Casio

Casio Men's SPF40-1V Sea Pathfinder Tide Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 51 mm

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The innovative Casio Men's Sea Pathfinder Tide Watch #SPF40-1V features a digital gray dial face with a durable mineral dial window. Embellishing the dial are an easy-to-read time display and a handy day-and-date calendar. Other high-tech details include a tide graph and moon-data option. Adorned with directional coordinates, the stainless steel bezel features a bearing compass feature. The 51-millimeter case is made of high-quality resin. To ensure ease in your day-to-day wearability, a black resin band is secured by a sturdy buckle clasp closure. Perfect for outdoor adventurers, this stunning timepiece brings a sporty finish to your look. It is powered by digital-quartz movement and is water resistant to 330 feet.

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This Black Casio Sea Pathfinder helps map the conditions with its digital compass, thermometer and other useful tools. Features a Solar Triple Sensor and a resin band.Digital Compass.Measures and displays direction as one of 16 points. Measuring range: 0 to 359.Measuring unit: 1. Bi-directional calibration and northerly. calibration function. Barometer. Display range: 260 to 1,100 hPa/mb (7.65 to 32.45 inHg). Display unit: 1 hPa/mb (0.05 inHg). Atmospheric pressure tendency graph. *Changeover between hPa and inHg. Thermometer. Display range: -10 to 60�C (14 to 140�F). Display unit: 0.1�C (0.2�F). *Changeover between Celsius (�C) and Fahrenheit (�F). Tide Graph. Moon Data (moon age and graph). 100M Water Resistant. Low-temperature resistant(-10�C /140�F). Auto EL Backlight with Afterglow. Duplex LCD Display. 5 Daily Alarms. Countdown Yacht Timer. Input range: 1 second to 60 minutes.Measuring Unit: 1 second.Auto-repeat Function. With repeat timing, stopwatch automatically starts when countdown is complete. 1-second stopwatch operation when started from the 0 �00 � display.Measuring capacity: 99:59'59. Measuring modes: Elapsed time, split time, 1st-2nd place times. Hourly Time Signal. Auto Calendar (Pre-programmed until the year 2039). 12/24 Hour Formats. Approx. Battery Life: 2 years on SR927W � 4. Module 2273.

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 4.3 x 3.5 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FPZ474
• Item model number: SPF40-1V
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,590 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

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64 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Superb Feature Set, August 5, 2007

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Billy Radcliffe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Men's SPF40-1V Sea Pathfinder Tide Watch (Watch)

This is an excellent watch for outdoorsy types, especially for those who sail, kayak or surf. With a compass, barometer, thermometer, and tide/moon tracking, it provides essential (potentially life-saving) information in an easy to use package.

The compass is seems accurate and is easy to calibrate. It is ideally suited for emergency navigation and for casual use such as trail hiking and river boating. I'm not sure I'd want to use it as my only compass for serious hiking or over the horizon boating, but perhaps that's just my distrust of electronics in mission critical environments.

The barometer is a little more hit-or-miss. It's accuracy is questionable given its fluctuation with altitude or temperature. This is not a Casio problem - it happens with all barometers especially wrist-mounted. Despite these issues the barometrer does a fair job of tracking the trend over the last 24 hours. Serious moutaineers may miss the multi-day tracking and using the barometer as altimeter, but most will appreciate it for the simple data it provides. I wish there were more display options, like a large multiday graph option for instance, but the small graph is fine.

Temp fluctuates when this is worn on the wrist, but not too much - perhaps a couple of degrees hotter than true outside temperature. It may be less accurate in cold temperatures than hot, but I'll have to wait a few months to test that theory.

The tide and moon features are what make this watch unique among triple-sensor watches, so I imagine that will be a key selling point for most. Both work well enough, though they will not replace a tide chart. The tide graph shows the general point in the cycle, but not with great accuracy. It's really only possible to estimate high tide with an hour or two. It would be nice of the actual hightide time were displayed or at least the graph had greater specificity. The moon tracking is a nice touch, since it allows one to estimate the size of the tides (spring and neap). But it's only an estimate - the watch does not tie moon and tide data together, leaving it to the user to figure it out. Some other tide watches actually have charts built-in that provide much more accurate data for particlar beaches, but are limited to limited spots. Since the Casio use longitude and other data to estimate the tide, it is less accurate for specific spots but more usefull overall. The ability to forcast the moon phase days in the future, but not to do the same for tide, leaves me wondering what they were thinking.

Other features of the watch include a countdown timer, stopwatch, and five alarms, which are all just fine. The five alarms cannot be set by day, but I suppose if you want to set a time for each day and just activate it as necessary that does the job. If you use the stopwatch and coundown timers frequently you may find switching between the two annoying, since they use the same function (you just set the the countdown timer to zero to put it in stopwatch mode). Also there are no lap-timers.

Downsides to the watch basically boil down to compleixity and size. While the watch is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it, it is not entirely intuitive an all screens, and requires some memorization. Setting the tide data requires far too much research on the internet, and casio should provide better data either in the manual or on their website about how to set the data for most large coastal cities and popular recreation areas. The size of the watch is HUGE. It is larger even than the Suunto watches with similar features. The biggest annoyance I have with the size is the height, which is made unnecisarily taller by the rotating bezel. But for some the size won't matter (some may like it) so it is really a matter of taste.

Overall the eatch offers a great set of tools for most casual uses and does it at a very reasonable price. I recommend it to casual adventurers unconcerned about the size.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars really cool bigass watch, October 22, 2006

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Ben Callahan "Callahan" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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I am really happy with my new watch. I go to the beach often and always forget my tide charts, so that function as been very useful. The barometer is a great way to predict short term weather patterns and the digital compass is accurate, easy to use and very handy when directions need clarifying.

The only draw backs to it are the size of the thing, it is very large compard to any other watch I have ever owned, the barometer button gets pushed accidently if you flex your hand to far and the stop watch rounds to the nearest second, no fractions here.

I am very happy with mine however, it does everything that my three old watches did and more in one mannly looking wrist piece.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good buy, August 14, 2006

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Brahma "brahma" (Va Beach, USA) - See all my reviews

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Got this for a discounted $150, which isn't too bad for all that it offers.

Pros: I'm not a sea-farer by any means but the compass, baro and thermometers are quity handy and accurate. The display if *very* large and clear. The thermometer is fairly accurate (to the tenth of a degree) - I calibrated it against a digital Oregon Scientific wall mounted thermometer. The barometer trend graph is very handy - you really can predict bad weather judging by the falling graph! It also helps that the watch has multiple alarms.

Cons: The thermometer sensor is affected by body temperature quite a bit. You really need to take off the watch for at least 5 minutes to get a somewhat accurate read on the temperature. Also the buttons for compass and barometer juts out perhaps more than necessary. Because of this at times you end up hitting it even if you don't mean to. The compass direction sensing seems a little inconsistent between successive runs while the watch is worn. The countdown timer is not easy to operate.