Alas Poor Timex Atlantis 100, I remember this you. I knew you and wore you well. We had lots of adventures. You were very useful for a cheap watch.
I recently saw the venerable Timex Atlantis 100 digital watch in a store. O.K. my favorite big box store. You know the one everyone hates. The one all the trendy hipsters protest against. Yep, Walmart. That's the one. It's about the only place I can afford to shop. When I was into sailing back in the nineties, I wore a Timex Atlantis just like this one for racing.
I recently saw the venerable Timex Atlantis 100 digital watch in a store. O.K. my favorite big box store. You know the one everyone hates. The one all the trendy hipsters protest against. Yep, Walmart. That's the one. It's about the only place I can afford to shop. When I was into sailing back in the nineties, I wore a Timex Atlantis just like this one for racing.
The Timex Atlantis 100 has a count
down timer. I would set it for three minutes, start it when I
heard the horn and maneuver my boat--a Flying Scot--to cross the line when the start
horn went off. It was fun and I thought my Timex was highly
cool at the time. When I came across it years later in a cubby aboard my old boat, I found that the
finish on plastic portions of watch had worn off and that black
plastic/resin segments of the band were disintegrating. I was
going to replace the battery and keep it for a bang around watch
anyway. However, I totally sproinged it when I tried to change
the battery. I had watch pieces every where. For awhile, I kept a small mound of the bones in my watch box. But, ultimately, I ended up chucking the watch. The boat had been donated to charity in the aftermath of a lay off and the watch was a bittersweet reminder of a bygone era. But, every time I see that watch, I'm tempted to buy it again.
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| By Rept0n1x (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
Kohl's even has an updated watch called the Timex Ironman Atlantis. It looks similar and has a count down timer but it's not quite the same. It looks like the band and case might be all rubber and it is just a little more rugged. Now, if I could only find another yacht . . .
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| Timex Expedition Atlantis Digital Watch |
[In 2024 - I found the Timex Atlantis on Amazon. It has been rebadged as a Timex Expedition Atlantis, but the features and appearance are the generally the same.]
