Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #853 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: AMW320RD-2AV
• Dimensions: .50 pounds
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp-with-double-push-button-safety
• Dial color: blue
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 44 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Blue dial; Day-and-date functions
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
This Casio men's sport watch combines classic analog style with convenient digital functions, resulting in a casual and versatile everyday timepiece. The luminous hands and hour markers on the deep blue, round dial make reading easy, with multiple dash and Arabic numeral indexes to facilitate timing. Perfect for travelers or men on-the-go, the handy digital window at six o'clock displays the day of the week plus a second time or the day's date. The watch also offers a wake-up alarm, 1/100 second stopwatch capabilities, and hourly time signals. Built with a stylish and rugged stainless steel band, stainless steel case, and mineral dial window, this watch is water resistant up to 330 feet and is backed by a 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty. It closes securely with a fold-over clasp with double push button and is powered by analog quartz movement.

Development of the Timepiece Business
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.

Customer Reviews

great watch
I owned a different version of this watch for close to ten years and loved it. This version fixed one of my two complaints. You'll see the same watch, with gold, black or white faces and a black band. That black band needs replacing every two to three years - it'll basically fall apart. The stainless steel band fixes that problem. The other thing you'll also find on just about every review of this or any other version of this watch, is that there is no light. Seems like an easy fix on Casio's part, but obviously it wasn't that big a deal, because I bought a new one. They used to just make the gold face, and somewhere along the way, they made it rather orange, so I was pretty stoked to see a few new choices this time around. For the price, I can't imagine a better watch - okay maybe the same thing but with a light.

A satisfying watch to own.
This watch pleases in so many ways, it's hard to imagine wanting anything else. It's big, it's beautiful and it's very impressive on the wrist. Although it's a large watch, (46mm wide without crown), it wears very comfortably and it's 11mm height slides easily under the cuff of a long sleeve shirt. Fitting it to my 7 1/2 inch wrist required the removal of two links from the bracelet. Having both digital and analog readouts is a great feature. This is not a serious dive watch as evidenced by the bi-directional bezel and non-screwdown crown but it still feels rugged enough to wear in most outdoor activities. The attractive blue dial changes color depending on what kind of light you're in and the overall appearance gives the impression of a much more expensive timepiece. On most inexpensive quartz watches, the second hands never line up with the marks on the dial and maybe I just got lucky but the second hand on my example nails the tick marks on the dial dead center every time. I own about 25 watches both expensive and inexpensive but this is the watch I wear more than any other. I don't think you'll find a better watch for the money.

Excellent watch almost for free
Thank you Casio, you bit all competitors. Good looking watch, 3 time zones (if you setup main digital time different from arrow's time), alarm, calendar, stop watch. What else you can get for $64? Once fill up gas tank. I gave 5 stars, even everyone complained about light. Remember light takes too much battery energy.
I still think how to use this compass bezel without compass arrow? May be it is for mariners? Anyway it is 5 stars product.
And of course, thanks Amazon!