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6/01/2010

Casio Men's Multi-Function Alarm Sports Watch #F201WA-1A Review

Casio Men's Multi-Function Alarm Sports Watch #F201WA-1ABeing left handed I wear this watch on my right hand.Problem.When I tilt my hand up at the wrist the buttons on that side of the watch get pressed and it goes into unpredictable settings or modes. I look down to see the time and I'm looking at an alarm mode, or the stopwatch.The buttons on the other side work the light or only work when some change mode has been entered.So on the left hand those buttons don't change the display.On the right hand it is amazingly easy to hit these buttons with a tilted wrist.Too bad, since it is otherwise a great watch.Has an amazing number of features for an inexpensive watch, keeps great time, and the buttons work really well (ask me how I know).So if you can wear it on the left hand you should be very pleased.On the right hand, not so much.Unless you keep your right hand flat all day.Get the F-28W if you are a right arm wearer.Its does not have all the features, nor the buttons, but it is just as reliable, inexpensive, and indestructible.

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Product Description:
With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.

In developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question, "What is a wristwatch?" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month - not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world's first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio transformed the concept of the watch - from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist - and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio's own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world's toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-SHOCK offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was immediately recognized, and its unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend conventional thinking about the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become Casio's flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping technology similar to the impact created when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy efficiency, Casio continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled models.


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5/03/2010

Casio Men's Classic Digital Watch #F28W-1 Review

Casio Men's Classic Digital Watch #F28W-1The one reservation is that the plastic and the strap fall apart after a while.So splendid is the watch, however, that I'm forever tempted to preserve the thing somehow, perhaps by encapsulation or making a nice metal bezel to hold a good strap onto it.My experience is that one watch is good for two strap replacements, though it's a bit of an exercise to get the pins out.

The major advantages: It shows the day of the week, the date, the hours, minutes, and seconds.And that is _all_ it shows.No alarms to surprise you, and no stopwatches.There is no joy like that of finding out that instead of local time, the '1:33' you see displayed on your watch's dial means that you accidentally started the stopwatch an hour and 33 minutes before.

The only 'accessory' is that you can set the thing to read on 24-hour time, which is necessary in some applications.The watch is very light, very cheap, very accurate, and I believe the battery lasts approximately forever.There's no back-light, but that's why the battery lasts a long time.

The only other difficulty is availability: Wal-mart--and, obviously, Amazon.com--sell 'em, but at about ten bucks each, they're not high-profit items.

Another bit of folklore.Someone--not me--has or had non-commercial website devoted to this watch.

M Kinsler
http://www.mkinsler.com

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Product Description:
The Casio Men's Classic Digital Watch features a large digital screen that makes it easy-to-read and simple to use. The timepiece is constructed with a durable resin case, a stationary black resin bezel, and a black resin band with an adjustable buckle clasp. A durable mineral window shields the square digital-gray dial face, which features a digital time display along with the day, date, and month. In addition, the analog-powered timepiece comes with a one-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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