Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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

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

The Casio G-Shock looks great but it's impossible to set! My boyfriend is an engineer and I have a master's degree and we still can't reset the time. We finally gave up and he just deducts an hour from the time and will until we switch off daylight saving time. God forbid he would want to actually use any of the other features! One of us will have to return to college.