Nixon Lodown For the Global Surfer: 200 Beaches, Good For 15 Years July 9, 2007

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The Nixon Lodown has 15 years worth of preprogrammed tidal info for 200 beaches all the world over. Right at your wrist you can monitor the height of the waves, and don't be afraid to jump right in when the surf looks good—the Lodown has a water resistance rating of 100m. The Lodown's simple presentation of data with its gray-on-black blocks makes it look pretty stylish, but is it $90 worth of stylish?

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Any information that doesn't update is susceptible to being regularly faulty, but if you visit a lot of beaches, this might be a neat watch to have. Of course, the Lodown also has the usual frills: A light for the nighttime, an alarm and timer, and the date, Also, you get some colors to choose from, either black, silver, and an off white and blue. -Kevin Hall

Product page [Nixon via Technabob]

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Looks like a nice enough watch, and $90 really isn't that much for a surfing watch, especially from Nixon. I'm pretty dubious as to how useful 200 beaches worth of tide tables are though; one of my favourite things is the collection of tide books I have built up over the years from different beaches. Also, not sure; does this actually monitor the height of the waves while you're surfing...that seems really difficult to engineer, so kudos if so, but otherwise you seem to be confused by tide heights and wave heights, Kevin.

posted-by Felix | July 10, 2007 2:02 PM

Totally useless bit of fluff. Any surfer will check the swell on the internet for the specific beach before going. pre programmed tidal info is next to useless.

posted-by sam davies | July 10, 2007 3:05 PM

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