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The latest chronograph from Casio Edifice, the ECB-S100, has a design inspired by a sportscar grille and it looks terrific. But it's the lower-powered Bluetooth connection with the Edifice app on your smartphone that really makes this watch a keeper. Techie and watch fan Dave Taylor got his hands on the new Casio Edifice ECB-S100 watch and ran it through its paces to see how it held up...
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Is this the most elegant watch in the Edifice lineup? Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. Now, I suppose I should take it off so you can see
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This is the Casio Edifice ECB-S100, and it's very nice. They did a really nice job with this
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First off, it's slim. For an Edifice watch, this is a very slim design, and it has a design
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you can see in this close-up, it's based on a sports car grille. So that's the inspiration
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for the design, and I think it's really cool. It's also solar-powered, and the S100 series
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they actually redesigned the solar receptors, so it's less than 50% of the surface area
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of the ECB-900 line, which I have also reviewed here on YouTube. One of the things that's cool
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about it is there is this double LED night illumination, features a sapphire crystal
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and of course, Bluetooth connectivity with the Edifice app on your smartphone. I'll show you
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that in a second. And I just want to tell you that it's a 50mm by 46mm by 9.8mm case
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and it weighs 138 grams, so it is not the lightest watch in the world, but it's relatively light
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and I find that once I put it on my wrist, I really forget that it's there. Now, as with all
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of these watches, when they send it, they generally have too many darn links in the chain, so for your
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strap, you're going to probably either go to a jeweler or have to have really, really good hands
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to be able to take a couple of links out so that it fits you properly, but it is a very typical
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three-part clasp on the back, and that's easy to work with, and comes in the cool Edifice box
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with a whole bunch of documentation and everything, but you don't care about any of that. I know you
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want to see this watch up close, so I got two sequences here. First off, I'll show you how the
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watch interacts with the app on a couple of basic things, and then we'll just look at the watch
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really close up so you can get a couple of seconds of just seeing this really cool design and some of
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its features. Let's do it. I've launched the app, so now I need to pair the watch to the app
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and that's done as it shows on the screen by pushing and holding this button in for a couple
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of seconds, and that double beep means that we should be ready to roll. Let's see if the
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phone sees it. Nope, might need to do it again. There we go. I think that's the one, and now we're connected
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and once it connects, there's a couple of different features you can access by using the app. Now that
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it's connected, there are three things you can access that are interesting. There's the stopwatch
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and here I can import up to 200 lap times. I can go to world time. You can see here that my primary
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time is Denver. That's the watch hands, and then the secondary world time I have set to London
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and that's the digital display at the bottom there. I could switch the two, and if I do that
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then you'll see the watch change time. We'll send that to the watch
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and this might take a couple seconds. It's certainly going to confuse me when I next look
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at my watch, but now it's switching the two so that you have London time as the primary face
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and then on this little screen here, you're going to have my actual local Denver, Colorado time
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Now, third thing you can do with the stopwatch is you can set a stopwatch time
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and you can set it to record time in place points. Now, third thing you can do with the watch
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because it uses a low power Bluetooth connection, is you can record time in place points
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and then you can go into the app, and you can check on waypoints on, for example, a bike ride
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or a hike, or any sort of travel that you do. So all of that's super helpful. You can also get to
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a whole lot of settings for the watch, as you can see. So lots of things. Now
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let's zoom in more closely on the watch face itself. Starting at the top right, the four
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buttons around the side let you do illumination. I'll show you that in a second, and then the lower
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one, lower right, is time adjustment, time in place markers, and their phone finder feature
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Lower left is letting you switch between modes, hold for three seconds, and you'll actually get
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into Bluetooth mode or disconnect that. And then the top left lets you switch display and get day
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and date. So let's go ahead and have a quick demo of that light. It's a short press, and you can see
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that LED on the corner really gives you bright illumination for a couple of seconds. Doesn't
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last long enough? You can adjust that in the app. So really cool. Really like this watch. I hope
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you appreciate its design features. Let's jump back on camera. There's a lot I really like about
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this. I'm a big fan of the entire Edifice line, in case that's not obvious. This is my 10th Casio
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Edifice I've reviewed here on YouTube, and each one I like more than the previous. I don't know
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if that's entirely true, but I really like them all. They all have different sorts of designs
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but they're all these sort of big, heavy, masculine chronographs, which honestly remind me
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of sort of classic watches from the 50s and 60s too. You might have a different memory about these
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sort of things, but I think these are really handsome watches, and there are very few people
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male or female, who are not going to have this look really good on their wrist. Of course, it's a
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pretty big face, so if you have a very slim wrist, then this might be a little overpowering, but that
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can look really stylish too. Now, all we need to talk about is the price, but before we get to the
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price, let me ask if you could subscribe to my channel. A click or a tap on that little red
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subscribe button, and we're connected. Now, give me some feedback too. Leave a comment. Tell me
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what else you wish I would have shown or maybe done in a close-up. Obviously, I am not trying
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to do a promotional video for the watch, though I really like it, so there are limits on what I'm
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going to show you, but suffice to say, I really like this. This is a really cool design, and
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having just the slimmer design and having the solar receptor be really subtle and small means
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that I can put this in a drawer for six months in the dark, and when I open that drawer, it'll still
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be running and still be with the right time, and it even syncs with my phone to make sure that it
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stays on time. Really, really cool. Now, it comes in three different color combinations. This is
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silver with a black face. It also has silver with a blue face, and there's black and blue
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so you get that black and blue look, but it looks good on this one, and it's $260 at edifice.casio.com
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and if you're into watches or you're just looking for your next really great watch that's simple
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it doesn't have notifications, you're not taking phone calls on it, it's not measuring your heart
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rate, it's just a watch, but it has some secret superpowers with the app, then this is definitely
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one to check out. That's all I got, so I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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Bye
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