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Product Description
Stainless Steel Case 30 page databank, 8 letters, 16 numerals per page, Auto-sort function, Analog digital combination, World time, 29 time zones, 30 cities, Daylight saving time on/off, Countdown timer, 3 daily alarms, 1/100 stopwatch, Elapsed time, spliStainless Steel Bracelet50 Meters(165 Feet)Mineral CrystalQuartz Movement
Product Details
- Brand: Casio
- Model: AW80D-1AV
- Band material: stainless-steel
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Dial color: black
- Dial window material: Mineral
- Movement type: Quartz
- Water-resistant to 165 feet
Editorial Reviews
A great watch for globetrotters, this Casio men's stainless steel watch (model AW80D-1AV) enables you to easily track to time zones. It features an analog watch face that's supplemented by a digital window at the bottom, which can be set for a second time zone. It also offers a world time function with 29 time zones (30 cities), city code display, and daylight saving time on/off. Other timing features include a countdown timer (up to 24 hours), a 1/100-second digital stopwatch (with elapsed time, lap time, split time, and 1st/2nd place times), and three daily alarms (one with snooze).
Classically masculine, it has a round watch case with gray screw-down accents on the top of the case and a triple-link stainless steel bracelet band. The black dial is supplemented with luminous hands and hour markers, Arabic numerals around the outside of the dial, and small minute indexes. With the 30-page databank capability, you can store phone numbers and quick reminders (with up to 8 letters and 16 numerals per page). Other features include a 10-year battery life (CR2025 battery), auto calendar (programmed to the year 2099), LED light with Afterglow, and water resistance to 50 meters--suitable for swimming but not for diving.
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Customer Reviews
Inexpensive, Ugly, Rugged and Somewhat Useful
SCORE GUIDE:
Appearance: 2
Wear: 3
Features: 3
Price: (as listed) 5
Average: 3.25, or 3 for our purposes
When my 3rd Timex Expedition broke (a nice, robust black plastic model with a plastic band and a compass...sigh), I needed to fill the "work watch" void with a new model. Sadly, realizing that my plastic Expeditions were all waiting to break, and noting that my two "non-work watches" possessed traits I really enjoyed (analog face and durable all-metal construction), I concluded my new every-day work watch would be like the other two, though less costly.
I shopped around ye olde Amazon for an all-metal watch with an analog face - for cheap. But not too cheap, right? I eventually found this Casio, and after reading the specs and distancing my perception that all Casios were cheap digital models often with numeric keypads for their built-in calculator, I pulled the trigger.
Three months later, here are my impressions, to help you make an informed decision:
APPEARANCE: I rate this a two (out of five) for the quality and appearance of the metal. Note that 90% of the watch is metal (housing, band, back) but four "rivets", part of the housing, the circle around the face, and the four buttons are an ugly matte dark gray that doesn't really show up in the Amazon picture. Not a big deal, but it looks cheap juxtaposed with metal. Next, the stainless steel is not particularly shiny, and the machining around the edges is rough - this is the first metal watch I've owned where the term "jagged" could almost be used. It isn't jagged, but it's not smooth, either. Finally, the black face has classy silver detailing with some white, red and yellow (as well as the requsitite "glow-in-the-dark" for the hands and top half of the hours). In total, a pleasing, easy-to-read face somewhat marred by the quartz-gray digital semi-circle inhabiting the bottom.
WEAR: I'd estimate my wrist where the watch sits is nine inches around, and it fits loosely but doesn't dangle. A nice, comfortable fit, though if you have smaller wrists, this could be a problem. I don't know the logistics of re-sizing watches, but there don't seem to be any screws or access points. That being said, I'm sure it could be resized by a trained watch-resizing professional.
FEATURES: Besides my "analog face" and "metal" requirements, what intrigued me about this watch were the digital components, and these net the Casio a 3 out of 5. As I mentioned before, there is a small semi-circle quartz viewport on the lower half of the face. This smallish window holds the digital time (which must be set independently of the analog time - confusing to say the least), the day and date, a number of presets for global city times (for the globe-trotter that wears Casio?), a timer, a chronograph (for the long-distance runner who wears metal watches?), a programmable alarm (with snooze!) and the most unwieldy, bizarre data-entry feature you might imagine, the "Telememo 30" which stores 30 independent strings of characters (words, phone numbers, the alphabet). Excepting the insanely useless Telememo, all the other digital features function reasonably well, but none excel and a few are insidiously confusing. For those that live or work in darkness, Casio's "Illuminator" watch-face lighting technology is a poor man's Indiglo. Spelunkers note: do not plan on using this watch in total darkness.
PRICE: I scored this watch for $23, about the price one would expect to pay for digital/plastic watch with roughly the same features (unless you're talking a bare-bones analog face). The watch itself proclaims its "10 year battery!" - we'll see about that - but it might as well say, "Inexpensive, Ugly, Rugged and Somewhat Useful!". For a handy, metally, cheap-but-not-shoddy everyday work watch, this buster does the job.
Needless to say, I recommend spending a few extra bucks and getting a better watch.
good watch!
i bought this as a gift for my father and he like it, adjusting the time and date is kinda different but its still easy if you read the instructions, i think its really a great watch considering the price.
Casio Mens ana/digital Watch #AW80D-1AV
This is an excellent watc. Good Looking, Works, programs easily and at a great price. AAA++++