentally seem to push and hold this button a lot thus it switches my timezone. i've gotten around this by just setting both times to be identical but a bit of a pain - resin band is durable but as always the little moving strap part to tuck away extra band breaks after a while. I discovered a neat trick to use my daughter's small hairband tie folded over twice to secure the extra band now. durable and doesn't look bad (if you pick the right color). - pain in the butt to change the battery (uses CR 2025 by the way). you have to remove both resin band parts first as it slightly overlaps the back case. then there are 4 tiny screws. once the bands are taken off it's pretty straight forward. make sure to align the thin rubber seal before you put the cover on. mine leaked water in after a change until I realized the seal was not sitting properly. Overall, I've been thru smartwatches, fancy watches, solar watches, ... mainly many casio and timex watches. this is by far one of the most practical and best watches I have. I'll be curious to see what google/apple create in the smartwatch category of the years.

6 years ago, I tried my first variant of the Classic 100. The features were mostly, as expected, but the unit failed a short while into usage. This was disappointing, because the classic 50 had been a reliable goto until my last classic 50 started to fail this month. The current classic 100 variant arrived in a damaged box, but the watch appeared to have no physical damage. All functions operated as expected, save for the audible alarms, and beeps. Amazon/Timex offered to discount or replace. As I need the audibles for specific workouts, and daily meds, I opted for the replacement. I'm a day into the replacement and am very satisfied with the purchase. So far, it exceeds the classic 50 in many functions, but I am still partial to the button feel of the older unit. I've made it through a swim workout with no adverse performance. I'm hopeful that the current variant proves to have more reliable seals than the earlier model that I tried. If so, this is a worthy upgrade to the classic 50. ****************************************************************************************************************************** (Details from 2020 purchase) Over the last 15 years, I've purchased several ironman watches for a variety of workouts and incorporation into timed/scheduled home and work activities. Until this 100-lap model, all others worked great and continued to work well beyond the band failure (yeah, count on it) after 3 or 4 years. For this model, the indiglo stopped working within 3 months and now, 11 months in, the watch has fully reset 3 times unprompted during the past 2 weeks. This is fairly aggravating since it made me late for an appt on one failure and on another wiped out a number of workouts that I was tracking for an upcoming tri. Visibly, the watch looks new, no marks, no apparent moisture, but it has now proven itself to be thoroughly unreliable. This is very sad, because I found multiple uses for each of the features included in this model, and I had even adjusted to operating the very stiff split and stop buttons during swim/bike/run sessions. I gave this model 3 stars on water resistance, because I have no evidence either way as to whether this or the stiff buttons had anything to do with its failure. I'm going back to the 50-lap version. If I see a hint of non-band related problems with that, I'll have to assume that Timex is no longer in the business of making ironman watches for athletes.

I have to admit to being a bit of a watch fiend, having one for almost everything I do, but this is one of the most useful, yet cheaper priced items I've come to enjoy. When I work out I like as much information as I can get, so for running and biking I have a watch for that, but for swimming I needed a watch to help me count my laps and log my times. The Timex Ironman 100-lap watch does this quite well. I first got a Timex 50-Lap watch that I was able to find locally, but 50 laps is very limiting so when I found this watch for less money and a bigger face that had the lap/split time and lap number on the screen at all times I knew I had a great product. When you're finished with your laps just save your workout. The watch will then calculate some information like average lap time and best lap. I haven't completely messed with their data, but I think they average your times by throwing out the lap times that are the outliers, which is good for the accidental laps where you hit the wrong button, but it's not as great when you did a few sprint laps and they don't show up as your best time. If your best time isn't on there you can still recall it by going through each lap individually, but I think my sprint laps sometimes aren't listed as my best laps. I haven't messed with this feature much because it isn't important to me, and removing the outliers is good for looking at your actual pace. I have been able to push myself a bit more in the pool by having actual numbers to compare, which is very helpful. The other features on this watch I haven't used much, but for someone who can't afford a GPS watch and can use maps or a track this watch would be great for running or anything with laps or intervals. It has up to 9 interval timers and once finished it can either stop or repeat the sequence. It can do what's called chrono at the end, where it just switches to the chronograph feature after your timer or interval timers are finished. Overall this is a great watch and for most people who enjoy doing anything with laps look no further.

If you're looking for a light, easy to read watch that also has sport/triathlon features like chronometers, split times and lap timers this is a nice update on the classic timex ironman 100lap watch. Additional features: multiple alarms, two time zones, 12/24 hour settings, the memo feature of old seems to have been deleted and an "interval" feature added - can program in up to 9 segments of an interval and then chose whether intervals end after one go, or just repeat the set (woulda been nice to be able to set how many intervals you'd like to go through) I use the dual time zones quite a bit - it just makes moving between my two usual time zones literally a single button press. When using the alarms for travel, i've never missed a self-wakeup call - always reliable and sufficiently toneful to wake me up when i don't want to rely on myself to get up (that time zone change thing). Super go-to functional, multipurpose knife - rather the swiss army knife of watches for me. improvements: the button layout hasn't changed v.much in years - and that's a feature. What has changed in the right way is - the face - so easy to read at a glance - nice if moving in particular the indiglo lighting has improved dramatically for quick checks when it's dark. The alarm chime, also better - no longer a beep only -it is a sort of chime. The strap feels better - and i can see there are replacements online - though i haven't had to replace the band on my last timex ironman from when i changed it at least 3-4 years ago - so perhaps they've just gotten better. strap has a nice feature to keep the tail of the band close to the strap, too. This is a refresh i've been keen to see as i do like this classic layout/feel. The price at amazon also made the decision to refresh the face of this watch a much easier decision(the ironman i have is about 10 years old - it's fine ) hope this helps you if you're thinking about this watch

Large numbers, easy to read, especially for an older guy. Fairly large watch so this version anyway might not be a watch some of the ladies would like. Logical, easy to figure out how to use (even without reading the directions.... typical male, right?). I have had Ironman watches before and this is the best. My last older style Ironman lasted for many years until I lost it, went through 4 or 5 watchbands and several batteries and it still worked fine. I hope this is of the same quality. I tried on my daughter's 50 lap Ironman before I bought this one and didn't like it nearly as well. It was much smaller (maybe it was a woman's version, I don't know), didn't seem to work the same, and I didn't like the band that it came with. I would recommend this for daily use for those who want or need larger numbers or for those running a lot of laps (for me, it is running a 'lot' of laps on a small inside running track), or needing to see the time at night (the indiglo (light that comes on when you want to see the time at night) is much better than my old one and the flick your wrist thing (Flix) works fine I think... just flick your wrist hard and fast, sometimes I can't get it to work, so might not have that figured out yet). I really like this watch and even though I can't always get the Flix to work all the time, all I have to do is push a button anyway. I would recommend this watch to a friend, looking for an inexpensive, quality watch for running and everyday use.

Since Dec. 2018 I have purchased 3 of these watches from Amazon. All three have leaked and become inoperable during very limited exposure to water (tub or pool surface < 2 feet). The first lasted ~10 months, the second went ~5 years and this last one, purchased in July 2025 lasted 12 months and 12 days. I did reach out to Timex support this last time to see if I could get any relief for a replacement but was informed "we are not able to verify that Amazon order in our system from here, so we cannot confirm a courtesy replacement or discount". For a watch that is supposedly good for 100m depth, it more often than not misses the mark.

Exelente

Great value for money. Provides all the functions I need for my workouts and daily life. Extremely reliable.

Great watch: easy to see the numbers on the display. Simple set-up and robust. I have had this model for the last 18 years and will continue. The only issue can be that afterbattery exchange it may lose waterproof, to avoid that ask only the proffs to exchange the battery!

Ottimo orologio. Io lo uso per gli allenamenti in piscina

très bien .parfait .