CasioAQS800W Series | Analog Digital Watch | 100M WR | Solar Powered | 1/100 SEC Stop Watch | 6-Language Day of The Week Indicator | Countdown Timer | LED Light | Multi Alarm
C**D
Easy to read, accurate, but with some downsides
Overall this is a decent watch at this price point. Solar charging/recharging is good so far. Readability of the analog dial is excellent, but the digital display is a bit small. The features of this watch are quite good - you can even adjust the time the light stays on, from 1-3 seconds. I haven't had it long yet, but I would expect it to be fairly durable.The digital display is pretty small. As a consequence, the DAY can be displayed, but not with the DATE. Instead Casio has inexplicably included SECONDS. When switching mode on the display to DATE, the DAY is similarly not displayed (again you get seconds). This is annoying and it seems this could have been easily remedied in design.Although this is an inexpensive watch, the hands and select makers have a basic Lume applied, which actually works pretty well. This is a nice add-on for a watch at this price point.My watch arrived in excellent/pristine condition with all tags, manuals, and boxes. It appears to be a genuine Casio, not a knockoff. Overall here are the pros and cons:PROS- Inexpensive- Solar powered- Nice analog time keeping with small digital supplement for day/date, stopwatch, etc.- Decent adjustable light- Decent hand and marker Lume.- Overall good build quality and features at this price point.CONS- Small date display that is a bit hard to read.- DAY and DATE cannot be simultaneously displayed in the digital screen. A mode change is necessary to get both.Overall a really good product for the price. I'd prefer to give it 4.5 stars, but I've rounded up to 5 considering how inexpensive it is.
J**N
Jovan
Very nice watch on good price. Setup is easy. It have flourescentic panel, charge from sunlight, water resistant, alarm, stopwatch, chronometer.
T**W
Nicely executed, cheap watch
I have had a lot of cheap watches like this over the years. I have much nicer and more expensive dress watches I wear for work. But for watches like this - which get worn mainly on the weekends, for travel and when working in the garden and so forth - I am a reasonably active guy and can be hard on them. I've found that the Casio watches generally hold up better than some of the others I've had, so I decided to get another one when the old one I had finally started acting wonky.Here's what I like:The orange/black contrast makes the analog portion of the watch very easy to read. Unlike a lot of cheap digital watches, this one is very nicely sized. It is neither too big and bulky, nor too small. It is relatively thin for a digital watch, more like the thickness of a higher-end dress watch. A lot of cheap watches like this are really ugly. This is not one of them. It is actually good enough looking that I can wear it to work or take it as my only watch when traveling. I wouldn't call it a dress watch, but it gets by in a way a lot of digital watches can't.There is no traditional stem to set the analog face, you do everything with the buttons. The stem on a watch is fragile part - I have had them break - so a design that doesn't have one means there is one less thing that can break. It has a solar charging system - meaning it draws energy from the sun and so it should never need a new battery during its expected lifetime (10-12 years). It is light weight and reasonably comfortable to wear, despite the plastic band. I like that there are air holes on each side to help keep the band from getting hot and sweaty in warm days. It is waterproof and has a way to quickly flip back and forth for daylight savings time (it has to be done manually, but is just a setting - you don't have to actually reset the time).Here is what I don't like:Like other reviewers - I REALLY don't like the fact that the day/date don't appear together in the LCD. You have to push a button to see the day of the week. The button you use cycles through local time, date, day. The seconds appear constantly this whole time, because, of course, I need to know the seconds at all times. You can tell the design engineers made that decision, not normal people. Then there is this thing to the right of the window like a progress bar that serves absolutely no useful purpose, other than to tell you the watch is still running. I assumed it would show the battery level of the solar battery when I bought it. But it doesn't - it just counts off 5 seconds over and over and over. I leave the little display on date, because I usually know the day of the week at least. But this is such an obvious design failure - it frankly surprises me that Casio would allow the watch into production without a day/date mode for the LCD.The hands have those glow in the dark things on them, but the light doesn't light up the analog portion of the watch. In a dark theater you have to hit the light, then cycle through that same day, date, & time button to get the time. The light is the older kind like you remember from years ago, not the kind that lights up the whole display itself. That is probably a trade-off due to the solar battery.You will need to keep the manual. Fiddling with the world time and getting it to swap the world time for the local time is not exactly intuitive. Setting the watch is not hard for somebody with basic technical skills, but the display is very small. You pay for the fact the watch looks good with a digital display that is pretty tiny.Overall - I'm satisfied. This is the nicest looking cheap watch I've ever owned. There are some trade-offs with looking good, but I can live with those. Assuming it holds up - it is a very good value. The only thing about this watch that really annoys me is the unforced error of not showing day/date together.
B**N
Great watch
I had a Casio solar watch as a kid, but it was a cheep $5 watch that didn't work after a week in the dark. I was debating on what kind of watch I should get, and I don't like switching out batteries every few weeks. I looked into mechanical watches (too expensive), chargeable watches (they were all digital display), and finally, I remembered the solar watch I had as a kid. I looked here on Amazon to see if I could find a good quality, waterproof, and long lasting solar watch, and I found this one.This watch looks great, lasts long after light source is gone, and is very waterproof. I also have small wrists, so finding a watch that can fit me is really hard, and this one fits.
K**R
My favourite watch
I really love this watch! It’s solar powered and the dials glow in the dark, provided that it had sufficient sun exposure. I get so many compliments on it. The only thing that other people have pointed out is that it will stain easily due to the white band. I haven’t experienced any yellowing. This watch also comes with a whole slew of features such as a timer, stop watch, daylight savings mode, and time zone selection and much more. I’ve submerged it in water and it is totally fine, and I read that it is also shock resistant, which is important for people who work in construction, etc. lives up to its name of tough solar.
M**L
Excelente y bonito reloj
The media could not be loaded. Tardo un poco en llegar pero llego muy bien empacado y todo en orden, el relojes muy bonito, ligero y cómodo con excelente costo en el que lo encontré, espero no se manche o tienda hacerse amarillento tan pronto, lo volvería a comprar sin dudarlo!
O**Z
Muy bien reloj
La verdad me gusta mucho este reloj muy minimalista, funciona con luz solar, lo único complicado fue poner la hora pero está muy bueno
L**A
Pra começar, é Casio, tem que ser bom.
Uso óculos bifocais, por isso comprei esse Casio analógico que dá pra enxergar bem à noite, mesmo sem óculos. Além disso com bateria solar e resistente a água. Muito bom! E o atendimento também, muito bom! Recomendo a todos!
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