The plastic case on my trusty longtime Casio watch which holds the metal pin which connects to the strap broke this past weekend. My wrist felt naked without it. I do not recall how long I have had the watch. I've replaced the bands numerous times and I think I replaced the batteries once, however, now it was time to find a replacement.
I usually prefer function over flash and just wanted the basics, so I was browsing through the watches at my local Target and was drawn to the Casios. They have proven functional, durable and reasonably priced. Plus, what geek can resist a company that sells solar, calculator or television remote control wristwatches. But as I said earlier, I really just wanted the basics, but I was attracted to a watch with a large face with easy to read digits, date, day of the week, stopwatch, multiple alarms, water resistance and world time. But the big selling feature of the Waveceptor watch is its ability to automaticall set it itself:
Several times a day the watch receives the official US government time via a time calibration signal from the atomic transmitter in Ft. Collins, CO, eliminating the worry about changing your watch for Daylight Saving Time. Our atomic watches also feature a perpetual calendar, eliminating the need to adjust your watch for calendar month to month inconsistencies and Leap Year.
So far so good, but time will be th real test. Hopefully, it will hold up as well as my previous watch.
06 May 2008, 09:52
What if you travel to a different time zone? Does it "know" where you are and adjust accordingly?
06 May 2008, 10:05
No it does not adjust the time zone automatically, that would probably require GPS. However, changing the time zone is easy. You just change the major city selection or home city for the time zone you are in. For example, my home city now is New York City, but if I visited my sister in Colorado, I can quickly change it to Denver and the time would change accordingly.