About Suunto. Despite advances in technology, digital watches are no longer favored today from a fashion standpoint, but they have found a niche market as sports and adventure watches. One of the companies that manufactures digital watches for modern watches is Suunto Oy, based in Finland, Suunto produces and markets sports precision instruments for diving, training and and other outdoor sports. Suunto is a subsidiary of Amer Sports Corporation with sister brands Wilson, Atomic, Salomon, Precor, Arc’teryx and Mavic.
Suunto Vector HR. The Suunto Vector HR is designed for trekking and mountain climbing featuring an altimeter, barometer, electronic compass, and heart rate monitor to give you the information you need to make responsible decisions during outdoor activities. Accessing these features is easy. Pressing the button at the 3 o'clock will toggle the display between time, altimeter, barometer and compass.
The heart rate monitor zone can be set to alarm when your heart rate is climbing at an alarming rate. The altimeter features a range up to 9,000 m / 29,500 ft, making it useful in all 14 of the world's 8,000+ meter summits. In addition to measuring height it measures your vertical speed, and works in conjunction with heart rate monitor so you can see the physiological impact of both altitude and vertical rate of movement. You can set altitude alarms to remind you when you’re reaching another limit. An automatic 24-hour memory stores the altitude and ascent/descent rate for every hour, and lets you record other intervals. With the logbook, you can see and compare all of your ups and downs as it records your total and cumulative vertical ascents and descents.
The Suunto Vector HR displays real-time barometric pressure and temperature, giving you information on weather conditions. It stores the past four days’ barometric data, which is recorded automatically.
The digital compass guides you with cardinal or half-cardinal points and a north-south arrow. You can set the compass to track a bearing of your choosing, and your Suunto Vector HR helps you get around in unknown terrain. A declination adjustment function allows you to correct the difference between true north and magnetic north for a more accurate reading.
In addition the Suunto Vector HR displays the current time in 12- or 24-hour format, allows you to set three daily alarms, a calendar and a chronograph with a split-time stopwatch, countdown timer, and interval timer functions.
It's not a very pretty watch, but it is not meant to be. It is an excellent example of a modern day tool watch.
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