Their tips reach right to the chapter ring for a precise read of the minutes or seconds. That said, the dial’s contrast with the black hands is superb. I’m normally a white dial supremacist, but the flat cold white face is a little too sterile for me. The dial looks plasticky, which beats looking papery, but it’s still Costco basic. Both are utterly devoid of texture or visual interest. The glass will live to the first battery change without a scratch, but show a beating if delivered.Ī deep dish rehaut with a chapter ring relieves the Weekender’s flat face. It sits flat and flush, befitting the watch’s thin, minimalist geometry. Same goes for the Timex Weekender’s mineral glass crystal. If you’re lifestyle includes these horological dangers be prepared to practice Wabi-sabi. They’re holding up well, but neither owner has exposed their Timex to salt water, caustic chemicals or abrasive environments and avoided dropping and bashing into things.
This privately borrowed Timex Weekender and my own Easy Reader each have a decade on them. I’ve bemoaned the longevity issues surrounding Timex’s metal plated watch cases. The chromed brass case has straight sides and the decency to be barely 9mm thick, allowing for a 1.25mm thick strap underneath the snap-down case back. Any buffoon can slide a one-piece strap through some straight lugs with low-mounted spring bars.įlat on, the Timex Weekender’s circular case has a narrow radiused bezel, thin lugs and a tidy conventional crown. Even with the right tool and experience, swapping straps on a watch with spring bars isn’t exactly plug and play. Looking to sell extra straps, Timex kept it simple. The Timex Weekender uses a strap that’s more ZULU than NATO (inexplicably adorning the 40mm Timex Weekender): two metal keepers on a single web, devoid of the fold over bit that prevents the watch from sliding off. The Weekender’s take on multiple bands for the same watch had mass market, ready made, androgynous appeal. Dandies have long done this at home the concept also found favor for crummy women’s fashion watch sets. Timex sexed-up its bland three hander by offering the watch with a variety of different colorful and patterned woven straps.
Helped in no small part by its signature move. In the dozen years or so since its introduction, the modest Weekender continued the ethos of Timex as cheap and cheerful timepiece, continuing its influence on the bottom end of the horological market. Before Timex went nuts with Peanuts and vintage reissues, their everyman Weekender was their darling.