Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1148 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: BG184-4V
• Band material: Resin
• Case material: polyurethane
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: pink
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Polyurethane case; Pink dial
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Decidedly contemporary in looks with sleek, straight modern lines, this Casio Baby-G women's digital watch (model BG184-4V) also offers powerful sports timekeeping features. It features a stylish yet durable pink translucent resin case and strap, as well as a pink display. This shock-resistant timepiece is a great companion for your active lifestyle, offering a 1/100-second stopwatch with a 60-minute measuring capacity and elapsed time, split time, and 1st/2nd place time modes as well as a 24-hour countdown timer. This watch is water resistant to 100 meters (330 feet), suitable for recreational snorkeling. It also offers such timekeeping functions as 12/24-hour formats, multi-function alarm, and year/month/date/day display (with an autocalendar to the year 2039). Other features include scratch-resistant mineral crystal, AfterGlow LED electro-luminescent backlight, and battery life of up to 2 years.

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

A decent watch, BUT...
Its a pretty watch, looked great online. But when I received it, it was so difficult to read the time. You have to angle your watch against the light just to get a fair reading of the time. Imagine how difficult it is when there isnt adequate lighting. Its cute, sporty, and fashionable but not really practical. Consider another model like the Casio Baby-G Whale series, but all in all, its a pretty decent watch with a decent price.

Pretty Pink Sports Watch
This watch has really useful timer and stopwatch functions that are fairly easy to operate. It is kind of big, though. And the numbers can be hard to read - they blend into the pink face. Still the pink color is really fun and the price is affordable!

Excellent watch with many functions
bought this for my daughter's birthday. She likes it very much. Especially the LCD color that has a natural light reflection.