Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225 in Watches
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Casio
• Model: WV430DJ-1
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp-with-double-push-button-safety
• Dial color: grey
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quality Japanese-Quartz movement
• 1/100 Sec Stopwatch, 3 Daily Alarms
• World Time 30 Cities, Bi-Lingual Display (Eng, Jpn)
• LED Light W/ Afterglow
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Smart and stylish, the Casio Men's Waveceptor Atomic Solar Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WV430DJ-1 features a rich gray dial with a sturdy mineral crystal. Stand-out hour and minute indexes offer at-a-glance readability, and a beautifully contrasting black ring is adorned with Arabic numerals and indexes for further time-telling convenience. Other innovative features include a digital calendar display. A silver-tone stainless steel band comes equipped with a fold-over clasp with a double push-button safety closure. The stationary bezel is also made of stainless steel, and a 43-millimeter case is composed of high-quality stainless-steel. The perfect accessory to all of your ensembles, this stunning timepiece brings your look a refined edge. Powered by solar movement, this watch is also water resistant to 330 feet.

The Waveceptor Story

Waveceptor- On time all the time

With the launch of its first watch in 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. Armed with cutting-edge technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered the field confident it could develop timepieces that would push watch technology forward.

With Casio’s Waveceptor Line Casio is focusing its efforts on radio-controlled watches: the radio-controlled or Atomic 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. All Waveceptor watches even automatically adjust for daylight saving time…now that is an intelligent timepiece.

Some Waveceptors even feature a built-in solar battery which eliminates the nuisance and waste 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. Amazon.com offers the largest online assortment of Casio Waveceptors

Waveceptors are everything you like in a fine timepiece, easy on the eyes, easy to use and provide the most precise time on planet earth. With a Waveceptor you come only be fashionably on time…all the time.

The Casio Story

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.

Customer Reviews

No fuss perfect timekeeping
If you want a watch that's good looking and always dead-accurate to the split second without any adjustments, you won't go wrong with this one.
Here are a few observations:
It's lightweight. It weighs about half as much as the other watches I own with stainless steel wristbands, making it very comfortable to wear. The face is large with a simple clean design, making it easy to read. I do need my reading glasses for the digital display.
It's nice looking and goes with just about any kind of outfit from casual to dressy. I wouldn't wear it to the beach or with a tuxedo, but it looks pretty good with just about anything between those extremes. In the display photo, it appears to have a blue-gray face, mine is gray with a faint hint of violet rather than blue. When you look at it you basically see a gray face, but it's a warmer gray than it appears on the web. I think the real thing looks better than the picture.
It's pretty easy to set up. If you've ever set a digital watch, this isn't much different. The main difference is that you have to set the time zone you're in for the correct hour to be displayed. Once that's done, you don't have to worry about it again unless you are traveling and want to change it to different time zones. It's not a difficult procedure. One thing I really like a lot is the watch automatically resetting itself for daylight savings time! Twice a year I have to go through the tedious ritual of changing all of the clocks and watches around the house. It's nice having one wristwatch I don't have to touch. The radio controlled timekeeping works like a charm. The only potential drawback would be traveling outside the range limit of the atomic radio signal. If you are a U.S. customer, the signal range is nearly all of North America. Even if you are out of range, the watch should still keep pretty accurate time and you can always adjust it manually if you need to.
I like the idea of the battery being recharged by solar power. It doesn't require a whole lot of light to do the trick. The specifics are in the instructions. One example is five minutes of direct sunlight equals one full day of power consumption. I got this a couple of months ago during the dead of winter and I live in Minnesota, so it's dark most of the time and the watch is always covered by long sleeves when I'm wearing it. To keep the battery fully charged, I set it near a window instead of putting it in a drawer when I'm not wearing it. In the summer, normal exposure to sunlight with short sleeves when I'm out and about during the day should be more than enough light for a full charge. I should also mention that it will run for months on a full charge without additional light exposure. I'd like to say never having to replace the battery is a great feature, but to my knowledge there's no such thing as a battery with an infinite number of charge/discharge cycles. Assuming I keep and use this watch for many years to come, the battery will eventually wear out, lose it's ability to hold a charge and will have to be replaced. I'm hoping that will be a very, very long time from now.
To sum it up; the watch is no fuss, totally accurate, good looking and comfortable to wear. I can't say enough good things about it!

great watch elegant & free maintenance
I've been using this watch for about 2 months now. I love it, it's auto everything and with a solar battery an water resistant, it is truly a self maintained device. I travel internationally and it allows you to program local time zones on the digital display..while keeping home time on the analog dial.

I strongly recommend buying an invisible protective cover for the front glass as it does scratch easily. It protects the watch and now it becomes a stylish Gshock. The one I bought is (http://www.zagg.com/)

Item is good
Got the watch on Friday, it's Monday now. I'm tech minded but this watch took a while to figure out. The manual is tiny is hard to follow at first but after while you understand the language.

The watch is cool, easy to read the time but i can't read the little window without glasses. Bigger than I thought but not too big. I had to have links removed-i tried to figure how to remove links but was scared of damage-a jeweler charged me $6-that's was fine with me.

I like the exact time idea-easy to get a time signal if you walk outside, inside where i live it's very difficult to get reception.

I also like the idea of not having to replace the battery...don't know how long the rechargeable battery will last but that can be replaced way down the road, i hope.

I worry about scratching the crystal, i was thinking about a screen protector but that might make it hard to see the watch.

Amazon had the best price when i looked. All in all it's a nice item.