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Casio Men's WLS21H-7A Tough Solar Digital Sports Watch

• Tough solar power, full auto LED light with afterglow
• 4 daily alarms and 1 snooze, hourly time signal, stopwatch
• 12 and 24 hr formats, power saving function

Product Description

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Shopping for a fashionable, feature-packed timepiece doesn't need to drain your bank account. The affordable Casio Men's Tough Solar Digital Sports Watch #WLS21H-7A comes packed with features typically found in more expensive digital watches, like solar powered quartz movement--which means you'll never need to change its battery--an LED light with Afterglow technology for telling time in the dark, a day and month calendar, and four daily alarms (including a snooze function for when you need a few extra minutes of sleep). This watch also includes a stopwatch that can record split time and a low battery warning. With a resin band with a traditional buckle clasp, this watch is water-resistant to 165 feet (50 meters).

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: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002J4UBHC
• Item model number: WLS21H-7A
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,621 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Watch, October 3, 2010

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Caspos - See all my reviews

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I got this watch as a gift almost 6 years ago. It has mostly worked very well. The only thing wrong from the beginning was trying to use the lap function- it is extremely difficult. Lately, it has been losing time. I think the time loss is just because of its age. Overall, though, a very good buy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive solar watch, January 7, 2011

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Frank - See all my reviews

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Bought this on sale for $15 and have been very happy with it. Fits well and works well. I like the styling, but it seems subjective. Have heard both positive and negative comments. The pictures are representative, so if you like them you're good to go. Simple to use and the power-saver mode wakes affectively. I do not go out of my way to charge it, but it has maintained a full charge to date. Highly recommended.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very good watch and looks good on the wrist too, March 1, 2010

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the only thing did not like is that the alarm is hard to set or change, but in spite of that this is still a good watch, I wear it every day for more than a year now