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Casio Men's WVA470J-1ACF Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch

• Quality Japanese-quartz movement
• Tough Solar Power; shock Resistant; auto EL backlight with Afterglow
• World time - 29 times zones (30 cities), city code display, daylight saving on/off

Product Description

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This Casio Men's Waveceptor Sport Watch presents an analog face with a small, digital display above six o'clock, giving you the best of both worlds. Featuring a deep grey dial, stick indices on each hour, an outer dial with small, white indices marking each minute, and a sleek, stainless steel bezel with engraved Arabic numerals marking 15-second intervals, this athletic timepiece has a unique, contemporary look. Plus, with a resin case, resin band held in place by a buckle clasp, and mineral window, this watch is durable, too. Add the accuracy of Atomic Timekeeping and the reliability of Tough Solar power into the mix, along with a world clock and day-and-date calendar, and this watch is ready for anything your busy life throws its way.

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: B0018747QW
• Item model number: WVA470J-1ACF
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,147 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Confusing Manual But Don't Fret!, February 25, 2009

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Paul Schmidt "Coffee Junkie" (Palm Springs, CA) - See all my reviews
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Casio Men's Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WVA470J-1ACF

Love the watch-now. Because the manual is often not clear, it took quite a while to set up. AMAZON was no help. Whey I contact them to get Casio's Tech number the only number they had was for a distributor. Casio's website allows you to send e-mails with a standard response- download the manual. BUT after quite a bit of digging I found the number- write this down- Casio Tech Support: 1-800-435-7732, choose Option 3.
The response is prompt and the tech support staff is courteous and helpful.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Casio Men's Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WVA470J-1ACF, March 10, 2009

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Ricky Gonzalez (PA.) - See all my reviews
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I have had two Casio wave cepter watches and this one is the better. You never have to set this watch, solar powered, which lasts months without any sunlight, and water proof. Looks great also! The only small downfall for this watch is it's crystal......it does seem to scratch a little easy. The crystal is glass, some other casio's have plexi-glass crystal which scrathes very easy. The best is the saphire crystal, which as of now only comes with the Casio Oceanus line of watches. (terrific line of watches)

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Waveceptor analog, January 28, 2009

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Peter Bovey (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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The watch has a very sensitive receiver that sets the time every night without having to put the watch by a window as the instructions indicate. The solar cell charges the battery with normal daily activity. The date and day of week panel is very legible.
The only negative is how easily the crystal scratches. I don't even know what scratched it but it had a couple of scratches in a few days.