Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7310 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: AMW320RD-1A9V
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• 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: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• 12/24 Hour Formats, 1/100 Sec Stopwatch
• Hourly Time Signal
• Auto Calendar
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Showcase your sporty style with the Casio Men's Analog Chronograph Dive Watch #AMW320RD-1A9V. Designed for at-a-glance readability, the dramatic black dial is adorned with contrasting hour and minute indexes, while a handy digital display allows a dual-time capability or day-date-and-month calendar. It is protected by a mineral dial window. A stainless steel, bidirectional bezel is embellished with Arabic numerals, and a 46.2-millimeter case is also made of high-quality stainless steel. Other details include a versatile stainless steel band, which is equipped with a fold-over-clasp with double push-button safety closure. Designed to accommodate your rough-and-tumble lifestyle, this stunning timepiece brings your look an energetic twist. This watch is powered by analog-quartz movement and is water resistant to 330 feet.

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 Looking & Practical But.....
Bought this watch in July of 2008. Very macho looking! A real eye catcher! I liked it's dual analog/digital functionality for jogging, hiking, and limited water resistence for the pool. The crown is not a screw down type (more later on that) so I won't recommend it for scuba diving. The band is very comfortable and the analog dial is easy to read in low lighting. It kept good time. About(+/-) 5 seconds per month. Now the bad. About 3 months after purchasing it I noticed that the analog time was way off but the digital time was correct. At first I thought maybe the battery was running low but when I happened to push in the crown after resetting the time the second hand stopped moving. I pressed on the crown again and it stopped again. I pressed a bit harder and the second hand completely stopped. Also the bidirectional rotating bezel was too loose for my liking and would move out position too easily. This appears to be due to poor machining (ie; "Made In China"). It is not the clicking type of bezel on many diving watches. I don't mind it not having a backlight but the alarm is quite low and can easily be missed while listening to any thing at a moderate sound level. It does not have a digital countdown feature which would be nice.

Since it was still under it's 1 year warranty I called Casio's repair center in New Jersey and they were very helpful in explaining how to return it. The customer must pay shipping to Casio. They pay the return shipping. Unfortunately, they could not replace this watch with the exact replacement and sent me a new model AMW320RD-2AV. It's the one with the dark blue dial instead of the black one. I actually like this blue one as much or more. It appears almost black at certain angles and lighting but dark blue when viewed directly. The alarm sounds a bit louder and the bezel is tighter. So in summary I gave it a three star rating because of the defects in quality and reliability. I would have rated it lower but my compliments to CASIO on excellent customer service. The turn around time for replacement only took two weeks using UPS ground shipping. Hope this is helpful and my experience was rare and not common with this model.

Great Looking Watch-LOVE IT!
I'm still using a very similiar Casio that my daughter bought me 17 years ago. The white hands on black background make it easy to tell time in low lighting. It is somewhat heavy, but a very distinguished looking watch. Seems to be very accurate. I'm very satisfied with this purchase.

Great Watch
Good Looking Watch. I lttle heavy,but well contructed.Easy intructions and easy to use. I give 4 stars.