Considering it's a cheap stopwatch - the cheapest in the shop - it was severely overpackaged: Big plastic dome of a package, on a cardboard backing, with a thick book of instructions in several languages. And what is there to know? Pressing Start/Stop starts and stops it, Reset resets it, and Mode cycles between stopwatch and watch.

I really look forward to one day buying something and finding a bit of paper that says "Look, we put a lot of work into the useability of this thing. If you can't work it out for yourself, you probably shouldn't have it". Come to think of it, the iPod Shuffle's a lot like that.

"On. Off. Think about it."

Anyway, they didn't need to put it in a big plastic bubble. It doesn't need protecting from anything, either (isn't a sports accessory supposed to be fairly resiliant?).

Odd design decision, anyway.