Casio Japan WVA-M630D-7AJF - Watch for Men, Bracelet, Bracelet

I’ve had this watch in hand for a few days. It is a beautiful watch. I am definitely more of an analog watch wearer over digital, but this gives the best of both in my opinion. This Wave Ceptor series is solar-powered and Multi-Band 6 radio sync. This watch is not only beautiful but highly accurate and functional. Best of all it has Tough Solar which charges from indoor light, outdoor light, and when fully charge lasts months in dark. No battery swaps ever, no mechanical movement. The Case is 42.1mm diameter, 11mm thick but wears slimmer than it sounds. It has world time (29 cities), stopwatch, countdown timer, alarms, perpetual calendar, multi-language day (English/Japanese/etc.), EL backlight for low-light use. Build feels premium for the price—stainless bracelet feels solid and has no rattle. Resin bezel keeps it light. Very easy to setup. Overall I highly recommend this watch.

Solar powered, atomic clock enabled accuracy, easy to adjust bracelet. Simple but classy dial. This watch checked all the boxes. Available in various colors. And if you need a watch for more extreme conditions there's even a G-Shock version. It may not meet the needs of a true watch collector but for accuracy and utility it's an almost perfect watch.

This is my first wave septor watch, I love it and would buy again! There is one thing though that can't let me give it 5 stars. Read on... First, the good things. 1. Timekeeping. Once the timezone is set, the watch synchronizes every night, or you can initiate a manual sync. I sleep with my watch on, and it syncs just fine (I live in greater Seattle area). So, it's set and forget, you don't have to ever care about adjusting time of your watch. 2. Solar power. Works just fine. It has been just a few weeks, but I have yet to see anything other than "HI" (ie fully charged battery). This watch has advanced power management built it -- for example, if it's in the dark for long time (like, a night), the seconds hand stops ticking, and the digital display is turned off to save power -- still, analog hands shows the correct time. Once you press a button, or expose watch face to some decent light, it turns back on instantly (and it's a pleasure to see the seconds hand move quickly to the correct position). 3. Glowing hands and backlight. Both works fine. The luminescence of hands lasts through the night, which is important to me. Just in case it's not, there is always a LED backlight. Surprisingly, I like the amber color of it. Note that the backlight does not help you to read digital display, but I don't see it as an issue. But there's one thing that bugs me -- scroll down for negatives. 4. Design. Nice size (not too big, not too small), very readable, clean face. 5. Mineral glass. Yes, it's not sapphire (you can have a sapphire crystal, too, but not for under $100 -- look for Casio Lineage 170 or higher), but so far I have yet to see any scratches on the glass. 6. Hands precision. Hands are very well aligned to face marks, a perfectionist in me loves it! The manual says that in case it's messed up (say by a strong magnetic field or a hit), you can readjust it. I haven't tried it as there's no reason to do so, but it's nice to have this feature just in case. Now the bad things. In fact, just one thing -- everything else is minor nuances. 1. All 12 hour marks have same luminescence dots (see the photo -- you can't figure out what time it is from it, can you?). Usually, 12 o'clock is marked with a different symbol (either double dot or line, or a wider/bigger dot) so you can see where's 12 when it's dark. This really bugs me (especially the aforementioned inner perfectionist), and this is the reason why I give it 4 stars. 2. I didn't quite like the original band -- you can't remove extra links, they just hide beneath the bracelet making it slightly thicker on your wrist. It is a very minor issue as you can easily switch to any 20 mm band you like, and this is what I did. Again, this is not an issue. 3. Lack of English manual. I do not understand why people slash a star because of it. This model is clearly for domestic (Japan) market, so it's sort of "gray import" and it is fully expected that it comes with a manual in Japanese. Just Google Casio 5161 manual (here 5161 is watch module number, as engraved inside a rectangular box at the back side of your watch). Again, this is not an issue.

The watch is easy to read and I find the wristband exceptionally comfortable. Features not mentioned in the product description include the ability for the digital display to show the time in a different timezone from the analog display (or the same timezone, for that matter), five alarms, an optional on-the-hour audible signal, a stopwatch, a countdown timer, and a dial light. It was a bit hard to find how to change the day-of-week display from Kanji to English, but it can be done. (It's in the instructions for setting the time manually, which I skipped at first because I didn't want to do that.) If you're comparison shopping, Casio calls the watch a Wave Ceptor (probably short for receptor), not Wave Scepter. Others have noted that the instructions are in Japanese. My watch came with a slip of paper giving me the URL for a pdf of a well-written English version of the instructions. The instructions are essential for setting up the watch and for setting the countdown timer and the alarms. Those things aren't hard to do, but they're not intuitive. The instructions for adjusting the watchband (on a separate piece of paper) appear to be available only in Japanese, but like others I found the pictures to be sufficient. If you live in North America, the multi-band feature is only valuable if you travel to other continents. It does not improve the ability of the watch to set itself within North America. The instructions warn of possible difficulties associated with terrain or weather, and they suggest putting the watch in a window to capture the time signal. In my case, I've found that the watch captures the time reliably each night just left on my bathroom counter, despite the fact that I'm in a high valley (poor radio reception generally) and about 1500 miles from the Fort Collins, Colorado radio station that broadcasts the signal. No doubt building construction and other factors could give others different results, but the watch doesn't seem to be overly touchy. I hesitated to buy a solar watch, since I live in the northeastern US where my wrist is covered by clothing much of the time. I read somewhere that solar watches, when the battery is charged, can run for months without further exposure to light, so I took a chance. I've found that I can use the watch without fussing too much about light. In the winter I've set it in a sunny window occasionally, just to be on the safe side, but for the last few months (it's now July) I've been treating it just as I would a battery-powered watch, and it still shows a high charge.

Easy to read dial and a nice looking watch. I did ruin one by wearing it at a water park, my fault (water resistant not water proof). But my favorite watch for everyday wear. The one I messed up had been in rain, mud, and still looked and worked like new after 2 years. Once you set up your timezone these just work. Adjusts for daylight saving time automatically, it adjusts the time on its own so it always matches my phone. And it's solar, so it's aways at a full charge. The dial has luminous hands and also a small light if needed for nighttime use.

It does all it saysit does and .more Great piece of kit

I needed a professional looking watch with all the standard functions of a digital casio, and this one delivered. I only have two complaints about the watch: the band is adjustable yes, but for people with thinner wrists like mine the strap becomes bulky and clunky upon adjusting it almost to a point where I want to change the band; second thing is the plastic portion of the watch can be seen under the metal face, and it looks like the paint will rub off easily especially where it meets the band. Otherwise a great watch. There's a model of the same made of titanium and sapphire but it's in the apple watch price range which is too expensive for me.

Not too big on the wrist and extremely accurate timepiece. No stem to adjust the hands so you set the time digitally and the hands magically spin in reverse till they reach the correct time. Sit it on the windowsill overnight and the watch syncs with the nearest atomic clock (I think it confirms the time five times a day). Solar charging to keep the battery topped up so you have to take the time to expose it to a light source or wear short sleeves. The band is thin but solid stainless steel that is very easy to adjust to your wrist size without removing links but can be a little bulky on smaller wrists. The usual Casio features like World time, Stopwatch and alarm with very good lume on the hands plus a button to light up the watch face when needed. A crazy accurate watch for the technologically inclined wearer.

Q&Q, a. Magnificent score like a Casio Wave I never heard of a Q&Q brand of watch and talking with somebody or other and one of my watch groups who's in South America and I'm here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he said yeah it's a cheap watch in department stores. The brand could be picked up for like 10 bucks at a counter in the watch section. I didn't hold out much hope for my purchase, although it was very well priced for all the features and sounded and looked a bit like a Casio wave. I didn't own a Casio wave but I've read about them and watched reviews and seeing other people in my Casio watch group on Facebook. Post them as well. The watch arrived and certainly it wasn't quite as well finished as a Casio stainless steel products, but it was still pretty good... In fact, it was better than I realized because they tweaked the electronics on this one to work. So much like a Casio wave, but with some definite differences that it made it feel like you just saved $100 by buying this instead of a Casio wave I actually ended up buying a Casio wave in stainless steel and very similar to this Q&Q watch. Sort of the Q&Q goes left to right while the Casio wave goes right to left, but basically they have the same damn features. They both have an LCD window. They both have pusher buttons and they're both in stainless steel and get this .. pay close attention, they have the very weirdest clasp set up of any watch I have, but it's an identical clasp from the Casio wave to the Q&Q watch. Now. How the heck did that happen!? Are they sharing factory parts and just having it stamped with their own company name? I think so! Either that or the Chinese version of his Japanese watch also made in China simply copied it and it was easy because it's already made in China anyhow.. It's a fun watch to wear and it's easier to use once you get your directions of which buttons do what tasks cuz it's different though similar but different than a Casio set up a buttons. Do you read left or right or right to left? That's the kind of difference it is. But it's all in English. No problemo. It's a lot of bang for the buck and it's a good watch and it's kind of fun. And it certainly isn't a $10 South American department store watch for me . Besides, those watches are just a one piece kind of cheapo thing made in China. While this is an actual fully developed Casio wave style of watch. By only question is, since I almost never use the atomic clock synchronization is this question? Some watches that say they have one button to synchronize to the atomic tower and the watches Japanese domestic model, is it to only synchronize in the tower in japan or can it synchronize to other towers? How's that for a crazy expert question? While great watch super price. Great functions and it's even backlit. I don't think you could ask for more for the price? Not at all

It's a beautiful watch with so many features/functions.