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Casio Men's MDAS11HC-3EV Tough Solar G-Shock Analog Watch

• Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Case diameter: 38 mm

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Featuring futuristic styling, the shock-resistant, solar-powered Casio G-Shock sports analog/digital watch (MDAS11HC-3EV) is a great choice for your active lifestyle--and stylish enough to grab attention. It's solar-powered--charging in either sunlight or indoor light--so you'll never have to deal with changing the battery. It features a large, rounded black resin case that measures 38mm (1.5 inches) that's topped by a gray resin bezel. The case is seamlessly integrated into the durable black resin strap The analog dial features a black background, round dial markers in white, and luminous hands with red seconds hand. It also offers a digital date function at 3 o'clock (with autocalendar to the year 2098), water resistance to 100 meters (330 feet), scratch-resistant mineral crystal, and AfterGlow LED electro luminescent backlight.

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: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EI066Q
• Item model number: MDAS11HC-3EV
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,477 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Watch - Solar, September 26, 2006

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knowit "knowit" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Men's MDAS11HC-3EV Tough Solar G-Shock Analog Watch (Watch)

This watch is great. You set up the time on the analog and the digital small window. This way the analog doesn't have am/pm so it is easy to change for daylight savings time. Also, since the watch uses the digital window for the date, it knows that February has 28/29 days. You won't have to change the date manually on shorter months like you do with most analog watches.

Of course this watch is solar too. The digital window has an indicator for H,M,S of how much battery life is left so you can be comfortable with knowing the battery is full.

The watch also is made with G-Shock in mind. The glass face is very scratch resistant and has two protectors on the number 3 and number 9 side of the watch face protecting the glass.

cons:

The band is a little cheap, however unlike Timex, this band can be very easily replaced with a generic band.

For the price I would say this is a Great Deal.

2.0 out of 5 stars Watch is fine but don't surf in it, August 10, 2009

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K. Kim - See all my reviews
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Water got in after a surf session. Worked in the water ok for about a year.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good watch and bad wrist band, September 7, 2008

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Pius Ng "pius1" (CA United States) - See all my reviews
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The solar power watch is still ticking after 1.5 years. But the wrist band has broken.