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It's possible that I love this watch too much, as is clear in my effusive review of the sweet new Casio Edifice EQB900 blue bluetooth sync analog watch. With simultaneous display of two different timezones, a waterproof rating to 100 meters, solar charging so you never need to wind it or change a battery and a look that'll have your friends asking about your new premium timepiece, it's a winner.
And me? In addition to being a tech expert at https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ I'm also a watch aficionado, which is why I so appreciate a fine timepiece like the Casio Edifice EQB900.
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this is my new favorite watch in the
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world let me tell you why Dave Taylor
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here and I'm looking at watches not
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smart watches but not exactly dumb
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old-school watches either this is the
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Casio EQB 900 dB - - a that is a real
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mouthful but here's what you need to
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know about it is it actually has an app
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that you sync with and it doesn't give
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you notifications
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I don't want notifications on my watch
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but it uses the app to make sure that
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everything's always exactly on time it
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actually synchronizes four times a day
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via low-power bluetooth and so that your
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watch is always exactly on time it can
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show a second time on the little tiny
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world time dial on the bottom and let me
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give you a close-up so you can see the
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dial a little better and you can use any
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of three hundred different cities in
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that second time and you can switch back
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and forth if you want I don't do that
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because I want to know my local time but
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you can do that now it's a hundred meter
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water-resistant it has mineral glass I
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have a previous generation of this watch
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and I have smacked it into brick walls
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and all sorts of stuff and it's never
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gotten a scratch or anything which I
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find quite amazing more than once I will
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sit there and look at it I'm like that's
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got it we've damaged it and it hasn't so
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whatever they're using for glass it's
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Trent it's terrific has a lot of buttons
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on the sides but the important one is
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it's a screw lock crown you can manually
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adjust it but seriously why would you do
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that when you have the app right the app
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is so much easier and here's one of the
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things I really love is that what I have
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the app when I travel and go to a
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different time zone all I have to do is
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launch the app and then there's a button
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on the watch that says you know go ahead
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right now and connect via bluetooth and
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within seconds I'm watching the hands on
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the watch move to actually adjust to the
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new time zone that is vastly easier than
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having to adjust it manually so that by
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itself makes it worthwhile it also has a
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nice threefold clasp when I got this
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did have to go into a jeweler and get it
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adjusted so that it would fit my wrist
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that was a whopping $10 investment
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pretty painless you could probably do it
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yourself if you want it's also
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multimodal so it has stopwatch countdown
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timer you can set a daily alarm it even
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can show you things like battery level
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and let's talk about battery for a
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second because one of the really cool
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things about this is it's solar powered
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they call it tough solar but what it
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means is if you have it in the Sun even
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for a few minutes every day then you're
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good to go and you'll never ever need to
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put a new battery in it now I've had the
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earlier generation EQ be 500 we'll come
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back to that in a second but this one I
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have had for years and I've never ever
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had to put any new batteries in it or
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anything it just you know when you were
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outside or something it's sitting there
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soaking up the energy of the Sun
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fantastic so cool now let's talk about
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the difference because this one I really
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like this is a nice masculine watch
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right but big heavy clunky so you see
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it's very thick and it's a big dial and
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it's heavy right so when they got to the
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EQB 900 this is the next generation of
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their EQB line from casio and it is 2.3
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millimeters smaller it is 2.1
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millimeters thinner and here's the thing
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that really rocks they actually reduced
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25% of the weight so when I feel both of
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these this is substantially heavier it's
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you know very much heavier and you can
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see even in this side view there's a lot
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of difference in the thickness of these
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two watches I really like this I mean I
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really like this watch now it also has
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some luminosity and one of the things
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they've added is they have something
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called the super illuminator so to
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demonstrate that we went into the
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bathroom and turned the lights out first
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off you can see here the glow in the
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dark on the hands
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it's nice easy to read as long as you're
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reasonably close to when you had
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illumination now let's say you don't so
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there's a button you can push on the
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side of the watch and now you have the
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super illuminator a little tiny light
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that actually illuminates the face and
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lets you see even in pitch darkness
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that's a nice added feature I'm not sure
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how often I use it because I like to
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sleep when I'm asleep but you know you
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wake up you want to know what time it is
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very handy now it comes in two colors
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this is the blue and like I said this is
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the EQB 900 dB - 2a they also have a
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version of this that's very very similar
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but it's in gray sort of a black gray
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color scheme that's also very handsome
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and that is the EQB 900 D - 1a and yeah
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Casio edifice they might need to work on
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their naming schemes a little bit but
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figure it out because it's totally worth
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it
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like I said 300 times for the or cities
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I should say for the second time or
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world time display shows you day of the
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week shows you the month of them or the
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day of the month all this sort of stuff
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and again more likely than not you're
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gonna go ahead and jump onto your phone
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to look for that kind of stuff or look
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at your computer but I just think this
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is a really cool hybrid of a classic
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men's watch and you know women can wear
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I do not judge but this is pretty much a
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men's style watch but it has a lot of
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smarts if you pair with the app not the
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least of which is that you never have to
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worry about it losing or gaining time
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because it's synchronizing four times a
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day against your phone which is it self
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synchronizing against the cellular
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network probably about every second so
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as long as somewhere someone has the
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right time your watch will also have the
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right timing I really dig this watch and
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I'm gonna put this on my wrist and it's
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not going to come off until maybe the
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next generation of the Casio edifice
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shows up and having said that this is
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not something you're gonna be picking up
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a target for 29 bucks this is a much
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more sophisticated piece of chronometer
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graphic technology
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so you're gonna want to go to shop Casio
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comm but before I tell you the price let
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me ask if you can go ahead and click on
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that subscription or subscribe button
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really appreciate if you can do that and
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I appreciate if you subscribe to my
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channel
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this Casio eqb 900 SmartWatch with app
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link and illumination and all this sort
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of stuff so cool you can pick it up for
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three hundred and twenty dollars at shop
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Casio calm like I said I love this watch
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I think it's worth buying good gear and
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this is definitely on that list so Steve
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Taylor this is going right back on my
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wrist and I will catch you there we go
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I will catch you in the next video
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