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The Sleek Casio Edifice EQS900CL-1AV Solar Watch Review
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Jun 22, 2024
Watch aficionados are already aware of the beautiful and featureful Casio Edifice line, but did you know that there are some entry level watches in the lineup? Tech expert and watch collector Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ strapped a Casio EQS900CL-1AV onto his wrist and gave it a whirl. Turns out it's a great watch at a great price! Features include a solar movement, mineral crystal, carbon fiber dial, luminous hands and water resistant to 100m / 330 feet. Check it out at https://www.CreationWatches.com/
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Another beautiful Casio watch. Let's have a closer look
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this. This is the Casio Edifice EQS900CL-1AV
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Wow! That is a lot of name but it's a really nice watch and it's also one of the lowest price
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Edifice watches in their lineup. But it's a little hard to figure out exactly what the
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distribution deal is with this because you can't find it at shop.casio.com but you can find it
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through third-party sites. So we'll get to that at the end of the video. Stick around. Let me start
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by talking about the actual watch itself. So it features a solar movement, mineral crystal screen
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carbon fiber dial, luminous hands, a 44 millimeter dial that's 12 millimeters thick
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and it's water resistant to 100 meters or over 300 feet. Now it does have a leather band so
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you got to be careful with water resistant or waterproof if you're going and having it in
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water a lot and it's leather. Generally that doesn't work well. So you can obviously change
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the strap if you're so inclined. I kind of like this leather strap. It's simple, it's humble
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it goes well with the watch design. The watch also features a chronograph stopwatch and there's
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a battery level indicator that I can never quite seem to figure out and it is quite frankly an
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old-school watch. So the first day of each month there is a greater than zero percent chance that
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you're going to have to actually fiddle with it to get it to show the one in the day of the month
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because it doesn't know what month of the year you're in. So if you have a 30 day month and then
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the next day it's going to show 31 not one. A little tedious but honestly people that have been
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wearing watches this is something that they've dealt with for hundreds of years so you can do it
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It's all good. Now let me give you a little bit of a close-up because as you can see there are
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three sub dials and it's just a nice bright easily read watch and all the usage on it. It's pretty
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straightforward really all the sub dials are all about the chronograph stopwatch right so all about
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like keeping track of time and start stop that's what the buttons on the side are for and it works
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off of solar so as long as you have your hand in or the watch out in the sun every so often
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you're good basically forever. So this is a watch that should be post-apocalyptic beneficial just
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in case you're worried about the apocalypse or maybe zombies right if you're running after
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zombies as long as you're in the sun occasionally you'll still know what time it is which would be
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pretty handy. So now before I tell you about the price and the complexity of actually trying to
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figure out where to buy it let me just ask if you can go ahead and subscribe to my channel
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really appreciate when you subscribe to my channel and let me know if you have an old school watch
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like this that has a day of month have you just given up and you don't pay attention to it or
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at the first of every month do you fiddle with your watch to get it to actually show the correct day
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Now I tend to actually fiddle with things to get them to be correct that's just me but I'm not sure
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everyone does that. Now let me also mention on the strap so the included strap like I said it's a
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black leather pretty basic strap it has two loops one of which is sewn to be right by where the
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buckle is and then the second one actually slides up and down and other than that it comes in at
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least I got it in the Edifice little canister which came in the Edifice box so I am quite sure
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this is a legitimate Casio watch. There are counterfeits out there but they're not going to
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bother with all the extra packaging. So this is the real thing and this Casio Edifice EQS 900 CL
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1AV is $155 at creationwatches.com but you can't find it at shop.casio.com. Let me say that again
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you can't you cannot find it at shop.casio.com and I'm not clear whether that's because I have
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the watch prior to its major release or because it's Europe only or what the deal is. I can't
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seem to quite figure that out but what I will say is it's a very nice watch and at $155 that's a
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really good price for something that's at this level of quality and is part of the Edifice line
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So I am a big fan and this is going back on my wrist so I have no issues with that and if you're
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interested in this watch I hope that you can actually hunt it down and find one for yourself
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So let me see. I'm going to get that on, put this through both loops
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spread the loop a little bit. There we go. And now it's on my wrist and that means I will catch you
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in my next video
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