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Casio Women's MSG161C-7V Baby-G G-MS Sweet Poison White Watch

• Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Case diameter: 38 mm

Product Description

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Get ready to take on the world with this Casio Baby-G Sweet Poison women's sport digital watch (model MSG161C-1V), which matches durability with a stylish white display. It ratchets up the style with a silver stainless steel case and bracelet band that are accented with white resin highlights. 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: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FPX5WA
• Item model number: MSG161C-7V
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,569 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad ~, September 26, 2007

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M. Jang (New Orleans,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Women's MSG161C-7V Baby-G G-MS Sweet Poison White Watch (Watch)

The watch isn't all that bad. However, it does have some faults. As said before, the screen is a little hard to read, but it doesn't bother me too much. I'd rather think of it as something unique that many other watches don't have :) Another bad feature is that the watch's alarms only last for 10 seconds. Even if there is snooze for every 5 minutes, it's only 10 seconds long.

But the watch is very pretty in general with the nice and shiny stainless steel alternated with the white, plastic band. Although some may think the watch is overall too large for the female, it's smaller than many other typical ladies' baby-g watches (the gel type watches).

If you are looking for another watch just as pretty as this, but without the same band and a better screen, you can look at the MSG160L-7V product.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Band is mostly plastic, February 16, 2008

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camestres (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Casio Women's MSG161C-7V Baby-G G-MS Sweet Poison White Watch (Watch)

In the photo on the website, the band looked like metal to me. However, the band is actually white plastic with some metal pieces. As long as you realize that, you will probably be happy with the watch, but it wasn't what I expected or wanted. I thought the watch face was easy to read.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hard to read, September 20, 2007

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M. Sturgill - See all my reviews
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The watch is very hard to read. The bezel is white and the numbers are silver. Unless I looked at the face directly from above the numbers were unreadable. Also, the watch is rather thick - it it looks way to big on my arm. I will be returning it.