Customer Reviews

Casio Men's AQ160WD-1BV Ana-Digi Electro-Luminescent Sport Watch

5 star:		(59)
4 star:		(63)
3 star:		(20)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Great watch with many great features. I love the size of the digital layout and the metal band is durable. To resize the band, push out the pins from the side that looks like screws.

Pros: Accurate, good looking, multiple alarms, timer, and stop-watch.

Cons: Metal band latch sometimes deforms, making it hard to latch. You have to bend it a certain way to make it work. The analog hands sometimes get out of sync with the digital time. You can fix that easily, but annoying sometimes. Lastly, at night you can't use the watch features. There is a light, but it occupies a button used for setting alarms and such. So if you are setting your alarm, you can't see the display. Timex has a night feature that, once enabled, turns the light on with every button press. My former watch had it and it was a very handy feature.

Great for the price.

I was looking for a watch with both analog and digital outputs. I found this one that fit the bill. It wasn't very expensive so if it bit the dust at work I wouldn't mind too much. The only problem I found was the dial window. It's plastic. Soft plastic. Unfortunaly only a week after buying the watch I already had several scratches on the face that made it more difficult to see the face. If the dial window was more resilient I would be very happy with the watch and give it 4 or 5 stars but as it stands it gets a 2... barely.

I lost my casio edifice watch and decided to get this watch since it had all of the features that I needed (time zones, alarm, display date/day, etc.). The watch arrived the other day and so I thought that I would contribute my initial thoughts since I found the other reviews here to be useful.

This is a very solid and good looking watch. The display is easy to read with large numbers/letters and a bright back light, much better than the casio that I lost (and half the price!). Setting it up was very easy and it is comfortable. I prefer a metal band to the resin bands on the other version of this watch. The band is solid and easy to adjust (wikihow has a brief article on adjusting the band called "Adjust-a-Casio-S-935L-Watch-Band").

The watch is thicker than most of the previous watches that I have had. At first I was concerned about this, but now that I've worn it for a while, I don't really notice.

I haven't had it long enough to notice scratches on the watch face.

I like the watch and would buy it again.

Strap is either too loose or too tight, because the links are a little too big. Its hard to adjust at home and needs to be taken to a watch repair shop.
Material used for construction of the body is cheap painted plastic that gets scratched very easily. The dial window is claimed to be "Mineral" but it certainly doesnt feel like that to the touch, and again scratches very easily.
Seems to be showing accurate time so far, but then casio electronics are generally reliable.
I would go for a more expensive casio model in the future which have better construction.

Update ** 5/7/07
While this is a really beautiful watch, and functioned well for the last year or so, and will definitely continue to function extremely well, there are visible signs of wear due to cheaper material used in this particular casio model (not typical in more expensive models). So I would rather buy another casio retailing at Amazon for 50+ which uses quality material.
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original review
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Its one of the best looking metal band casios.
I like the fact that it allows you to choose constant display of Day or Date/Month. I would have liked a choice of Day and Date, but unfortunately thats not a choice.

Its light weight, very good looking, allows you to illuminate the display in the dark, has a stop watch, alarm, and worl time. Almost everything I would look for in a watch, at an unbeatable price.

Since this is my 5th Casio over a period of 7 years, I can tell that the quality of Casio watches is awesome. The only reason I changed my watches were:
1) Two of my resin band watches broke (strap). Watch was functional till the day I stopped using and even today, they just need a
2) One of my metal band was lost.
3) I finally got tired of my last Casio watch, so I decided to go for a change.

I believe this one will last another couple of years b4 I get bored, but I am sure it will be hard to top this one's good looks.

I purchased from chelsea and it arrived in 2 days, since I orderd it in NY, and they are from NY

I bought this watch looking forward to the fact that it had both analog and digital options along with a metal band. I received it and not a week later, it died. I thought that it must have been the battery and took it to get the battery replaced. The technicians replaced the battery and nothing happened. The watch had literally died. I looked to send it back because it was still in the 30-day return timeframe, but since I had worn it and because I had thrown the packaging away after it worked for a week (about the day before it died) it did not meet the qualifications of being returned "unworn and in the original packaging." I do not recommend purchasing this item due to its unreliability when it comes to actually working.

My watch just died today after 4 years of use, so I decided a review was in order! This watch has everything you could possibly want - analog + digital, time zones, timer, stop watch, multiple alarms, lights. Feature wise it is perfect. However I do think some of the specifications are wrong. The band is far too light to be steel, and it's not magnetic, so I'm inclined to believe that it is aluminum. Also I'm not sure how true the watch face is a mineral material, as mine got many scratches over the year. If the watch had better build quality, I would get another.

Right away I knew it was cheap. It looks hefty but holding it instantly reveals that the bulk is cosmetic. While the watch looks to be made of metal, only the strap is. Everything else -lens et. al.- is plastic... a fact that was quickly revealed by the fact that the chrome paint quickly began to disappear off the area around the face from nothing more than rubbing against a cuff. On sale, this is priced at about three times its value -- I can't even imagine how disappointed one would be paying almost $200 for it.

Watch is very nice looks expesive easy setup 5 alarms are great help track work schedule. Light works great. Light wieght which is good for everyday use. Would have gave 5 stars if it was all metal and the glass was not plastic. But can't go wrong for the price.

I got this product hardly a month ago. I am very much satisfied with this product. It provides a professional as well as a fancy look. The only part that am disappointed is the watch glass. I wish it could be a scratch resistant as watch glass tend to get more scratches. Overall, this watch is more than worth for its price.