Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734 in Watches
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Casio
• Model: EDB610D-8
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp
• Dial color: Silver-tone case, Digital dial
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Quartz
• Water-resistant to 0 meters

Features

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 37 mm

Amazon.com Product Description
Presenting unsurpassed innovation, the chronograph-powered Casio Men's Databank Digital Watch #EDB610D-8 features a classic digital black-and-gray dial face, which comes protected by a sturdy mineral dial window. A day-date-and-month display brings at-a-glance convenience, and other high-tech functions include an 8-digit calculator, a multi-alarm system, and a 300-page databank. For an eye-catching contrast, the 37-millimeter resin case is made of metal, while a stationary bezel is a sleek gray plastic. Other details include a silver-tone metal band, which is accompanied by a reliable fold-over clasp closure to ensure your convenient fit. Catering to your fast-paced day, this exciting timepiece offers you style and convenience.

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

Overall: a big disapointment
This watch does what it is supposed to do, but in such a fashion that it makes it unpleasant to use it. I am dropping it in favour of a Timex Data Link, after a week of use.

I was looking for a watch to store my contacts and also schedules, especially birthdays and anniversaries which for me are completely impossible to remember. I used to have an earlier Casio Databank which neatly stored them for me and I decided to go for the better and more modern model, supposing Casio had improved what I once had.

The Hardware: Very good looking, but AFTER A FEW HOURS OF USE it starts showing all kinds of scrateches, so if you are going to wear it on your wrist go for the plastivc model.
The display is difficult to read and Casio has managed to use two overlapping screens one with a bue-ish tone whick makes it impossible to read, the utilities menu, especially if you use the also blue light.
The keypad of the calculator, which is also used to enter data is quite difficult to use and unfriendly with your fingertips.

The Software. The utilities menu is well thought, but once you get to the utilities themselves, the disappointment comes, data is difficult to enter, and untastefully displayed, a pity for such a good looking watch.
The worst of all (and this is my fault) there is no schedule mode, only five alarms with which I can enter my precious data to remeber my mommy's birthday and the project's deadline. I have no use for this watch. Althoug scratched all over, after one week, it will make a fine birthday present for some kid to store his girfriend's phone numbers.

Casio, come on guys, design something that connects with the PC so we don't have to punch all our data in. It can't be that difficult.

Bought it but returning it.
I am a fan of Casio databank watches. I lost my Casio DBC150-1 (Module 1477) Databank after years of use. Bought this latest e-databank model EDB610-8C (Module 2550) and there's lots to like about it. Read-out is big and easy to read. You can activate the auto-light up feature so with a turn of only your wrist, the dial will silently light up so you can read the time (Great inside a darkened movie theatre!). The alarm is loud and has an optional snooze feature that repeats itself every five minutes for the next half hour. The watch can store 50 e-mail addies and entry can be protected by your password. Some reviewers were unhappy with the calculator mode in that you have to press side button "D" once (for addition symbol operation) to twice (subtract operation) and up to four times (for division character symbol). The truth is it takes less time to press "D" 4 times than it takes to read this sentence. I also found improved accuracy. On other databanks, you might mean to press the division key, but the keypad is so small you might press the multiplication key by accident. That won't happen with this databank. The one drawback is all entries in calculation mode are 1/8" high. If you have poor eyesight, you may have a problem reading. But if you can read a newspaper, no problem! The World Time mode has an expanded 100 cities listing. You can directly access for 3 time zones (home, city1, city2) which is good for travelers. I also like the fact that there is a home menu page so you can go straight to alarm mode or telephone mode or calculator mode with 1 touch on the keypad. No more pushing side button B five times to go to alarm mode! The resin watchband looks to be more secure as the pinspring doesn't seem nearly so easy to pop off. Only time will tell! The main reason I'm returning the watch is I miss the schedule mode. On my old databank, I had stored in it birthdays, anniversary, mother's day, father's day, doctor appointments, business appointments, dinner dates, etc. That was a truly useful feature and it has been ill-advisedly eliminated on this model databank. I hope they will add it back to future e-databank Casio model watches. Until they do, I'm sticking with the Casio DBC310-1 models (Module 1478) databank though it lacks e-mail storage. All-in-all, I love these Casio databank watches. I hope Casio keeps manufacturing them!

Come on, Casio!
Casio still doesn't get it:
--Why have a gizmo that can store 300 memos without providing for data backup via a PC link?
--Why do away with perhaps the most useful function--schedule memos--aside from telling time?
--Why make people scroll through a list for a calculator math function? They had this right in the older models, but are going backwards in terms of feature set!

Definitely a waste of money.