subject: What Makes a Good Sports Watch [print this page] What makes a good sport watch? The following three basic criterias give answers to your question.Now let's have a look. 1.Sturdy and durable case. Lack of enough hardness,precious materials are absolutely not suitable to be made into a sport watch.Nowadays, the main materials for sport watch are stainless steel and plastic.Speaking of stainless steel, you can find many advantages-solidity,corrosion resistance,mature processing technology,lasting gloss.Every coin has two sides. Stainless steel is slightly heavier and quite a lot of people are allergic to the "Nickel" element of the stainless steel.Consequently in the recent years titanium materials gradually catch the attention of watch factories.The weight of titanium is much lighter than stainless steel.I think the greatest strong point of titanium is its non-allergenic character.Moreover,with cheaper and cheaper price, titanium is gaining popularity in sport watch.And plastic is already the main material when it comes to the low-cost sport watch. The plastic here can be divided into two kinds-reinforced ABS plastic and rubber.Low-cost production ,light weight, comfortable wearing and good shock resistance make plastic superior to metal materials.However,because of the insufficient hardness, plastic can be easily damaged under collision.Besides, plastic straps tend to have color fading and cracking problems.But with the advances of materials science and technology the poor durablity of plastic can be better solve by the glass reinforced plastic and stainless steel-coated rubber. 2.more than 100m water resistance. More than 100m water resistance.In fact, according to international standards watches that can be worn to have a swimming and snorkeling are ought to have at least 50m water resistance.Now dive watch of up to 11,000m water resistance has been created in the competition of water resistance among all the watch brands.However,watches of 100m water resistance are enough for outdoor activities and such watches are available in divers models. 3.Robust and comfortable band. Leather straps tend to break under sport environment of heat, wet and sweat together.To avoid such case,you are supposed to wear watch of chain belt,rubber belt or canvas belt.
