Casio Men's WV430DJ-1 Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch | 
| Brand: Casio
Category: Watch
Buy New: $72.95 (On sale from $119.95)
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,350
Color: Silver
Batteries Included: No
Band Material: stainless-steel
Bezel Material: stainless-steel
Case Diameter: 43
Case Material: stainless-steel
Case Thickness: 13.8
Clasp: fold-over-clasp-with-double-push-button-safety
Dial Color: grey
Dial Window Material Type: Mineral
Watch Movement Type: japanese-quartz
Water Resistance Depth: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
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MPN: WV430DJ-1
Model: WV430DJ-1
UPC: 079767896010
EAN: 0079767897000
ASIN: B0018747Q2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Quality Japanese-quartz movement | | • | 1/100 Sec Stopwatch, three daily alarms | | • | World time 30 cities, bi-lingual display (Eng, Jpn) | | • | LED Light with Afterglow | | • | Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M) |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Smart and stylish, the Casio Men's Waveceptor Atomic Solar Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WV430DJ-1 features a rich gray dial with a sturdy mineral crystal. Stand-out hour and minute indexes offer at-a-glance readability, and a beautifully contrasting black ring is adorned with Arabic numerals and indexes for further time-telling convenience. Other innovative features include a digital calendar display. A silver-tone stainless steel band comes equipped with a fold-over clasp with a double push-button safety closure. The stationary bezel is also made of stainless steel, and a 43-millimeter case is composed of high-quality stainless-steel. The perfect accessory to all of your ensembles, this stunning timepiece brings your look a refined edge. Powered by solar movement, this watch is also water resistant to 330 feet.
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 No fuss perfect timekeeping March 19, 2009
Kurt Neiswanger (Twin Cities, MN USA)
41 out of 41 found this review helpful
If you want a watch that's good looking and always dead-accurate to the split second without any adjustments, you won't go wrong with this one.
Here are a few observations:
It's lightweight. It weighs about half as much as the other watches I own with stainless steel wristbands, making it very comfortable to wear. The face is large with a simple clean design, making it easy to read. I do need my reading glasses for the digital display.
It's nice looking and goes with just about any kind of outfit from casual to dressy. I wouldn't wear it to the beach or with a tuxedo, but it looks pretty good with just about anything between those extremes. In the display photo, it appears to have a blue-gray face, mine is gray with a faint hint of violet rather than blue. When you look at it you basically see a gray face, but it's a warmer gray than it appears on the web. I think the real thing looks better than the picture.
It's pretty easy to set up. If you've ever set a digital watch, this isn't much different. The main difference is that you have to set the time zone you're in for the correct hour to be displayed. Once that's done, you don't have to worry about it again unless you are traveling and want to change it to different time zones. It's not a difficult procedure. One thing I really like a lot is the watch automatically resetting itself for daylight savings time! Twice a year I have to go through the tedious ritual of changing all of the clocks and watches around the house. It's nice having one wristwatch I don't have to touch. The radio controlled timekeeping works like a charm. The only potential drawback would be traveling outside the range limit of the atomic radio signal. If you are a U.S. customer, the signal range is nearly all of North America. Even if you are out of range, the watch should still keep pretty accurate time and you can always adjust it manually if you need to.
I like the idea of the battery being recharged by solar power. It doesn't require a whole lot of light to do the trick. The specifics are in the instructions. One example is five minutes of direct sunlight equals one full day of power consumption. I got this a couple of months ago during the dead of winter and I live in Minnesota, so it's dark most of the time and the watch is always covered by long sleeves when I'm wearing it. To keep the battery fully charged, I set it near a window instead of putting it in a drawer when I'm not wearing it. In the summer, normal exposure to sunlight with short sleeves when I'm out and about during the day should be more than enough light for a full charge. I should also mention that it will run for months on a full charge without additional light exposure. I'd like to say never having to replace the battery is a great feature, but to my knowledge there's no such thing as a battery with an infinite number of charge/discharge cycles. Assuming I keep and use this watch for many years to come, the battery will eventually wear out, lose it's ability to hold a charge and will have to be replaced. I'm hoping that will be a very, very long time from now.
To sum it up; the watch is no fuss, totally accurate, good looking and comfortable to wear. I can't say enough good things about it!
great watch elegant & free maintenance September 12, 2008
Marcelo H. Lagos (Miami, FL USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've been using this watch for about 2 months now. I love it, it's auto everything and with a solar battery an water resistant, it is truly a self maintained device. I travel internationally and it allows you to program local time zones on the digital display..while keeping home time on the analog dial.
I strongly recommend buying an invisible protective cover for the front glass as it does scratch easily. It protects the watch and now it becomes a stylish Gshock. The one I bought is (http://www.zagg.com/)
Item is good February 9, 2009
DadeCityCharlie
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Got the watch on Friday, it's Monday now. I'm tech minded but this watch took a while to figure out. The manual is tiny is hard to follow at first but after while you understand the language.
The watch is cool, easy to read the time but i can't read the little window without glasses. Bigger than I thought but not too big. I had to have links removed-i tried to figure how to remove links but was scared of damage-a jeweler charged me $6-that's was fine with me.
I like the exact time idea-easy to get a time signal if you walk outside, inside where i live it's very difficult to get reception.
I also like the idea of not having to replace the battery...don't know how long the rechargeable battery will last but that can be replaced way down the road, i hope.
I worry about scratching the crystal, i was thinking about a screen protector but that might make it hard to see the watch.
Amazon had the best price when i looked. All in all it's a nice item.
Making adjustments to this great watch June 5, 2009
u041 (New York, NY USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've had this watch for a couple of weeks now and I can't recommend it enough. It is a handsome looking watch with a nice grey face (with a slight blue tint). I've had other Tough Solar, Waveceptor watches from Casio and they are great. They are durable, never needs batteries, and set themselves to the atomic clock. I wanted an analog watch with these features for a reasonable price and this was it. I've read reviews about the watch prior to purchase and there were 2 complaints that stood out. One was about how easily the face scratched. The other was that the band was large and that it was not easily adjustable.
To counter the ease of scratching the watch face, some reviewers suggested getting Zagg's Invisible Shield to protect it ([...]). The optimal size, however, was not immediately apparent. Someone suggested using 43mm which is the width of the entire watch, but that seemed too large to me. I wanted the protective film to cover the glass portion of the watch face only. I eventually ordered the 32mm that fits perfectly over the front glass. The application of the Invisible Shield puts a Moiré-like pattern over the glass. I like the effect. I think it makes the watch more distinctive.
Fresh out of the box, the watchband was too large for me as well. It was, however, not very difficult adjusting this by myself. There are 7 links in the band that has small arrow symbols stamped on the back. These are the links that can be removed. You can apply a thin rod-like tool (such as a small screwdriver), on the pins connecting the links, and gently push or tap it using something like a small hammer (I used a pair of pliers) IN THE DIRECTION OF THE ARROW. If you look at the pins carefully, you will notice that the side closer to the "head" of the arrow has thin lines through the middle. This is the side that has the friction mechanism to keep them in place, so this is the side that the pins should come out. You need to remove the 2 pins on each side of the link to remove it. Once you remove enough links to make the size just right, you put the last pin back to connect the open links, then you are set. I've had to remove a total 4 links and so I removed 2 from each side of the clasp to keep the band "balanced".
Love always having the EXACT time! January 22, 2009
Mark Newman
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great watch. No batteries to replace and it always syncs up to the correct time overnight. Whenever watch batteries have run down in the past, I've always had to special order a new one. Why can't they be a standard type carried in a local store? So, with this watch, I no longer have that hassle.
As some others have said, it is somewhat large and heavy. Keep this in mind if you have smaller wrists. Unlike others, I did not have to pay to have the watch band adjusted. I went to my local Macy's jewelry counter and they happily adjusted it for free. Maybe I just got lucky. The others ARE correct, however, that it takes a special tool to do the adjustment. I have a variety of smaller screwdrivers (very small) and yet none would work on this band.
I have only a minor complaint. I keep the digital display set to "world time" so that it shows PST time which is where my company's home office is located. I often accidentally hit one of the buttons on the outer rim of the watch face which changes the time zone. To correct this, I have to cycle through 23 time zones to get back to PST. Not a huge deal, just a minor annoyance.
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