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<\div> Keep your sports training concentered with the stylish Timex T5E231 Ironman Triathlon multi-function, performance sport digital watch, which features a dark gray resin top ring sitting upon a metallic silver case and top pusher for easy access to split and lap times. Sport timing features include a 100-hour chronograph with lap or split option, 100-lap memory recall, 199 lap counter, on-the-fly recall of lap or split, and interval timers settable up to 24 hours (9 timers with countdown/stop and countdown/repeat). The training log stores workouts by date, with best lap, intermediate lap, and total segment time, and the total run format/synchro timer maintains total action time (less time paused for the duration of workout and overall running time. Other features include two time zones, built-in setting reminders, water resistance to 100 meters, and a black resin strap.

The Timex FLIX technology activates the INDIGLO night-light on the watch without the need to press a button. A simple forward flick of your wrist with a sharp stop will illumine the night-light for a full 5 seconds. To use FLIX, you will have to introductory activate Night-Mode by pressing and keeping the INDIGLO night-light button for three seconds until it beeps. Once Night-Mode is active you may proceed to use the FLIX scheme as you desire. You will need to give the watch a firm shake to activate FLIX technology. This is necessary to make sure that the INDIGLO night-light won’t go off at the slightest vibration or modify in direction.

The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illumine the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, disregarding of the mode or function.

The TIMEX Story

The Timex Watch Company

Timex Group B.V. is one of the best-known American watch companies. Timex's U.S. headquarters are located in Middlebury Connecticut and it has significant operations in China, the Philippines and India and full scale sales companies in Canada, the UK, France and Mexico.

The company begun in 1854 as Waterbury Clock in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley, known for the duration of the nineteenth century as the "Switzerland of America." Sister company Waterbury Watch fictitious the basi inexpensive mechanical pocket watch in 1880. During World War I, Waterbury started out making wristwatches, which had only just become popular, and in 1933 it made history by creating the primary Mickey Mouse clock beneath license from Walt Disney, with Mickey's hands pointing the time.

During World War II, Waterbury renamed itself U.S. Time Company. In 1950 the company introduced a wristwatch called the Timex. Over the next three decades, Timex was sold through a series of advertisements which emphasized it is durability by putting the watch through "torture tests," such as falling over the Grand Coulee Dam or being strapped to the propeller of an outboard motor, with the slogan "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." With the help of former Olympic broadcaster, spokesman John Cameron Swayze, sales took off. The company later became Timex Corporation, then Timex Group and, to date, has sold over one billion watches.

The company has remained very competitory and the Timex brand proceeds it is dominance through present day. Its important market remains the United States and Canada, even though the Timex brand is sold global due to it is capacity to capitalize on it is strong brand effigy and reputation for quality.

One of the most successful and necessary features available on a good deal of Timex watches is the Indiglo backlight system. Indiglo is a brand name of Indiglo Corporation, solely owned by Timex for licensing purposes. Timex electroluminescent lamps, branded Indiglo, were introduced in 1992 in the Ironman watch line. They were an prompt success. The Indiglo® lamp uniformly lights the surface of the Timex’s watch dials in a manner that makes the dial read very without apparent effort in a great deal of dissimilar light settings. In a great deal of newer watches the Indiglo backlight only lights up the numbers, rather than the entire LCD display, which is achieved by means of a specialized film that inverts the LCD transmissivity.

Today, Timex Group merchandise are fabricated in the Far East and in Switzerland ofttimes based on technology that proceeds to be formulated in the United States and in Germany. With a huge and varied line of watches, Timex has the style for everyone. From the locker room to the board room, there is a great Timex style time-piece for you.

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Timex Warranty Information

The Basic Coverage:
This TIMEX Watch (but not any battery, crystal, band, or strap) is warranted to the owner for a amount of time of ONE YEAR from the date of buy versus defects in construct by Timex Corporation - not by the merchant from whom the watch was purchased.

What Timex Will Do:
If this watch formulates such a defect within the one year period, it will be repaired (i.e. a new or exhaustively reconditioned and inspected module will be installed or substituted and a watch of equivalent value and similar aspect will be supplied) at our option, provided it is returned with a $7.00 check or cash order to cover costs of postage, handling, and service, and you provide proof of buy and date of purchase.

This Limited Warranty Does Not Cover:

• Timex will not fix defects relating to servicing not performed by Timex Corporation.
• Timex will not provide any warranty service if your watch shows proof that it has been tampered with, misused, abused, or altered; for example: moisture harm sufficient to affect the proper function of the watch; harm to the case; or visible cracking of the crystal.
• Timex reserves the right to charge you for a substitute battery, if the battery in your watch is depleted. No further and added charge will be made unless the one year warranty has expired or servicing is necessary for reasons beyond our control, in which case a moderate charge will be made.
• TIMEX IS NOT LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not grant the exclusion or limitation of incidental, special, or consequential, damages, so the above exclusion or limitation may not utilise to you.

Your Rights Under Implied Warranties and State Law:
THIS LIMITED WARRANTY IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESSED WARRANTIES, OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES. TIMEX LIMITS THE DURATION OF ANY WARRANTY IMPLIED BY STATE LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TO ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL PURCHASE. Some states do not grant limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not utilize to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.

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Care of Your Watch:

• Avoid exposing your watch to water, steam, or other forms of moisture, if it is non-water-resistant.
• If the lens becomes damaged, have it substituted at once to stay clear from harm to the module.
• When your battery is depleted, have it substituted promptly. The peculiar type of battery is indicated on your caseback.

Service of Your Watch:
If your TIMEX watch must ever need servicing, either send it to Timex addressed as follows:

HOTLINE WATCH SERVICE
P.O. Box 2740
Little Rock, AR 72203

Because of possible loss, we commend insuring your watch, return receipt requested, when using the mails. If you do not obtain the proper receipt within a reasonable time, begin a tracer through the originating post office.

NEVER INCLUDE A SPECIAL WATCHBAND OR ANY OTHER ARTICLE OF PERSONAL VALUE IN YOUR SHIPMENT. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE MAY SUBSTITUTE A WATCH OF EQUAL VALUE AND SIMILAR APPEARANCE FOR YOURS ON BOTH IN-WARRANTY AND OUT-OF-WARRANTY REPAIRS.

For your comfortableness in obtaining factory service, taking part Timex merchants who sells goods at retail will be pleased to provide you with a postage-paid, pre-addressed Watch Repair Mailer.

TIMEX is a trademark and a service mark of Timex Corporation. REG. U.S. PAT. & TM. OFF.