Casio

Casio Men's G300-3AV G-Shock Ana-Digi Black Street Rider Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 43.7 mm

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 3.6 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FQ0WC0
• Item model number: G300-3AV
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,208 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent everyday watch! August 20, 2007

By Robert Mah

Amazon Verified Purchase

I really enjoy this watch and I agree with all of the pro's of the other reviewers. It's well built, solid, and wears well everyday. I'm usually pretty abusive with my watches (drops, scrapes, salt water, sweat, and the gym) and I have intentionally punished this watch to see if it lives up to all the hype. So far, no scratches on the band or mineral face. With some soap and water, this thing cleans up quickly and looks new again.

Although, I don't know about the negative review about the LCD being dim. I haven't had a problem thus far and if using the backlight, the LCD is visible in all lighting conditions (pitch black or blindingly bright).

And an additional plus, my girlfriend loves the fact that it has a very smooth surface and well rounded edges. She used to complain about how my watch band would scratch her when we held hands and such, so this is something to consider if you have the same problem. Not a complaint yet!

Love this watch, love the styling, and would buy it again if I needed to.

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Worked for me in Baghdad, Kalsu, Babil, and Hillah! January 18, 2007

By David H. Park

Amazon Verified Purchase

bought it form Amazon through USPS in February of 2006 from Baghdad, Iraq. Wore it the whole year in Baghdad as well as in compbat operations in Babil Province. Excellent performance. Only problem was that my Iraqi counterparts always wanted to trade their watch for mine....

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Light, rugged and inexpensive June 18, 2007

By Jeff

I have another GShock watch at home - all digital - and it's held up very well (even the band) throughout its past 5 years of wear. I wish I could say the same about my Timex Ironman watch (see my other reviews to read about it). The Ironman's band split at the buckle hole I use daily. Timex bands tend to specifically fit only certain Timex watches - they're not interchangeable and they're difficult to find replacements for. This GShock represents my new "durable watch" choice after a lot of online browsing and research.

The Pros:

This new one is from Casio GShock's "Street Rider" series. To drive home the point (no pun intended), the band has a way-cool tire tread appearance to it. Overall, I'm happy with the watch. It's light-weight and doesn't look bad on my smallish wrist. I can't tell you how well it actually keeps time but my experience with Casio watches has been very good with that respect. There's no stem to pull out and turn to adjust the analog hands - you do that with the buttons via a special LCD menu mode. The really neat part of this is the minute hand only "ticks" every 20 seconds and does so in perfect unison with the LCD's seconds display. So, when the LCD time says it's 1:00:00 exactly, you can be certain the minute hand will always be directly on the analog minute marker. The LCD does have a backlight which causes all 3 LCD areas of the face to glow a bright turquoise. The hands have a luminous glow of their own but this fades like all glow-in-the-dark materials, requiring exposure to an external light source to charge up the glow again. The face is a very dark green which makes the hands stand out nicely.... The crystal is a genuine mineral crystal (not cheap plastic or even mere glass) which is very durable and typically will not scratch even under rigorous treatment.

The Cons:

This watch has a negative LCD display (white numbers on a black background). I deliberately picked this one over an almost identical model sporting the typical black-on-white LCD display because the negative display was more visually striking. Unfortunately, a negative LCD tends to reduce the legibility of the digits unless you're almost pointing the watch directly at your face with the right amount of light bouncing off it. Of course, you could use the backlight in especially dark circumstances. The analog hands will sometimes cover the digits, again reducing legibility of the LCD. The band is very long - good for a large wrist but not for mine. On the plus side though, it was very easy to snip off the tail end of the band so adjustments were a non-issue.

Summary:

For under $80 this watch offers a slew of features (a lot of them, audible). It's a GShock so you know it'll take a lot of punishment and outlast anything else strapped to your wrist. I wouldn't consider it a dress watch but I feel comfortable wearing it daily, on the job. It's light on the wrist and not exceptionally bulky (despite its appearance). The two-toned brushed-steel-and-black case looks great with the tire tread band. The instruction manual's "Care of the watch" section actually mentions how it's okay to use this watch while scuba-diving or using a chainsaw. In fact, their whole "care" section seems to be a description of what you wouldn't want to do wearing a normal watch.

EDIT:
I've since sold this watch and purchased another G-Shock by Casio because I simply found the hands obscured the underlying digital components too often and, more importantly, the negative LCD display appeared too dark most of the time. My new G-Shock is all-digital, charges with sunlight and gets daily time updates from an atomic clock in Colorado. Funny thing is, lately, I've been leaving it on a windowsill in the bathroom (where it gets charged daily and receives that daily time update as well) and have been relying on my cell phone for checking the time. Read more ›

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars An affordable, attractive watch December 30, 2007

By D. Stanley

Amazon Verified Purchase

I needed a watch with an analog/digital combo in order to determine the time quickly but still have an alarm, timer, stopwatch, etc. All in all, this is an attractive watch. The negative LCD might not be as clear as standard but I haven't had any problems reading it. The circular second-hand display is rather superfluous as each tick indicating one second is very small and not easy to read so I just don't try. It is definitely well built with a mineral crystal lens which is difficult to scratch and plastic guards around the lens to further keep it from harm. The minute hands moves one fifth of a minute every 20 seconds so the analog part is always in sync with the digital part which is kind of neat. All the functions work just fine although the alarm/timer tone is so faint and lasts for only about 5 seconds so unless the watch is totally uncovered and there is only a little background noise, I can't hear the alarm go off. My only other gripe is that while the the digital part and the seconds display lights up with the backlight, there is no way to keep it lit for more than two seconds and it won't stay lit while changing functions so if you're in the dark and need to use the timer, without knowing how many times to hit the menu button, you would need to hit menu, then light, then menu, then light, over and over until you found it. Speaking for someone who needs full functionality in the dark, this watch looks nice but doesn't fit what I needed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Style and Hi-Tech all in one January 31, 2010

By TX_Iron

This is a terrific watch for someone looking for a super combination of tuxedo black class, with modern machine gun technology. It is solid without appearing bulky, it is feature filled without looking weird or overdone, it is masculine without being way overbearing and 4" across....

You might be put off by the plastic wristband, but remember not all plastic is "plastic"... Think Yugo car plastic vs. Toyota car plastic... Casio uses the Toyota-style stuff... The watch is great to run with and time yourself as the large "corner" buttons are easy to find and depress... I don't doubt its durability for a second, and if you find yourself in another country (business, travel, 3rd tour of Iraq), this watch has a function which informs you of the time in your Hometown -- that way you don't call home when everyone is sleeping.

This watch is a fine combination of traditional style elements and cutting edge tech. I am happy with it.

Product Description

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.