6/21/2010

Casio Men's Ana-Digi Edifice Thermometer Bracelet Watch #EFA120D-1AV Review

Casio Men's Ana-Digi Edifice Thermometer Bracelet Watch #EFA120D-1AVAlthough this watch is "only" a Casio it is simply an amazing and elegant timepiece. For under $60 dollars the watch looks like it costs at least $100 more and has tons of features to keep any technophile content.

The Pros of this watch include:

- Looks:Unlike a lot of other Casio watches, which have cheap looking plastic parts holding the metal pieces together, this watch is all metal. It looks like it is on par with the Seiko's and Pulsar's out there.I chose the square model over the otherwise identical round model because it looks more elegant whereas the round appears more sporty... either way you cannot go wrong.

- Features: The face of the watch is embedded with digital screens that are not normally visible unless you really try and look for them.This allows it to have the grace of a analog watch with the technology and features of a digital.But remember this is an analog watch first so the digital screens are not quick and easy to read like a true digital watch... they are there for supplementary information.

Cons of this watch include:

- The hands of the watch can partially obstruct the digital screens at times.

- The indicators for the alarm, hourly chime, autobacklight, etc. are really small and hard to see.

- The clasp of the band is made from much cheaper looking steel than the rest of the watch. This is not really a problem since you cannot see this part once the clasp is closed.

- The band is rather difficult to adjust and there are not a lot of settings in between so I was not able to get the "perfect" fit although it is very close.

- The band seems to scratch easily.I have had a Pulsar diver's watch for 20 years and had no scratches on its band.I have owned the Casio for less than 1 month and already there are a few faint scratches.Luckily I have not scratched the crystal as of yet but I would not be surprised if this also was easy to scratch.

- The thermometer is innacurate but it can be calibrated and once you calibrate it according to your body temp it does a fair job of telling you the temperature.

- It only has 1 alarm, and it does not have atomic timekeeping like other Casio watches.

Overall I have been really happy with the features and appearance of this watch. It really draws lots of compliments for its analog style and when people look at it upclose they are wowed by the technology factor as well.Really a good buy for the money, hopefully it will hold up with daily use and abuse.



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Product Description:
Powerfully styled and packed full of robust timekeeping and environmental features, the Casio Edifice stainless steel watch for men (model EFA120D-1AV) holds its own in both professional quarters and rugged outdoor terrain. This round analog/digital timepiece features a stainless-steel bezel framing a standard analog dial with white stick hour markers and thin oval skeleton hands. It also offers digital windows for showing current date as well as the watch's chronograph, which can measure events down to 1/100 of a second. Other stopwatch features include a 50-record memory, single stopwatch mode with lap times and total elapsed time, a dual mode with two independent lap times, and a 100-hour capacity. It also includes a thermometer that measures every even-numbered minute. Other timekeeping features include:* World time with 30 time zones (50 cities) with city code display and daylight saving on/off * Daily alarm * Countdown timer with 100-hour range * Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099) * 12/24 hour formats This watch also features a stylish stainless steel bracelet, ±30-second accuracy per month, Afterglow backlighting, and water resistance to 100 meters (330 feet)--offering protection from accidental splashes as well suitable for swimming, snorkeling, and light recreational diving.

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6/20/2010

Casio Women's Tough Solar Ana-Digi Sport Watch #LCF30-4B Review

Casio Women's Tough Solar Ana-Digi Sport Watch #LCF30-4BOKAY HOW DO YOU SET TIME ON THIS WATCH? I'LL ADMIT, I'M NOT THE MOST SAVVY GAL OUT THERE AND I DO HAVE SOME TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES. HELP! BUT OTHERWISE ITS A BEAUTIFUL WATCH!!

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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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Casio Men's Active Dial Sport Watch # AQW100D-1AV Review

Casio Men's Active Dial Sport Watch # AQW100D-1AVI got this on closeout and couldn't resist for the price.It's a typical Casio piece-rugged, accurate, and well put together.There is no compass function--it just has directions printed on the non-rotating bezel.The wave function is difficult to set as you have to track down some odd information about your location.Even when I did that it seemed inaccurate.The moon function works well.The time needs to be set twice, once for the hands and once for the digitial.Some may appreciate that but since the hands only move forward, I found it to be quite a pain when stepping off a plane.It took several minutes of constant button-holding to get the hands to move forward 23 hours.

I like it because the display is clear and the whole face lights up.The metal band is solid and comfortable.It's not too heavy and not too big.I'm a fan, but there's no getting around the fact that it's a budget watch.

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Product Description:
The Casio Men's Active Dial Sport Watch features a compass function with the cardinal directions printed around the bezel to provide you with a unique way to orient yourself. This versatile timepiece is constructed with a durable resin case, a stationary stainless steel bezel, and a stainless steel link bracelet with a double-push-button-fold-over-safety clasp. A durable mineral window shields the digital-gray dial face, which includes every feature a wearer could ask for--digital time, day, date, and month displays, along with a traditional watch face overlay. The dial also includes mode, search, adjust, and light functions. The analog-digital watch is water resistant to 660 feet and comes with a one-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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Casio Men's G-Shock G-Lide Surfing Watch #GLX5600-4 Review

Casio Men's G-Shock G-Lide Surfing Watch #GLX5600-4This watch is great this Is my first G-shock and many more to come.The color of this watch Is amazing It stands out like no other I would recommend this watch and brand to anyone....

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The steady Casio Men's G-Shock G-Lide Surfing watch will read true through the biggest waves and earthquakes. The tough timepiece is constructed with a red resin case, a stationary red resin bezel, and a red resin wristband with an adjustable buckle clasp. A durable mineral window shields the digital-gray dial face, which displays the time, as well as the day, date, and month. The digital-quartz-powered watch includes adjust, mode, search, and light function buttons to fit your active life. It is water resistant to 660 feet and is backed by a one-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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6/19/2010

Casio Men's Classic Ana-Digi Watch #AQ47-1E Review

Casio Men's Classic Ana-Digi Watch #AQ47-1EGreat product, great price. This is my 4th Casio Alarm Chrono. The watch keeps going but the plastic band breaks after about a year of use!! The low price makes the watch expendable, though, so I buy a new one every year or so. Thin profile, very comfortable on the wrist, and both analog and digital clock face.

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This sleek and sophisticated casual watch from Casio's Classic series is a stylish analog watch with convenient digital functions for the best of both worlds. The square black dial features gold-toned hands and dash indexes, while the amber-toned digital window below conveniently displays a second time or calendar date. The rectangular case is made of stainless steel, and the bezel and watch band are made of a rugged, dark gray polyurethane resin for a futuristic appeal. The analog quartz watch also offers a daily alarm, hourly time signals, and 1/100 second stopwatch capabilities. Water resistance up to 99 feet, the timepiece is backed by a 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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Casio Men's G-Shock Tough Solar Watch #G2300B-1V Review

Casio Men's G-Shock Tough Solar Watch #G2300B-1VI had other G-shock watches before, but now my skin reacts to the rubber watch band.The nylon mesh band is great, with the velcro adjustment, it was very comfortable.I like the Casio for its ruggedness and the solar power is a great bonus.I went snorkeling with this watch, only about 15ft., but it worked fine, I didn't need to turn on the backlight.The backlight works pretty well low light and dark rooms.The only negative thing about the watch, are the buttons.You need to push them pretty hard to get the function you want.But you get used to it.

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The Casio Men's G-Shock Classic Watch #G2300B-1V features a digital gray dial face, which is protected by a secure mineral dial window. An auto-calendar display offers time-telling convenience. Other innovative features include a 30-page databank, a multi-function alarm, and an hourly time signal. The black resin bezel is embellished with a flash of brilliant orange. Other details include a 41.5-millimeter resin case, a black nylon band, and its easy-to-use Velcro-fast-wrap strap. Designed to cater to your fast-paced lifestyle, this classy timepiece presents a perfect blend of performance and style. It is powered by digital movement and water resistant to 200 meters.

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Casio Men's Sport Watch #W753-3AV Review

Casio Men's Sport Watch #W753-3AVI decided I wanted a decent-sized yachting watch with the tide shown on it as I thought it would be handy for sailing. I looked around and discovered there are huge differences in prices for watches and as I couldn't justify spending much, after some study I ended up choosing the Casio Sea Pathfinder. Now I don't know much about brands but I do know that Casio isn't a cool brand but, hey, getting this much watch for less than twenty pounds, I couldn't complain. The Amazon price was significantly cheaper than prices in the various chandlery mail order catalogues (now there's a surprise!). Please note there is a blue strap version (the one I chose) and black strap or silver strap versions which I think are the same watch (at least the same innards) but slightly different visually.

So, what's the watch like? Firstly, I'm a woman (albeit a large one!) and some men's watches look ridiculous. This one is fine, it's got a large face but not enormously so and a curved glass top so it feels smooth. There are four large buttons, two either side, which are easy to press. The main display (usually the time) is easy to see and very clear, the tidal and lunar displays less so, although you get used to reading the watch face.

There are a number of different modes including time, dual time (i.e. two different time zones), moon (how many days into the moon), 5 alarms, stopwatch and countdown timer. Interestingly I've found myself using the countdown timer when cooking (rather than a normal cooking pinger) because it's very easy to set. In fact all of the options on the watch are easy to set - once you've found out your lunitudinal interval. This mystery number helps the watch know the tidal states but the little instruction book that comes with the watch only gives general lunitudinal interval locations, such as 'London'. Armed with a set of tide tables and the watch, I discovered that London is significantly different to Eastbourne (Sovereign Harbour) tidal times. The thing I hadn't realised before buying this watch is that you can dial in the date and time and it will tell you the tide at that point, it doesn't just tell you the tide right now, so I was able to check the calculations up till December this year. Eventually, after some googling, I found a table of lunitudinal intervals along the South Coast of England. It didn't include Eastbourne but did have some other locations and, with a little trial and error, I managed to find the best lunitudinal interval which meant my watch tides agreed mostly with the Tide Table tides. And so far the tidal display seems reasonably accurate - it's nowhere near good enough to use for sailing planning but is a helpful quick check when you're thinking about walking on the beach (will the dog be able to play in the rock pools or will they be covered up?) and for general interest.

Being a digital watch it does have the unfortunate problem that when wearing polarising sunglasses (as I do when sailing) it's hard to make out the LCD display, but this is also true for the log, depth display, radar etc on the boat and isn't the fault of the watchmaker, just something to bear in mind.

Battery life is supposedly 10 years but most people will be bored with the watch by then and have moved onto the next one. The light lights up the face in the dark (what more do you need), the beeps for the alarms are loud enough to wake me, the watch overall seems perfectly adequate and it looks good. I think if I'd paid fifty pound I would have been very happy, for less than twenty it's a complete bargain. Go for it!

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Blending functionality with a sporty style, the Casio Men's Sport Watch #W753-3AV features a digital gray dial face, which is protected by a secure mineral dial window. Embellishing the dial are an easy-to-read time display, a handy auto calendar, and a moon phase data function designed to keep you in touch with Mother Nature. Other innovative details include a countdown timer, a stopwatch, and an hourly time signal. A black resin band comes equipped with a sturdy buckle clasp. The watch also features a 40-millimeter polyurethane-and-stainless steel case and a stainless steel bezel. Sure to get you noticed, this stunning timepiece offers precision and dependability. It is powered by digital movement and is water resistant to 100 meters.

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