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

Very cool watch.Brought this as a Christmas present for my brother and he loves it.He saw it in the the Denzel Equalizer films and liked the look of it. This is identical to the one Denzel wears. However, the stopwatch display does differ to the one in the films, not as big.It's comfy and not too heavy, and so far seems durable enough.It's a well made timepiece and keeps time accurately, has loads of functions to boot for the adventurous types out there or for people that like gadgets such as altimeter, barometer, thermometer and compass.It's good value for money for a watch of this kind.

Love this watch. Large size but the information available on screen is all you need. Barometer, Altimeter and Compass for the outdoor pursuits. Tough, rugged and built to last.

I am happy with this product

Initial impression is a well-built product that should last.As per other reviews, screen may appear dim when unlit indoors, but not a problem outdoors.Compass hit-and-miss. Has been helpful when out hiking. Sometimes more accurate than an old-style compass, but a couple of times has been wildly out. Needs to be held exactly level when reading, which is hard to do / estimate when worn on wrist. Can be sensitive to electromagnetic interference / metal structures. Needs to be recalibrated often using alternative method not mentioned in any of the manuals (google 'Suunto Core Sleep Mode' for more info).Altimeter is barometric and therefore needs to be regularly updated, as opposed to a GPS one. In the aviation industry, altimeter pressure settings (QNH) are updated multiple times a day for accurate readings, as should this one be. Advise downloading Aeroweather app or Windy and looking at the nearest airport's QNH for most accurate value, then enter via the alti-baro>reference>sea level menu. Can also be updated using a known elevation as well.Thermometer is totally useless. Your guess will be far closer to reality. I've just been out walking in subzero temperatures, snow and thick ice all around, and the Suunto Core was telling me it was +19ºC, see photo. Suspect it's reading my skin rather than the ambient temp.Overall, a slight disappointment, mainly in terms of the compass reliability, especially given that it is from a company that specialises in compasses, and a Finnish company at that. Not sure if I'd be confident navigating purely using this. Not sure whether to keep it, as it looks nice, but not sure if I can trust it. Design needs improving, please.

I owned a Suunto Vector for a decade - it was amazing. The Core black however, is terrible - I've sent it to back to Suunto four times for repair now because the altimeter is shockingly unreliable (each time they replace is with a new watch, each time it fails in less than a month or so, sometimes it show a dash " - " other times it changes altitude at hundreds of feet a minute as I sit at my desk.

I have had watches that supposedly had a barometer and measured the weather but they never worked properly.This one is different.During a recent trip, the pressure changes while driving through the mountains or flying were picked up, and a 5 beep alarm showed the "storm" warning. Clearly the watch does not know the rapid drop is due to me driving through the mountains, but I am glad it is very accurate.This watch is a great asset for anyone who wants to know things accurately. The thermometer works fine as well.This is a recommended item.

Love the watch. two drawbacks for me: Display contrast/brightness and stopwatch/timer implementation.It's a really nice looking watch. The photos don't do it justice. The watch is big but still quite sleek, has a lovely smooth curvy mineral crystal face and a streamlined appearance. The properly black face and negative display look so good and the display and backlight fit well with the overall aesthetic. Some of the details further add to the overall quality look - the finely marked compass readings on the aluminium bezel, the digital moving second marker around the outside of the clock face, the crisp matrix display (though I have issues with its brightness), comfy strap and nicely machined buttons.The feel of the buttons is good and the functions are nice and responsive. The compass is good enough (but needs proper calibration). The Altimeter works well enough to measure ascent and descent as relative values. The barometer works well and allowed me recently to plan ahead when to travel and when to stay put.I also love the alarm and snooze function. Actually useful and good enough to use as your morning alarm signal. When it comes on, it illuminates the backlight automatically - great idea.Battery life is good enough - under a year but well over a few months, even with using any function liberally. Compared to a watch you have to recharge, I like the old school battery tech of this watch - my go-to watch for a longer trip where basic ABC will suffice and I need it working for days on end.The display is very easily legible in daylight. In the dark, the backlight works nicely and is not too bright. Inbetween however, in low light or in partial shadow, the display can lack the contrast to be easily legible and the backlight is not bright enough to help with that. The larger digits are OK but the smaller secondary data fields along the top and bottom are hard to read then.MY ISSUE WITH THE WATCH:This watch does not have loads of features (nor is it meant to) so it is a shame that two of the features it does have - the STOPWATCH and the COUNTDOWN TIMER are so poorly implemented IMHO. The watch has a large primary display field, across the centre of the watch which is legible and visible. It also has a small secondary display field across the bottom that shows date, sunrise and sunset times, seconds etc. The problem is that this small display field is also the only place you will be able to see the countdown timer and the stopwatch. They are always in tiny digits. They cannot be displayed on the primary display field at all.If you compare this feature to the Suunto TRAVERSE, that watch cycles through modes - clock, compass, anti/baro, countdown timer, stopwatch etc - the TIMER and STOPWATCH have dedicated modes, their own screen, large digits for the timer or stopwatch, small digits for the time. This watch, the CORE, however has only 3 modes: Clock, compass, and alti/baro. The timers are only ever an aspect of the clock and therefore only ever visible IN SMALL DIGITS. Also, if you therefore want to change the duration of the countdown timer, you cannot do it in the screen itself as a simple adjust function - you have to go into the menus to find the duration setting.The display, because of its negative display and fairly faint digits in any event, is already not the easiest to read in all lights. Adding very small digits to that becomes a problem. Confining the timers to the small display is a real limitation in their implementation. The Traverse does it SO much better - and it's only a question of how the operating system/menu flow chart is designed.So, pity. Love the watch. Love its essential ABC functions BUT wish it was easier to read in mixed lighting conditions and wish stopwatch and countdown timer were better implemented (i.e. on the large display). They deserve to be modes in their own right as they are on the Traverse.I got mine for £95 from Amazon. Well worth it at that price, but less good value once you start to get much over £100.