Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1783 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: WV200A-1AV
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Band material: Resin
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: Resin
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: digital
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 660 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Auto receive function (4 times per day); Signal: WWVB, Frequency: 60kHz
• Auto EL Backlight with Afterglow; World Time
• 29 times zones (48 cities), city code display, daylight saving auto/on/off
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Boasting the precision and reliability of multi-band atomic timekeeping, the Sport Watch #WV200A-1AV is part of Casio's rugged and stylish Waveceptor collection. This self-adjusting timepiece features a large LCD readout that has the capability to display the day of the week in nine different languages. Stopwatch and alarm timer functionality also help keep you on-track. Water resistant to 200 meters (660 feet), this Casio original even offers 48-city world time and 12 or 24 hour formats, so you can always be ready to travel the globe.

The Waveceptor Story

Waveceptor- On time all the time

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.

With Casio’s Waveceptor Line Casio is focusing its efforts on radio-controlled watches: the radio-controlled or Atomic 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. All Waveceptor watches even automatically adjust for daylight saving time…now that is an intelligent timepiece.

Some Waveceptors even feature a built-in solar battery which eliminates the nuisance and waste 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. Amazon.com offers the largest online assortment of Casio Waveceptors

Waveceptors are everything you like in a fine timepiece, easy on the eyes, easy to use and provide the most precise time on planet earth. With a Waveceptor you come only be fashionably on time…all the time.

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

Update Now I Give It 5 Stars!
See below, I had no luck getting the watch to connect with the radio time update link. So I decided to return it. I put it in a drawer, and when I took it out to pack it in the box and send it back, I checked and what do you know, it had updated at midnight on it's own! Why it would not manually update but now updates fine by itself I do not know, but, as far as I am concerned all is now well. I am keeping it and love it.

Earlier...

I was looking for a sports watch to use for outdoor activities but also one that would update to correct the time. I used to have an alarm clock that did that and it was very convienent for setting my watches, since I have a few self winding ones and sometimes they stop.

Well I really like the watch but I cannot get it to connect and update for love nor money as they say...It shows a most recent update of June 2008. I have even gone to the extent of leaving it out on the deck all night so there will be absolutely no interference from anything, right?

Still no synch. I don't know if this is due to a bad watch, since no one else seems to have this problem. So I am going to return it and get another one. I will update this review afterwards.

Bezel too big, numbers too small
I purchased this as a replacement for a Casio Waveceptor that was $10 cheaper. What makes this worth the price is the fact that it checks from midnight to 5 a.m. to synch its time signal with Colorado. In the month since I've owned it, there has been only one day when it did not synch with Colorado. The bezel is so large that when I wear a shirt with buttoned sleeves, my wrist hurts because the sleeve presses in on the extremely large bezel. In addition, I find the day, date, year function a bit small in terms of ease of readability. But I just love, love love the waveceptor.

Alarm Sound is useless
Casio has been my favorite watch since they started making them. I've had them most of my life. However, it seems that all the one's coming out now have such a low sound on the alarms or for chimes for on the hour is useless. You would have to have the thing next to your ear to hear it. If you were asleep, forget it. I love everything else about their new line. Everything works great but that. Too bad as it was the real deal breaker.