Is timex Q Reissue TW2U61200 a good buy

There is no reason to be nervous.

Can’t stress over that, I have a timex q chronograph with the don acrylic and it’s perfectly fine!

I’m not importing it

It is available on Amazon India

So it’s 100% genuine

Can you please share some pictures

It's a good buy, but something you can consider is getting a vintage timex instead which is usually a few dollars more and oozing with character

Amazon is not free from fakes.

And if it costs half the normal price it might be fake. If it's half price for used then that's maybe fine.

But see if you can try it on first somewhere. Well.. depends how much you care about fit and comfort.

Or I assume you can return or resell it if you're not happy? I don't know how things work there.

But yeah I wouldn't get plastic personally. It's gonna scratch. And if you want to wear it often it's gonna turn to shit.

Instead I'd choose something with glass. Casio has much better value for money in my opinion. and better durability too.

My point is there's far too many awesome watches to be wasting money on brands that can't be bothered to use glass. That should tell you something about how much effort they put into their other components.

And if it's fake it's gonna be 100 times worse.

Here's a great alternative. For the same price as the real Timex (160 dollars from Japan) you get titanium, sapphire crystal (pretty much unscratchable) solar power, radio time sync, timers, alarms, etc. Plus you can use it with some really nice NATO or FKM rubber straps. (I don't recommend leather because it's a really horrible industry).

If anything, an acrylic glass would be far easier to be cleaned if they get scratched, with something like a Polywatch, than a mineral crystal

He's in India.

Read the room.

"My point is there's far too many awesome watches to be wasting money on brands that can't be bothered to use glass."

Like Omega,Panerai,Sinn,Vostok,Lorier and others who use acrylic crystals in some models?

That should tell you something about those brands.

The omega gets damaged by its own box just from opening it. The buttons and lugs break off when people touch them or use them pretty carefully. The material leaves stains on people's skin. It's a garbage product that wouldn't even be acceptable at $20.

Imagine if $20 casios were that fragile. The brand would be considered total trash.

I don't know the other models you mentioned. But plastic is the cheapest option.

Even G Shocks that need to be ultra shatter resistant don't use plastic for the screen.

Anything over $25 with plastic glass is just not good value in my opinion.

To clarify my last comment - the crystal on the omega can get quite badly scratched when opening the box. From the contact with the cardboard. This happened to a big YouTuber. I don't remember the name but it's gonna be easy to find on YouTube.

Yes but by the same logic we should use knives made of plastic because it's easier to sharpen.

High quality glass nowadays from quality brands doesn't scratch easily. And if it does from a very strong hit then that same hit would put a huge unfixable gouge in the much softer plastic. It will likely be unfixable on both, but will be much less visible on the glass one.

Glass nowadays will last decades and still look great. Whereas the plastic will just become super scratched and cloudy. Polishing it constantly when you can just use glass isn't a good choice in my opinion.

I've dropped my glass watches on the floor a few times with no issues. and one time my cats played with it on a tile floor for a whole day. Glass nowadays (from good brands) is not the same as glass on vintage that would scratch easily.

I get my information from experience and various writings read over the years concerning the plusses and minuses of the various crystal materials. If YT is your information source , the more power to you.

Your argument does not present any data. It's a fallacy called "appeal to authority".

Humans write stuff. Humans also make videos.

Also - just because I mentioned a data point from YouTube doesn't mean that I get all my data from there.

Agree to disagree on the subject of crystals.

No worries bud. It's only watches at the end of the day.

It's an 85 USD watch, and a pretty one at that too. Give it a break

All I said was that plastic is not good value. Definitely not above 25 bucks.

And it's a watch that costs around 200 dollars. The 85 one is maybe used or fake or some rare deal. I didn't see it so I have no idea.

Yea, but expecting a domed sapphire for the vintage look from an american watch company in under $100 is pretty unrealistic (Not all Timex Q reissues are $200-ish). And he's buying it all the way from India, with import taxes and VAT, still a pretty good deal if he get one in mint condition imo

I’m from India only

And it’s 100% original no worries there

I said nothing about sapphire.

Timex only have a few made in America and they cost 500 bucks.

And like I said this model is not 85. It's 200. With plastic. Not made in America.

Plastic crystal for 200 is just not good value. With daily use over time it's gonna get scratched really bad.

The only reason people want watches made in a Western country is for the potential for higher quality materials and craftsmanship. This watch has none of these things.

Timex have a ton of quality issues and they are the only brand I know of that use brass cases that are painted silver. Not on all models but a lot of them.

It's just really low quality stuff that's riding on their historic brand name (which is now owned by a Dutch company).

Thanks buddy I ordered mine q reissue I will share pictures of unboxing

Sir I’m from India

Guys finally got it in only 55 USD THAT IS Rs4500/- Indian

What you guys think