Seiko Introduces the Spring Drive Chronograph

Altitude alarm. We're not done with altitude yet. The PAW1200 series doesn't just measure your altitude and allow you to record your altitude in three different ways, but it also allows you to set an altitude alarm which, when the watch is in altitude mode, will sound during both an ascent and a descent when the specified altitude is reached. World time. No digital watch is complete without a world time function -- especially a watch that can pick up time signals all over the world. The PAW1200 series has the standard Casio world time functionality, which means it's pretty good. It allows you to choose from 30 cities by name (actually abbreviation), and lets you toggle between daylight saving and standard time with a single button. Stopwatch. Pretty standard stopwatch. The resolution is 1/100th of a second, the maximum time is 9 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds, and it supports one split time (for two finishes). Countdown timer. Another digital watch feature I insist on is the countdown timer. Countdown timers are great for cooking frozen pizzas, counting down to the end of eBay auctions, and measuring your kids' timeouts. The countdown timers on the PAW1200 maxes out at 60 minutes, and has an auto-repeat function which will automatically restart the timer up to 10 times. The countdown timer also has a progress beeper which, when activated, will cause the watch to beep at various intervals as time expires in order to provide a little extra drama. The PAW1200 also does not have the snooze alarm (which continues to sound every five minutes until explicitly deactivated) that several other Casios have these days which is ok with me since whenever I try to use one, I just find it too annoying and end up deactivating it for good.