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Casio Men's MQ24-1B3 Analog Black Rubber Strap Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 35 mm
• Resin case; gray black dial

Product Description

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Simple yet classic, this casual analog watch from Casio offers a water-resistant rubber band that joins to a circular, stainless-steel case with a durable mineral-coated dial window. Its black dial showcases crisp, white easy-to-read Arabic numerals as well as small stick minute markers. Silver-tone hands complement the dial's gray, circular design that centers this versatile timepiece.

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: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GAWSHC
• Item model number: MQ24-1B3
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,140 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Watch, June 17, 2008

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ABLong (St Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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This is the perfect watch for me. It does not tell me the time in Hong Kong (I don't want to know the time in Hong Kong), it doesn't tell me the date or day of the week (I have calendars by the bushel for that) and it doesn't tell me the phase of the moon (I can look out the window). It does tell me what time it is, I can read it with my failing eyesight, and it keeps time perfectly with the watch in Boulder CO, which, at several hundred million dollars, costs more than this does. What more could you ask for?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great starter watch, April 6, 2008

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T. C. Remington (Marion NC) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for my 12-year-old son. It's perfect as a starter watch. No buttons to distract him in class, keeps good time. While no watch is indestructible, this one has stood up to everything he's thrown at it so far, including surf, a baseball hit to the arm, and a fall off a bike.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OK watch, September 11, 2007

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Daniel "dkjensen" (El Paso, TX, United States) - See all my reviews
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Looks fine, works fine, but the watch face looks larger in the photo. This should be a kids watch not a mens.