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Casio Women's MSG300C-7B1 Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch

• Quartz movement
• Protective mineral crystal protects watch from scratches
• Case diameter: 39.6 mm

Product Description

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Perfect for your active lifestyle, this classic Casio watch for men features a stopwatch and countdown timer. Featuring EL Backlight with Afterglow, this versatile timepiece makes it easy to check the time, day, date, and month--even in the dark. Powered by quartz movement, this chronograph sports watch is constructed with a black resin case, bezel, and band. Water resistant to 330 feet (100 M), you can take a shower or go diving worry-free.

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: B001A5OX8E
• Item model number: MSG300C-7B1
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,656 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good watch but look closely, January 27, 2009

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Science Geek (Cape Cod) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Women's MSG300C-7B1 Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch (Watch)

This is a good watch, it does everything you would want a watch to do and more. For some reason it's hard to find a womens watch that has an alarm, and even harder to find one with an alarm and be backlit. I have no idea why this is, you wouldn't have thought these things wouldn't fit on a smaller womens watch. This watch has a large face for a women's watch, I have an average size wrist and it looks pretty chunky on me. It is pretty deep too, I would say around 1cm thick at the face.

One thing to be careful about though is looking at the picture carefully. This strap is actually alternating white and steel links, not all steel as the description would suggest. G-shock unfortunately do not do a full steel version of this watch and I wish they did, the alternating white and steel is not a great look, and the white gets dirty really quickly (mine needed some bleach treatment after just 2 weeks normal wear), this includes the white on the bezel. Why anyone would want a white watch is beyond me, especially one like this that is obviously made for an outdoor type person.

I bought this thinking it was an all steel band and figuring I could deal with a white bezel, and although was really disappointed when it arrived, ended up keeping it was I was going away the next day and needed it. I now like the watch for it's features and will keep my eye out in case Casio does an all steel version of this, I could imagine it being pretty popular. It's a great watch for the price all the features work great, just please please get some designers in who design for the real world, rather than fashionistas....

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars maine nurse, February 2, 2009

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maine mom (maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Women's MSG300C-7B1 Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch (Watch)

I bought this at Macy's and it was the full price. It took me a while to figure out how to program it, but there is a step-by-step book so one can personalize the settings. Because I am a nurse, I wanted something that can show the date, the time, count seconds, and be washable and durable. The added bonus is the atomic time on it. SO FUN! Sure, it is not as pristine white as when I first bought is 4 months ago, but it is still white, classy and tough, cleans up well, and does the job I bought it to do.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great looking, good functioning watch, April 28, 2009

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C. Uyeda (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio Women's MSG300C-7B1 Baby-G G-MS Cool and Tough Ana-Digi Watch (Watch)

I like white watches in general, and since this watch was white, but had alternating metal in between, it looked classy and useful in all kinds of occassions.

The watch is an Analogue + Digital watch, so you get the best of both. It is a baby-G, so it is very durable and highly functional with a stop watch, timer, and alarm. It also has a feature of having world times which was very useful when I traveled to other countries.

I love this watch overall and wear it virtually everyday, but there are a couple problems I have with it:

1. The digital portion of the watch is very hard to see. The digital portion is silver. White background on silver is not the best combination visually. You'll have to position the watch in a certain way to block out sunlight or glare, or you can't see the digital portion. Not a problem if you rely on the analogue portion, but you can't read the dates and seconds readily...

As a medical personnel, I needed a watch with a second hand. This watch does not have a second hand on the analogue part. You have to rely on the digital portion for the second hand. The problem is, you won't be able to see the second hand due to the problem noted above, as well as when the hour and minute hits 30 (or 6 in hours). The second window is right at the half-hour part.

Like I said, I would probably buy this watch again if it broke, and I recommend it to anybody that likes white sporty watches.