Product Review
The perfect training partner for your active sporting lifestyle, this Casio G-Shock men's digital sport watch (model GW700A-9V) offers a resin case that's accented by a silver top ring and champagne display as well as a black resin strap. It's also solar-powered and wirelessly receives atomic time updates. It offers a 1/100-second stopwatch with a 60-minute measuring capacity and a time recorder with up to 30 records. It also features four independent daily alarms (with one snooze alarm), world time from 30 cities, and an autocalendar (to the year 2039). And because it's solar-powered--charging in either sunlight or indoor light--you'll never have to deal with changing the battery. Other features include a scratch-resistant mineral crystal, AfterGlow LED electro-luminescent backlight, and water resistance to 200 meters (660 feet)--suitable for recreational scuba diving. This radio-controlled watch receives a time calibration signal transmitted from Fort Collins, Colorado, and signal reception is possible within a radius of about 2,000 miles from the Fort Collins transmitter. You can choose to automatically receive this signal four times a day, or manually update the watch to the atomic clock.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(30 customer reviews) 21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Exceptional Watch,
September 13, 2008 Richard M. Fawcett (Mayberry) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Men's GW700A-9V G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch (Watch)
Casio Men's G-Shock Atomic Solar Watch #GW700A-9V
With so many fine Casio choices, and after reading numerous reviews of all the Casio Atomic Solar and Pathfinder watches, it was difficult to come down to a final decision. I had originally thought I would get a Pathfinder model, but the significantly higher cost and likely bulkier size steered me to the G-Shock models, and I could not be more pleased.
Since this is, after all, a watch, the most important feature to me was accuracy. Casio's website (http://www.casio.com/products/Timepiece/G-Shock/GW700_Series/product/GW700A-9V/)indicates +/-15 seconds per month. I think that is probably conservative, but certainly acceptable, even without Atomic Timekeeping. Based on my relative short term use, I'm guessing it will probably end up being closer to 5 seconds per month,...Read more
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Great Watch,
July 20, 2007 Mike Shultz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Men's GW700A-9V G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch (Watch)
Exactly what I wanted. Lots of cool features, looks great. A tad bulky, but it' s a G-Shock after all, and compared to other G-shocks it's actually not quite as big. When I got the instruction manual, I was a little nervous about all the directions for sitting the watch on a windowsill every night to get the perfectly accurate time from a satellite--there were all these tips about how to get good reception. (I'm in PA, by the way.) Well, the windowsill was a little iffy, and seemed annoying anyway, but it was completely unnecessary for me. The reception works perfectly every night on my wrist in bed. My other concern was the solar power--the instructions list all sorts of time requirements to keep it charged. I had to charge it when I first got it, but the charge has stayed on "high" ever since without me doing anything special to keep it that way--just normal wear. I love the multiple alarms. Fantastic watch, and the Amazon price is almost half of the price I found for the...Read more
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Everything I was looking for in a watch,
May 7, 2007 Randall R. Hummer "RH" (Oswego, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Casio Men's GW700A-9V G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch (Watch)
An atomic watch was a must for me because I needed the accuracy. I also prefer a watch that is easy to use and keeps itself set. The solar recharging feature for the battery is a bonus. I rated this watch 4-stars instead of 5-stars only because of the small numbers on its face which aren't offset with enough contrast. (I'm nearing 50 and my eyesight for this kind of reading is marginal). Otherwise, awesome watch!
