Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9658 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: WVQ200HDA-9BVCF
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-push-button-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: yellow
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 164 feet

Features

• Quality Japanese-Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Stainless-steel case; Yellow 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 bright yellow 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

excellent value - after you adjust the band
Cool accurate watch. But removing links from the gorilla-sized band is a mystery that even google could not solve.
What the key? 1. buy a link remover on ebay for half the price of the watch, or 2. get a very small wire, or "brad" that has a flat head, and will fit in the tiny hole. Tap, in the direction of the arrow, with a small tool. Gently. Out pops the pin about 1/8". Pull it out the rest of the way with pliers. Repeat as necessary. Reassemble by putting in the pin in the reverse direction from where it came out. Tap gently till it's inside the band hole. Repeat. You're done.
Else, head to the mall, and spend half the price of the watch.
Enjoy!

A fun, sturdy watch
Casio produces inexpensive dependable watches. I have had my G-Shock for almost two years and it is great.The Atomic Waveceptor is a solid, fun watch. Just hit tab A to start the second hand and you are in business. (However, don't lose the instruction manual. If your policians are as goofy as mine, they might change your time zone on you. So, you will need to know how to change the watch's time zone.) The stainless steel bracelet was a bit big for me, but, if you are clever, you can take out a link or two yourself of pay a local jeweler a few dollars for the service. The watch was delivered very promptly (and for no shipping fee either!). This appears to be a closeout. So, if you want a dependable "atomic" watch at a very reasonable price, you need to order while the supplies last.

great watch
i got the watch today, 5 stars to amazon, the watch normally has to be set and can be a hassle to do(I have one in blue dial) but upon opening the box the watch was set a the correct time & date, and the frosting on the cake is the band fit perfectly, the only thing i had to do was put it on my wrist. 10 at-a-boys to amazon, well done