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Casio Women's MSG300C-1B Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 40 mm

Product Description

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With its luminous copper and digital gray dial and sturdy mix of metal and resin, Casio's Baby-G G-MS Cool and Touch Watch #MSG300C-1B combines sleek, contemporary style with durable, shock-resistant construction. This sporty yet elegant timepiece offers both analog and digital time, LED light with afterglow, world time (29 time zones), five independent daily alarms, and a 1/100-second stopwatch. There's also an hourly time signal and auto calendar pre-programmed until the year 2099 to help keep you organized. Presented in an original Casio box, this one-of-a-kind accessory is water resistant to 660 feet and boasts the precision of 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: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001A62OHU
• Item model number: MSG300C-1B
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,811 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall not bad...not bad at all, June 25, 2009

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Roberta Riot! (Orange County, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Women's MSG300C-1B Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch (Watch)

I think someone brought up that the pins that attach the links are fragile and can be broken easily. I used a safety pin and some care and removed links easily with the pins still intact.

Overall a nice watch...just a little minor issues I personally have with it. The face itself does not illuminate as with some other GShock and BabyG models--there are small LED lights placed around the rim of the watch that illuminate the face. The black plastic rim can also be scratched (mine has a white scratch on it), so be careful with it. Also the analog hands can block the three LED displays, but that's rather unavoidable and something you should assume when buying the watch.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good watch#####DON'T BUY THIS WATCH(UPDATE), July 24, 2009

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Hexuan Wang "scintillahx" (MA,USA) - See all my reviews
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The watch is little larger than I expected, but it still looks really cute, and I got a small wrist. I love the color combinations.
It's a little heavier for people who are really sporty. I planned to hike with this watch, but after trying it on, I decide to go back to my slim Swatch.
It's really really really easy to adjust the watch band. I used a safety pin, as suggested by another review. NOTHING COMPLICATED.
It's also not that hard to adjust everything else. Just follow the instructions in the manual!

UPDATE:
After using this watch for three months, I found out something not so nice...you can't read the date (digital) when the hands are on top of it as well as the shadows. It's only a tiny drawback, but it can make you very frustrated!
But still, five star. Everything else is excellent.

UPDATE 2:
Okay I've been owning this watch for over one year, and a serious problem appears...The analog and digital reading don't match!!!The analog is always ten-fifteen minutes slower than the digital, while the latter is accurate!!!!You can change the digital and the analog will change accordingly, but still it's ten-fifteen minutes slower!!!This is way too bad for a watch specially when you sometimes can'g read the digital reading because the analog hands are on top of it!!!!!
DON'T BUY THIS WATCH!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome watch and looks good too!, March 20, 2009

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I bought this watch last week and absolutely love it! The instruction book was very easy to follow and I had it programmed in less than 10 mins. The watch band was very easy to adjust! I removed the links with just my fingernails and a push pin! This is a very classy looking watch you can wear with even the dressiest attire and yet not look out of place in jeans and a t-shirt either. The functions on the watch are great, perfect blend of sporty and practical! AND you can't beat the Baby-G toughness Casio is known for. I have always owned Baby-G's over the years but as I got older and entered the corporate world, I had to give up my Baby-G's for a more "professional" watch. I was so excited to see this watch as I can now have the Baby-G again and still look professional!