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Casio's Edifice line already has lots of great watches, but when they team up with Honda Racing, the result is truly exceptional. Watch fan and tech expert Dave Taylor offers a close look at the Edifice ECB-2000HR Honda Racing Watch, including a hands-on demo and walkthru of the CASIOWATCH app too. TLDR? It's a great watch for anyone's collection and doubly so if you're a motorsports fan, Formula-1 or otherwise.
Check it out at: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/edifice/products/collection/limited-edition/ecb-2000hr/
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Watch Closeups
1:44 Hands-On Demo
3:05 CASIOWATCH App Demo
7:13 Specs
8:01 Explanation of Color Scheme
8:59 Price and Conclusions
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this is the latest edifice watch and
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it's a collaboration with Honda Racing
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let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out this well this is the box but inside
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here is the Casio edifice ECB
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2000hr Honda Racing watch let's check it
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out now it has this custom box that I
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think is really very smart toss these
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pieces down and it opens up and it is a
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very nice display absolutely a custom
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design for this specific watch now let
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me pull it out from the
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box and we'll just put the box down
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there so here's the watch and as you can
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see it has a very distinctive tricolor
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design and the ECB 2000 Series has a
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very distinctive little double LCD
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screen and let me tell you a bit about
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it so it has a carbon bezel and case and
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the band is made out of something called
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Alcantara and you might have heard of
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that fabric because it's actually used
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for sports car Interiors it's a great
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fabric it is a fantastic band on this
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watch has a sapphire crystal it's 100
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meter water resistant has 300 city world
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time and 100th of a second stopwatch it
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can log up to 200 events or laps in your
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stopwatch five daily alarms it even has
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a phone finder because it pairs with
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your smartphone now I don't want to just
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talk about it I want to show you it
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really up close so let's just jump
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straight to a demo at the nlock position
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is a small dial that shows you timer
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statuses and stopwatch status and then
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at the 3:00 position is a small LCD
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screen and the easiest way to get it to
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jump out so we can see it is to push the
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Illuminator button and you can see it's
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redundantly on the time of the current
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time zone but if I push the top left
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button and then we push the Illuminator
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again now it's the day and date so
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that's handy but there's a lot more you
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can do here because the lower left
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button will actually cycle through world
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time and I have it set to London in the
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app and stopwatch
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timer
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alarm and then we're back to local time
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and let's double check so we're back to
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local time so it is the day and date and
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honestly that's a lot of the
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functionality that you'll be using and
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of course with the stopwatch you can
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actually save lap data and then pull
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that back in through the app onto your
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phone so if you are at the racetrack and
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you're analyzing laps you can collect up
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to two 200 different data points there
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so lots to like here let me jump back on
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camera the demo is really cool but I
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also want to show you the app so this is
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the Casio app and what I'm going to do
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is I'm going to actually show you here
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it is right up front here the ECB
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2000hr and here's the watch notice that
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the instruction manual is one tap away
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but there's no connection turns out you
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need to actually remind the watch to do
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a Bluetooth connection which is the
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lower button so I'll just push it and
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hold
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it and after that second double beep you
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can see that it now is connecting with
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the phone and the phone is then knowing
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to hand that to the app and the app is
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giving us everything we need so I can
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see that I have four out of five for my
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battery power and probably could do it a
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little more time in the Sun but the
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weather has not been fantastic until
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today so just need to get out and about
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a bit more but all of the fun of course
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comes with all of the different settings
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you can do here so I can set up my daily
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alarms I can set up five different
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alarms if I really want to I can get to
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the timer feature and set specific
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timers there's the countdown and
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stopwatch and world time is kind of fun
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as you saw in the demo I have my world
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time set to London England and here's
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where I set that and I can just tap on
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for example I could tap on Paris and
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then if I send the setting to the watch
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which I'll do then it will actually have
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a new world time and if that was the
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primary uh time on the face it would
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actually move the hands to match the
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current time in Paris France so there we
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go so that's complete and you get into
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things like the phone finder but the
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watch settings where a lot of other
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features are available and these are
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things you can also access on the watch
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Itself by knowing that it actually uses
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the Casio module
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5698 and here you can see on the back
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that it specifies what module number
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because people that know the edifice
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lineup know that Casio uses a small
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number of different modules that they
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then put in a lot of different faces so
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that's generally how you want to do all
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of your settings but the app makes it so
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much easier so I can get into things
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like how long do I want the light when I
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use that super Illuminator feature how
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long do I want it to be on and I always
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default to the longer time and you go
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into the watch
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display and I have it set to 24-Hour
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display let's just switch that to 12
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hours and send that setting to the watch
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now the watch dial obviously is a
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12-hour dial but the small LCD screen
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that's at 3:00 can show 12 or 24hour
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time um and I just changed it back to 12
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hour time so power saving summertime
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change time display and this is kind of
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interesting is if you really want to you
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can switch it so that the hands are
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showing a different time zone and then
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the tiny digital screen is showing the
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current time and you know you can sort
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of switch between those two depending on
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what you're doing if you really need to
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be thinking about well what is the time
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in Paris then you might want to switch
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it over and then you can switch it back
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when you're done and here's another
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thing I really like is it also has a
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built-in tutorial so you can actually
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read up and see some information on how
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to deal with these common needs and
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requests and that's pretty much
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everything the watch will stay paired
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until like I think it's 3 minutes past
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where there's no activity and then it'll
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just drop the connection but it's also
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synchronized time so assuming my phone
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has the correct time then the watch now
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has the correct time too very handy one
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of the things the watch does really well
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is it uses interesting colors you can
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see on the face that blue and white and
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red but when you look at the band the
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interior of the band is red and the
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exterior of the band is blue so it's
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really a cool cool design and check out
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how it looks on my wrist it's a very
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smart looking watch there's a lot to
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like here and when you look at the edges
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of the watch you can see that sort of
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racing car design has crept in and
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there's so many specific design elements
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that are from Honda racing and their
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design of their Formula 1 race cars so
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there's really a lot I like and then one
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interesting thing is that um one of the
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clasps here here it actually has a
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little reminder of what the three colors
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are and that actually are red represents
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passion for victory blue represents
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advanced technology and white represents
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that it's for all Motorsport fans and
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there's a lot to like with this watch it
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is really a comfortable watch it has a
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nice band it has lots of functionality
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and it might pair with your phone but
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it's not a smartwatch which I like I
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don't want email notifications on my
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watch A lot of people do I prefer to
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just have my watch be about time so
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that's exactly what this one does with
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all of the great style from Honda Racing
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so really this is a smart addition to
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anyone's watch collection and if you're
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a motorsport fan then this is just so
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much more the kind of watch that you
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want to have on your wrist next time
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you're at the track so definitely one to
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check out I am I'm going to invite you
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be of value excellent this is the Casio
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edifice ECB
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200hr Honda Racing watch and it is
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$400 cio.com and I will say that this is
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going to be one that I'm going to wear a
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lot I have a lot of watches you sort of
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Saw a hint of that in my app but I will
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tell you this is instantly rocketed to
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be one of my favorites I really like the
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race car design four watches there's
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something about those two they just work
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really well together and this is a
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really beautiful design and I know
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because it's an edifice watch it's going
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to be tough and rugged and last forever
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so that are those are all really good
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characteristics and features and now
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it's on my wrist that's that's all I got
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so I'll hope to catch you in my next
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video
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