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I really wanted to get one of the Titanium and Thin series of Protrek watches. But they must have been discontinued because I cant find them anywhere.
GA1000 from Gshock has a compass, so that will probably be my next.
I’ve got experience with ABC watches…
i appreciate your insight. i’m primarily interested more for monitoring the barometer and time/date (for camping/hiking type scenarios, and less likely to use the compass or altimeter functionality unless i was put in a bind somehow.
The techlust is certainly present, however i appreciate the limitations of these devices. Short of carrying a kestrel or speedtech portable weather station, the novelty of a wrist-based device strapped to my bag is more appealing imo.
I’ll check out the PRG270. thanks for the suggest!
i appreciate your insight. i’m primarily interested more for monitoring the barometer and time/date (for camping/hiking type scenarios, and less likely to use the compass or altimeter functionality unless i was put in a bind somehow.
The techlust is certainly present, however i appreciate the limitations of these devices. Short of carrying a kestrel or speedtech portable weather station, the novelty of a wrist-based device strapped to my bag is more appealing imo.
I’ll check out the PRG270. thanks for the suggest!
Sounds like it might be useful for you then. The barometer works reasonably well on the PRG270, although I think it only takes a reading every 2 hours, unless you have alert mode activated (“Baro” reads next to the graph display, in which case it takes reading every minute for up to 24hrs). Just today I was in the Adirondacks and it did alert me that foul weather was ahead. The first alert showed falling air pressure but there was no foul weather, the second alert about 2 hrs. later we got a major downpour about 10-15 mins later. The watch shows you a tiny trend graph with the pressure number reading in the main screen. I do wish rather that the graph was in the main screen with the number reading up top where the tiny graph is, like other ABC watches such as the Suunto Core (which I owned and found inaccurate for any real use, but that was 4 years ago). Helpful, just not anything groundbreaking. One last thing – don’t expect the alarms to wake the dead, as they aren’t very loud.
If you do purchase one I would very much like to read your review or any comments you have on it.
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