great retro watch
Awesome watch... had this one when I was a kid. Saw @ target during a roadtrip and bought it @ amazon when I got home. Quality is fair, not as heavy as I thought. The light in it is also pretty weak, unlike the stock pictures. But the overall value is very good, affordable, and it looks sooo freakin good. At this low price it is a steal.

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Exactly as expected; even better than expected.
My search began with a broken watch band. Two different watches actually; on right after the other in a 2 week span. They we both cheap digitals, but they had made me somewhat used to having the digital time on hand again. The dilemma therein was I wasn't interested in loosing a watch a week nor buying on a week for that matter, and simultaneously believe a digital watch isn't worth very much in my book especially in comparison to an analogue or combo.

So I began searching brick and mortar stores for a week to no avail. It dawned on me that Amazon would be my best option (especially since the student amazon prime promo just started). After googling the best digital watches that were cheap as well, the general consensus was that Casio was the ideal choice save a problem with the bands being able to break after after a year or two (better than a week anyway). During my search I saw that there were several Casio watches with metal band (for durability), but then I saw this watch which is notable because 1) its a metal band, and more importantly 2) it wasn't those "elasticky"/stretchy metal bands, but rather a regular metal band. The choice was clear.

Having just gotten the watch I am not disappointed. Its exactly the quality I expected from what I payed and the reviews I read. However I saw some reviews that I simply disagree with:

-The metal looks tacky: While I'll admit its quite thin, its not bad. The band is a brushed look. The housing may look a little "eh" because its chrome, but that is made up by the large display minimizing its appearance.

-The watch is too small, and seems to be made for a woman, not a man: I'm not sure what type of sausage wrists you have, but this is about on par with any digital watch I've seen. It doesn't seem particularly small at all; thin yes, small no.

I also have a few of my own notes to share:

- While not rocket science, the setting of functions on this watch isn't as intuitive as other digitals I've used.
- If anything is tacky, it would be the lens on the housing, albeit it is classic Casio.
- The clasp is strange. To me anyway; any metal banded watch I've owned has had an enclosed clasp. Also the instructions were generic, so they did not tell you how to adjust it. Again its not rocket science, but it also wasn't intuitive. Its also sometimes difficult to get closed in my opinion.

Great!
I bought this and two other Casios for a friend's birthday. He likes them all very much and is pleased with the styles and variety. I'm happy with the price as well. Great value.

Got this watch by mistake! Mine is astoundingly accurate.
I like this watch. Ever since I started carrying a cellphone, I fell out of the habit of wearing a wristwatch.

Recently, I have had to do a lot of flying and decided that the convenience of instant access to time (especially in-flight) was well worth the purchase price of an inexpensive watch.

I bought the watch at [large electronic retailer named after potato strips cooked in oil], thinking I was getting a different model. When I opened it at home, an unexpected wave of deja-vu hit as this watch is nearly identical to a Casio I wore many years ago, and the watch I got home wasn't on display at all. I didn't bother returning it, since pretty much any watch would suffice.

The band isn't uncomfortable, and it's metal or metal-looking, which means the watch doesn't look too much like something that came free out of a cereal box.

The display is sharp and easy to read in direct sun and under indoor lighting. The blue backlight is excellent and works great even in darkness. It has time, date, day of week, an alarm (which is too soft to wake a mouse, but could be useful as a reminder during the day), and a stopwatch. This is pretty much everything I demand of a wrist-mounted timepiece. As others have noted, one drawback is you cannot easily set the time in the dark, because the backlight function pre-empts the setting feature, so you can't see what you're doing without external light. Annoying, but doubtful it is a problem unless you're into cloak-and-dagger ops where you have to synchronize watches in the dead of night and oddly forgot a flashlight. ;)

The timekeeping on my unit is startlingly accurate.

A week ago, I set it to time dot gov. The watch ever-so-slightly lagged the NIST clock when I set it, and after a week, it still lags by the same ever-so-slight amount (perhaps 0.1 seconds, certainly no more than 1/4 second). After 7 days, I still cannot tell if it is gaining or losing time! This is unusual in my experience; most watches I've owned gained or lost about a half second per day.

No idea if Casio firmware calibrates these watches at manufacture to compensate in for the normal component variations in the crystal oscillator and associated circuitry, or if I just got very lucky and got one that just happens to be spot-on, frequency-wise. At such a low price, I'm thinking maybe it's just luck. So my experience may not reflect the experience of others with accuracy.

The biggest (and basically only) drawback I see is looks. As jewelry or a dress watch, it doesn't work. I think a step up to a Citizen eco-drive or Seiko or Pulsar or Bulova in the - range is well worth the money where appearance is a major consideration (and some of these watches are still a good value), but for a practical watch it's an unbeatable buy. Figure the day something breaks a year or two down the road, you can feel smart that you got so much value out of a investment when many people spend more than that on a new band or battery change at the jewelers'.

Happiness is unceremoniously dumping the carcass of your dead watch in the trash and ordering a new one online from Amazon. Beats shedding tears for an expensive watch you've become emotionally attached to, or driving around and then paying for an expensive repair.

Wow, I can not believe someone sells a watch like this for under
Simply the best watch I have ever seen.
This watch is more than double this price in the retail stores.
I had one of these before and paid for it.
Don't buy it, because you don't deserve a deal this good and
Because at this price it's called stealing.