Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21538 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: W756D-1AV
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: digital
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 45.4 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Digital-gray dial; Day-date-and-month functions
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Casio Men's Referee Timer World Time Watch features a clean face and intuitive design that makes it perfect for athletes, pee-wee coaches, and even professional referees. Constructed with a stainless steel case, the watch includes a stationary stainless steel bezel, and a stainless steel link band with an adjustable buckle clasp for a unique fit. A durable mineral window shields the digital-gray dial face, which prominently displays the time, along with the day, date, and month. The watch also includes four easy-to-use mode, adjust, light, and reset function buttons along the bezel, as well as a large start/stop button at the six o'clock position. This digital-quartz-powered timepiece is water resistant to 330 feet and comes with a one-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

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 customer service!
I got this watch yesterday and needed to shorten the wrist band, but couldn't figure out how to do that.
So I emailed customer service, and this morning I got an email reply with a very detailed pdf document with lots of pictures and close-ups on how to do just that.
If this watch is as good as their customer service, I'm gonna be a happy camper! 8^)

Good time keeper for soccer referees
The watch is a little bulky and also I have to take off a few sections of the metal strap to fit my wrist. It has enough function for sport events (also for daily use). The instruction is explicit and not too difficult to learn. It is reasonably priced. 10 years battery gives extra merits for this versatile watch.

Fine timekeeper but key components not stainless steel
I've owned this watch for about 1 year now and have used it for my AYSO referee games. Generally pretty good watch. It has lot of preset times and the big button on the top of the watch is good for starting and stopping time. However, the bessel material, especially the part on the watch that holds the pin for the wrist band is not made of steel as reported on this website. It is made of plastic, which isn't necessarily bad, however for me this plastic cracked recently leaving no anchor for the pin holding the wristband. There's no easy way to repair this and there's no means for attaching to my wrist any longer. I was hoping the watch would outlast the battery, but in my case that did not happen.