Feb 8 2012
Casio Gents Watch Radio LCW-M150TD-1AER – Discount Deal – Review
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Casio Gents Watch Radio LCW-M150TD-1AER
Casio Herrenarmbanduhr Funk LCW-M150TD-1AE-Casio
Price: £295.00
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Casio Gents Watch Radio LCW-M150TD-1AER
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Tom Travis
Feb 08, 2012 @ 11:34:20
As perfect as I could find at any price,
I needed a new watch to replace my 5mm titanium Orient which had badly scratched glass and broken strap, which wasn’t really economical to repair. Reviewing all the options I quickly cottoned on to fact that there are now radio controlled watches available which always give perfect time and date when in the broadcast range, including automatic daylight saving. A watch is supposed to tell the time, so choosing a watch which was less accurate than it could be seemed pointless. I also wanted a watch which I didn’t have to change batteries every few years – amazingly, I found watches in the Casio Waveceptor range are also solar powered satisfying this requirement (so long as the solar cells don’t need replacing – but I imagine if they do ever need replacing that new cells will last longer as the technology improves). I also wanted a watch that had sapphire glass to avoid having to change it every couple of years due to scratches( I am very clumsy with watches and walls/doorframes etc). I also wanted a watch that was both thin (8.6mm in this case) and light (i.e. titanium).It had to look good. It had to have an alarm to wake me up in the morning and alert me for meetings in the day. Lastly it had to have stopwatch to time my runs. After much searching through other Waveceptors I found this watch which is part of the more classy looking Lineage range. I could not believe that such a watch existed, and for the price is absolutely amazing, completely out-performing almost any other watch I can find.
I was worried from the pictures that it would look a little insubstantial and ‘Japanese’ as others have put it. I needn’t have worried. The watch is very attractive and the perfect size for my wrist, and the streamlined curves (as opposed to the more European styling) look great and help the watch hug my wrist. The photos available on some of the German watch sites give a much better impression. On the wrist one notices how thin the watch is, how light it is, the attractive round black face (as opposed to the strap) and the flat sapphire glass
So, how does it perform? The radio updating works fine in Bedford UK and I don’t need to put the watch near a window as suggested for it to work when in a NW facing room, though when I went to Kent in a hotel with thick walls it did not update when not left next to the window. No problem though, it worked fine updating manually in the morning by the window.
The solar powered battery was showing Medium when the watch arrived, and after 5 minutes charging in the sun on my wrist it has been showing ‘HI’ ever since (3 weeks).
The stop watch works fine when jogging but I realised when timing a car journey that the maximum time is 59 min 59.9 secs. No problem – it cycles round back to 0 and on so if your running a marathon for instance so long as you know when you started to the nearest hour you can still time yourself. An option to switch the tenth of a second counter to hours would have been good.
The process of manually checking the atomic time by radio is impressive – watching the second hand indicating when successful reception has been received – seeing the hands move round etc. Changing the time zone is also impressive – seeing the hands move round by themselves.
The operation of the buttons could be confusing to technophobes – with only three buttons for all the functions, each button takes on a new function by pressing a previous button. It takes a small amount of getting used to, but once you’ve got it you realise that the possible permutations are extremely limited and even if you’ve forgotten how to access a particular function you can normally work it out, especially if you have taken the trouble to use each function at least once with instructions from the comprehensive but not overly long manual. One minor pick – the two right hand buttons are a good size but the one on the left is a little small and I sometimes end up pinching hairs on my wrist to press it – it would have been nicer functionally and stylistically to have two identical buttons on both the left and right, giving a separate button for the light.
The watch is always spot on accurate – the first time I listened to the pips on Radio 4 I loved the way they were in perfect unison with the second hand of the watch. I like the way a picture of a radio telescope is displayed when successful radio time update has been achieved that day (in the digital seconds mode), and a bar is displayed to the same effect when in the digital hour/minute (Timekeeping) mode.The minute hand moves in ten second intervals, six times a minute.
So far I have bashed it against the doorframe several times and was convinced I had scratched it. Yes the titanium strap and bezel did receive fine scratches, but the sapphire glass was miraculously untouched. Researching I have read that even the electroplated titanium watches get…
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|Robo maker
Feb 08, 2012 @ 12:33:26
Could be my ultimate watch,
I had a cheaper model waveceptor for six years before this and although I loved the solar power and atomic accuracy, I never liked the platic bits on the case. I spent a long time looking at other watches, Omega’s etc, but always came back to the fact that I wanted the technical features of waveceptor, but in a quality package. I finally found this after much searching – it’s just brilliant. Slim, elegant, indestructible (sapphire and titanium) – it looks and feels like a much more expensive watch.
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|Ronald Rens "Torin"
Feb 08, 2012 @ 12:36:55
great value for money,
This is the best watch I’ve ever owned. Only my old Rolex could stand next to it – at >20x the price. My also quite pricey IWC is rubbish compared to this watch. It’s remarkably lightweight and the first impression is that it feels cheap because it’s so light. No way ! It’s sturdy, after something over a year it still bears no scratches and I’m a very very careless character with watches. What I want from a watch is : accuracy – readability – durability and if possible, it has to look good. Believe me, I had an Omega Seamaster : doesnt compare. My wife bought herself a Rado : looks great, but not very readable. The only point of criticism is the way it looks : the Casio looks Japanese and lacks the classy look that the Rado, Omega, IWC and Rolex have. For looks, it’s a Toyota versus a Mercedes S-class. As to performance, it’s the reverse.
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