SPY GEARSpy Gear Field Agent Spy Watch™

WE bought one of these for our eldest (8 years old and spy-daft), who love the watch on arrival and it quickly became a fixture oin his wrist, so much so that we had little choice but buy a second one for his younger brother to let him join in the fu7n, but that is as far as the positives on this product go.You get what you pay for - a cheap plastic toy watch that offers some working functions BUT ... (What I'm about to say applied to both purchases):Setting the watches should be very easy and straight-forward according to the instructions. The reality is that the buttons used to do the 'setting' are very poor, nothing more than small red lumps of plastic that push onto an internal circuit, so doing the actuall 'setting' can be very fiddly and tedious ... particularly as you will be asked to do so repeatedly if the watch is played with, as small fingers - and larger more careful ones - will easily upset these settings simply by being pressed out of sequence during play, or even just during handling.To make matters worse, the battery that is supplied with the watch (a generic CR 2032) seems to be one of the type commonly used in toys today when they are sold - i.e. a 'demonstration' battery only, with VERY limited power - the first one needed replacement 7 days after it was first used ... and this is when I became aware of a second, much larger problem: battery replacement.Again, it SHOULD be simple, but is not ... and may not ecen be possible on the watch you receive.What SHOULD occur is that you first of all remove four tiny screws from the camera back ... two of the screws had no 'cross' on them to accept a screwdriver at all, and at this stage I assumed that the remaining two WERE screws, and these two were simple metal pins ... I was wrong. ALL four ARE screws, though two have no head on them to accept a screwdriver!Even if you DO have a watch with all 4 screw heads, you will almost certainly find that they are impossible to remove with any screwdriver normally found within the house, regardless of how small it is ... this job LITERALLY needs the sort of tool normally only used by watchmakers (though I was fortunate to have access, due to a hobby interest).So: IF you have a small enough screw driver AND can remove all 4 screws (I had to carefully pry the back away from what I thought were to simple posts, to realise they were headless screws) ... all three buttons and the little optic lens will scatter to every corner of the room as they spill out ... there is nothing at all to hold thgem in place apart from gravity and the (now absent) watch back).Internally, there is a small metal clip to remove with two more similar screws - battery is then exchanged / clip replaced, and then the real fun starts as you try to balance 3 buttons (about half the size of a Rice Krispie!) and the 'optic (of similar size) on the rim of the watch 'body' as you manipulate the back into place and try to click it back into position before replacing the screws.DO THIS IN A ROOM AWAY FROM CHILDREN UNLESS YOU WANT THEM TO LEARN A FEW CHOICE ANGLO-SAXON EXPLETITIVES!)With the watch back eventually reattached using the two function screws .... I was presented with a blank screen ... it was only the potentail wrath of an 8 year-old and his younger brother that prevented me from reaching into the toolbox for the biggest, heaviest object I could find :-)Although there was no mention in the instructions, I 'reset' the watch using the button they provide (to reset the watch, prior to having to re-enter / reprogam it each time fingers inadvertently reset it), and at that point it worked.Would I buy this again? NOPE - no way. The batteries are not exactly expensive but I doubt anyone will routinely have a spare in the house - but at that point you need to either invest in a jewellers screwdriver, or take this to someone who does watch repairs / replaces watch battieries ... it's likely cheaper (I paid just under £8 with Prime) just to buy a new watch (and then have the immense satisfaction of smashing the old one to smithereens :-) )As soon as I can find something to replace them with - and get the kids interest - these two are going back for a refund.

it was a present for my friend's 5 year old. I think this is great product for the price, of course you can't expect hi tech watch, however little boy loved it and just the motion alarm option amazed him and he didn't even want to take it off when going to bed. Real big boy watch !

Bought it as my child insisted

He loved it!

My son likes it but it seems a bit naff. Very annoying and doesn't seem to really do anything. Not sure how its spy gear when an alarm goes off every time he moves when he wears it...

Good value, a bit of fun for my 7 year old grandaughter, plus the added bonus of it being a watch, doesn't do much, but good for the imagination.

This was ok but my grandaughter thought it looked better than it actually is.

As described