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Love car racing, F1, Le Mans, even the Indy 500? Heck, yeah. Now you can join Honda Racing on your wrist with the sick new Casio Edifice EFS-560HR-1A Honda Racing Chronograph Watch! Tech expert and watch collector Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Honda Racing Team Edifice Watch, with its signature red and black color scheme, and finds a lot to like and a few quirks worth knowing before you get one for yourself.
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Casio's new Honda Racing Watch? Let's check it out
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I don't know if it's about timing laps or something, but people who are into car racing
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are also generally really into watches. And that's why it totally makes sense that the
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Casio Edifice line has partnered with Honda Racing for their new EFS560HR1A Honda Racing
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Watch. That's what's in this box. And I've looked at a lot of Casio Edifice watches and
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I ain't never seen one that had such a cool box. This is a really interesting package
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So you pull it out and you have this gift box. It's really nice. And you open this and
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sitting inside is the really cool watch. Now I know what you want, so let's start with
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a close-up. Here's the face of the EFS560HR1A. I've got to come up with another name for
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that. Let's just call it the Honda Racing Watch. So it is black, but it has these great
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red highlights. And you can see on the back of the strap that it's red. And of course
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black and red are the colors of the Honda Racing team. And let me tell you something
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about it. And while I'm talking, let's have a nice tight close-up of the actual face itself
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So it features a black Cordura band with the metal Honda strap keeper on it and carbon
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fiber dial. It's supposed to look like a road surface if you look closely at it. And
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the gold lettering on Edifice is in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Edifice line
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It has a sapphire crystal. It's 100 meters water resistant and solar powered. So it also
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has a date display and accuracy, well, plus or minus 20 seconds a month. So that's about
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two minutes a year accuracy. Not super hard to adjust it, but that's pretty good, right
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And in terms of the size across the front, it is a 40 millimeter without the crown, add
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the crown and it's a 47 millimeter face. And it is a standard size band, though it is not
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a standard connection. So you probably are going to get to just have this band if you
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want to have this watch. But honestly, look at like it says, Honda Racing right there
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on the band. It's very cool. So there's a lot to like about this. And I know one of
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the things Casio is excited about. I'm not sure why, but it also says Honda Racing on
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the back. So honestly, this would be a great watch for Honda to give people that just bought
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one of their fancy high end vehicles or maybe joined their racing team. But you don't have
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to be a race car driver and you don't have to be investing a lot of money to get this
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really slick watch. Now, I have a lot of Edifice watches, and this one is very much
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one of my favorites. It's a little bit different because of the band. So when you put it on
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you do have to adjust it. And, you know, it's just the holes on the band. So if it's not
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exactly the right one, then you just have to sort of cope with that. But once you put
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it on, this is a very smart looking watch. And I'll just be honest that when I was wearing
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it yesterday and my son looked at it, my 21 year old son, he looked at it and he said
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You don't really want to keep that, do you? You wouldn't mind if you just gave it to me
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right? So that's up for debate. That's a whole nother topic. But suffice to say, this is
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a very cool looking watch. And the more you know about car racing and the more you know
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about Team Honda, the more this is really fun to have that black and red color scheme
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and everything. So really great watch. Definitely one to check out. And I will say I learned
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one more thing because I actually read the instructions when I got this watch. And with
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a lot of these watches, you know, you unscrew the crown and you pull it out to two detents
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and then you adjust the time. I never realized that if you just pull it out to one, then
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you can actually adjust the date really, really quickly. So that is super handy to know because
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prior to that, I was just doing 24 hours forward and the next day, 24 hours forward the next
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day, 24 hours. I mean, it was super tedious, right? So knowing that there's a more easy
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and convenient way to adjust the date so you get the right day is actually really handy
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especially since we have such a crazy inconsistent calendar. So it's going to think every month
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is 31 days and most of them don't. So that is worth knowing. Now, overall, big fan, really
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nice, really cool watch. Little on the spendy side for the Casio Edifice line. But before
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I get to the price, let me just ask if you can give me some feedback, give me a thumbs up, leave me a comment with what you wish I would have shown more of or maybe showed
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too much of. And of course, always happy to have you subscribe to my channel and really
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appreciate when you do so. Cool. All right. Well, this is the Casio Edifice EFS560HR-1A
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Honda racing watch, and it will set you back $400 at shop.casio.com and it's totally worth
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it. It's a great addition to any watch collectors lineup. And if you're into cars and car racing
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this will get a lot of attention at the track or at your next car club meeting. So definitely
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worth checking out. And with that, I'm putting this back on my wrist and I'm going to do
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some time trials on my new Hellcat. Well, I actually do have a Hellcat in the driveway
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but that's an entirely different subject. But suffice to say, I will catch you in my next video
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