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The large, easy-to-read face on the Casio Men's Electro-Luminescent Forester Sport Watch make it a favorite workout accessory for athletes. This durable timepiece is constructed with a lightweight resin case, a stationary black stainless steel bezel, and a comfortable black nylon wristband with an adjustable buckle clasp for a personalized fit. A durable mineral window shields the black dial face, which features gray Arabic numeral hour indexes, complementary silver-tone watch hands, and a discrete 24-hour clock display. The quartz-powered watch includes a date calendar at three o'clock and is water resistant to 330 feet.
The Casio Story
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.
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- ASIN: B000GB1RB4
- Item model number: FT500WV-1BV
Casio Men's FT500WV-1BV Electro-Luminescent Forester Analog Sport Watch
Customer Reviews
I own three Omegas, two Citizens and three Seikos, but the little Casio Forester is the watch that goes with me into harm's way. I work in very severe conditions--in the Middle East. You don't want to expose a fine mechanical or even quartz watch to daily dust baths and searing desert heat. The little Casio has held up through the worst of conditions, and still keeps time to within 15 seconds a month of the atomic clock in Colorado. It's highly water resistant, and so light you hardly know it's on your wrist. Amazon sells this watch under $20. How can you complain about a rugged, accurate watch for under $20? I usually wear an Omega when going "out on the town," but the Casio is my watch for the dust storms and being around things that could knock your expensive watch silly. My expensive watches will last much longer because I have sense enough not to wear them to work!
I like this watch because it is simple and stylish, not flashy at all, and analog. I really like the simple style of the basic digital Casio that's available, but I do not like digital watches. The date indicator on here is also analog, unlike the many analog watches with digital date displays (though you do have to reset it after months that aren't 31 days - at this price it's hard to complain with that.)
Unlike some of the other reviewers on here, I find mine to be very durable. I've had it for at least five or six years and have taken it through several rough adventures and extended wilderness trips. Haven't had it fail (or the battery die) in that time due to rain/snow, extreme cold, getting beat up on rocks (I'm a geology graduate student), swimming in lakes, whitewater rivers, waterfalls, and oceans, and the hot shower every day for that matter.
After all that, yeah - it's scratched and beat-up looking. Yes, it's made of plastic - I'm not sure what these other reviewers expected. The picture looks like it's plastic. It doesn't say anywhere it's made of metal. I personally like that my watch displays all that it's been through - the surface is polished down (the word Forester and the little logo is long gone), it has a few deep scratches, the (plastic) face is full of scratches (which can be easily polished out with toothpaste by the way) ...and it still runs great.
I have had it literally ripped off of my wrist twice - a hazard in the kind of things I do - the little metal rod that holds the band on was pulled out. Once, I managed to find it, stuck it back in, and it was fine. The second time, the metal piece got lost. I replaced it with a new one from a replacement band (I didn't use the replacement band - the original was fine - I bought the cheapest band I could get that had the same size metal thing.) Though a watch not made of plastic might not have been ripped off by being pulled on with extreme force, I'm very glad that it did - the alternative would have been quite painful for my wrist!
I have not had to replace the band, I just clean it occasionally. The watch was almost ripped off my wrist a third time, but not with as much force. This time, the already-weakened leather that attaches the band to the metal rod tore almost all the way through, holding on by threads. I couldn't find a direct replacement for the band, and I didn't like the alternatives, so I simply repaired it with gaffer's tape (similar to duct tape but made of matte black cloth - something I have around because I'm a photographer.)
I'm here writing this review because I am finally looking for a replacement. I think I may end up buying a different watch for casual use, but I will keep coming back to my years-old Forester when I go on adventures until I finally lose it on a mountain or in a lake somewhere.
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