SUUNTOCore Sports Watch, Classic Outdoor Adventure Watch with Altimeter, Barometer & Compass, Dual-time Sunrise & Sunset Display, Temperature & Storm Alarm for Hiking, Mountain UseClimatePartner certified

Battery Life: Lasts a long time. I don’t have to worry about it dying in the middle of nowhere.Size: Big enough to read fast, but doesn’t feel like I strapped a clock to my wrist.Value for Money: On sale for $159? Total steal. Worth every cent.Weight: Light enough I forget it’s there until I need it.Brightness: Easy to read day or night, no fumbling with a flashlight.Ease of Use: Straightforward, no manual needed. Even Sammy (my little brother) could figure it out.Altimeter, barometer, compass, storm alarm—this thing’s basically a survival buddy. If you’re outdoors, hunting, or just trying not to get lost, this watch has your back.

I used this for a portion of the Appalachian Trail hike before I lost it!!!! I used a small battery charging pack for all my electrical items, and this item was great. There is elevation, weather, and other things you worry about while on the trail, and this gave all the information quickly. Rarely would I ever worry about anything and the elevation gain and loss is the big thing when hiking the trail and this gave me it at a moment's notice. The quality of the glass never scratched, and it had every app on it, you needed. It is very lightweight, and you never thought twice about it not being on your wrist (probably how I left it behind at my campsite). Everything is easy to read with the dark background and bright display.

Great watch, it’s not a smart watch, which is what I needed, and packs tons of features. Elevation has to be frequently adjusted as expected, easy enough to do.Watch has functioned flawlessly thus far.

***UPDATED***First Review:I recently had a malfunction: the stopwatch function “froze” and I can’t reset or get out of the “time” mode. I just checked and am beyond the Amazon return window (purchased in May, return window expired in June…it’s now late July). I’ve read a ton of reviews that say the company doesn’t stand behind their product. The jury is still out in my case so let’s see how they respond. I’m not going to mention my occupationS or experience, that is reserved for review #2 after I see how they respond. For the record, I also own an MC-2 Compass (made by the same company) and it’s world renowned, so I have high hopes they do the right thing. We shall see, more to come. July 23, 2022Review #2 (September 18, 2022):It’s a good watch! I’m in Law Enforcement (Highway Patrol & Marine Unit), so I NEEDED a good watch. This one is hard to read at night (small numbers/characters and low backlight brightness), the included “Quick Guide” (all FOUR of them) only tell a small part of the story of this watch. To fully understand its capabilities and how to use it effectively, you’ll need that quick guide and all 33-pages of the user manual that you’ll have to download from their website. When I said “and”, I literally mean you need them BOTH (photo attached) to understand how to use all of the functions because neither does an effective job explaining how the thing works!I’m my first review I mentioned a malfunction. Well, it ended up being operator error on my part because I literally didn’t understand that it had gone into locked mode AND I couldn’t see the teeny, tiny little padlock icon that said it was in locked mode! Did I mention it’s hard to see/read? That became even more challenging because I had accidentally changed the language to something other than English and what little chance I had to recover was totally gone once it changed to some other language.If you wear glasses, be sure to use them whenever you’re setting or using anything other than the most basic functions (cycling through date, sunrise/sunset, stopwatch, timer, compass, altimeter, barometer). The user interface isn’t user-friendly or even intuitive so prepare to start memorizing which buttons perform which function when you’re doing anything other than cycling through available menus.Again, it’s a good watch…very good even! I returned it for repair and they promptly returned it with the explanation that I didn’t know how to use it (those are my words, they were much more polite and professional…thanks to them for that!)I was so frustrated when it was stuck in locked mode that I bought an Ironman (100m waterproof model) on-sale for $39.95. I can actually read and manipulate its functions at night, without reading glasses and the buttons are ultra-intuitive!!!! Sure it doesn’t have a compass, altimeter or barometer but for a basic rugged watch you can see (even at night without glasses or a magnifying glass), it’s kinda hard to beat since I swim often and waterproofing really matters. This Suunto cost $125 on Amazon and it’s a better watch than the Ironman I just mentioned simply because of its highly advanced capabilities. Just be prepared to do a ton of learning to use it effectively and efficiently in the field!I give the Suunto Core All Black a solid 4-Stars for quality, aesthetics, capabilities, and durability. The manual(s), display readability, and intuitive user interface all SUCK but I’m only going to dock them 1-Star for all of those because they should be easily correctable. …it’s a very good watch!

Still learning how to operate functions, but this review is for all to see what happens when you open the survey email from Suunto through Amazon. SPAM junk emails. Within the same day as it arrived, 15+ emails arrived through Amazon from Suunto; all the same. I deleted them all. Within the next 24 hours, 20 more of the same email. I DELETED THEM TOO. The next 24 hours, I got about 30 more. I deleted them as well. I decided to open an email, knowing not to open an attachment.Suddenly recognized its a spam. DELETED IT. Within 3 minutes, I received about 80 emails from various U.S. gov't websites, thanking me for 'signing up' for news releases, disaster release info, social security websites, ETC, ETC. After 3 weeks of deleting, blocking, phishing, junk marking, I am still getting them. I received at least 600 of such emails. It seems I can't mark each as "blocked" either. AMAZON ALGORITHMs DID NOT and are not PROTECTING ME to say the least! VERY ANGRY. Just a few minutes ago, I deleted over 180 such emails, that is why I am writing this review.An update as of 12/01/2024.... nothing has changed with these mass scam/junk/mass emails from the hundreds of gov't websites. I am still marking them as "junk" and deleting 3 days a week. I see an email from the seller of this SUUNTO watch of a buy-back but have not opened the email for FEAR OF SCAM again.

Best overall watch you can get. Simple design . Basic gadgets . Accurate compass.