Men's W201-1AV Alarm Chronograph Watch

I first became aware of Casio watches about 1980. I had noticed people wearing the black plastic watches and wondered: What is this? Can't these people afford a real watch? I always wore my Omega Seamaster and regarded it as one of the finer watches. Well, at just about that same time I started running and a friend who was guiding me in the sport suggested that I'd need a chronograph in order to time my runs. My Omega wouldn't do. I bought a Casio, which was just about the only brand available at that time. I wore it off and on for about a week, and my Omega Seamaster was from then on gathering dust in my dresser drawer. The Casio was just amazing, and it only cost about 25 1980 dollars. Well, I'm now on about my fifth Casio Chronograph, and I'm still amazed by it and this one cost only a little over 13 2012 dollars. These little Casios will wear out, as will anything. I find that for me they go in two places. One is the battery, and it can be replaced. This new one has a 10-year battery which is excellent. The other is the band will break, usually sometime after about five or six years. Well, the band can be replaced also. I have found, however, that the watch is so inexpensive that when it starts to break down, I just throw the watch away and buy a new one. That might seem a bit wasteful, but if you're averaging six years of use out of it, that's only about $2 a year and why diddle around with it? The Casio Chronograph is just an amazing piece of equipment. If it's a timepiece you want, well, you just can't get much better, and it's just dirt cheap. Amazing! Let the others wear their Omegas and their Rolexes. I'll proudly wear my Casio Chronograph and know they can't beat it. It's a form of reverse snobbery. Gary Peterson

Casio still makes great, inexpensive digital watches in the low end of their range that work very well. I was initially looking at an F91 as a lightweight digital watch, but I think this watch is better constructed and has a lot of usable improvements over the F91. -- Build Quality and Case -- The watch is extremely light and thin enough to fit under a shirt sleeve. The resin band will fit on small 6 inch wrists all the way up into the 8 inch range. The band does seem very soft and likely to break after significant wear though. It does use actual springbars instead of pins which means it should be easy to replace the strap if you want to. I tried to see if I could fit a thin nylon NATO strap on it, but there wasn't enough space. The watch is labeled as having a mineral crystal on Amazon, but I can't find any evidence of that anywhere else. If it scratches up like acrylic, I'll add a note to the review later. EDIT: It's definitely acrylic, but it won't scratch that easily. Mine has a few tiny little scratches that could probably be buffed out. The buttons are all plastic and slightly recessed, which makes setting times and alarms a bit inconvenient, but not difficult. -- Watch Features -- The display is nice and clean with slightly larger digits (this watch is pretty easy to read). In the Alarm and Dual-Time modes, the date display will show the home time instead. The stopwatch works as expected, going all the way up to 24 hours(!), but you don't get to see the time simultaneously. You can just switch modes if you need to. The amber LED (which uses a lot less power than a blue EL backlight) illuminates the watch just fine and can be temporarily extended to stay on for 3 seconds. There's only one alarm, but it can't be set for a specific day or month like some G-Shocks. It's also kind of quiet. Treat it more as a reminder than something to wake you up. There's also the usual hourly chime. And for those who might be wondering, you can't mute the button press sounds. Sadly, there is no countdown timer. -- Conclusion -- I'm really impressed with this watch. It makes a nice, lightweight beater watch for travel or work that you won't have to worry about for around 1/4 the price of an entry-level G-Shock. The build quality is pretty good given the extremely low price - Just be prepared that the band might fail on you after a year or two.

My Casio W201-1 AV may be the best watch I’ve owned. At 10mm, the case is relatively thin. The crystal is glass to resist scratching. It has the thinnest, most supple resin band I remember. That makes it easy to put on and comfortable to wear. Resin bands often break where they are flexed to buckle. This more flexible band may last longer. If not, it looks easy to replace. When I check my watch indoors in low light or in the available light outdoors at night, my left hand may not be free to use the backlight. The display is pretty easy to read in low light because the digits are well shaped and the background is pretty light. (Seconds can be hard to read in low light.) Out of the box, it was unacceptable. I almost threw it away. For me, the stopwatch has always been the real advantage of digital over analog. By 2015 I’d owned at least 10 digital watches, made by Timex and Casio. The stopwatches always worked flawlessly, at least until they got old. In 2015 I bought a Timex and discovered that if I prepared it to time an event, and the event didn’t start within 60 seconds, it would switch back to the time of day. That and other glaring design faults were so disgusting that I quit wearing a watch, although that was inconvenient. In 2017, I tried a Casio W96H. The stopwatch didn’t always start or stop when I pressed the button. I thought I’d get the hang of it, but after a few weeks of frustration, I put it to one side. At first, the W201 seemed worse. Because the buttons were flush with the sides, I couldn’t see them unless I looked from the side, and pressing might not depress them enough to work them. If I got my fingertip under a button (toward the back of the watch), it worked beautifully. That worked fine for the mode, reset, and light buttons, but groping for the start/stop button made it difficult to time something to the second. As an experiment, I used a toothpick to put a dab of JB Weld on the start/stop button so it would be about 1mm higher. I applied only a tiny dab and left the watch with the button toward the floor so the epoxy wouldn’t flow around the button. I figured I could ruin the watch, but I was going to throw it away, anyway. As I’d feared, the epoxy flowed around the button. After it set up for two hours, I used my smallest jeweler’s screwdriver, with a blade 1mm wide, to remove the JB Weld that had filled in around the button. It was as easy as scraping away modeling clay. After the stuff on top hardened, I had a great watch. I could feel the bump instantly, and the button functioned every time I pushed it. I value a watch that functions well. If something happened to this watch, I might buy another W201 and again take the risk of adding a dab of epoxy. Otherwise, I’d be wary of buying a new Casio or Timex. For forty years, every digital Timex or Casio I bought, functioned well. Now their designs seem careless. Out of curiosity, I also bought a Casio F-91W, introduced in 1991. If they’re still selling them after 27 years, that says something about the quality. The display is small and the crystal is plastic, but I could live with that. It’s legible. The case is thinner than the W201, and the band is almost as supple. The buttons are easy to see and feel, and they work every time. Now I have two acceptable watches.

Love this watch. close to the old school of this brand, which you can no longer find. Have worn these sinch high school and I'm 63. Has a low profile, not big and gaudy. Has which most do not is the DAY of the week, AWESOME! and deal breaker for me. This one seems a little thicker than the older, which I don't understand. New band is thinner than the old and fits a much larger wrist. The old watches lasted MUCH longer than the bands. Will see if this one does also, I think it said a 10 year battery life. Only thing I really do not like is the second bars. It has a display of incremental bars for each second. WHY NO NO

Great Watch - - Simple, Easy to Use, Easy to Read. The best sports and activity watches are the ones that are simple, have just a few functions, all of which are easy to access, nothing is confusing, and the few functions all work well WITHOUT fuss or hassle. This is just such a watch. The main screen has a LARGE easy to read time display, with smaller date display at the top. The alarm screen is easy to access, and the alarm is easy to set. The timer is also easy to use. I use this watch at the gym, and for running at night, and it is perfect for the purpose. This watch is medium sized and very light, and I forget I'm wearing it while I'm working out or running. The watch has an amber "night light" which provides more than adequate illumination for reading the screen at night while running. The amber light stays on for about 1.5 seconds, and although this does not sound like much time to read the time while running, it is easily sufficient because of the combination of the Large time display, and adequate illumination. Also, I like the fact that on this Particular watch, the function buttons are slightly inset into the plastic frame of the watch. While the inset buttons are still easy to access with my normal size fingers, the slightly inset buttons effectively prevent the buttons from being inadvertently activated or pushed by the motion of my wrist or forearm while I'm working out or running. Overall a Great Sports Watch.

Excellent watch at a reasonable price This is my second purchase of the same model. The 10 year battery lasted 10 years and two bands! I like the layout and its feature to hold two time zones, one of which can be DST. Its only drawback is common to all models in this price category: a band that eventually breaks before the lifespan of the watch.

I love Casio sports watches. I have worn them for years and have my favorites, but wanted something specifically for work. My favorite watch (W800) has all the features I need but the case size was sometimes an issue working in tight spaces with my hands. Enter the W201. It has a barely smaller 36mm case than the W800 but is only 9mm thin. it's the perfect low profile case size that is usually only found with the 3-button Casio's, but with all the features of a 4-button. This thing is a gem in tight spaces, it slips effortlessly under shirt sleeve cuffs, doesn't catch when putting on jackets, and the recessed buttons can't be accidentally depressed. Despite the 36mm case size, the W201 uses an asymmetric 2-line display instead of a 3-line display so the larger bottom LCD displays the time right in your face, big and bold, and utilizes horizontal bars to effect a 1/10 sec chronograph without reducing digit size. The smaller top LCD uses a minimalist calendar format sans year. This watch is all killer, no filler. Just what you need in a watch that is functional and comfortable for work.

The color is black. This is a good basic digital watch.

les touches de fonctions trop fragiles. 3 ans maxi de durée de vie.

Reloj CASIO W201-1AV - Reloj de Pulsera "Hombre": precio 29 € + 13 € envío, comparado con reloj CASIO W201-1AVE - Reloj de Pulsera "Mujer": precios desde 17,50 € a 19,66 € (envíos gratis). Comparando imágenes y descripciones técnicas se deduce que ambos relojes son idénticos (modelo unisex). La única diferencia sensible consiste en que el primero ofrece el material de la caja en acero inoxidable, motivo que me impulsó a comprarlo. Hoy he recibido el reloj modelo "hombre” y lo único de acero inox. es la tapa trasera. Por esta incorrecta información he pagado 42 € en lugar de 17,50 € por el mismo producto y, por supuesto, no tengo el reloj de acero inoxidable.

Love this watch. Very good price. Price dropped $10.00 the day before I purchased it. It keeps excellent time. Instructions are easy to follow. Free shipping with prime membership. Received it in 3 days.

Reloj sencillo y funcional, ideal para el día a día, con el beneficio de una batería de 10 años y la excelente calidad a la que Casio nos tiene acostumbrados.

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