Stocking Stuffer Watches from Armitron for 2025!

If you are looking for inexpensive watches to give as stocking stuffer gifts this Christmas, you can't go wrong with Armitron. They've long been a well-known American watch brand since 1956. Today, most of the watches that they offer on Amazon and in stores sell for less than $50. That makes them perfect to use as a stocking stuffer.

The Armitron Quartz Day Date Model 20-4591

This Armitron Model 20-4591 two-tone watch with expansion band is a great place to start on a quest for affordable stocking stuffer watches. It actually comes in 10 different case, dial, and band color combinations. You can find one that will appeal to almost any man. There are many different sales specials, but most are currently priced between $27 and $45 with most around $30. 

Armitron Quartz Day-Date (Model 20-4591)

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Armitron Sport Men's Digital Chronograph (Model 40-8284)

In this digital era, there are many digital watches in the marketplace. Watches like the Timex Ironman and Casio G-Shock are always at the top of mind. But, I always wonder: how armored does a digital watch need to be? I don't think I've ever seen one fail. In which case, this Armitron Sport Digital Chronograph might be a perfect choice. It has 100 meters of water resistance and functions including alarm, stop watch, lap timer, and date.

Armitron Sport Digital Watch (Model 40-8284)

For the 2025 Christmas Season this watch is 24% off for a sub-$20 price. That makes it the perfect beater watch for banging around. You can check it out here on via our Amazon affiliaite link.

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Wristwatch Review: Armitron 20/5573 Stainless Steel Tachymeter Watch

Armitron is putting out some fantastic looking watches at affordable prices. This one is Model 20/5573. It's a day-date watch with a black dial and tachymeter markings on a bold blue bezel.

Armitron Model 20/5573 Tachymeter-style Stainless Steel Watch

Watch Features

This watch is straight forward and readable. In this sub-$50 watch category, you don't get any special features beyond the day-date. There is no actual stop watch functionality. 

Armitron 20/5573 Stainless Steel Tachymeter Watch

Watch Construction

I really appreciate that this watch has all stainless steel construction. The case, bracelet, and caseback all have the strength of real steel. It has a flat mineral glass crystal. The watch has 50-meters of water reistance. The hour batons appear to be chrome foil pieces that are applied, not painted on. The date window is also trimmed with chrome. The hour and minute hands have a little strip of fairly weak lume on them.

Armitron 20/5573 Stainless Steel Tachymeter Watch

I really like that the push button deployant watch bracelet is removeable and replaceable. Unfortunately, many less expensive watches have integrated bracelets that are difficult to resize and/or upgrade. If needed, you can also get extra links through the Armitron website. 

Watch Dimensions

This Armitron watch has presence on the wrist with a 45mm case that is 10.5mm thick. The band is 7.5 inches long and very exactly fits my wrist. To be honest, it's just a tad snug. A longer bracelet with the ability to make micro-adjustments would be welcomed. 

Overall Impression

Overall, I like the Model 20/5573 from Armitron. It looks good and I think it is a good value for the money. Armitron watches are not expensive and, yet, they are still real watches. If you'd like to take a closer look at this watch, check it out here on Amazon:

Armitron 20/5573 Tachymeter-Style Watch

Watch Review: Armitron (Model 20/5403TT) Men's Two-Tone and Silver Day Date Dress Watch

I recently bought this Armitron Two-Tone Day Date Dress Watch (Model 20/5403TT) at Burlington. It looked great and was only $19.99 at the discount and closeout chain.

Armitron Model 20/5403TT Two-Tone Dress Watch

Watch Style and Features

This all stainless steel watch has a quartz movement, 50 meter (165 feet) of water resistance, and a fold-over clasp with double button safety closure. As a dress watch, this Armitron makes effective use of gold and silver tones and shiny and matte surfaces. The inner links of the bracelet are a bronze-like gold-tone with a flat finish. The outer links are a shiny silver-tone. The dial is what Armitron calls a gray sun-ray dial with gold tones for odd-hour marker batons and even-hour numerals. The dial is ringed by a sloping gray minute track that slopes up to an inner bezel with a shiny gold-tone. The crown is gold toned in keeping with the two-tone design of the watch while the case is a shiny silver-tone.

Armitron Model 20/5403TT Two-Tone Dress Watch

Watch Dimensions

This Armitron has a 41mm round case that is 10mm thick. The bracelet is 20mm wide and generously sized. It fits my wrist perfectly with no additional room for expansion.

Overall

Armitron has created a very nice looking watch for a remarkably low price. Like many low price quartz watches, the minute hand can sometimes jump a little when you push it in to set the watch. However, with a little fiddling, I was able to set mine to within 5 seconds of the atomic clocks of the U.S. Naval Observatory as shown on Time.gov. I like the simplicity and rich looks of this watch. However, it's almost too pretty and might tempt a woman in your life might abscond with it and make it a "boyfriend watch." Overall, this is a great dress watch at a great price. I like it.

Armitron Model 20/5403TT Two-Tone Dress Watch

Availability

Fashion watches come and go. This exact watch doesn't seem to be available on Amazon.  You might also be able to luck into this watch at a Burlington store. A similar watch with a different bracelet and Roman numeral markers can be found here on Amazon. 

TGIF: The Higher Quality Offerings of Armitron

Uncommon Watches from Armitron

Sometimes when you visit the official website of a watch company, you uncover some treasures that you haven't heard much about.  Armitron is one company that has higher quality watches offered on their website.  Collectors will find them more interesting than the Armitron watches found in discount stores.

Armitron Watch Categories

If you are used to seeing Armitron watches as discount timepieces at retailers like Walmart and Burlington, you'll see a nicer side of the Armitron line-up online at their website.  Armitron has six categories of timepiece listed on there: Timeless, Iconic, Specialty, Conscious, Active, and Smart.  The Conscious category has watches made out of recycled ocean plastics.  

The Armitron Reef is made using sustainable materials like recycled ocean plastics.

In the Timeless category, you'll find watches in classic styles including Tankers, Rolex-stye Datejust, Divers, and regular dress watches.  Amazingly, they have names like Grant, Charles, Ross (Rachel is a corresponding women's watch), Ridgemont, Lloyd, and  Miles. If you are used to model numbers that are random letters and numbers, named watches are quite a good change!

Armitron Rachel and Ross Dress Watches for Men & Women (Armitron website)

In the Iconic category, you'll find some of the most famous Armitron retro digital watches like the Griffy and Rogue.  

The Armitron Rogue Digital Watch

Specialty watches have a nice variety of mechanical skeleton watches. Finally, the Active watches include all sorts of practical digital watches for active sports and fitness. Right now, Armitron doesn't have any Smart watches listed on the site.

I thought I had covered Armitron well in Watches A to Z, but I just scratched the surface.  If you are interested in these watches, all you have to do is visit Armitron.com.

The $100 Watch Collection: 5 Watches for a Total of $100

Watch collecting doesn't have to be cost prohibitive.  You can easily build a starter watch collection of several watches for less than $100.  With a little smart shopping online, you can easily find great watches for under $25 apiece.  For this post, I put together a five watch collection for $100 on Amazon.  It includes a dive watch, a minimalist business casual watch, an outdoorsman's watch, a tanker-style dress watch, and a traditional dress watch.

The great thing about this collection is that I actually own all of these watches and I can attest to them all actually being pretty decent watches.  While prices do fluctuate, you should be able to build this collection for approximately $100 total as of June 2024.

1. Casio Black Resin Dive Watch (MRW-200H-1BV) - At approximately $22 on Amazon or at your local Walmart, Casio MRW-200H offers a uni-directional rotating bezel, 100-meters of water resistance, and classic dive watch markings.  It's a legible, readable, watch that makes a great daily wear beater.  You can find a variety of number and bezel marking colors on these watches. 

Casio Black Resin Dive Watch

2. Brigada Men's Watches Cool Black Blue Business Casual (Brigada Minimalist) - For about $17, Brigada brings a great minimalist watch to the market place. It looks great on the wrist and feels very comfortable.  The company offers several varieties that give you some options about whether you want numerals or just markers for the hours.

Brigada Minimalist Watch

3. Casio Forester (FT-500WC-5BVCF) - This is a small watch that's built for the hiker.  For about $22, the Forester gives you a tough lightweight watch with a cloth strap that's perfect for hot summer days.  It's another beater watch that can take abuse. I love the sense of adventure that comes with the Forester name and it brings back many memories of late night dog walking in Florida and all the nocturnal creatures I used to encounter with one of the best dogs we ever had.  I think this one is the ultimate beater watch.

Casio Forester

4. Armitron Men's Genuine Crystal Accented Leather Strap Watch (Armitron Tank) - The rectangular shape of a tanker-style dress watch is an unusual sight these days.  I found one on special for only $20 on Amazon.

Armitron Tank Watch

5. MASTOP Men's Analog Quartz Roman Numeral Watch (SKMEI Dress) - Finally, this classic dress watch has the SKMEI label on the dial.  For only $17, this watch looks great and is a comfortable dress watch for daily wear.  I've had a similar dress watch from SKMEI and have reviewed it here.  You can find different dial colors.  But, the watch is attractive and functional.  Here is my review of a review of a similar SKMEI watch.

SKMEI Dress Watch

This small investment in five wristwatches is just a starting point.  They also serve as a baseline for watch purchases in your future.  These low cost watches are a challenge to the more prestigious brands to bring something demonstrably better to the market.

Watches A to Z: Armitron

Armitron History

If you are looking for quality watches at an affordable price point, you really can't go wrong with Armitron.  Armitron is one of the top 10 U.S. watch brands.  The company is a subsidiary of E. Gluck Corporation which was founded in 1956 by holocaust survivor Eugen Gluck. Armitron was established as a subsidiary company in 1975.  They are known for quartz watches, digital watches, and mechanical watches.

Famous Armitron Digital Watches

Armitron was founded just as quartz movements and digital watches were shaking up the world of watches. Casio had just released LCD digital watches in 1974 and Armitron sooned followed with similar digital watches that were arguably even better.

Armitron Retro Watch - Rogue

One of the famous LCD watches was the Rogue which was basically identical to the current retro version pictured here (above).

Another one of their most famous early digital watches was the Armitron Rubik.  Amazingly, the watch or a very similar version of it is still sold as part of Armitron's vintage collection (shown below).

Armitron Retro Watch - Rubrik

If you have a Pong console or an Atari 2600 for the sake of nostalgia, you might want to add one of these watches to your collection. Fortunately, you can easily find both of these watches.  

My Favorite Armitron Watches

Armitron Diamond Watch

Over the years, I've owned a few Armitron analog and digital watches and I've always thought they represented a great value for the money.  I first wrote of Armitron watches as potential Christmas gifts back in 2013.  One of my first was the simple Armitron Diamond analog watch.  Mine had a simple brown dial and had gold and silver tones.  I wonder if I still have it tucked away in a watch case somewhere.  It had the tiniest dot of a "diamond" at the 12 o'clock position.

Armitron Stainless Steel Quartz Watch

Perhaps, the Armitron that I am most enamored with is my Armitron Silver tone on Silver tone stainless steel watch.  You can read a full review of it here.

Are Armitron Watches Any Good?

Yes, Armitron watches are good. Armitron watches offer good, solid, reliable performance at low price points. Armitron watches don't usually have high price tags. Instead, the brand offers attractive products that provide good values at very attainable price points.  I've found that Armitron watches compare favorably to inexpensive watches from Timex and Casio. Brand and history are worth something. To me, Armitron watches stand above random cheap off-brand watches and excel at price points in the $20 to $75 range.

 

Watch Wearing Wednesday - Armitron Stainless Steel Watch

When it comes to watches, I do like the shine of a watch with silver tones.  Even as the sun sets, this watch from Armitron catches the last light of the evening and makes the most of it.

Armitron Stainless Steel Quartz Watch

This watch has been in my collection for over a decade.  If you'd like to see my review, check it out on this blog here. With a new battery, it's keeping time accurately without missing a beat.  Since this watch is almost vintage now, that makes this blog almost vintage, and that makes me almost vintage, too.

Armitron Stainless Steel Quartz Watch

[While I can't find this Armitron for sale in 2024, there are lots of reasonably priced Armitron watches available on Amazon.]

Watch Sighting: Armitron Multifunction Gold-Tone Bracelet Watch

If you are ever going to get a 65-foot sailboat with endless decks of beautiful teak, you are going to need to visualize yourself as a yachtsman.  Fortunately, Armitron can help with this Men's Multi-Function Dial Gold-Tone Bracelet Watch.  They call it model 20/5144BKGP, but I think you could call it your yachtman's watch.  Here's a quick photo of it that I took at Walmart.

This watch has a stainless steel case, a mineral crystal, and 165-feet of water resistance.  While this isn't a watch for snorkeling or diving, it would be just fine for short periods of recreational swimming.

Despite the rich yachtsman looks of this timepiece, it is actually a very practical watch. I think this Armitron would make a great gift this Christmas for anyone who likes a gold-tone watches. It offers a brilliant gold tone in a dressy but functional watch from a well-known company. At less than $100, this Armitron also comes with an affordable price tag that won't crush your gift giving budget.

Watch Sighting: Armitron Watch with Sub-dials at Walmart

Watches are one of the few fashion accessories men enjoy.  They are a practical means of self-expression.  They also convey a perception of social status.  Thus, when it comes to watches, a luxury look and feel can be just as important as practical function.  That's why this Armitron analog watch with tachymeter markings and sub-dials caught my eye on a recent stroll through Walmart.  It has the look of a luxury brand timepiece.

When I see an Armitron watch like this with a great look, nice features, and an affordable price tag, it really makes me wonder what the advantages of a more prestigious name brand would really be.

Exclusive Glimpse at Eclipse Brand Watches

Some watch bloggers and journalists spend all their time in Geneva, Switzerland, looking for exclusives and scoops.  They go on press junkets to the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) watch show.  Only this blogger is willing to make the sacrifices needed to find a completely new brand that will sell thousands of watches over the next few years.  While this new brand may never appear in The Robb Report or WatchTimes, according to The Millionaire Next Door, this is precisely the kind of watch that real millionaires wear.  To find it, I had to go where other horology bloggers fear to tread.  I had to get the exclusive spy pictures that no one else has.  I had to go to Walmart.

I slipped into the big box retailer under the guise of picking up a loaf of bread and some dog biscuits.  Since these items were sold on completely opposite ends of the store, I was easily able to detour through the watch section.  When I did so, I quickly discovered a watch brand that I had never heard of before.  It was hidden in plain sight.  It's a brand called Eclipse and it was created by the watch experts at Armitron.  While I had to hustle home for a hungry hound, I did get a chance to take a quick look at these watches and bring you these world exclusive spy photos of Eclipse watches.

The five watches I saw were men's quartz watches that would be suitable for the office, church, and business casual work environments.  The designers of these watches couldn't fall back on hundreds of years of horological history, call whole summers a holiday, and demand big bucks.  Instead, they were likely challenged by the quality benchmarks and low price points demanded by the notoriously tough fashion buyers at the world's most famous big box store.

The resulting watches look nice, are most likely quite reliable, and were priced to move at only $22.84.  The first of these watches mixed silver tones and gold tones quite effectively in a water resistant, quartz-movement, package.  

An Eclipse Watch at Walmart

The second watch was the Eclipse take on the basic field watch with a genuine leather band.  It was quite readable, offered 165 feet of water resistance, and even had a date window.

An Eclipse Watch at Walmart

I love silver on silver watches and the Eclipse by Armitron brand obliged with this basic beauty.  I really do like basic watches of this style and I think this one has a very nice design.

An Eclipse Watch at Walmart

Of course, intelligent discourse and society sophisticates insist that every man have at least one watch with Roman numerals on the dial.  This Eclipse obliges and has a bit of a sunburst on the dial.

An Eclipse Watch at Walmart

This final Eclipse watch had a dark dial, a sunburst, a date, and clear, readable numbers.  To me, it's not the brand's strongest effort because it has too many disparate style elements that detract from the unity of the design.

An Eclipse Watch at Walmart

When I searched for the brand using the google shopping search, I saw that they had plenty of models to choose from at Walmart.  At this price point, you get a decent working watch backed by the recognizable Armitron brand.  They also seem well differentiated from the $10 to $15 watches available on nearby shelves.  While they might not be shown or even worn in Geneva, these timepieces have their niche and fill it well.

Mens Watch Review: Stainless Steel Armitron with Leather Band

Every once in a while, a watch will strike me as being perfect. So it was with my most recent watch purchase a stainless steel Armitron with a leather band. With the catchy name like Model 20/4859GNSVBN, the watch had to beckon me by looking better than all the other men's watches at Kohl's in the Christmas of 2012. It looked better than any Timex, any Relic, any Citizen, any Seiko, any Caravelle, and almost any Bulova except the vaunted (and 10 times more expensive) Precisionist.

Armitron Stainless Steel Watch

Why was this Armitron so attractive? Besides being a shiny, gleaming, watch under department store glass, this Armitron combined the simple, manly, functional style of a military watch with the panache and flair of a showy high tech sport watch.  It also features an accurate Japanese quartz movement.

Watch Dimensions. This Stainless Steel Armitron has a military-style dial in a stunning silver-on-silver color scheme set into a solid-looking 43-millimeter diameter all stainless steel case. At 15 millimeters thick, the watch is robust without being monstrous or inconvenient at the office. The crown is thick and is circled by a grey rubber accent strip that makes pulling the crown and setting the watch a breeze.

 Armitron Model 20/4859GNSVBN

Watch Dial Style. The Arabic numerals denoting the hours are of a shiny silver-tone color that contrasts with the lighter silver-tone complexion of the dial. The sunray dial itself is subtly divided into four quarters that give the face a faceted look. When combined with the inner black circle with tiny 5-minute markings, the watch evokes the look of a rifle-scope crosshairs. Grey and white accents the perimeter of the dial (technically called the channel ring) of this watch. It's the angled upslope under the crystal from the watch face to the case. This perimeter area is also put to functional use with 24-hour markings for the hours and hash marks for the minutes.

My Stainless Steel Armitron Running Strong in 2024 with a new battery

Watch Pricing. Like all Armitron watches, my new wristwatch was affordable. Kohl's had it for $89.99, but offered considerable Christmas season sale discounts. However, the low price point manifests itself in one obvious drawback to this watch. The 18.5 centimeter brown leather band that came with the watch was a tad short for my wrist. I swapped the band for a diver-style rubber band from Timex. It fits well, has lots of room for expansion, and enhances the rugged look of the watch. I'd love it if watch companies offered a free or low cost watch band swaps with a watch purchase to ensure that any purchase fits well.

Overall, I really enjoy my new Armitron watch. It is a practical, readable, rugged and rich looking timepiece.

[While I can't find this Armitron for sale in 2024, there are lots of reasonably priced Armitron watches available on Amazon.]

Affordable Style and Class in a Dress Watch from Armitron!

Every guy has to dress up from time to time.  You need a good watch for date night, job interviews, weddings, church, and special events.  I've got many wristwatches to choose from in my watchbox, but one of my most elegant is an inexpensive watch from Armitron.

In this era of televised watches on the shopping channels, this understated Armitron is tasteful and affordable.