Customer Reviews

Casio Men's WV58DA-1AV Waveceptor Atomic Sport Watch

5 star:		(69)
4 star:		(49)
3 star:		(17)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

This watch has a lot of features like stop watch, alarm, and automatic time sync. They are work well. It also has some negatives. This watch is heavy and big. My bicep has grown an inch in the first week. The wrist band is difficult to re-size. You must remove links unless you have a huge wrist. You will need an awl, or something slender and pointed. The keys that hold these links togeter came out very hard, I scratched the outside of the band with every link removed. I should have laid the band on a soft cloth (my fault). The watch is perfectly accurate, not bad looking, and priced under $40. That's a pretty good value for this type of watch.

Pro: I live in central Florida at the far edge of the reception zone and find that the watch sets itself on the first try every night no matter where I lay it, or how I point it, inside my house. All features work nicely. The display is a nice size and easy to read. I like the fact that all the essentials are shown.....hour, minute, seconds, am, pm, dst, month, date, year, day of week, and etc. without having to press extra buttons.

Con: This is a BIG, BIG, BIG con. My efforts with Casio customer support to learn how to change out the battery were fruitless, and after my first try........met with silence. They would have me send the watch to New Jersey to have the battery changed. Local jewelers are a no-no according to Casio. So $10.00 up, another $10.00 back, plus around another $30.00 for the battery and labor. How ever nice the watch may be, it will be a throw away after two years.

First and formost let me say to another reviewer thank you for the comment you made that said in effect unless you have a huge wrist taking out the links is hard. I have a H U G E wrist and when I took the watch out of the box it fit perfectly as if it were made for me. I've been stopped by this part of me from buying many a cool looking, what ever watch for years. It's nice to have some thing for us big guys to have.
Now as to why only 4 out of 5 stars and an explanation for the title of my review. I am very zealous about being on time and this is why I love getting radio watches like this one. The add says it updates the time 6 times a day. Check the manual. For my part of the country (the Mid West) those 6 times are from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. And to make sure you are getting a right reading you have to be near a window or better yet outside to get a decent reading. Who's up at that hour? Not me. Certainly not to set a watch. I know I can do it manually but what's the point of me buying it then if I have to reset it all the time. Casio should have staggarded out the reset times through out the day.
Other than that...good watch.
Thank you for your time in reading my review.

I purchased this watch new several months ago. All was good until about two weeks ago when the clasp decided to quit working. The watch slid off my wrist, landing on the floor. Of course one of the corners of the cheap plastic case broke making the watch unwearable. I called Casios toll free number and was told that neither the clasp, band or case were covered by the one year warranty. I asked the rude bi*ch that answered, what exactly was covered? She replied only the inner workings and hung up on me. I'll never buy another Casio product of any kind.

The watch is a excellent buy. It works well and with its ability to sync to WWV it is very accurate. It even changed when daylight savings time changed.

The Casio Atomic Sport Watch has all the features I need and because of the automatic update of the time from WWVB, it keeps perfect time. Also, because of the built in light, you can check the time in total darkness.

I purchased this watch at the end of June and it was fine for about a month - until I got it wet. The very first time I went swimming with the (water resistant) watch as soon as I got out of the pool it was not functional and had moisture inside the case.

The warranty states that I can not return it and had to contact Casio for repair, so I shipped the watch to their repair center in New Jersey ($10) and waited and waited. Today I got an email that they will repair the watch for $15 and ship it back for $8, and if I don't want to repair it I still have to pay to ship it back.

I called to enquire why the warranty was not going to cover the damages, and a VERY rude woman informed me that the watch was damaged (I took pictures before I sent it it and there is no visible damage anywhere) and I would need to pay to fix it (at a total cost of more than I payed to get it in the first place). She would not let me speak to a manager and told me there was no way I could dispute their claim it was damaged.

She even went so far as to imply that Amazon had damaged the watch before they sent it to me if I didn't damage it.

DO NOT BUY A CASIO PRODUCT.

The description for this watch said it was 11 mm in thickness. It's actually 12.5 mm. It's fatter than I would like but it's not horrible. It's atomic so it's accurate and only 35 bucks. However if I had known it was 12.5 mm I wouldn't have bought it.

This watch is fine and it is about what you would expect for the price but...
The only reason I have decided to break years of product review silence is because I greatly dislike being lied to. The case of this watch is NOT STAINLESS STEEL. It has some parts, mostly cosmetic, that might be stainless steel but the case itself (where the mechanism is housed and to which the band mounts) is PLASTIC. I am especially upset because the "Stainless Steel Case" feature was the final factor in my decision making process. Deep down I know that there is no way that a 32 dollar watch is going to have a stainless steel case but again, liars!

The watch is fine and it has worked as advertised so far. Given the lies about the case material I was a little leery of whether the face crystal was "mineral" and opted to put a clear protective film on it. The complaints about sizing the band noted by other reviewers did not befall me (the clips came out easily with a jeweler's screwdriver). I wanted a digital watch with a countdown timer that had a dress look and was not expensive. It is exactly that, but don't lie to me!

Good watch so far(6 weeks). I had to adjust the stainless steel band which is a pain, but only took about 15 minutes.