Suunto Vector Wrist-Top Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and Thermometer (Khaki)
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Product Description
For all serious outdoor activities, the Suunto Vector watch provides everything you need when hiking, climbing, back country skiing, or traveling through any tough terrain. With a range of up to 29,500 ft, the altimeter works within all fourteen of the over-8000 meter summits in the world. Altitude difference measurement can follow vertical progress between stages, an automatic 24-hour memory stores the altitude and ascent/descent rate for every hour, and the watch also features an adjustable altitude alarm, among other memory functions. The logbook lets you record both total and cumulative vertical ascents and descents, and the number of runs you've skied while on the slopes. Total displays include altitude, vertical speed, altitude alarm, logbook, vertical difference measurement, automatic 24 hour altitude memory, temperature compensation. Its logbook capacity is 8 kB, recording intervals of 20 seconds, 1 minute, 10 minutes, and 60 minutes, with respective times 16.5 hours, 50 hours, 20 days, and 125 days. Current barometric pressure and temperature is also displayed to help forecast weather changes. The Vector automatically records barometric data for the past four days: the first six hours in one-hour intervals, then in six-hour intervals after that. It can also show the present sea level pressure, for greater understanding of barometric pressure at high altitudes. Total displays include sea level pressure, absolute pressure, pressure difference, pressure trend indicator, 4-day barometric memory, and temperature. The Vector's electronic compass uses cardinal or half-cardinal points, and the North-South arrow. It can also be set to track a specific bearing, to keep you on direction in more remote terrain. There's also a declination adjustment that lets the user correct the difference between true North and magnetic North. When used simply as a watch, the Suunto Vector also displays the time in 12 or 24-hour format, with three daily alarms, a calendar pre-programmed through the year 2089, and a stopwatch with split time measurement and a countdown timer. The watch features an electro-luminescent backlight, and a user-replaceable battery.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Suunto Vector will not calibrate
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I have owned two Vectors. They both wind up having the same problem. After awhile the compass will not calibrate and the compass portion of the watch is useless. I am the type that hardly ever removes the watch from my wrist. The first vector fogged after swimming and then the compass died. I bought another one and after a year the compass died again.
I will not own another one.
GS
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After 6 years of abuse, ......
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a couple of weeks ago I was glacading and when I got to the bottom I noticed that there was some condensation in the display. It still worked OK and after a few hours the condensation went away. But...
After 6 years of mountaineering, backpacking, skiing, mountain biking and just general abuse I guess that it is time to retire the Vector. Overall, it has performed brilliantly. My only complaint is that some of the functions are buried in a system of menus that for me are not that intuitive. So, if I don't use them often, I forget how.
I have decided to replace it with the more expensive Suunto Core. The main reason is that it has a dot matrix display, which supposedly gives more information and has a better menu system. We'll see.
In the end, the Vector has been a very good watch for me and I highly recommend it.
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Suunto Vector - Great Watch
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I had a Casio Pathfinder for 10 years prior to getting the Suunto Vector Black. Loved the Casio until I had to replce the batteries. In order to keep it water resistant, I forked over another $50 each time to the repair guy. However, each time the batteries were replaced I lost a function/feature. Can't find a damn watch band either.
The Suunto Vector Black on the other hand is not only a great looking watch but you can change the battery (did I say one battery?) yourself, thus keeping the water resistant integrity. How? The battery resides in its own sealed compartment. Use a quarter to unscrew the top and there sits the battery. tah-dah.
I'm an avid sailor, surfer and also fly planes. The Vector is very easy to use. The con is you can't set the declination point. I found this to be true with other brands I tried before settling on the Suunto. I also wish the count down timer would start to count up once it hit zero so I can use the stopwatch as a stopwatch not as a count up timer. But I can live without this feature. I like the negative display too. Nice touch. The watch has a large face; 1 5/16" and 2" edge to edge.
The new Casio has this stupid moving three stripes on the face. If you raise your hand or tilt it to certain angle the damn light comes on. I rather have a button to push than have it come on by itself. A person lying down, the light comes on. It also has large face. Compare the Suunto and a Casio side by side and you'll see the Suunto quality and workmanship over the Casio. Friends who bought a Casio regret doing it once they saw my Suunto. I think they did because I had a Casio before and they, some piece of crap.
OK, its been a year since I've owned my Suunto. I don't like writing reviews until I've owned something for awhile to see if the product holds true. This one does. I've lost 1 second in the past year, the band looks fresh and new, the face still shiny and unscratched even though it gets banged against stuff all the time. If you're thinking of getting Suunto Vector, stop thinking and buy one. You'll be happy you did.
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Very VERY solid purchase. Unless you have small hands.
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Really like this product. I have had NO trouble getting all of the functions to work properly. There's a trick to it though. READ THE BLOODY DIRECTIONS. Yeah, I know it's a book, and sure it's thick, but there's about fifteen pages of actual directions in about thirty languages, so just suck it up already, complainers. Sorry for the rant. I was worried that this watch would be tough to get functioning from other reviews. Not so. It's pretty big, but light weight and sturdy. Gtting used to the novel second hand takes a few days, but as I'm in the vet-medical bizz, I use this watch in anesthesia to time recordings, and every day without worrying about some critter scratching the face or something. Good stuff. I'd say for the price it'd be tough to do better.
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Nice, but...
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This is a really cool gadget, and it does all the stuff the previous reviewers have stated. Three annoyances: 1) plastic crystal. 2) temp. sensor is on the underside, so all it registers is your skin temp. HEY SUUNTO: PUT THE SENSOR ON THE TOP!! You may have to wait for 15 minutes for the sensor to read actual temp. once you have removed the watch 3) the barometer is consistently 15 mbar low. I check this against the airport weather readings, as well as a Kestrel weather instrument. Having to constantly re-adjust your reference altitude is also somewhat annoying, but it's a necessary process until the wrist-mounted radar altimeter is introduced. The new model ("core") is supposed to have a motion sensor so that the barometer and altimeter readings are unrelated. Hope it works. Oh yeah: this watch isn't as godawful big as I expected. I have tiny little girly wrists and this thing doesn't look like a trash can lid on me or anything like that. Also: don't pay more than $150.
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