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Technical Details
- Quartz movement- Mineral crystal
- Stainless-steel case; Blue dial; Day-and-date functions
- Water-resistant to 165 feet (50 M)
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By Peter Tan (Singapore)
This was my very first solar-powered watch. Three years ago, I saw it while walking past a watch store at a local shopping mall, and the price tag said "$50" (about US$33), so I bought it on impulse.
At that point in time, I've always thought that solar powered watches cost at least $500 or more. Imagine my delight at finding a cheap solar powered watch!
However, my joy was pretty short-lived. A couple of weeks down the road, while wearing it, it switched off right in the middle of the day! Lunchtime in fact, while I was out walking around in bright sunlight! Hands stopped moving, LCD screen blank except for a "LO C" blinking indicator. It was impossible since I have never seen the watch move from the "Hi" battery level indicator before.
An hour later it turned itself back on while I was back in the office. Hands moved to the correct time, LCD screen was back on, and the battery indicator said "Hi".
A few incidents similar to this happened a few times, in the following months. So much so that I decided to junk this watch and threw it inside my drawer, never touching it for about 8 months or so.
Recently, I took it out of the drawer again and the watch turned itself back on when it was exposed to light. Battery Indicator said "MID". So I left it on the window sill for 3 days straight, hoping that it stays at "Hi".
On the 4th day, I wore it out. We went to the movies, and right in the middle of the movie when I wanted to check the time, I pressed the backlight and... nada. No reaction. I tilted the watch to let the light from the movie shine on it and saw the watch had turned itself off AGAIN, about 40 mins ago (checked time with my mobile phone).
Somewhere along the way, still during the same movie, the watch turned itself on again, because suddenly I heard it do the hourly beep thing. Now, I know for sure that the watch was not exposed to light in any way, and even if it did, the light from the movie is nowhere near powerful enough to charge it up to turn it back on.
My take is this - it's too cheap to send it back to Casio for servicing. If it works while you wear it, enjoy it. It will suck when it doesn't.
The other thing about Casio analogue watches which I didn't like much is that the "luminous paint" on the hands is almost useless. It glows for like only 15 mins and then stop glowing. Practically useless. It's not just on this watch - I own a couple of other Casio digi-ana watches from the G-Shock line and every single one of them had the same problem of short-lived glowing luminous hands and markers.
By Jason Bills (Beaverton, OR USA)
This is a great watch! It looks nice and is a very good size for my wrist. The solar function is great. I have been using the watch for about 5 months with main light exposure being flourescent, moderate exposure to sunlight, and some (cold) days wearing sweatshirts that covered the watch and I have not seen the battery drop below the "Hi" charge level.
The one downside is that the watchface is plastic so it does scratch fairly easily.
By Lance Johnson (Fremont, Nebraska)
This is overall a functional nice looking watch, but I agree that the face scratches too easily and after 3 years the solar recharge has stopped working (even if the battery is brand new). Yes, I know it has worked for three years, but now that the solar recharge doesn't work, it goes through batteries extremely quickly.
By Armando Rodarte
I like this watch because I can foget the bateries and it don't stop, the only thing I need to do is to keep it suficient time in an bright lighted area
By Abhijit Jawale (Phoenix, AZ USA)
The window cover is not mineral glass, its plastic very easy to get scratches. Otherwise watch is excellent, good value for money. Controls are easy. Dual time is a cool feature.
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