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<\div> Designed to accommodate your active lifestyle, the Casio Men's G-Shock Classic Digital Watch #DW6900-1V features a digital gray dial face with a solid homogeneous inorgani substance dial window. The watch includes such commodious touches as a day-date-and-month calendar, a stopwatch, and a countdown timer. Both the black-tone 45-millimeter case and stationary bezel are made of high-quality resin. Other details include a black resin band and it is accompanying buckle-clasp closure. Built to endure, this handsome timepiece brings a sporty edge to all of your bestloved casual ensembles. It is powered by quartz motion and is water immune to 660 feet.

The Casio StoryWith the launch of it is original watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just ran into digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic engineering devised for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field convinced that it could fabricate timepieces that would lead the market.

In fabricating it is own wristwatches Casio started out with the basic question, ""What is a wristwatch?"" Rather than plainly making a digital version of the established mechanical watch, we thought that the idealisti wristwatch ought to be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was capable to formulate a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the original watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that annihilated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a traditionalisti watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s firstborn digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a finish departure from the established wristwatch.

Casio transformed the conception of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an info device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as international time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches produced into two distinctive Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world’s toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-SHOCK offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was without delay recognized, and it is distinguishable look, which embodied it is functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon adopted respective new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled engineering (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend traditionalisti thinking when it comes to the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become Casio’s flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio is focusing it is attempts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery does away with the irritation of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping engineering science similar to the affect formulated when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and bettered energy efficiency, Casio proceeds to create a whole range of radio-controlled models.