My favorite Casio is not a G-Shock – a personal, honest review of the W-736H

I do own a lot of watches (too many of course) pure digitals, pure analogs, analog-digitals, plastic, metal – you name it. And for one reason or another, I love them all (sounds familiar?) But when it comes to a functional, no nonsense EDC watch, a lightweight (plastic) pure digital watch is hard to beat, actually it isn’t to beat at all in my opinion, why? Well here are my reasons:

THE BASICS:

  • lightweight
  • durable (nearly totally immune against…

My favorite Casio is not a G-Shock – a personal, honest review of the W-736H

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My first Casio calculator watch – Vintage of course!

I can’t stay away from vintage Casio’s at the moment😂.

I just won this on an offer of £20 this morning, CS-831. Looking on Digital Watch.com, this is from 1983.

I think the seller photos make it look a little worse than it will come out after a clean up. Don’t get me wrong, it’s far from pristine but hopefully will look nicer after I’ve worked on it.

It was being sold as “somewhat working”, with the seller saying they couldn’t set it up. The buttons look a little rough, but being that…

My first Casio calculator watch – Vintage of course!

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