Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20049 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: WVQ200HDA-7AV
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: white
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 164 feet

Features

• Quality Japanese-Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Stainless-steel case; White dial; Date function
• ERROR 42

Amazon.com Product Description
Sleekly styled with the lines of a classic timepiece, this silver-tone Casio Atomic Waveceptor stainless steel men's analog/digital watch is a great match for professional couture and will keep you on time for important meetings. It's very precise thanks to its atomic time updating features, which receives a time calibration signal transmitted via radio signals from Fort Collins, Colorado. Signal reception is possible within a radius of about 2,000 miles from the Fort Collins transmitter. You can choose to automatically receive this signal several times a day, or manually update the Waveceptor to the atomic clock. This watch is accurate to +/- 20 seconds per month with no atomic signal update.

The round case is topped with a circular, polished bezel with black engraved elapsed time markings, and the case is further highlighted with screw-down accents. The silvery white dial face includes large luminous markers and Arabic numerals at 6, 9, and 12 o'clock, luminous skeleton hands (with seconds hand), and small minute indexes ringing around the exterior. It also offers a digital date window at 3 o'clock, which can also display the day as well as world time from 24 time zones. It's matched to a stainless steel bracelet band that mixes links with satin and polished finishes. Other features include an auto-calendar pre-programmed to 2098, a battery life of approximately 2 years, and water resistance to 50 meters--suitable for swimming but not for diving.

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

Very Pleased with this Watch
I'm a little disappointed that the watch doesn't have a more substantial feel and that the band isn't a little more heavy duty, but actually it only takes a few minutes to get used to the weight of the watch and the fact is that titanium watches are becoming more common so weight is not so much of a guarantee of higher quality.

I think the watch looks great.

The manual is thick only because it is written in several different languages, so the only relevant section is pretty concise and the main functions are easy to locate and master. Some of the other features are a little more complicated, but within a very short period of time you can get the basics down, get the watch calibrated and set, and it is ready to wear.

Even if the watch doesn't pick up a signal for a month, it will only lose or gain twenty seconds, which is very accurate in its own right.

This is one of six watches I own presently, that are working, at least, and I'm proud to add it to my collection.

Other reviewers seem to have unrealistic expectations for a watch that, while retailing for lots more, cost a mere thirty dollars, especially one that performs as this one does.

Always on time
This watch is totally accurate. And with glow in the dark hands and numerals and an oversized date window, it is the perfect watch. It makes it a pleasure to look at my wrist!

Meh. It's a cheap atomic watch.
I've been looking for a cheap atomic watch, and that's what this is. From the picture, it looks pretty unoffensive, but it's more offensive in person. I love the *idea* of a simple unpretentious inexpensive analog-handed atomic calendar watch, but they didn't really pull off the execution with this one.

The controls are not intuitive. How hard could it be to sync with the atomic clock signal and set the time zone, right? I couldn't figure it out without reading the manual, and IMHO, a watch shouldn't *need* a manual.

I hated the cheap feel of the band, and I couldn't figure out how to remove links to adjust the length, so I ended up replacing the band with a leather one.

The description says the bezel and case are steel. It may be correct, but it feels and looks like chrome-plated plastic. The back is definitely plastic, and the buttons appear to be too. (And both are black, in constrast with the rest of the watch.)

In the end, I think it's better for a cheap watch not to pretend it's not a cheap watch. This one is cheap looking and feeling without being, erhm, shabby-chic, I guess. Meh.