Not my opinion, since I'm no watch authority and I had never heard of this watch before I saw this video, but the publisher makes a compelling case, plus it's funny seeing a 20 dollar watch compared to a 300,000 dollar Patek Philippe.

A ten year battery. This and the ridiculously low price of the Casio, along with its functionality would make it a great watch to store in an emergency kit.

Anyway...

One of my bosses and I are "Watch Afficanados".
I have a few nice watches, he has more.
We've had this discussion a few times. Do you want to tell time, or do you want to have a nice watch?

Right now, in 90%+ peoples pocket is a piece of electronic technology that, as soon as you touch it, tells- with 100% accuracy - day, date, year, time. It can be modified to give 12 or 24 hr format, stopwatch (count up or count down), GMT, as well as any time zone in the world with just a few touches of the finger. Moon phase, tides, multiple alarms with different tones, calculator, games, news, social media, stock market, conversion rate of the Vietnamese Dong to the US Dollar, you can talk to people on the other side of the world on it, or get fancy and actually see the person you're talking to on a small TV Screen with about a .5 second lag time. Watch funny, stupid or instructional videos as well as movies.
AND, as an added bonus, with this contraption, you can peruse the good, old SIG FORUM.
End User's cost- a few hundred USD.

With this contraption, why do I need any watch, more or less one that costs $1000 - $1,000,000?
Some people appreciate the craftmanship and the skill of assembling a tiny piece of machinery that's powered by a spring, and accurate to within a few seconds a month. Some of the watches you can't even see what's going on inside, some you can.

^^^ That's the best we came up with.
It's quite funnier as he was wearing an A. Lange & Söhne.

I use a cellular watch these days so I can leave that punk ass phone at home a lot. Prior, I was a G Shock aficionado. I’ve always had a Casio on my wrist until a few years ago when the functionality of the cellular watch finally ousted it for a daily driver. And I mean since I was a young child. Cheap Casio like in the OP until G Shocks came out and a salesman showed me one, and threw it at the wall as hard as he could. Prior I would have thought that watch is done. Shattered to pieces. He picks up, shows it to me, and not a blip. Some little sheet rock mark that he wiped off with some spit. I bought one on the spot and have had one ever since.

Any time I do take my phone with me, the Rangeman is on my wrist. Learned about that specific model of G Shock right here on the forum. Someone posted about it in the lounge and I had to have one. I searched until I found a good deal and it’s the best watch I have ever owned. It charges off the sun so I have never replaced the battery. Any shit goes down it would be on my wrist. Casio is the best watch mfr to me on the planet. I don’t care about Swiss movements, etc. If I’m going to blow money it’s not going to ever be on an expensive watch.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
...Cheap Casio like in the OP until G Shocks came out and a salesman showed me one, and threw it at the wall as hard as he could. Prior I would have thought that watch is done. Shattered to pieces. He picks up, shows it to me, and not a blip. Some little sheet rock mark that he wiped off with some spit. I bought one on the spot and have had one ever since.

Any time I do take my phone with me, the Rangeman is on my wrist. Learned about that specific model of G Shock right here on the forum. Someone posted about it in the lounge and I had to have one. I searched until I found a good deal and it’s the best watch I have ever owned. It charges off the sun so I have never replaced the battery. Any shit goes down it would be on my wrist. Casio is the best watch mfr to me on the planet. I don’t care about Swiss movements, etc. If I’m going to blow money it’s not going to ever be on an expensive watch.

Fuckin' A.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Right now, in 90%+ peoples pocket...

And before roughly 1914, that's exactly where everyone in the world kept their timepieces. It took some guys in some trenches with the whole world exploding around them to figure out that strapping it to your wrist was kinda handy. I don't always want to reach into my pocket to check the time. On my wrist, at a glance, is a device that tells me with all the accuracy I realistically need, the time to within seconds.

Things go in and out of fashion. I don't think a wrist watch will really ever fall out of function, especially with the modern ability to pack everything that makes the modern computers we carry around in our pockets miniaturized down to wristwatch-sized wearables.

All that aside, the mighty Casio in various models (the mantle "greatest ever" also often gets ascribed to the FW91W, so basically pick how you want to spend your $20 with Casio and you can't really go wrong) is always going to be a solid choice, and I don't think anyone who is much of a watch enthusiast can really say they have a functional collection of any size or focus without at least one "beater" digital Casio. That is to say, the value is there for people who own quarter-million dollar Swiss mechanicals and also for guys like me, who could never hope to spend that kind of coin on a status symbol.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
With this contraption, why do I need any watch, more or less one that costs $1000 - $1,000,000?

Contingencies, that's why. In a catastrophe, your phone may be lost or damaged, or there may be no power to charge it, and then it will last you two or three days. A watch with a mechanical movement or a quart watch might at some point become your only means of keeping time, as unlikely as that may seem. Contingencies.

A watch with a ten year battery, weighs next to nothing and takes up almost no space, is perfect to go into an emergency kit. It doesn't even have to be a doomsday scenario such as I described. You might need a wristwatch for a short time. For 20 bucks, it is very cheap insurance.

I purchased one of these watches yesterday off Amazon. Got it today. Nineteen dollars and change, free shipping. That's really hard to beat.

I'm using a $19 Casio Retro Twin Graph at work. It's been through a lot but it just keeps ticking. Sometimes you can't have your phone with you at work so I want to be able to know the time.

Also I hate all the current large bezel watches. I have skinny wrists. I want a small watch.

My first watch ever was back in the late 1980s and it was a Casio Twin Graph. So when the retro twin graph came out, I picked one up.

Any mention of Casio this immediately comes to mind:

Casio's of one model or another work for me although now that I require cheater peepers,
I wish they made them with 33% larger digits/ faces

forgot pic.
tiny face retro watch

Back when I was sailing, I always wore a Casio watch. They took the abuse of my job and cheap enough where I didn't mind if it got destroyed.

Now I do prefer self-winding dive style watches, but also have a Garmin solar/battery watch for exercise.

What I like best about my watch is something my phone can't do.
That I can see what time it is without taking out my phone.

I have a tiny watch problem. Currently chasing what will be the most expensive watch I own to date.

That said, I wear a Rangeman every day. prior to that I wore a $49 Casio fishing watch. The why is the batteries last 5 or more years, and I can bet the living crap out of one. The Rangeman even sets itself for DST.

Now back to chasing that IWC Big Pilot.

My daily is a Gshock DW5600.

I still have an original Japanese screwback Gshock. Sure wish I could find a replacement rubber bezel set for it.

I have a Casio similar to this one that I always wear when I go camping or on vacation. It has two upgrades to the watch in the video: Solar powered and it syncs to the local atomic clock signal. It really is an excellent watch but not something I’d wear to a wedding or important business meeting.

I had wanted a Omega Speedmaster, the Space watch more than any other single thing. I do have a bunch of watches but this was my "grail" watch so to speak.

I picked up a Bulova Lunar watch along the way, and at some point I realized just how much more accurate and dependable it was than ANY Omega Speedmaster. $450 vs. $3k plus.
Dont get me wrong, I am not dissing the Omega, but for me somethig inside changed. I guess I set an outer limit for certain things.

For instance, I have a pretty expensive Casio Mudmaster, (GWG B1000) and I love the thing. But a $50 Casio G-Shock would be just as tough and accurate. The 5600 G-Shock is likely my next purchase, If I buy another G-Shock.

I bought a pair of Casio Duros (sp?). They cost a hundred bucks, slightly less actually, for the pair. They are resistant to 200 meters and they keep absolutely spectacular time. They look like much more expensive watches and I could care less if I scratch, break, or lose one. Good cheap watches are a hidden gem.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
I bought a pair of Casio Duros (sp?). They cost a hundred bucks, slightly less actually, for the pair. They are resistant to 200 meters and they keep absolutely spectacular time. They look like much more expensive watches and I could care less if I scratch, break, or lose one. Good cheap watches are a hidden gem.

Yeah, if you prefer an analog watch, the Duro is an amazing deal. I have one I used to wear a lot. I got the blue dial, wished I had gotten black to go with everything.

That’s exactly why I bought 2. I liked the Pepsi version but thought the blue one looked nice as well. Couldn’t decide. For a hundred bucks I figured I didn’t need to choose. I’m an airline captain so I fly with lots of guys with really expensive watches. Last month one guy asked me if it was an (I forget the expensive brand he said) and we both got a good laugh when I told him it was a 45 dollar Casio.

My only actual “regret” with this watch is I run with it on the road and I sometimes wonder if someone might try to mug me for my $3000 watch. lol

My first good watch was a Seiko I bought at the main PX at Long Binh in 1970. It has a bright blue face and cost me $17.00 if I remember correctly. I Still have it.

I had a couple of Casio calculators and I think I had a Casio watch for a time. I quit wearing a watch 18 years ago when I retired.