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Casio Men's G1000-1A G-Shock Analog Chronograph Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 47 mm

Product Description

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Presenting unparalleled innovation, the Casio Men's G-Shock Analog Chronograph Watch #G1000-1A features a dramatic black dial face with a sturdy mineral dial window. Stand-out indexes and three convenient sub dials ensure at-a-glance readability, and a handy date calendar rests between the four and five o'clock position. The 47-millimeter case and stationary bezel are made of high-quality resin. Other details include a black-tone resin band and its accompanying buckle-clasp closure. This stunning timepiece brings cool style to your casual look. It's powered by analog-quartz movement and is water resistant to 660 feet.

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: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0015AQG1G
• Item model number: G1000-1A
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,499 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars analog does digital, September 29, 2008

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Norm de Plume "lawman116" (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Casio Men's G1000-1A G-Shock Analog Chronograph Watch (Watch)

This watch is a pleasant curiosity. It is an ingenious success in designing an analog watch which performs typically digital functions such as alarm, stop watch, world-time, and day-date. The cleverness of the engineering is satisfying. All these functions are more easily used and read on a digital watch, of course, but that's not the point. This watch is for someone wanting a stylish, rugged quartz G-Shock watch that is snobbishly retro analog. The owner of this watch can have tradition and progress in one comfortable package. It's not a waveceptor, so you don't have to position it to receive a time signal at night, and it's not tough solar, so you don't have to keep it well lighted.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No degress needed, June 23, 2009

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Francis Gagnon (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Men's G1000-1A G-Shock Analog Chronograph Watch (Watch)

You don't have to be an engineer nor to have a master to set this watch.
It took me 10 min to set it :-P
But yes the user's guide is not the best Ive ever seen.
Casio should have left the chrono function its useless imo

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but a little bit confusing and get use to, November 13, 2011

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This is a nice watch; however, usability-wise can be a little bit confusing.
Most of the confusion come from a worldtime/alarm sub-dial.

This is not a normal watch dial but combination of 24 hours and normal minute dial (60 minutes). Casio try to represent digital number using normal analog hand. To achive this..

Digitally, let say you see number on digital clock as 6:15A, so on this subdial

1. The hour hand point to number 6 (not a 6 o'clock position) of the marking 1 to 24 and
2. The minute hand point to 15 as it is represent in a normal watch dial.

If it is 6:15P, then you have to first know that in military format it is 18:15 so
you would expect the hour hand to point to 18 and minute hand to 15.

Now, to confuse you more, if the time is 6:30A, the hour hand will likely point somewhere between number 6 and 7 (Why Casio?). And the dial is so small; therefore if you are farsight, you might have a problem configure the alarm and read the wordtime unless you carry around magnify glass.

If you don't care about all these functionalities, then this would be a one sweet watch and it is keeping the time perfectly. Otherwise, it will take some getting use to.

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Casio g-shock module 4799 5034 alarm confusion problem
Casio g-shock module 4799 5034 worldtime confusion problem

g-shock user