With a new, thinner profile, the Casio Men's Multi-Task Gear Sports
Watch brings you a range of information in multiple formats. Accented
with screw details in the corners, the contoured stainless steel case
frames a round, black dial with an outside minute track, luminous hand
and hour markers, and three sub-dials at the bottom of the dial.
Featuring five alarms, a countdown timer, 29 time zones, stopwatch, 12-
and 24-hour formats, and a velocity indicator, this high-performance
timepiece is water resistant to 330 feet (100 meters). An LED light
makes it easy to read in any light conditions, and this sleek watch
secures to the wrist with a flexible stainless steel band and handy
fold-over clasp with safety. You'll love the feel of this slim watch,
which adds comfort and style to its superior functionality.With
the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the
wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered
digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology
developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident
that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.In
developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question,
""What is a wristwatch?"" Rather than simply making a digital version of
the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch
should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way.
Based on this, Casio was able to create 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 first watch
in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated
the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather
than using a conventional 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 first
digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a
groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the
conventional wristwatch.Casio transformed the concept of the
watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist —
and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We
developed not only time functions such as global 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 developed into two unique
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 immediately recognized, and its
unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular,
resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon
adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology
(described below), and new materials for even better durability. By
always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend
conventional thinking about the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become
Casio’s flagship timepiece product.Today, Casio is focusing its
efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar
battery eliminates the nuisance 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 technology similar to the impact created when mechanical
watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development
of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy
efficiency, Casio continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled
models.