Monday, October 5, 2009

Casio Men's Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WV430DJ-1


Depending on how your Waveceptor is put together will determine if your watch is water resistant; My Waveceptor is not!!!

On the outside this watch is all metal, but that is where it ends. The four screws holding the stainless back on are anchored into a plastic casing on inside the watch. When my watch was made one of the screws must have been stripped allowing the back to let in moisture. I didn't send the watch in to get "fixed" and decided to dry the watch out myself. (Note: Had I sent the watch in for repair this may have been a three star review.) Well I've had to dry my watch out three times and can not wear it hiking as the sweat from my body will fog up the watch crystal.

Speaking of the crystal. I can understand why it is not made out of glass as it has to let through as much light as possible to charge the battery.

All in all this is a great timepiece. I just would not recommend you wear it near water or during any sports activities.

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Casio Men's Digital Sport Watch #W756D-7AV


If you are looking for a cheap watch that looks decent, seems fairly durable and has some basic features then this is a decent watch. Here's a couple initial annoyances I noticed though: the stopwatch will only measure in minutes and seconds (no tenths or hundreds of a second) and inexplicably keeps a running time from when you start the stopwatch that in fact has 100s of a second. You just can't stop the running time only reset it back to 0. There is no lap feature either. Also the various buttons on the watch turn on/off features when you are just in view mode, so it seems like you could easily turn something off or on. All in all, for $25 what can you expect, but the lack of a true stopwatch could be a deal breaker for somebody out there.Buy Casio Men's Digital Sport Watch #W756D-7AV!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Casio Women's Classic Round Analog Watch #LQ139E-7A


I needed a watch for every day use. When I first receive it it looked smaller than I thought it would be, but once on my wrist it looks pretty cute. For this amazing price, I couldn't ask for anything better. Buy Casio Women's Classic Round Analog Watch #LQ139E-7A!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Casio Women's Baby-G Sweet Poison Shock Resistant Watch #BG2000-1


I am nurse looking for a simple watch with a second hand and this watch is perfect. It looks bulky in the picture but really isn't. It very classic and simple looking and even has 5 alarms and alarms hourly. I absolutely love the watch.Buy Casio Women's Baby-G Sweet Poison Shock Resistant Watch #BG2000-1!

Casio Men's Illuminator Sport Watch #W727H-1V


Have had good luck with all 3 Casio watches I own; they last a long time and work well. My only gripe with this watch is that when using the time display, the day and date display at the top of the window is kinda small and difficult to read. Buy Casio Men's Illuminator Sport Watch #W727H-1V!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Casio Men's Databank Digital Watch #EDB610-1


I have one of these right now and am looking to replace it. The watch band has cracked many times in the year since I bought it, and after numerous super-gluings, I am not even going to bother replacing the band. Why?

You can't use this watch. It has a calculator with no memory function, multi-timezone function that is nearly impossible to understand how to use, a scheduler that is also next to impossible to understand how to use (and looks like you can't remove an existing schedule!?), and supposedly can hold phone numbers and e-mail addresses, but I also cannot figure it out. This calculator watch has a user's manual that is disturbingly thick, and I still can't understand some of it. I gave up trying.

As for the basic calculator functions: To save space they took a row of buttons off from the usual DataBanks. The result is that for something as simple as performing calculations, you have to go through numerous counter-intuitive button presses in order to select the operator you want (pressing a side button once= "+," twice= "-," thrice= "x," and four times= "÷". And no memory function!? Does that make sense?

The alarm function is actually the scheduler, and it is strangely complicated to enter a simple alarm, and you can't delete it after it's been used. Or at least, if it is, it's buried somewhere in the user's manual which I gave up reading.

Save your money and your sanity and get a cheaper, classic DataBank.

Oh, and one last irritant:
If the body of the watch torques in some particular way, it will think that it is low on battery power, and so the timer/alarm will never sound (for saving battery life). I came to learn not to rely on using the timer function on this, because sometimes it wouldn't chime because of this problem, and I still haven't learned how to twist the body to get it to register normally again. This started shortly after I bought the thing, yet all this time later the battery still has plenty of juice, so it's just a design defect.Buy Casio Men's Databank Digital Watch #EDB610-1!