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Back to the 70s with this cool vintage Casio watch. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the Casio Vintage A100 digital watch
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and it is a reproduction of the F100 which was the original Casio resin cast watch which was huge
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Now it's most famously known as the watch that Ripley was wearing in the movie Alien
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It was released in 1977. This is a reproduction of it and it's pretty fun. Now this is a small
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watch. I don't know whether watches got bigger or our wrists got bigger or what but if I put
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this on my wrist you can see it's a pretty small watch for my wrist size but it is pretty fun and
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it does have a bunch of cool features. Most notably are the four buttons on the front. So
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instead of having side buttons which is such a more common watch design all of that appears on
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the front which leads you to the question of well what does what and here's something they've done
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that's really cool is if you flip it over and look on the back on the metal they've actually
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engraved the function identification of those four buttons. So that reminds me that for example
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the top right button is illumination so if I push that the screen lights up. Mostly what you'll find
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that you're using is the lower left button which is the mode button which basically steps between
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time and alarm and stopwatch. If you're in stopwatch mode the lower right button is start and
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stop the upper left button is reset and that's pretty much all you got. So it has calendar
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stopwatch, daily alarm, hourly time alarm, led illuminated, it is water resistant so if you're
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out and it starts raining you don't have to panic and let's see accuracy within 30 seconds a month
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and it runs off of an actual watch battery. No solar power, no bluetooth, no I don't know whatever
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modern atomic power that you would dreamed of in the 70s would be here in 2022. It is a CR1616
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and it gives you about three hours of battery life per battery so that's plenty long enough
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and it has a really interesting clasp. It's a very different style because it's a user adjustable
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clasp and luckily I found that it actually is pretty much the right size just as is and you
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just sort of put it on and give it a push and there it is it's on my wrist that's as easy as
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it gets. Not a huge fan of the clasp I found that occasionally it would undo all by itself. I actually
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talked to Casio about that and they said we haven't experienced that before so maybe it's just
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my wrist I have like an anti-magnetic wrist. Be that as it may it's pretty sweet and it's affordable
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too so if we take it off let me just take it off and get it here again for you. So really all we
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need to do now is talk about the price. This is the A100WE1AVT that gives you the stainless steel finish
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the original F100 was actually that black resin they have that too as a reproduction but this is
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the stainless steel model and it is the like I said Casio Vintage A100 digital watch and it's
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$54.95 at Casio.com. I think it's really cool and I appreciate your feedback give me some comments
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tell me what else you wish I would have shown you give me a thumbs up whatever all of that super
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appreciated that's all I got I'm gonna put this back on my wrist and just be really retro today
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and since it's from the mid 70s I suppose I'm gonna have to listen to some disco too
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that's how it is and I'll hope to catch you in my next video
