Wow, that was fast.
I ordered my new watch from www.watchshop.com yesterday at 1230hrs, it arrived (free delivery) today at 0945hrs!
It took a bit of fiddling to set up - the instruction manual is definitely required! But fortunately I'm a RTFM kinda guy.
It's cool! It is pretty large and in charge, but I was hoping for that as I thought my Timex was too small on my wrist.
http://www.watchshop.com/mens-casio-g-shock-g-rescue-alarm-chronograph-watch-g-7900-1er-p99932159.html
Each to their own.
The area given to displaying the actual time to total area of watch ratio is the smallest I've ever seen.
Interestingly, the photograph of the watch on my wrist makes it look far more pronounced than it does in Real Life, though I do agree with you, it's a small numbers:face ratio. They are however, clear and easy to read and for me, easier than my previous watch due to being a little smaller - for some reason small text doesn't suffer from being Dyslexically re-arranged as much.
I have also discovered that the stopwatches, yes, there are two, will count to 1000hrs each! Techno-overkill, I love it!
There are 4 alarms, of which I have two set up at the mo - 0700 (10mins to leave the house) and 2150 (10mins to feeding the cat), the countdown timer is set for 2mins (perfect cup of tea).
The buttons are easy to press, though you definitely need to press On Purpose.
Two major things this watch is missing:
1) The ability to change the date layout to
PROPER BRITISH LAYOUT2) That, unlike my last watch, you must cycle through all the functions to return to the time display. On my Timex, once you had reached whatever function you wanted to stop on, the next 'mode' press would return you to the time.
If you can give a watch
4 5 alarms, one of which is a snooze alarm, and let you control whether they go off every day, once a week, once a month, or on a specific day... surely you can arrange the date properly! Not to mention 2 stopwatches, one of which you can set to give you an automatic 5sec countdown to start!