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Casio Women's LWAM140-7A Solar Atomic Waveceptor Sports Watch

• Tough solar power, waveceptor atomic timekeeping
• World time, LED light with afterglow, Neo-Brite luminous hand and markers
• Daily alarm, 12 and 24 hr formats
• Stopwatch

Product Description

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With a classic design versatile enough for a day at the beach or a late night at the office, the Casio Women's Solar Atomic Waveceptor Sports Watch #LWAM140-7A is both fashionable and user friendly. In addition to a bold silver stainless steel bezel mated to an attractive white resin band, this Casio has attractive silver-tone hands and a unique combination of numbers and lines for hour markers. There's also a small LCD display at the six o'clock position for keeping tabs on the date. The LCD not only reads easily, it also functions as a reference sub-display for a 1/100th second stopwatch. To further enhance visibility, the watch employs an automatic LED light with Afterglow. Not only is this Waveceptor attractive and user friendly, it will never need resetting or batteries--this atomic watch can reset itself automatically several times a day, and runs on artificial or natural light. Water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters), this Casio keeps time with reliable Japanese quartz movement.

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: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002J4UBH2
• Item model number: LWAM140-7A
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Metal batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,634 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Petite and classy with both solar and atomic time, December 24, 2009

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FlyingPolarBear (Fullerton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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For a better product view I provided two images; one holding the watch in my hand, and the other in the Casio packaging comparing the size with my men's Breitling watch (click on "see all customer images"). I got this as a Christmas present for my mom so she wouldn't ever have to change the battery or adjust the time. With solar power and radio signal time adjustments, this Casio is completely maintenance free. She loves it and it looks very nice. It almost looks like a luxury watch if it wasn't for the white plastic wristband. I would have preferred a smaller leather band; if anyone knows whether this band can be swapped out with a different style please post a comment on my review. Someone commented on another review that they couldn't find the instructions, but actually a thorough instruction booklet comes in the box. When first taking it out of the package, simply select your nearest major city and then the watch automatically adjusts the time, and that's it. On the little digital display window you can choose to display the time, name of the day of the week, calendar date, or seconds. If it's dark, press another button to activate the backlight for 1 second. This also has the full featured functionality Casio is known for such as alarm and timer. I read on a discussion forum that this model was made exclusively for Amazon, so I guess that would explain why I can't find it on the Casio website. The solar cell is interesting because you won't see any typical looking solar cell, just a very nice almost-sparkling pearly gray face. This ladies watch is fun for those who like high tech convenience, and would be perfect if there were some way to change the wristband.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a small ladies solar atomic that looks good!, November 11, 2009

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Tbone "T" - See all my reviews

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I'd almost given up shopping for a new watch for my wife when the lady at Sears pointed out this new arrival. Why hasn't Casio figured out women want small AND atomic, solar, an on/off light and waterproof earlier. My wife is forever asking me the accurate time as my Pathfinder resets atomically every night. Baby G's don't have solar and atomic, and "jelly" series is too big as are most for women. Small Baby G's are cheap etc. Doesn't Casio realize changing a battery loses a watches waterproof characteristics and basically trashes it? This watch looks much better in person than picture here. She loves the white band and the thing is SMALL. We went to many stores at the Mall and asked for these features available in men's watches all day long. Fact it has analog face plus small digital readout is a plus. Thanks Casio for finally waking up to what women want!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solar, Atomic, and Professional, August 1, 2010

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Ann Smiley - See all my reviews

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I love this watch. I have had it for a couple of months, now, and am still really happy with it.

I don't know why manufacturers make so many solar, atomic watches for men, but practically none for women. Changing watch batteries and trying to figure out how to set the time on a watch are a complete pain. With this watch, I don't have to do either one. It's got a nice-looking analog face, with a little digital inset that can be used to show the seconds, the date, the day, or whatever. I like that too--no more pushing a button to find the date.

If you're worried about scratches to this watch's face, I've found that men-sized Swatch Guards (both the stretchy originals and snap-on "too" style) fit this watch snugly.

I recently replaced the band. The original band is quite sporty and does get gray-looking. It cleans up fine but I wanted something a little nicer. I took it to the watchband kiosk at the mall and got a wide white leather band with chrome buckle for under $20. The kiosk guy did a couple of cutouts to the leather and it fits perfectly and looks terrific. It was hard to choose--the watch face looks nice with any color leather band. I think it would also work with a metal band, although I didn't try it.