Casio Wave Ceptor Men's Watch WVA-M640D
WVA-M640D-2AER
Wave Ceptor’s key secret is Atomic Timekeeping which ensures perfect timing by automatically picking up a signal from radio transmitters in locations all over the world. These radio controlled watches are muliti band 6 which allow you to switch between the UK and world wide transmitters. The Wave Ceptor range also automatically adjusts for daylight savings time.
Multi Band 6 Radio Controlled
A built-in radio signal receiver ensures that the exact time is displayed across Europe, The United States and Japan AND China.
Solar Powered
A Solar cell provides power for operation.
Stop Watch
Accurate measurement of elapsed time with a touch of a button.
Multi Time Zone
Local times can be called up quickly and easily for four different time zones.
| Dimensions: | 10.01 x 10.01 x 5 cm; 35 Grams |
| Model: | WVA-M640D-2AER |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included) |
| Manufacture: | Casio |
| Department: | Mens |
| Department: | Mens |
| Origin: | China |
It's a good alround produc
he watch itself is great, but the colour description for the face is blue and in the picture is an airforce blue, in fact the colour is either dark navy blue or black. Which I found disappointing.
It's a good alround produc
he watch itself is great, but the colour description for the face is blue and in the picture is an airforce blue, in fact the colour is either dark navy blue or black. Which I found disappointing.
Perfect watch for me
This watch is ideal for me as:
– light weight but feels very good quality
– 100% accurate time (which I am a bit obsessed with!)
– Digital stopwatch
– battery level indicator
– price less than 100
Easy to read analogue radio controlled watch.
Bought as a gift to replace an older version. This has a larger date display, otherwise identical. Instruction manual looked off putting, but in fact was easy to read – just lots of languages made it very thick! Removal of a bracelet link was simple, too. Would recommend.
Excellent timekeepe
Didn’t like the small directions book but you can download this and expand it.
Great watch
Very nice watch. Keeps good time and is (or should be) always correct thanks to the time signal.
Can sometimes press the buttons by accident moving my hand around but no major issues
Great watch
Very nice watch. Keeps good time and is (or should be) always correct thanks to the time signal.
Can sometimes press the buttons by accident moving my hand around but no major issues
Get one
What’s not to like? My previous Waveceptor lasted 13 years, no reason to think this won’t do the same
correct time
it was a nightmare trying to get the time right,but all is ok now
simplicity
so easy to set and the strap adjustment is magic
It tells the time
2nd Casio RC watch I’ve had, the 1st one has lasted over 10 years and still works well.
1 tip: after the 1st manual receive the day showing was wrong, it turned out that the date set on the watch was 2 years into the future. It was simple enough to change but it did mean 98 clicks to get the year right.
It tells the time
2nd Casio RC watch I’ve had, the 1st one has lasted over 10 years and still works well.
1 tip: after the 1st manual receive the day showing was wrong, it turned out that the date set on the watch was 2 years into the future. It was simple enough to change but it did mean 98 clicks to get the year right.
Delivered before time stated
Couldn’t really point water & scratch resistance as it hasn’t been in water as yet & I haven’t had it long enough to gauge it’s scratch resistance but all in all it appears to be a good watch
Delivered before time stated
Couldn’t really point water & scratch resistance as it hasn’t been in water as yet & I haven’t had it long enough to gauge it’s scratch resistance but all in all it appears to be a good watch
Great watch!
Great watch, great value and very comfortable indeed! It takes a little while to master all the complicated in and outs, but it’s well worth the effort to have such accuracy, versatility and be eco-friendly too!
Works well, looks well, totally accurate!
As others have noted, the watch sets itself up as soon as you open it’s tin box. It went straight to the correct time with no input of any kind from me! Next morning it was an hour fast and on checking, like others have said, it was set to Paris time. Using the instruction book I reset it to London time and it’s been perfect ever since. Whoever designed the strap and link adjustment system deserves the Nobel Prize. EVERY watch/strap should be like this. Truly brilliant!
Exactly as written on the tin!
Item exactly as required – had a similar product before (from a different maker) but this is far superior. Linkage removal simplicity itself, colour more grey than blue – perfect- , readout window is easy to read, the bonus of a light is great, and I’m not even mentioning the stop watch, etc.
Nice Watch
This is actually a nice watch. It sprung into life when I took it out of the box and set itself.
Bought for a gift.
Bought for a gift to replace a previous one the same, which broke, apparently this one is better.
Great looking budget watch with load of watch for the money
Bought this as I just wanted a cheap watch that I could happily wear out in the garden and doing odd jobs around the house – not the sort of things you wear a watch worth thousands doing. Very pleasantly surprised by this Casio Waveceptor. Ok, the case and bracelet look and feel a bit cheap and it only has a mineral glass face but then it cost less that 100 and it is more accurate than my rolex or any of my vastly more expensive other watches with it’s daily connection to the atomic clock which resets it to the correct time. Plus it has a night light, has lumed hands, has a stop watch, world time , timer, alarms and day/date functions and has 10ATM water resistance. Frankly, you can’t afford not to buy this watch.
Signal reception good
Appearance and function. However, have not been refunded cost of previous watch returned.
Great watch.
Wonderful watch. Arrived next day. Easy to setup and adjust wristband.
Reliable
Excellent watch easy to set up very reliable I use it for everyday use
Excellent watch
Had a previous model of this watch for many years. That one was extremely tough and waterproof, very accurate timekeeping, easy to read and use. Also reassuring to know that the watch was always showing exact time and never any concern over any battery failing at least convenient time.
So far I’m not disappointed with this version. It looks good as a smart everyday watch but still take all the hard knocks of daily use. Has a nice feel on the wrist too.
The package also contains a small tool for removing links from the bracelet so adjustment to fit took just a few minutes. NO need to spend any extra for any ‘special’ tools as linked to it on this page!!
In all a great watch at very reasonable price.
No need to buy a tool to shorten the strap, one is supplied.
I like a simple face with just one dial. The date and time are easy to read for a septuagenarian. No need to worry about batteries or resett time and date.
No need to buy a tool to shorten the strap, one is supplied.
I like a simple face with just one dial. The date and time are easy to read for a septuagenarian. No need to worry about batteries or resett time and date.
Exactly as the photo.
Really pleased with my purchase. Looks like a much more expensive watch and coupled with the ability to change the home city when travelling so that it resets the time is amazing.
Brilliant time keepe
After having an automatic watch that had a mind of its own and took regular breaks I just wanted an accurate watch so I went for a radio controlled one. The watch is very easy to set up and I’m definately not tech savvy. I decided to take it to jewellers to take a couple of links out the band as my fingers not so supple do to old age creeping up. H Samuel politely told me the charge was 20 . When I told the assistant I’d rather use it as a pocket watch than pay that , she said ALL jewellers charged the same. They might do but the bloke on the local market charged me 4. And did it in 5 minutes. The watch is brilliant. Good to look at ,some useful functions and a great time keeper. . I have a radio controlled wall clock and was amazed when checking them against each other even the seconds fingers are in sync. I would have no hesitation in recommending this watch . It’s a great price and definately value for money
Not easy to use.
It tells the time accurately. I found it difficult to use any of the functions. You need very good eyesight to see the digital display. The hour bleep is so quiet you can hardly hear it, and I haven’t figured out how to use the alarm yet.d
Other than that, it’s a nice watch for the price. the analogue dial is easy to read. I’m not displeased with it.
Thoroughly recommend this watch.
This watch was purchased to replace a Casio Wave Ceptor I had owned and wore everyday for 9 years and worked perfectly. Unfortunately I lost the watch and this is the nearest to the old one. Very happy with this one, very clear easy to read face with lovely background colour plus no battery changes now. It works straight from the box and only needs changing to London time signal and it does the rest, the bracelet size is also very easy with the provided tool. Thoroughly recommend this watch.
This watch offered what I was looking for:
– Accurate Time, down to the very Second due to Radio Control feature
– Light weight due to Titanium
– Service free due to Solar cells powering the watch there is no need for the otherwise frequent battery replacements
The watch is delivering on those promises and I’m happy with the purchase.
That being said there are unfortunately also some downsides with this watch:
Titanium is not only light weight, but also far less scratch resistant than for example Stainless Steel.
I had scuff marks on my watch and strap within just a few days. Nothing too serious, but the new watch looks therefore very quickly “used”
The Radio Control somehow requires a gap in the metal casing of the watch, which is filled with some hard rubber/softer plastic and doesn’t look overwhelmingly stylish either. I don’t know if the sealing in the watch is sufficient to swim or snorkel, I have my doubts and consider it only splash water resistant.
But my biggest pain point is the watch glass: it’s plastic and I found it scratches very easily.
Overall I consider this a good buy and good value for money, the watch does exactly what it should do and I do trust the hour beep to be 100% accurate
Excellent watch
Nice looking watch. Easy to read clear display. Light on the wrist.
grea
worked immediately when taken from the box only problem, I had not told it to go on to DST, daylight saving time. after doing that the hands whizzed round and caught up with time.
Superb Watch - Tremendous value for money
This is my second watch, as my original one was sadly stolen after having it only two years. It is great value for money and there was no contest in choosing the same watch again. It has a lovely dial, has weight and feels a quality product. Once set up it runs forever. Never had any problems at all. Would heartily recommend this great value product. Well done Casio!
This is the one!
As soon as you take the watch out of the box it starts working, first picking up a signal from wherever you are: Rugby, the United States or China. (Sadly, not India, yet.) It’s solar-powered, so you then put it in bright sunlight, or even indoor light, and it starts to charge up,going from MID to HI. [Thinks: HI there!]
My previous Wave Ceptor is battery-powered, though the battery will last for years (unlike certain Watches I could mention).
Oh, the new model has a second hand, and one of the buttons illuminates the whole dial.
There is a battery of alarms and timers built in, so there are no more excuses for missing an appointment.
You can use the analogue face to tell the time while using the digital screen for a different time zone, which is handy when travelling by air. When you reach your destination, you then change the time zone for the time you are away.
My only serious criticism is of the manual. The printed one is much too small to read comfortably, and the online PDF manual is much the same. Plus, it does not allow you to use bookmarks at all. This is a real downer, but it seems that manufacturers do not understand the uses of Acrobat! In my case I needed a telephone call to Casio to work out where to start when setting the time zone; the key is that Timekeeping mode is when the digital screen shows the day and date. All sorted now.
Accurate
This is my second of these watches, great quality for the price and always accurate.
Excelent watch
The watch is a very good timepeace. It can be readily adjusted to different locatoions and will pick up thecorrect time signal for the location it is set for, providing a transmitter is within range. The only dislike is that it was described as having a stainless steel case. In fact the case is plastic or resin with a stainless steel cover. This is my 3rd Casio Wave Septre watch. The first was mainly a resin case and basically the corner broke off. The second had more steel and lasted many years. This is far better than my fist one but it remains to be seen if the resin will be a weakness.
best toy eve
I love these. I think I’m on my third (I tend to to lose them – none has broken). They’re just the perfect boy’s toy: perfect time keeping, no battery needed and reasonably indestructible.
Correct time always
I have had one of these watches for eleven years, what I like about them is that you know the time is exact all the time, never any need to adjust. Had a small problem setting this new watch, it was consistently an hour fast, then decided to follow the old maxim, when all else fails, read the instructions, apparently it was on the wrong time zone. Now showing the correct time. The solar battery is an unknown quantity, will have to wait and see how the charge is maintained. Hoping for many years of consistent timekeeping.
Good deal
Nice watch, and half the price compared to local webshops
Quality and Reliability
I have just purchased this Casio Wave Ceptor watch because my almost identical Casio Wave Ceptor watch has lasted 11 years. I did not once have to adjust it once in any way once I had set it for DST. The solar power and the radio reception have been totally faultless. Unfortunately because of the winter light and long sleeves I neglected to look at the state of the battery and for the first time it died on me. Once I put it on a window ledge it soon came to life again and the digital read out was accurate. Unfortunately I cannot get the analogue display to correct itself, either manually or automatically. I paid about 68 for it and consider it an excellent investment. Nothing lasts for ever and for a watch in that price range I am well satisfied. Fingers crossed that I will enjoy the same reliability with my new purchase!
A must have watch to add to any gents watch collectio
A no nonsense classic watch that has no maintenance issues, no battery changes… Just let normal solar light grace the dial from time to time.
Never needs adjustment or new battery
There is nothing to dislike about this watch. I had one of its predecesors, which I bought in about 2003, and it has lasted 15 years without needing adjusting (even for BST/GMT changes) or new battery. The old one is still working but it’s light’s gone a bit wonky, so I though it was about time to retire it. The latest version is thinner, lighter better looking and even easier to see and use than the old one. No point in buying any other watch. Looks good too, or so I’m told.
Excellent watch
Easy to read without your glasses if you happen to be short-sighted because of the well proportioned hands and numerals. The radio function that makes the time satellite-accurate works well as does the solar charging. Very pleased with my purchase
Casio Wavecepto
Had a Casio Waveceptor watch for 15 years and decided it was time to update so purchased this one.
It’s excellent and the bracelet is very easy to adjust. Only time will tell if this one will last 15 years.
Ordered one of these previously but it disappeared before delivery, so this is a review of the second one I ordered.
The only watch you will ever need.
This is probably the best watch on the market for the price, I purchased my first wave cepter about 10 years ago and wore it daily including for work, it never let me down until just reacently when it lost the ability to connect with the atomic clock. These watches never need a battery nor adjusting in a decade. Highly recommended.
World wide time piece.
Really good value watch. Wear it anywhere, in any Country. All that is needed is tell the watch where it is. Simple.
Very nice quality watch, good value but shame the dial is black
I found the dial to be black, not blue as shown and described
It is beautiful , accurate and comfortable
This item is perfect,is very light , quality filling, looks good ,probably one of the most accurate watch you can buy, also is ,,solar charging,, so deserves the money
Excellent Watch
This watch is the best that I have owned. I would agree with all the positive comments made in other customers reviews – and it’s comfortable to wear.
Superb
Bought it with the charging light and both work beautifully
Very easey to set up and use
I particularly like the ease with which you can adjust the strap by removing links yourself without having to return to a shop to have an “expert” carry out the job.
Very easey to set up and use
I particularly like the ease with which you can adjust the strap by removing links yourself without having to return to a shop to have an “expert” carry out the job.
Accurate timekeeping
Exactly as described and easy to set up. Solar power a bonus.
Accurate timekeeping
Exactly as described and easy to set up. Solar power a bonus.
I bought the titanium version. It’s very light and comfortable to wear. I’ve had the watch for a year now and this is the best all-rounder watch I’ve had in years. Its extremely accurate in time as it updated by signal every night to the exact second. Runs on solar rechargeable battery. I swim with it and have been to many countries with it using the world times. A very well designed and made watch that doesn’t come apart when you drop it or play sports. (Almost every other known good brand mid-range watch I bought broke in less than a year due to dropping, banging it, etc. This is the first one in a long time that has durable enough and at the same time practical and comfortable. Highly recommended.
Does the job
Great practical product.
No batteries.
Automatically resets time wherever you are.
Comfortable to wear.
Easy to read.
Great for travelling
I love this watch.
The solar charging reduces the potential problems of damaged seal when when replacing batteries on more common design of watch. The seal is marked as being good to 10 bar – about a 100 meters depth.
Multi band automatic time correction makes this excellent for travel.
Another minor feature is that you can change the language of the displayed day name. As I’m studying Japanese I keep it set to show the Kanji abbreviations for days.
The strap is very easy to adjust, as a tool for removing links is included in the box.
I really love this watch.
Measure this watch against any other of a similar spec. and it blows them away.
Light and elegant.
Titanium body and bracelet.
Radio controlled
Water resistant 10 bar.
Solar powered.
Day/date.
5 alarms
Timer.
Stop watch.
Summer time daylight saving
World time. – check the time in other cities around the world.
Watch face light.
Unbelievably easy to take out and put back bracelet links using the special tool supplied with the watch.
UNBELIEVABLE FOR 112.50!!
The only downer is the lens which is acrylic.
Who on earth in Casio made the ludicrous decision to put an acrylic lens on such a fine piece of time keeping?
Do the right thing and charge a bit more to cover the cost.
I have a citizen f900 and quite a few AT Citizens and it’s giving all of them a run for their money!
BUY ONE!
I have discovered a flaw in this great value watch which may account for the low price. I have a small collection and decided to use this one as my everyday watch. Since wearing it for about a week I have noticed that the bracelet has picked up a lot of scrapes especially near the clasp area.
I thought that titanium was supposed to be more resillient than stainless steel. The lens, although not glass, remains unmarked.
Still a great watch but I am not surprised that it has this flaw.
I now realise why citizen have a special coating on their titanium watches. Something had to give with the spec. against the price.
Please don’t be put off. This is still a great watch and real value for money.
Since my last review the price of this fine watch has gone down even more (approx 18) from when I bought mine.
It is the ultimate watch from a practical point of view. Not a collectors watch because it is such great value for money.
This watch is for those who want a watch to use that doesn’t cost a fortune.
It knocks those multi thousand pound, diamond and gold encrusted watches into a cocked hat – unless you like being a poser and can afford that sort of thing.
Great Watch
Really like this watch. I found a little complicated to set up. The buttons are different to my last Casio. I need to take the instruction book with me. However once set up it works well, & looks a lot more expensive than it actually was.
Well pleased with my Casio WVA M640D
Two Seiko analogue battery operated watches had done me 40 years both gaining about 10 seconds a week and batteries lasting about five years which is pretty good but I fancied an atomic radio controlled one for greater accuracy. Seiko ones are several hundred pounds and after much searching I found this one on Amazon at under 100 – strangely my preferred blue faced one was 20 less than black. Nice stainless steel case only slightly thicker than my previous watches. Handy little tool to adjust length of strap and press button strap release. Although the watch has several features I would not use such as a stop watch, setting it up for UK BST was not too complicated and it now synchronises itself every night. Useful for work when no one can agree the time to finish! The added bonus of being solar powered so no battery changes. I thoroughly recommend i
Five Stars
Lighter in weight, than the original Wave Ceptor that I’ve had for over 10 years.
A Superb Watch
A superb watch, very clear, very accurate, very light and comfortable to wear, I am extremely pleased with mine and can highly recommend it.
Five Stars
a very good product the face is very easy to read
Five Stars
a very good product the face is very easy to read
Delivery exactly as stated and I am very pleased.
Exactly the right present for my husband. Delivery exactly as stated and I am very pleased.
Brilliant!!
This is an excellent product as the watch is easy to read, is comfortable on the wrist (with very simple length of strap management) and provides many features. As well as the usual timer, stop watch it has world time, solar battery charging and international time signal making it accurate to the second. Add to this the fact that it is waterproof you have, in my view, the ideal watch!!
Good value. Easy to change location when travelling
Elegant watch. Good value. Easy to change location when travelling.
Easy to set up
Arrived on time. Easy to set up. Especially easy to alter bracelet length with small included tool. For use in UK set to LONDON time (this one was set to PARIS). Early days yet but I am very happy with the purchase.
Casio Wave Ceptor Men’s Watch WVA-M640D-2AER
Told the right time out of the box even though it was set to PAR (European time) rather than LON (UK time). But after changing to LON and letting it get reception it was OK.
I wonder how many people are using theirs with the wrong setting? I might have left mine as it was because it appeared correct!
Face colour was darker than picture, almost black but I’m very pleased with the appearance apart from the bit of grey plastic around the sides. Others have mentioned that the “glass” appeared to be acrylic and scratched easily, so I was concerned about ordering it, but this model definitely has a mineral glass face, it seems to be the titanium version which has the acrylic face. I would have liked more fine adjustment holes in the bracelet as there are only two adjustment positions at the clasp, not quite enough to cope with 9mm difference when removing/adding links, not as versatile as other metal bracelets I have had before.
All in all an excellent watch and there didn’t seem to be many others to compete with its features at the price and I definitely wanted a solar, radio controlled watch this time.
I have only had it for a week so far and am very pleased with it!
Update: One feature I subsequently noticed was the Power Saving function; in the mornings the digital display is often blank and second hand at 12 even if the battery charge is “HI”, but the watch hands are showing correct time. This worried me to start with until I discovered that it goes into this sleep state after about an hour in the dark, however, it soon changes back to normal mode again.
What happens when you go abroad? Well once you have given it your “home” location (e.g. LON) that is the only one it uses, so when out of range it just works as a quartz crystal controlled watch (no RCVD indication). Any world time zones selected will be relative to that home time. If you really want it to change to precise local time elsewhere, you’ll need to re-set the city code and synchronise it to that, probably not worth the effort for short trips and the need to re-set it again when back home.
Five Stars
Item as described at a good price and delivered on time
Five Stars
Item as described at a good price and delivered on time
This is an excellent watch and is extremely comfortable to wea
This is an excellent watch and is extremely comfortable to wear. I particularly like the way the watch “sleeps” when it gets dark and springs into action when it receives light on the solar cell. No more adjusting the time and changing the batteries. Such a lot of technology for a very reasonable price. Excellent product.
Fantastic watch
I love beautiful watches like Rolex and Tag Heuer but I have to admit that for daily wear/use this is about as good as it gets. It even looks smart.
Purchased this to replace two old watches that were showing faults.
There are many variants of the Wave Ceptor, the price varies from around 30.00 up to 200.00 plus. This one is the Titanium model.
I chose this one because of the easy adjustment of the bracelet. Using the tool supplied or a suitable diameter rod, its one of the easiest adjustments that I have seen. I removed 5 links to fit my wrist.
Some reviewers have complained about the plastic part of the watch. The main chassis is probably engineering grade polycarbonate. This is clad in either stainless steel or titanium. The non metal part is hardly visible when the watch is worn.
Mine was almost fully charged on arrival, and was showing the correct time and date, but it was set to Paris and not London.
Very easy to to reset to your country. Be sure to switch on DST, Daylight Saving Time. This may be the reason other reviewers have complained that the watch is an hour out. For EU models I am pretty sure that the default is Paris.
The instruction book is very small , multi language, and with a very small font. The downloaded PDF file is not much better, but you can always enlarge sections.
The VLF time signal now comes from Anthorn in Cumbria . It used to come from Rugby. All details are on their website.
Casio claim plus or minus 15 seconds a month or better accuracy. I have checked mine and it matches one of the online Atomic Clock time checkers.
I have not checked any of the alarms as I do not have any real use for them.
The LED dial light works well. The hands are luminous, have not tried these as yet as the watch was only delivered an hour ago.
I think it’s pretty good value.
It is a bit large but is still very comfortable to wear and the bonus is that it does ...
It is a bit large but is still very comfortable to wear and the bonus is that it does everything, I know as I have had a similar model for over 5 years now and It has never let me down no worry about changing batteries, making adjustments for daylight saving time and always dead on time. It is not the easiest to set up, not helped by the the very small multilingual book of instructions fortunately the only thing I had to set from new was my home city which was not too difficult.
stop looking go buy one
worth every penny go get it light never wrong and no need for battery .could be the only watch you ever need but not the one you ever wa
Excellent watch
Excellent watch never needs setting or a battery.. Second wavecepto watch I’ve has last one over 10years never off my wrist.
Five Stars
great product good value for a genuine “water proof” watch
Five Stars
great product good value for a genuine “water proof” watch
Nice watch!
Great looking watch and just what I wanted ie digital and analogue. Just need to keep it in the sun for a while to make sure it charges to ‘Hi’.
So far so good
Was looking for a simple watch which would give me day/date (perpetual!) and not need tending, and this fits the bill. Would be nicer if it was 100% titanium, with a sapphire face, but for the price it is very acceptable. Arrived synced to Paris time, and last radio update was 1/Sep last year, but the time was still accurate +/- a minute.
Bracelet adjustment is non-standard, but works well (tool provided), and watch picks up UK time signal from my bedside table (rather adjacent to multiple tablets, phones, and sundry bits of Bluetooth/Wifi), so try that before you go with the whole ‘face the 12 o’clock dial position to a window’ nonsense, which you may need elsewhere in the world, behind a mountain, inside a steel box.
Instruction ‘brick’ is not illegible, and not unduly complex, but fewer/bigger pages would have been nicer. I bought this one because there were no simple/cheap Citizens which receive UK time signal (most of the ones I found were Germany/USA only). The digital display looks a bit retro, but makes setting the watch (alarms, time zone, etc) 1000% easier than trying to do it all via hand positions.
LED is bright enough, but ‘steetlight orange’ rather than white. Beep is audible .. enough so that I turned it off for button presses, but I would not rely on it to wake me up for anything important.
And in titanium (and plastic .. sorry ‘resin’) it is extremely light and easy on the wrist.
This is the second waveceptor, that I have purchased . The first being about eight years ago. I find this one slightly lighter to wear, and a more comfortable bracelet. The bracelet is very easy to adjust, no visits to a jeweler required, the tool provided does the job in minutes. Provided that one sets up the Home country first and then do a manual receive of the time signal, set up is straight forward. The watch display is excellent.
I am very pleased with the purchase. I have found that placing the watch under an LED desk lamp, has charged the solar battery from Mid to Hi in the time that it has taken to type this review.
A good watch.
I had a similar watch to this previously which lasted many years. The solar panel was a new feature which wasn’t on the old one. I wondered how it would last in a Scottish winter but I have had it a few weeks now and the battery is still showing full charge. The sync to the time signal is much stronger and more frequent too. A bit of a bargain.
A good watch.
I had a similar watch to this previously which lasted many years. The solar panel was a new feature which wasn’t on the old one. I wondered how it would last in a Scottish winter but I have had it a few weeks now and the battery is still showing full charge. The sync to the time signal is much stronger and more frequent too. A bit of a bargain.
Excellent watch
An excellent watch with a very easy method of altering the size of the metal strap. Once you set the country, which is very easy the watch keeps very accurate time.
This item was delivered as an evening delivery. It comes packed in a tin box (presumably to stop the radio setting switching watch on and flattening battery. Once removed from the box it immediately springs to life and sets itself to the correct time. As said in another review, I set the time area to London which resulted in it resetting to an hour slow, but, overnight, it put itself right. The instruction book is thick but very small and difficult to read, so I download the 9 page PDF which can enlarge on-screen to read more easily. The instructions are full and easy to follow and in proper English. I had to remove 3 links from the wrist band and this has to be the easiest band to change with a supplied tool and simple instructions, took me less than 5 minutes. The watch is comfortable to wear, easy to read, and looks much better than in the illustration. I was dubious about a solar charged/radio setting watch after I bought an Acctim which was a total nightmare until it expired after 6 months. This watch looks better, feels better and is 100% easier to operate and, as a Casio, I expect it to give long service.
As supplied the watch battery charge was shown as ‘mid’, I will see how it charges, but if charge gets too low it switches off unnecessary operations – a brilliant idea. I may buy a solar charger for those long winter nights but will see how it charges in the meantime.
As I say very pleased with my purchase, any problems and I will update this review.
Update. For dark winter days, to recharge battery, instead of buying an expensive LED charger I have one of these which charges from MID to HI in a few hours: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Night-Keyboard-Computer-Outdoor-Warm/dp/B01LVXMGVW/ref=sr_1_1
Five Stars
Love this watch, looks great, very comfy to wear and, of course, it keeps perfectly accurate time
Nice watch if
Nice watch. Easy to see hands. Excellent timekeeper. Useful extras. My only concern would be that I now have a very small scratch on the face of the watch. I worked outside before retirement so maybe more an office/dress watch.
Five Stars
Brilliant watch. 1 problem. The strap was to big. Nothing serious thou. Took 5 minutes to solve
Five Stars
Brilliant watch. 1 problem. The strap was to big. Nothing serious thou. Took 5 minutes to solve
Very good watch the only thing is that I was expecting ...
Very good watch the only thing is that I was expecting the case to be fully stainless steel as it stated
Excellent gents watch with solar power and radio time keeping. My every day essential.
Excellent gents watch with solar power and radio time keeping. My every day essential.
Better than expected, slightly heavier than the titanium version, but nice to feel it on the wrist. Charges under artificial light as well, got lots of extras that I don’t use, very nice night illumination, worth the money, certainly gives the appearance of a much more expensive watch than it is, very happy with the purchase.
Very good value.
An excellent item bought at a very good price. Obtained my first of these 2010 as a retirement gift for myself. This one bought for my brother. I’m sure he will appreciate it.
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Beautiful watch . I had their previous wave captor for more than 10 years. This one looks even bette
Terrific watch
Terrific watch and great value for money. Has all the features expected of much more expensive watches. Light on the wrist and on the pocket too !
I was a little hesitant to order this after reading some reviews on the difficulty in adjusting the strap but I found it to be the easiest and quickest method I have ever known. I am well pleased with this watch does everything I wanted, with the added benefit of seeing the battery charge indication, which will allow me to avoid running out of juice.
Great watch.
Really excellent. Exactly what I was looking for. The strap adjustment system is brilliant.