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Casio Men's DBC30-1 Databank Digital Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 35.3 mm
• Resin case; digital-gray dial; date-and-month functions

Product Description

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Bringing you precision at a glance, the Casio Men's Databank Digital Watch #DBC30-1 features a blue-tone digital dial face with a durable mineral dial window. An auto-calendar displays the date and month. Other details that will help keep you in control include a 30-page databank, an 8-digit calculator, five multi-function alarms, and a stopwatch function. To ensure easy wear, the black-tone resin band is accompanied by a sturdy buckle clasp, and both the 35-millimeter case and stationary black-tone bezel are made of high-quality resin. Presenting an unsurpassed functionality, this innovative timepiece was designed to accommodate your on-the-go lifestyle.

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: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GB0G0C
• Item model number: DBC30-1
• Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #561 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my treasured possessions, February 2, 2006

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Z. T. Heise "IT Administrator" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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I've owned this watch for 7 and a half years, since I was in 7th grade. It's served me perfectly, through watch band breakings and new battery replacements. The printing on it never wore off on the calculator buttons, and the screen did not scratch easily. The battery replacements were easy.

I only now am finally moving on to the DBC310-1 - not because I want to, but because the plastic casing on the DBC30-1 finally cracked, and I can't connect the band to the watch anymore. The ironic thing is that the watch itself still works perfectly. I imagine it probably will work for longer then I'm alive.

An excellent watch. I'll never get anything but Casio.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless, November 28, 2005

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Christian Hoffmann (Delaware, USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this watch in 1997 for the first time and then lost it after 5 years. I was very happy when I found it again after searching for weeks in many stores. For me this is the perfect watch since I use the calculator every so often and do not need more than 30 phone book entries. But it is handy to have the most important numbers right on the watch since I don't always carry my cell phone around.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Worse watch than the Casio Databank 150, but the only replacement, July 8, 2011

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E. Groff "evnln" (San Jose, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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I've owned the Casio Databank 150 for 20 years and it is my lifeline for getting to meetings/appointments on time. Unfortunately Casio doesn't make it anymore, and it is impossible to read letters anymore, just the numbers, and the '1' button doesn't always work. So I bought the closest replacement by Casio.

I'm less than pleased. I don't need the phone number capability (now that I have a cell phone) but do use the scheduled alarms by date. I could schedule alarms on my cell phone, but it's not always on me (no pockets-I'm female). The old one could schedule 150 total items (phone numbers or scheduled alarms). This one only has 30 phone numbers and they are totally separate from the alarms, of which there are ONLY 5!! What a pain. The are also not as easy to set, needing multiple buttons ('mode' to set which alarm, and 'adjust' to start the setting), and holding down the adjust button (not just pressing it as the instructions say) until the numbers flash. I found this to be several seconds.

It also has no timer, just a stopwatch, and I use the timer function a lot as well, rather than carry a kitchen timer around in my non-existent pockets. Why did Casio have to 'fix' something that wasn't broken. I'd have gladly paid more to have the old features.

I'm very tempted to return this one and stay with my old one until it completely gives up, or use my husband's seldom used one but it doesn't have a light. If I can find one on Ebay, this one is going back.