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Casio Men's EQW700DBJ-1A Edifice Solar Atomic Watch

• Quality Japanese-quartz movement
• 1/100 Stopwatch
• Dual Time

Product Description

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With the Casio Men's Edifice Solar Atomic Watch, you'll get the convenience of a solar powered watch and the efficiency of innovative atomic timekeeping methods. Relying on precision Japanese quartz movement, this reliable timepiece features a stainless steel case framing a bold, black dial with luminous hands and hour indexes, an outside minute track, three convenient sub-dials, and a digital window at four o'clock that displays a variety of information. This cutting-edge timepiece offers dual time, daily alarm, stopwatch, 12- and 24-hour formats, and atomic timekeeping, which receives multiple radio signals per day to keep the time accurate. Solar power keeps the battery powered for five months on a full charge, and this dynamic watch is also water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). Securing to the wrist with a flexible stainless steel band that fastens with a fold-over clasp, this elegantly assertive timepiece will quickly become your new favorite.

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: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001V9K9OQ
• Item model number: EQW700DBJ-1A
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,465 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really nice watch, BUT the start is IMPORTANT!, December 10, 2009

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Gerhard Moeller "MOX" (Calamity Creek, TX) - See all my reviews
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I love this watch! That said, 1 hour after unpacking it I was convinced it was broken
and ready to send it back. NOT SO FAST! This watch is SOLAR powered. Yes it can maintain a sufficient
charge to function for one day if under flourescent light for 8 hrs, but its delivered to you after being in a totally
dark box (a cute Casio can) for a few months at least! Mine arrived with the display blank and the
analog hands frozen. No problem I thought..just a few minutes under a hologen lamp
and I'm good to go...right. Not so much. I read the "Home time zone" and "Manual time
setting" sections of the manual and proceded to push the appropriate buttons. Chaos. Nothing
responded acording to the manual. The problem.....not enough juice. When you get this watch
you should put it in direct sunlight (outdoors preferably) for 6 to 8 hrs. before attempting
anything...and I mean anything. Then and only then go first to page E-34 of the manual and
set the "Home Position" of the hands. Then go to page E-49 and set your time zone and local
time manually. Then, after dark, try a "manual receive" of the atomic time. I say after dark
because unless you live within 600 miles of Clorado, you probably will not get a satisfactory
signal during daylight. THEN, READ THE ENTIRE MANUAL. Yes it is small print and somewhat
difficult to decifer. But you cannot enjoy or controll this timepiece without understanding the
operating system. Complicated?....perhaps....worth it?....YOU BET! This watch will last you
a lifetime and you'll never need to replace a battery, worry about dailight savings changes or
leap years or 30-31 day month settings and never need to set the time. Only occasionally
will you need to do maintainance of exact hand position. Once FULLY charged (27 hrs direct
sunlight) this watch will maintain itself with ambient daylight and office flourescent light.
Beware the "tilt backlight feature"....this really sucks the power and is not really useful
after the Gee-wiz factor wears off. ENJOY!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, heavy, and classy solar atomic watch, January 28, 2010

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Kurt G. Doerr "Frequent Amazonian" (Venice, CA) - See all my reviews
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In buying a new watch I was looking for one with toughness, a little sophistication (solar, automatic, or kinetic), and a touch of elegance. I love the weight and feel of Seiko watches as well as the solar characteristics of Casio and Citizen (I own two of each). My current Casio dress watch (510A) of four years is of cheaper quality construction and very light, but the solar and atomic integrity are excellent and have endured to do this date. Ultimately, two decisions weighed in this purchase: The atomic timekeeping function of never having to adjust the time, and the integrity and toughness of the Casio brand.

I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised by this new Casio Edifice watch when it arrived. The quality is excellent- the band is of heavy stainless steal, shines with elegance, and carries a significant weight. It looks far better than pictured and my co-workers have all commented on the weight and feel. As for the learning curve, it took me about ten minutes to figure everything out (as I have been familiar with Casio watches). Any watch with several dials is going to have some learning arc, but to simplify things it helps to understand that one dial toggles through all the functions while the other two are for adjustment. As with my other solar watches, it is background charging so one doesn't need to expose it to direct sunlight. (Simply wearing it or letting it sit on the counter to exposed indoor lighting is sufficient to keep it charged). The atomic function calibrates at night (I keep it near the window), and has calibrated successfully every time (I live in Los Angeles).

I always hesitate purchasing Casio watches because the name implies a more "cheaper" brand. However, this is the most impressive watch from the line of Casio and mirrors the same quality in their higher line of Oceanus watches.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality slippage, February 10, 2010

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Grant - See all my reviews

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I love the looks of this watch and its features. Too bad that I had to return it because it kept time inaccurately over the course of a week. The watch would run all the time and I did give it plenty of sunlight on numerous days to get a full charge, however the mechanicals seemed to be the problem. The watch "knew" what the correct time was, but the hands repeatedly would lose alignment. This is a quality control issue for Casio, I believe. After following the watch manual's prescribed remedy for realigning the hands it would run well for about 2 days and then become about and hour and 5 minutes off. A "Hand Setting" realign would get it back in order each time. After observing this problem multiple times I regretfully returned it! This is not an inexpensive watch by any means, even if it's not a top-shelf Casio Oceanus. Pretty disappointed in this, and doesn't make me want to upgrade to an Oceanus any time soon. IMO, perhaps better to stick with the cheaper-than-Oceanus Casios that may run great for years, but which a person won't be out of luck (and much money) if it doesn't. Wish I didn't have this to report and would rather have the Edifice on my wrist, but that is not the case.
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Edit: I decided to give this watch another chance and managed to get one that ran properly from the start the next time around. Therefore, I raised the rating from only 2 stars to 4 stars...better than average overall experience with this watch. It's a really great watch because it does multiple things well and looks great in person (much better than the stock photos), and I hope it keeps working. This doesn't entirely make up for the first problem because it's a pain to return things and the first problem created a lasting impression (and the reason I won't give it 5 stars, even though I would like to in a sense). As mentioned before, this 50/50 experience with Casio Edifice makes Oceanus not very appealing. On a more positive note, it boils down to this: The second watch runs very well and it says something of it's niceness that I would give this model a second chance!