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Casio Edifice EQB500 Bluetooth Men's Steel Watch Review
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May 30, 2025
Oh sure, you can put a small computer on your wrist and interact with all your friends and tech without ever pulling out a smartphone, but do you want to? Is that really the new cool? Tech expert Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ looks at a connected, but not particularly smart, Casio Edifice EQB500 stainless steel men's watch and finds it's far more comfortable on his wrist. Sure, the watch has some neat tricks, including a second watch face (it's a chronograph-style circular steel watch face), solar power, auto time correction and a stop watch accurate to 1/1000 second, but it's the look, the weight, the solidity of the watch that appeals. Check it out on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2h9OfI2
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can a not very smart watch be cooler
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than a smart watch let me tell you about
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it Dave Taylor here again and I want to
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talk about watches now you're looking at
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my wrist and you're saying don't you
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have an Apple watch don't you have all
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these other smart watches isn't your
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wrist smarter than the Apollo Lander the
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answer is well it used to be so what I'm
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wearing right now and I got to say I
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love this thing this is a Casio edifice
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this specific model is the EQB 500 and
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you can see it's big and chunky and I'm
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gonna have to zoom in on some of this to
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show you what all is going on here but
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this is a sort of semi smart watch it
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has Bluetooth and it connects with your
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phone but it doesn't do much so it's not
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notifications doesn't show you your
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email it doesn't give you a chance to
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watch a movie it's just a classic men's
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chronograph style watch and it uses the
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Bluetooth to do things like
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automatically every night synchronize
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the time so the watch is always accurate
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so you never have to say mmm looks like
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I've lost four or five seconds in the
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last six years you know what to do that
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now if your watch is that accurate
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you're probably in good shape anyway but
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this one it's really designed to be and
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this particular model in specifically is
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designed to be like a world time watch
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so you go to the app and I have it's on
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my iPhone I have to find it but let's
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see you get to the app you pair it with
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your watch and all I have to do is push
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and hold down and then the app should
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connect there we go so here's the Casio
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watch plus app and it's paired with the
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watch and there's not a ton and you can
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do I can change which city I would like
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to track so maybe we'll go to Hongkong
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instead of London and send it to the
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watch and then I might want to set up an
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alarm real quick I'm not going to
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because I will have to remember how to
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turn it off and just a couple more
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things you can do under watch settings
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so here's how long the watch should stay
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connected to the phone and I talked
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earlier about time adjustments to make
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sure your watch is always in sync I have
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it set to every 5 a.m. this is something
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you can change if you'd like but I don't
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imagine it really matters that much
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that's pretty much about what you can do
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so very simple app not much smarts like
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I said it gives you all this stuff and
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it has all these different features but
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quite frankly I've been wearing this for
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a couple of weeks I don't use any of
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them it has a stopwatch and if you do
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lap time and stuff it actually can store
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up to a hundred of those events and then
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download those to your phone so you
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actually have if you're like a horse
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racer or you're working with race cars
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then you have all this great data me I
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don't really have many horses and the
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racing that I do tends to be how quickly
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can I get to the mailbox before I get
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too cold so not super exciting but let
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me take it off and I'll show you it's
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just it's a big watch this is not a
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watch for a young little wrist it's
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probably not a watch for most women's
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wrists although you know your your taste
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your decision it's heavy it's a
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fifty-two millimeter and it's a big
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crystal on it obviously it has a clasp
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but I actually had to find someone who
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could adjust it so would fit my wrist
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properly which turned out to be an
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entire ten dollar investment one of the
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other really cool things about is it's
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solar-powered there's no little solar
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panel on there or anything it's just
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magic basically for every eight minutes
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you put it in the Sun it powers for I
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don't know a week or something so
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basically as far as I could tell all
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this means is that if you have it on
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your wrist like most normal people and
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occasionally it's displayed and you're
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sitting and you're in the Sun then by
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the time you're done with that cup of
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coffee you've probably powered it for
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another month so super cool so solar
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powered it does automatic time
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correction like I said mobile link
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function with Bluetooth don't expect
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notifications don't expect video
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expect emoji it's nothing like that it's
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just a watch in fact really you could
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probably never ever pay attention to the
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connectivity and be fine
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dual time and stopwatch to a one
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thousandth of a second so pretty
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accurate and it's pretty darn good I'm
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not sure again what I time that needs to
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be that accurate but it's good
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water-resistant up to a hundred meters
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which is terrific because you know I'm
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probably like most people that means to
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me that I don't have to take it off in
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the hot tub and I don't have to take it
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off in the shower
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huge whip and what else it has a daily
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alarm date display there's all sorts of
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stuff you can set up on the phone but
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even there the actual app from Casio
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isn't hugely feature 'fl cuz the watch
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isn't hugely feature full it's just a
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straight ahead men's chronograph that
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just happens to have some connection
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capabilities and I just want to say that
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I like this way more than I thought I
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would when I first put it on I'm like I
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don't know that my Apple watch is I'm
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kind of missing the feature set but
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after wearing it for a couple of days I
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just like looking down I like seeing
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this big metal watch and I will say that
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a couple of my friends when I pointed it
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out to them they said oh I thought you
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had a Rolex dude so I am NOT saying this
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looks like a Rolex if you know what
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you're doing and know what watches are
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but it definitely is more that style
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than the sort of dorky little square
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screen of the Apple watch although
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that's pretty trendy in some circles -
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so how much would you pay for this watch
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well prices are kind of all over the
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place on the web I will just say that at
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amazon.com it runs 269 bucks and it's a
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beautiful gift it's really I think my
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dad would have really liked this watch
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and honestly he would have not even paid
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attention to any of the connectivity
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features which would be totally fired
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it's just a nice watch anyway this is
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Dave Taylor and I know you're gonna
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actually click the subscribe button I'm
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timing how long it takes for you to
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subscribe okay you subscribed thank you
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and I will catch you once I get my watch
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back on
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I will catch you in my next video
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