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Casio Men's DW5600CS-1 G-Shock Tough Culture Limited Edition Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective Mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 40.1 mm

Product Description

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With its bold orange dial, this limited edition Tough Culture Watch #DW5600CS-1 from Casio's shock-resistant G-Shock Collection offers a fresh spin on a classic digital design. Chock full of helpful features--from a multifunction alarm, countdown timer, and 1/100-second stopwatch--this durable and sporty timepiece can keep your day on-track. Water resistant to 330 feet, it also offers an auto calendar pre-programmed until the year 2099, 12- or 24-hour formats, and a two year battery life. There's even a flash alert with buzzer to make sure you stay on top of things. Boasting the precision of quartz movement, this Casio original is accurate, reliable, and a pleasure to wear. This watch is protected by a one-year manufacturer's warranty.

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: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001A660V6
• Item model number: DW5600CS-1
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,986 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)
  • #35 in Watches > Collectible Watches

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Color Inconsistency & Scuffs, August 17, 2009

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M. Bray (Philadelphia, PA U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Men's DW5600CS-1 G-Shock Tough Culture Limited Edition Watch (Watch)

This is a classic G-Shock style that looks great in the various colorways they've offered recently, but a few warnings for potential buyers:

- I own this watch in the yellow band/blue face and black band/orange face. Although the picture may lead you to believe the face is deep orange, red even, it is a highly saturated picture, as I've noticed is a G-Shock trend, and it is indeed orange, with the "SHOCK RESIST" and "G-SHOCK" appearing nearly neon orange. I had this problem with another G-Shock that was listed online and appeared as red, but showed up to my door as orange, but at least the listing for this mentions the "Orange dial". It is a lot more orange in real life.

- The shiny nature of the band, in this black version and the yellow version, seems to open it up to more scuffing. For someone who wears it infrequently and only during moderately active activities (biking, playing video games, going to the bar), I do bang it into things and eventually get a scuff that won't clean off. I have other G-Shocks with matte bands, and they don't show scuffs this bad even after wearing them very frequently for 9 years, let alone for just a few months. The shiny band is a nice look that's sure to catch some eyes, but if you wear it frequently, it's gloss is sure to fade.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This watch is a gem, June 18, 2009

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D2007 "Dan" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Men's DW5600CS-1 G-Shock Tough Culture Limited Edition Watch (Watch)

I own several G-Shock Casio watches including PAW1500T-7V, etc. The DW5600CS-1 limited edition watch is definitely a keeper. The watch looks far better than the picture on the Amazon site. This limited edition of the classic Casio watch, has all the ergonomics that made G-Shock family of watches famous. The dark black, glossy colour of the watch, with orange LCD screen makes it very unique. Classic, robust but still modern and fashionable today. I didn't get so many compliments for other, much more expensive watches that I bought.

I guess the only drawback of the unique orange LCD screen is that it is harder to read in low-light situations, but this watch also has backlight which works very well in case of low-light. Shiny black watch band is really eye catching, but may be less resistant to scuffs.

Anyway, I think at this price point DW5600CS-1 is a bargain.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this watch is one of the best., August 19, 2011

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Max P. - See all my reviews

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This watch is the next best thing to sloppy joe mix and I love me some sloppy joe mix.
Get this watch you'll love it. Just look at all the good reviews. I did and it worked out good for me.