Highgear Summit Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and Thermometer Shadow

Editorial Review
Highgear Summit Altimeter with easy to read OVERSIZED display! The BIG watch face makes all the vitals easy to see when you're on the move... altitude, temp, time, barometric pressure all on a handy wrist watch! Everything you need to stay in tune with your your surroundings is displayed right is here! Also features a tough stainless steel bezel, EL backlight, replaceable battery and water resistance up to 100 ft. Take a look: Altimeter function: Digital altimeter with working range of -2,305 ft. to 30,045 ft.; Stores 15 altimeter data readings with altitude, time and date; Current, accumulated and max altitude in feet or meters; Graphic altitude trend display; 1 ft. altitude resolution; Barometer function: 1 mbar resolution... working range: 300bbar to 1100 mbar; Weather forecast; Bar chart with barometric pressure trend for the past 24 hours; Compass: 1 degree resolution with 16 cardinal points; Adjustable declination: Thermometer: User option for fahrenheit or celsius; Working range from 14 degrees F to 140 degreesF; Chrono: Resolution 1 / 100 second (24 hour max time range); Max 50 laps / 20 runs; Watch: Time, day, date, month with dual time zone; Dual daily alarm; Even more cool features: EL backlight system; Water resistance up to 100 ft.; Consumer replaceable battery.; Order Now! Highgear Summit Altiware Altimeter
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Customer Reviews

nothing more than a simple watch

2008-09-23
The watch was awesome until a month into ownership and the temp/alt/baro function stopped working and the girlfriend threw away the reciept. although i just ordered a casio pathfinder. the weather icon is nice but knowing how to read a barometer is a lot more simpler. Cheap price, cheap watch

Highgears Summit watch

2008-08-01
For the first three months it was pretty nice. The watch band eneded up breaking away from the base unit. It was too late to return it for a refund. Amazon only has a poor 30 day policy for refunds. I tried to have the watch band fixed at a local watch specialist shop. No one in my area could do it. The actual connections to the watch housing broke. I tried several shops and 4 months later it still sat on my dresser. Actually it's been a year now the watch is still running well, but telling time/temp/alt/bara from a drawer now instead of my wrist. I am sending it soon back to Highgear to either fix the watch band or replace it. Their rep has informed me that there is a 2 year warantee on the Summit. I wish Amazon would have told me that when I purchase it.

Scary choice for serious backcountry use...

2008-07-19
I'm on my second Terra Summit; the first was replaced by the vendor (not Amazon) after its crystal got heavily scratched and fogged and the bearing markers for compass wore off on a single 4 day backpacking trip. This time I took it in the woods, got turned around, and soon was seriously lost because... the compass doesn't work! No matter where I pointed it, it was "SSW". This isn't a mistake I can afford to make and next trip this watch is staying home.

"Watch" out - low quality makes it disposable

2008-04-15
I enjoyed using this product -- until it came time to change the battery. Then I discovered how low quality the materials are in the construction of the watch. It is essentially impossible to change the battery: the soft plastic holding the battery deforms, so it is extremely difficult to open the compartment. The watch repair store wouldn't even try. In desperation, I carved out the plastic well enough to get two-screwdriver leverage to open the battery case, to replace the CR2032 battery. But even worse, then the poor construction prevented the closing of the battery case. So beware: you need to treat this watch as disposable, once the battery wears out!

Good watch so far...

2008-04-11
I bought this watch on the recommendation of a friend. It has just about all the readings that one would need as a novice hiker, mountain biker, camper, etc. Very impressive, and even your grandparents can read the face from across the room. It takes some time to learn all the buttons, as they are different from the Iron Mans I've worn over the last decade. The problem that I've had with it so far, is that most of the readings began failing within four days of receipt, so I had to go to the highgear website to figure out how to get it to them for repair (on a brand new watch!!!) or replacement. Their emails were immediate with the information to send it in, but finding the status of the watch was difficult. I finally received the watch after about 3 weeks, and it appears to work correctly. Only time will tell the quality of the watch.

Disappointed

2008-02-21
Highgear Summit Altimeter with easy to read OVERSIZED display! The BIG watch face makes all the vitals easy to see when you're on the move... altitude, temp, time, barometric pressure all on a handy wrist watch! Everything you need to stay in tune with your your surroundings is displayed right is here! Also features a tough stainless steel bezel, EL backlight, replaceable battery and water resistance up to 100 ft. Take a look: Altimeter function: Digital altimeter with working range of -2,305 ft. to 30,045 ft.; Stores 15 altimeter data readings with altitude, time and date; Current, accumulated and max altitude in feet or meters; Graphic altitude trend display; 1 ft. altitude resolution; Barometer function: 1 mbar resolution... working range: 300bbar to 1100 mbar; Weather forecast; Bar chart with barometric pressure trend for the past 24 hours; Compass: 1 degree resolution with 16 cardinal points; Adjustable declination: Thermometer: User option for fahrenheit or celsius; Working range from 14 degrees F to 140 degreesF; Chrono: Resolution 1 / 100 second (24 hour max time range); Max 50 laps / 20 runs; Watch: Time, day, date, month with dual time zone; Dual daily alarm; Even more cool features: EL backlight system; Water resistance up to 100 ft.; Consumer replaceable battery.; Order Now! Highgear Summit Altiware Altimeter

A great watch for an outdoors person!

2008-01-12
When I received this watch and opened the package and saw the manual, I thought it would be complicated to use. Guess what? In less than 1 hour all the features were ready to use. It takes some time to set the compass, altitude and barometric pressure, but after checking some local weather websites I was ready to go.
Just a great tool!

Returned 3 times

2007-12-27
I like this watch a great deal but have had to return it 3 times in 9 months. Each time Highgear customer service was very helpful, but they have had to replace it each time as well. It just freezes up and no buttons worked. I have twice tried new batteries, but that didn't work either (for long).

I like the watch very much and wish it was reliable.

Buttons are complicated

2007-10-13
I had a Timex watch with altimeter and that was easy to use. This one the button sequence are not intuitive. The print in the manual is small and sometime confusing. It is however, more accurate that the Timex.

It's ok

2007-03-31
The watch is good for three reasons:

Altimeter is awesome.
The barometer works great.
The display is big so you can see as much as possible without pushing buttons.

Problems:
It's virtually impossible to set the alarm once it's dark -- the buttons are organized weird.
You shouldn't wear it in much water.