Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: CMD40B-1Z
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Band material: Resin
• Bezel material: Resin
• Case material: Resin
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: black
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 43.7 mm
• Resin case; Black dial; Day-date-and-month functions

Amazon.com Product Description
The quartz-powered Casio Men's Technoware Calculator TV Remote Watch #CMD40B-1T puts your television controls conveniently at your wrist. Its infrared learning function enables this innovative timepiece to control your TV and cable box with the click of a finger, including power on/off, channel, and volume function. The watch also includes a digital dial window with a sturdy mineral dial window, as well as several useful timekeeping features, such as an easy-to-ready time display, a handy day-date-and-month calendar, an 8-digital calculator, and an hourly time signal. The black resin band comes equipped with a durable buckle clasp. Other details include a stationary gray-tone resin bezel and matching 43.7-millimeter resin case. High-tech flair, stylish looks, and innovative features will make this watch an essential everyday accessory.

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

Yes, It's still available!!
This is my all time favorite watch. I have owned one since about 1995, having special ordered it from AAFES. I recently misplaced it and thought I would never find another, but low and behold, they are still available for much less than the $80 I originally paid. This watch has a built in remote and lots of preprogrammed TV settings. -A blast when you are at a bar or restaurant when you have had enough of the channel they picked or want the volume up or down. If you have the remote for the device you want, you can "learn" anything and program it to any button. Mute is a good one to program, or any VCR functions fwd, rev, rec, stop, etc. Only drawback is that there is no backlight. Batteries last about 2 years under typical use. I am happy to report that my misplaced watch turned up, so now I have a spare! The original band lasted about a year, then I put a Speidel "speido-flex" band on it and it is much more comfortable (less sweat). Get one and have fun!

This watch is one of my nephew's prized possessions.
I gave this watch to my nephew for Xmas several years ago, and he was never without it until he ran it through the laundry recently and it expired. He chose the same watch as a replacement. Seems like a great endorsement.

Fun Fun Fun
This watch is great. It's come in handy at my home, friends' homes, and best of all at bars.