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Casio Casual Classic Watch – A168w-1
The Casio® A168W-1 watch offers you classic style with a digital display and an electro-luminescent backlight. It includes a 1/100 seconds stopwatch, a daily alarm, an auto calendar, and 12/24-hour formats.
Casio Casual Classic Watch – A168w-1
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Versatile Digital Alarm Watch,
I rated this watch as a 4 because the band is flimsy. I also rated it as a 4 because I had the same model watch before, and after a year or two the chrome plating started to peel off. But it’s cheap enough to warrant buying a new one when that happens. I replace the band for a sturdier one when I do.
I like the watch because it is not expensive and I can wear it no matter what I do and even do yard work with it. It works well, and is easy to set, operate the alarm, use the stopwatch function, and light up to show the dial in the dark. I use it as an alarm clock at home and when I travel. And if I damage it, it’s cheap enough to buy another–just so long as I replace the band.
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|CASIO A168W watch bought from Amazon,
The watch itself is as expected, the original CASIO product, no complains. However, I found the handsome wristband that comes with this watch when bought directly from CASIO (also as seen on the picture) is missing, and has been replaced with a much cheaper dull band. I’ve seen this watch bought directly from CASIO before, and now I think I understand why the same one on Amazon sells for less. Said that though, I still believe this is not being honest with the customer.
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|Good effort, but needs a real stopwatch,
Casio has done a nice job revisiting the classic digital watch of the early 1980s. On the good side, the watch has a clearly legible LCD display and is quite inexpensive. The metal strap works well and is easily adjustable. The backlight on this particular model is wonderful, with the overall blue glow that far outshines the lower level model’s tiny white pinlight. But…the downside: there are three buttons rather than the standard four. As a result the “light” button serves a dual purpose in various modes; this means that when you reset the chronometer, for example, the light blinks. The watch beeps when you change modes; there is no way of turning that off, meaning that you’ll annoy others when you want to change modes in a quiet room. Finally, Casio seems to have forgotten how to make a stopwatch run for more than an hour. This is the worst oversight and one that isn’t clearly delineated on the watch’s spec sheet from Casio. After one hour, the stopwatch rolls over to zero, making it useless for all of my purposes, though it obviously is fine to make a hard-boiled egg or to time a short foot race. The alarm is loud. There is no count-down timer. So I’m still waiting for a similar watch in appearance, with four buttons, a 12° stopwatch, and a countdown timer.
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