Is there a wrist watch with a lap timer that works for swimming laps?
Is anybody using one successfully?
Which brand and model is it?
Do you hold the watch face down while pushing the lap button, or take any other steps to prevent water entry?
Casio and Timex both make wrist watch lap timers. Timex even sells theirs under the brand name IRONMAN Triathlon. What their advertising and marketing literature typically doesn't tell you, but a call to either companies customer service will reveal, is that they both strongly advise against pushing the lap timer button under water.
What is less clear is pushing the button immediately after a lap, with the watch held in air, but still wet. I could not get either company's customer service to say it was OK to push the lap button then; but they seemed less adamant that that wouldn't work.
I have used the Timex Ironmen watches for as long as they have been on the market and always swim with it and use it to do splits and interval times when a clock is not available. I always push the buttons underwater and have never had a problem with the watches except for the fact that the bands break long before batteries go. Bands are difficult to replace.
I have used the Timex Ironmen watches for as long as they have been on the market and always swim with it and use it to do splits and interval times when a clock is not available. I always push the buttons underwater and have never had a problem with the watches except for the fact that the bands break long before batteries go. Bands are difficult to replace.
