Product Description

Edifice, known for its bold and sporty designs, introduces a new Solar-Atomic Chronograph with dual-layer dial. This high-performance chronograph stresses intelligence and an attention to detail. Its dual-layer dial dynamically displays two sub-dials highlighting mode, 1/20th chronograph, day/date & 24hr indication. Multi-Band 6 Solar Atomic timekeeping provides Non-Stop, Self-Adjusting performance. Other functions include a Full Auto LED Light with Afterglow and Tachymeter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2536 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: EQWM1000DB-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: black
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quality Japanese-Quartz movement
• Tachymeter, 1/20 Second Chronograph
• World Time (29 cities), Countdown Timer
• Full Auto Calendar
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

The Edifice Story

EDIFICE, a watch for intelligent people who find value in every second!

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.

Edifice Gold by Casio

The Edifice line by Casio is features European styling that allows for function and form to exist in harmony. All of the Edifice Gold Label in the Amazon.com assortment feature Chronograph, Active Dial & Multi Hand faces. Edifice Gold Label has a beauty and personality all its own. Add to that100m water resistance, and EDIFICE can be considered the worlds first truly elegant sports watch.

Edifice Gold Label = Speed and Intelligence

Edifice Gold Label is an edgy line that communicates a sense of speed.

Edifice Gold Label features a metal body with a proud, cool texture and an exquisite face design with excellent visibility.

This bold form even determines the style of those who wear it.

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

I Love IT! Great watch with a slight learning curve.
First off I didn't buy this from Amazon but found it at Kohls for 60% off the retail price so I walked out with an awesome deal. Yes it's true that this is not the most user friendly watch to set and the manual is a bit small. But just spend some time and "try" to figure it out and you'll eventually get it.

I would advise anyone who buys this watch to perform the following first:
Go to page 59 of the manual and follow the procedure for "Adjusting the Home Positions". This will calibrate each of the hands and the dials to the 12oclock or it's initial position. The hands on my watch were a bit off, the cal procedure fixed this.

Another good point to note which the manual does not.
While configuring the Home City Setting or doing any manual time adjustments the manual calls to depress the A botton for 5 seconds. They should have said depress the A botton for 5 seconds or until you hear a "double beep". I kept depressing until I heard a single beep which does nothing to help set the time or city.

I really love this thing, it looks sharp, not too big, good weight, solar powered, atomic time keeping, alarm, stopwatch, countdown, world time. Lots of bang for the buck especially at the price I paid for it. Potential buyers don't be discouraged, it's very nice, and for those who like a little challenge there's nothing not to like about it.

Casio did a poor job in serving its customer
First of all, I had no problem with the vendor who sold me this watch. I received the merchandise in two days and it is a brand new watch, as promised. I am happy with my shopping experience.

However, the Casio Corporation did a poor job in delivering a satisfying customer experience. I saw this watch while I was traveling on United Airline and the full page ad in the Skymall magazine caught my eyes. The watch looks astonishing. It promises a lot of functions: dual time, solar, alarm, atomic synchronization, water proof, etc. For someone who travels a lot and has a need to keep the track of time in different time zone, this watch offers an excellent balance between sophisticated look and functionalities. However, after I opened the package, I found a user manual that is 2 inch in size. The print is so small you need a magnifying glass to read it. And I had to down load the user manual from the Casio web site. Then I found out that the programming this watch is extremely difficult. The function often doesn't work. And the manual offers little clue as to how to fix the problems. I can't believe Casio would design such a complicate watch and did such a poor job in helping its customer to use it. Whoever puts together the user manual should be shot!! Don't buy this watch unless you are willing to spend many hours to try to program it. I am very disappointed with Casio and wish everyone will complain to them to fix this problem.

Ediface - Decent Watch but with issues
I ordered this watch last week. It arrived Friday. It is well made but the dials are somewhat small and hard to read. In fact, the mode lettering was extremely difficult to read. But I suspect this would not be a problem after using the watch for a while.

One of the main reasons I ordered this watch was for the LED backlight. I am out at night a lot and the backlit dial would have been great. Unfortunately, the watch does not have LED backlighting. There is no backlight whatsoever. The hands and indices do glow but not very brightly and the sub-dials cannot be seen at all. Because of this I returned the watch.

If you don't care about the backlighing or small dials this is a nice well made watch - just not for me.