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WHITE LED SPORTS WATCH



White LED Sports Watch w/ Date Display & Rubber Watchband, retail $2.53 (www.gearbest.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 01-15-17





I've only reviewed nine (9) LED wristwatches prior to this, so please bear with me here.

You might remember LED wristwatches from the 1970s, heck, you might still have one.

The White LED Sports Watch w/ Date Display & Rubber Watchband (hereinafter, probably called simply an, "LED watch" or an, "LED wristwatch") is an LED watch that features a large display comprised of seven-segment LED "readouts"

It can display the time & date like other digital watches, it also displays seconds if you require that feature, and it has a plastic band.


The photographs on this web page are kind of fuxxored because my camera has either been misplaced or stolen, so I had to use the inbuilt camera in my tablet computer.


 Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



The LED wristwatch comes ready to use right out of the box. You may need to set the hour to the time zone you're in, and set the date as well - but is otherwise ready to go right away.



To read the time, press & release the button on the lower portion of the watch face. A brief animation will be displayed, the time will be displayed for five SIX seconds, a brief animation again displays, and then the LEDs will automatically extinguish.

To read the date, press & release the button on the lower portion of the watch face twice in fairly quick succession. A brief animation will be displayed, the date will be displayed for six seconds, a brief animation again displays, and then the LEDs will automatically extinguish.

To read the seconds, press & release the button on the lower portion of the watch face three times in fairly quick succession. The seconds will be displayed for six seconds, a brief animation again displays, and then the LEDs will automatically extinguish.

You may need to use a sharp razor blade resize the band to fit your wrist...more details on how this is accomplished when the main computer is back online.





I don't have ready access to a sufficiently small Phillips screwdriver with which to unscrew the four tiny "vacuumable" screws on the underside of the watch in order to access the battery(ies), so this section will remain incomplete until then.



Because this is a watch and not a flashlight, I won't try to flush it down the potty, stomp on it with old or used golf shoes, viciously throw it into one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators to see if it becomes broken (the uranator, not the wristwatch), smack it against a steel rod, run over it with my Quickie motorised wheelchair, or perform other potentially destructive tests on it that might be performed on a flashlight.

This watch is not waterproof or even water-resistant, so please excersize caution around sinks, bathubs, toliets, garden hoses, flooded basements, rain, snow, bird sh*t, etc.

As a wristwatch, I think it's quite nice. And to see real live LEDs (esp. white ones!) in it, that's even better. I love LEDs and things made with them, and this watch is no exception.

The display isn't very bright; if you work outdoors and prefer LED wristwatches to analogue or LCD watches, you may wish to use a different LED watch

Does this eval. look an awful lot like the one I made for this product?
Thought that you'd say so.
That's because this watch is functionally very similar, so I could use its evaluation as a template for this one.



Photograph of the wristwatch in its natural habitat -- on my wrist of course.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this watch.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this watch; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 455nm and 465nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 458.930nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 253watch.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.




Brief video showing the White LED Sports Watch w/ Date Display & Rubber Watchband displaying the time, date, and seconds.

O BOY! AN LED WATCH DOING WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO!
SO THRILLING!!
SO PULSE-POUNDING!!!
Actually, it kinda "maiks" "ewe" "wontt" "tu" "kik" "ovorr" "won" "uv" "thoz" "Penile-WhearŽ" "liggecher-rezistent" "prizen" "commbies" "ahnd" "thenn" "pruhseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "uhn "olde" "orr" "uzed" "toylet" "brusch" doesn't it?

This video is 22.990086567833 megabytes (23,101,639 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than one hundred fifteen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.





TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Gearbest website on 08-18-16; and was received on the afternoon of 09-12-16.


UPDATE: 01-15-17
While it was on my wrist, this watch got snagged in a doorframe and popped off. When I attempted to put it back on, I immediately noted that the band would not stay closed...the problem was soon traced to two of the four little plastic tits that had been sheared off the clasp assembly. The watch still functions, but can no longer be used as intended so the dreadful, "" icon will be appended to its listings on this website at once denoting the fact that partial failure has occurred.


PROS:
The price is most definitely RIGHT!
Uncommon (RARE!!!) white LED display


NEUTRAL:



CONS:
Not water-resistant at all
Band may need to be cut in order to properly affix to your wrist


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Inexpensive wristwatch w/ white LED display
    LAMP TYPE: LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 26
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton momentary near bottom of watch face
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: Plastic; LEDs protected by tinted plastic window
    BATTERY: Unknown (at the moment anyway)
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: For Christ sakes NOOOOOOO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: Battery (ies)
    SIZE: 225.0mm L x 23.0mm W x 80.0mm H
    WEIGHT: 28g (1.0 oz.) incl. battery(ies)
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Unknown; though probably China
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





White LED Sports Watch w/ Date Display & Rubber Watchband * www.gearbest.com...







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