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Casio Men's AQ164WD-7AV Ana-Digi Sport Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 43.5 mm

Product Description

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Casio's Ana-Digi sport watch is the ideal watch for men on the move. It features a full-face digital and analog display over a white dial for time telling at a glance and a stainless steel band for all-day comfort. Great for swimmers and runners, this sports watch also includes 60-lap memory, a day, date, and month display, and is water resistant to a depth of 330 feet. The 43.5-millimeter metal case is polished to a sleek yet rugged looking finish.

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.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013M9E2Y
• Item model number: AQ164WD-7AV
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,872 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great watch for the price, January 13, 2009

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Shawn (Northern CA) - See all my reviews

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This is an excellent watch. The watch feels solid but the band is extremely light weight(may be a plus for some). I purchased it because I needed a watch with a timer. The only complaint I have with the watch is the display cannot be seen under the analog hands so I have hard time seeing the remaining time on the timer.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Crystal is not "mineral", poor time keeping, January 25, 2010

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If the crystal is mineral as stated then it is the most plastic feeling and non scratch resistant mineral I have ever had. The bubble shape of the crystal makes it easy to scratch.
Time keeping is poorer than any recent watch that I have had. It drops over 10 seconds a month.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good But Could be Better., March 25, 2009

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Paul Ingle (Mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews
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I like an analog and digital watch as I can catch the approximate time at a glance without having to read it and also find the date, day of the week and digital time useful in specific situations. I would have found this watch perfect were the hands not silver against a white background. Had they been black they would be so much more easily visible. Other than that it's great.