Look At The Popular Suunto Elementum Ventus Time Piece.

In comparison to Swiss building, the Finnish have made a really ambitious watch. The case of the Suunto Elementum Ventus is top notch with a "carved not stamped" experience to it. I value the sapphire crystal, but I am let down that it is nor glare-proofed nor domed. Thus in a pinch, you should use it as a mirror to fix your hair.

The pushers function effectively, even though much lauded "twisting A pusher" appears just a little less than "swiss rugged" to me.

The display.... fine, after many years of Swiss watches which thoroughly pulled off legible negative displays, I don't "get it" with this watch. Why can't Suunto make a negative display with sufficient clarity and contrast to compete with the likes of a Breitling, TAG or RADO? From my personal limited understanding of LCD technology, the main difference between a positive and a negative display is the polarizing filter. There's not much else to it. So Now i'm perplexed why this is so difficult to read.

I am pleased with the function of the watch. Suunto seems to have sought to make this particular watch as easy as possible! You can find basically four modes.The actual primary time display that may show either barometric pressure numerically or, within the same area, display the dat. The barometric record, which can be utilized by rotating the A pusher counter clockwise and scrolls the baro chart by hour increment. The compass, accessible via the C pusher in all modes except when the "race timer" is working; and also the race timer itself.

The count down chronograph is rather... difficult. It resets to zero by holding the C pusher after it has been stopped by hitting the A pusher. As soon as zeroed, it assumes five mins as the start time, while you are able to swivel the A pusher to modify this by minute steps. If set to zero, it functions like a modest chronograph. Why modest? It counts 10ths of seconds until 1 minute, after that switches to minutes and seconds, and to minutes only. When it comes to last mode, it's impossible to detect it's still operating without catching a digit change. As opposed to the "regular" convention of pulsating the ":" to show a running chronograph, the ":" is static. Furthermore unlucky is the fact that, whenever stopped, the timepiece will not show the greater precise readings. Compare this to an Aerospace Watch, where when the chronograph is ceased, this wrist watch alternates between showing the minutes and the seconds, so that you can at least gain access to the degree of precision kept in the watch.