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Casio Women's MSG160D-4V Baby-G G-MS Pink Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 36 mm

Product Description

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As tough as it is stylish, this Casio Baby-G women's digital sport watch (model MSG160D-4V) offers a brushed silver stainless steel watch case and handsome link bracelet band. It's also accented by a pink top ring and digital display. This shock-resistant timepiece is a great companion for your active lifestyle, offering a 1/100-second stopwatch with a 60-minute measuring capacity and elapsed time, split time, and 1st/2nd place time modes as well as a 24-hour countdown timer. It will also stand up to the rigors of recreational scuba diving, with water resistance to 200 meters (660 feet). Other timekeeping functions include 12/24-hour formats, year/month/date/day display (with an autocalendar to the year 2099), daylight savings time on/off, and world time from 29 time zones/48 cities (with city code display). It has four independent daily alarms (with one snooze alarm) and an optional hourly time signal. Other features include a scratch-resistant mineral crystal, AfterGlow LED electro-luminescent backlight, and battery life of up to 3 years.

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: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FPVUHM
• Item model number: MSG160D-4V
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,977 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great quality at a great price., March 12, 2007

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T. L. Coons - See all my reviews
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Let me start by saying that the only reason that I didn't give this watch a fifth star is for the features that I wish Casio would have offered in it. This may be unfair since, in and of itself, this is a great watch.

It is a mystery to me why Casio would produce a *mostly* stainless steel watch with a silver resin bezel and timepiece base. Why not go all the way with the metal?!? That aside, the only other complaint that I have is that Casio doesn't offer the solar powered and atomic watch capabilities in watches sized for women.

Call me a geek but I love precision features! And I don't want to look like a guy while sporting said features. I'm an engineer and a new mom and this watch was the best fit for my current needs. Around Valentine's Day, my husband declared war on my dirty orange (but still sleek, feminine, and function rich) Timex Ironman watch. The problem with resin watches (other than black ones)is that the resin gets dirty and/or scraped over time. His suggestion was to find a new watch ... and fast. As mother to a newborn, I required even more precision features than ever. Timex Ironman would again have had my business but for their lack of non-resin women's Ironman watches.

Casio baby-G to the rescue! Things I swoon over about my pink baby-G:

1. Its pink face, surround, and el light.
2. Its metal watch and band ... well, mostly (refer to complaints above).
3. Its Daylight Savings Time feature ... very cool and ultra convenient.
4. Its second time zone.
5. It shows day and date along with the time (I wish it also showed month -- and year, for that matter).
6. Five alarms!
7. Beeps on the hour (optional but I like it on).
8. Zeroes out the seconds intelligently when setting the time to GMT.
9. Water resistant to 100m (very important during baby baths, spitup, and other liquid emergencies).
10. Relatively shockproof (I don't have to think twice about harming it).

In short, I want a watch that looks great, does its job (and a half), and requires very little maintenance on my part. This Casio offering is the best fit I've found and melds into all aspects of my life from working out to going out to my everyday mom duties. And best of all -- my husband loves it! Just last night he commented on how "pretty" it looks on me.

Casio, you did a great job on this design but you can do better. What is THE DEAL with the tiny parts of resin on this otherwise metal beauty??!!

P.S. I already told my husband that as soon as Casio makes a solar atomic watch for women, I will be sporting it on my wrist. Not bad for a woman who thought she'd be a lifelong Timex customer.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great watch for the price., July 5, 2007

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N. Barnes "twoindigos" (Kingsport, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
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Let me just say WOW. I love this watch. I have always been a timex girl, until this watch caught my eye. I was very impressed when I recieved this watch. Its not big or bulky, and it has rugged durability with a touch of class. Only thing that irked me was the manual never told how to adjust the metal band! You have to take a paper clip and a little hammer to the pins to remove the links, but it was no problem to do, just follow the arrows.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an awesome watch, March 15, 2007

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Selene (Culver City, California United States) - See all my reviews

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I got this watch a couple of weeks ago and I love it! It is one of the few digital watches I found on the market that had a stainless steel band, which is great because those plastic or resin ones never seem to last. It is smaller than other of the Casio Baby G watches, also an excellent feature which makes the watch very wearable instead of bulky. The display is very easy to read and I like the pink face and purple backlight. Overall, this is an excellent watch with great features, and I would highly recommend it.