Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6771 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: MDV301D-1AV
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: Metal
• 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 660 feet

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 43 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Black dial; Date function
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Casio Men's Classic Analog Dive Watch features a water resistance of 660 feet, making it the perfect gift for adventurous divers. The timepiece is constructed with a stainless steel case, a unidirectional metal bezel, and a stainless steel link bracelet with a secure double-push-button-fold-over-safety clasp. A durable mineral window shields the black dial face, which features a silver-tone hour indexes, complementary silver-tone hour and minute hands with a vibrant red seconds hand, and three white-rimmed chronograph subdials, including a convenient date calendar at nine o'clock. This analog-quartz-powered timepiece 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

Casio Men's Classic Analog Dive Watch
Love the watch . Nice looking , easy to use if you can understand the instructions which should be read very carefully and BE VERY CAREFUL TO READ COMPLETELY . The wrist band is easy to adjust if you go and buy the pin remover as advertised on Amazon ($9.00 or less)and go to Casio watch tech. support to understand how to do it . Wrist band adjustment should be put in with instructions with watch and show an illustration and one bad part that one customer wrote was the monthly adjustment ? We'll she was correct in that every month with less than 31 DAYS DOES NEED TO BE ADJUSTED ! It's not to difficult to do though . All-IN-All a good watch at a great price .

Good solid watch
Cons :
1. The glass on the watch is slightly curved, which makes it reflect light from various sources behind you. Many watches in this price range have such a glass and I dont quite see the reason for it, as its not acting as a lens either. Minor irritant at times.

2. The watch is slightly loose on the wrist in one position of tightening and too tight in the very next ( not removing links but just using consecutive holes on the clasp ). I am a motorcycle rider and when slightly loose, the watch rides up to the end of the wrist and gets in the way of bending/twisting the wrist. This also happens while not riding, though not as often. Though a slight irritant to me, its not something that will affect everyone.

Pros :
The watch looks like its pictures, feels very solid and well made, great wrist strap, and has a nice face which is relatively uncluttered despite all the functions. Good looking hands but the smaller hands on the day / date could have been better. The rotating bezel also feels very solid and makes satisfying clicks while turning.

A very good buy for the price indeed.

Latest Watch
This is a very nice looking watch. I needed something dressy and waterproof. This watch so far has been what I needed. I have one complaint and that is the dials on the face are hard to read and require more than a glance to get what information I need. The date for example. The hour hands also could be more distinct. The blend into the face to well for a casual glance to read. So I can't give this watch full ratings for simple issues like what the watch was made for.