Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: W93H-1AV
• Band material: Polyurethane
• Bezel material: Resin
• Case material: Resin
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp-with-double-push-button-safety
• Dial color: digital
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: japanese-quartz
• Water-resistant to 165 feet

Features

• Digital movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 36 mm
• Resin case; Digital-gray dial; Day-and-date functions
• Water-resistant to 165 feet (50 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
A durable daily watch perfect for timing laps around the track or quarters during a pickup game, the men's Casio Multifunction Sport watch features a resin case and bezel, a strong polyurethane band, and a mineral dial window. The watch's gray digital display includes day and date calendars in the upper corners, as well as a quartz-movement-powered time display to the second. In addition, it is water resistant to 165 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 Value. Easy to use!
I'm giving this baby 5 stars for doing so much, so well, for so little $$$. I really like the light button on the top (much easier to access while driving) compared to the li'l button on the side of most Casios. The digits light up without lighting up the whole watch (nice in a darkened theater). It is super simple to use and doesn't look like some kind of space kid's watch or Rambo-wannabe watch. I lost my first one, so I'm back to Amazon for number 2. I might even pick up a spare since products these days seem to change so rapidly (and not always for the better). The previous reviewer dissed this fine watch because it was not large enough. Man, I love this watch because it isn't too big. So many of the Mens sport watches these days seem to be a obnoxious cross between a hockey puck and a bar of soap with a wrist strap. It's a time piece. I don't need to call attention to myself with its ginormousness, nor do I want to be banging it on all manner of obstructions due to its bloated proportions. Bravo to Casio for getting this one right. Great watch for a great price!

Good all-around watch
This black plastic and resin watch is a good, inexpensive, fairly durable, everyday-type watch. Not too gawdy. Not too many weird functions, just very practical.

Its multi-functions, like the dual stop watches, are not only good for sports acivities, but come in handy for everyday use. It also has all of the regular watch functions of dates, alarms, lighted dial, dual times, etc., that you can use for your daily activties from work to recreation to timing steaks on the BBQ, to even telling time very accurately.

This watch is low profiled and not bulky like some gimicky watches and does not get in the way of work or sport activities. It is waterproof enough to do the dishes, wash the car or water ski. It is durable enough to last a couple years, but is inexpensive enough not to have to "baby" it so you can afford to replace it if something does happen by accident before it eventually wears out due to use.

I accidentally knocked my first Casio #93H-1AV off a second-floor shelf down onto the first-floor tile below and broke its case after two-and-a-half years of working perfectly through all of my strenuous work/sports activities.

I bought TWO this time and put one away in a safe place, just in case they discontinue this model down the road -- I don't want to have to settle for another type later on if I need another!

Great Watch for the Price
Great watch for the price. Includes all the basic functions I use -- clock, stop watch, alarm, and timer. Excellent for running -- not too bulky. Illuminator makes easy night time viewing. Used to buy the more expensive timex ironman watches but found I never used all the features.