Timex Men's Classic Digital 34mm Watch

I scoured Amazon and the internet for simple and easy-to-read watches, looking for certain features and reading reviews, which takes more time than one would like to calculate. If you want watches with bells and whistles there are millions. If you want a watch that someone with low vision and/or memory problems/dementia can read, not so many. It’s sad when you get right down to it, but I expect it’s because those not needing exotic interfaces just use their cell phone to check the time.Dad’s watch broke, so I needed to replace it. He’s 87 with diminishing eyesight, memory problems, ad encroaching dementia.Dad has 4 or 5 clocks in his room, but can’t handle not having a watch on top of all the clocks and an over-sized timer that can break your eardrums. (When we moved him out of his house, he had so many clocks it wasn’t funny, often more than one on a surface.)All I wanted was a clearly readable time, plus the date and day of the week in a hopefully reliable watch. I narrowed my search down to three watches that varied in cost from $13 to $70. We leaned toward digital because I read that as their memory got worse, people often become unable to understand the analog clock face and benefit from just having the actual time in digits.Of these three watches, two are outstanding, and one is good if the person’s vision is still good enough. I expect that all will require us to set the time if it should need changing for any reason. I’m giving Dad all three, although the first two in the list were immediate hits.Here are the watches and why I chose them:

There's a reason my generation (Gen X) used to use this phrase, back in the day. It could have come from a commercial, but it was true. You could always trust that we would usually lose the watch before it died.I got so tired of charging my Fitbit 2-4 times a week, I just said "screw it" and got me an "Ol Reliable."Hopefully, now as an adult, the battery will die before I lose it. I love Timex so much, I bought one for both myself (she/her) and my husband. Even though they are identical, they look just fine on both of us. Not too masculine for me and not too fem for him. Win/win at gender neutral.

The wristband fits me very well.Even without the instructions, I was able to reset the time and also the alarm.The Indiglo light allows me to see the time at night and the alarm is loud enough for it to wake me up.