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Casio Edifice EQS800 CPB-1AV Motorsport Watch Review
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May 29, 2025
Carbon Fiber. That's just the beginning of the cool features of this striking, motorsport-inspired watch from Casio. Yeah the name's a bit clumsy, the EQS800 CPB-1AV, but the watch itself is sleek, uber-cool, has a striking red on black color scheme and has a carbon fiber face - the first carbon fiber watch Casio's ever made! Tech expert and watch aficionado Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out this surprisingly affordable Casio Edifice watch and really likes what he finds. Check out the video to learn more... Grab Casio watches at https://www.ShopCasio.com/
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I'll watch inspired by car racing let's
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have a closer look
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this
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this is the Casio edifice EQs 800 CP v1
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AV they're not gonna win any awards with
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naming but there's a really nice watch
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so what's really cool about it I'm gonna
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just start right out is it actually has
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a carbon fiber dial it's the first one
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casio has ever made and the design
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itself is absolutely inspired by
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motorsports and car racing as you can
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see in this close-up it's just a really
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cool looking watch now let me tell you
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about it because it's solar-powered has
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a date display which I like and it's a
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hundred meter water-resistant which
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means that you can wear this diving you
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can certainly wear this surfing or at
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the pool you can have this on in the
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shower although I take my watches off
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before I shower possibly TMI but it's
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certainly not going to affect this watch
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in any way like I said the dial itself
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is carbon fiber and it's just a really
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neat watch the band and clasp is also
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kind of interesting so if you're used to
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ones where they lay flat this one
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doesn't as you can see there's no lay
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flat about it it is a curved sort of a
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rubberized band and what's interesting
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is at the end of it there's a little
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sort of lump sticking out so that when
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you put it through the clasp and then
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you put it through the little extra
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buckle it actually stays locked in so
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it's not a lot of watches this part that
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floats the extra little band can just
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pop off and then your watch ends up
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looking like that little door key this
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doesn't have that problem this works
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really nicely now if you look at this
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close-up you can see that in addition to
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the large face it also has three small
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dials and starting at the three o'clock
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position let me go ahead and put this
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watch back on easy enough put it on slip
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it through the band and we're good to go
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now the smallest dial at the three
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o'clock position is 24 hour time just in
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case you wake up and you're not sure is
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it 2 a.m. or 2 p.m. because I don't know
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you don't have windows or something
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the second and third small faces are for
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the timer so this one at six o'clock
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that small dial is the seconds so it's a
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sweep second hand and then the nine
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o'clock position dial actually shows
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accumulated minutes
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how do you do timing it's super easy
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there's two buttons on the outside the
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top one is start and stop timing and
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when it stopped the lower one actually
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resets you back to zero that's it
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super easy easy way to time things this
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is not gonna give you fractions of a
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second it's not designed for that this
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is just a nice easy way to say well it
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looks like I'm at thirty minutes on my
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parking spot things like that right
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super nice now not much else to talk
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about this is just a really handsome
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watch there's a lot I really like about
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this I already am very clearly a fan of
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Casio I have a bunch of Casio watches
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but this is just another example of how
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they are taking just a straight
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chronograph sort of design and they're
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making it really cool and the all black
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with the red highlights very much
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Motorsports this is very much the kind
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of thing I would expect like someone
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driving a supercar would have this watch
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if in fact they didn't have like a
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$50,000 watch but I don't review fifty
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thousand dollar watches unless you want
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to send me one which I will not complain
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about so let me tell you about the price
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but let me also ask if you can click on
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that little floating subscribe button so
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you can subscribe to my channel super
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cool and hey do you wear a watch tell me
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in the comments if you wear a watch why
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you wear a watch what kind of watch you
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wear and if you don't wear a watch how
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do you know what time it is
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Oh crazy I know I know smartphones but
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seriously you pull out your smart phone
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every time to see what time it is it's a
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little clumsy a watch is much more
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sophisticated anyway
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the pricing on this is actually pretty
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interesting because this is the caveat
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catio hello Casio edifice EQs 800 CP b1
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AV I'm never gonna say that name again
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that's what this is and if you get it at
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shop casio comm it's a hundred and
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seventy dollars but with just a couple
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of minutes of Google search I found that
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JCPenney comm this watch is a hundred
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and twenty two dollars and forty cents
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that's a pretty screaming deal that's
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almost 50% off yeah
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forty thirty five percent off somewhere
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on there it's a really heck of a good
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deal so JCPenney comm so you can get
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this for one hundred and seventy through
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Casio or do a little comparison shopping
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and you might well be able to find it
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less expensive this is a definite keeper
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if you're a watch fan and even if you're
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not or you know someone that's into
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Motorsports or driving or racing or
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NASCAR or anything like that this is
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going to become their favorite watch so
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I say check it out Steve Taylor I'm back
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to the races and I'll catch you
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