Casio MDV106 Series | Unisex Analog Watch | 200M WR | Stainless Steel Case | Resin Band | 2 Hand Analog (HR, Min, SEC) | Date Display | Screw Down Crown/Screw Down Caseback | 3 Year Battery

Great watch, providing you have a wrist of at least 7 inches. I was missing a gilt watch from my collection and this is perfect. It's the largest size I could have but I have paired it with a two tone bracelet and it looks superb in my opinion.

One of the true watch bargains in the world! Sounds a touch over the top? Not a bit of it. A superbly well built stainless steel watch, made by one of the most renowned watch manufacturers, Casio. Millions of timepieces are made by this manufacturer, from the £10 digital classic F91W, probably the highest ever selling digital watch, ever, to G Shocks costing in excess of £8000! This dive style watch is rated to 200 metres water resistant, which I have no doubt it will achieve. It has a three year battery, with replacements that can be bought for well under a pound and very easily swapped. The machining of the case is of a standard expected well beyond its price. The case has a screwdown back and crown and the dial is finished to a very high standard with a gorgeous subtle radial texture. Although the stated total dial and bezel size is 44mm, which might sound big, it wears well for most, due to the relatively short lug to lug distance of 49 mm. With classy polished sides and brushed upper case finishes, this watch can be dressed up with a quality classic strap or dressed down with a canvas or silicon curved end band. To finish off, I’ve found that this great dive watch is ultra accurate. I received mine on the 7th October and it’s gained just one second, today, the 16th December……incredible. Incidentally, this watch is known as a dive ‘style’ only due to the fact that to gain full Diver watch qualification means that every single watch produced, has to be tested to ISO 6425 certification. Even Casio can’t sell a watch that costs approx. £50 and still make a profit whilst carrying out these tests. There are many ISO divers out there that will never take the abuse that this little gem can. If you’ve ever had this watch on your shortlist, just buy it, it’s fabulous and it has a great following all over the globe.

I’m a watch collector my favourite watches are divers. I have 21 Invicta automatic pro divers which are all fantastic budget watches which have not let me down over the years! Also have a few other more expensive other brands! Because this one is quartz it put me off buying it for a long time, but I’m glad I did so! The price was cheaper than any of my other divers and the colour way I liked. It looked big and bold to read and was very accurate one or two seconds a month with my one! It’s certainly be accurate with in 15 seconds a month at most with yours! So it’s a pick up and go watch! It has a screw down crown like all dive watches have. WARNING! You have to remember to screw down the crown after setting the time or date to keep out the water which is up to 200m It’s a big watch though not very thick, those with under 7 inch wrist it will look oversized! The only other thing is that the lume doesn’t last long only a few short minutes! For the price you get a well made watch.

Likes: Accuracy (owned for a fortnight now and has neither gained nor lost even the tiniest fraction of a second... Build quality is superb. Being a quartz piece rather than a mechanical one, the Duro is light, a mere 92 grams on its resin strap and still only 140 grams on its "beads of rice" solid link steel bracelet as seen in the attached images and video clip. That blue face, wow! The light play on there is fabulous and matched only by a couple of much more costly watches from my collection, funnily enough both Asian rather than Swiss. The bezel action is excellent, very "fidgetable" as one well known watch reviewer says when encountering a positive, neither too loose nor too tight bezel on a review subject. There is the very slightest of free play around the check spring but this is a very good bezel action, exceptional among most sub-£300 pieces. Consider that this MDV106 was purchased from a USA based Casio specialist on Amazon for a highly acceptable sub-$65 cost and remember that many outlets across in that US of A occasionally sell these for even fewer dollars. Comfort on wrist. On the bracelet seen in the images, the female end links mean that this large watch fits perfectly on my 5¾ inch wrist. Some reviewers find the watch to be too large, but let's not forget that the shape, as well as the circumference of the wrist can be a major factor in how comfortably a watch fits. Mine was OK on the resin strap too, but the bracelet (from a well known watch industry professional whose business is based in the New York area (USA, not the place of that name between Shiremoor and North Shields😉) Dislikes: Hmm.. Nah, sorry, but at this price it has proved impossible for me to identify anything about the MDV106 that fails to satisfy in terms of form or function. It is beautiful, especially - for my taste - in the blue face + blue bezel version. OK, so the lume could be better, but I had already learnt of this from many - but not all - of the online reviews I've seen and in fact, it's not too bad, just don't expect the 106's markers and hands to last like BGW9 (a lume formulation found in many, much more costly watches), comparing with such a watch from my own collection I'm not disappointed and the 106's lume is fine at the price and better than that seen on some £500 plus watches that aren't going to be named here, but still sell well and are generally liked. Whether you're one of the Casio aficionados who still hasn't bought an MDV106, or someone who simply wants a solid, reliable watch that can work as well in daily use as it can up to 200 metres below the sea, this watch is well worth considering. Actually, just buy one, these aren't going to be available for too much longer and is likely to hold its value, not that I'm suggesting that anyone should hoard watches speculatively and if anyone asks, my 30+ Casios all see some use but this is my best yet, in spite of (because of?) it's total absence of functionality beyond telling the time accurately, looking pretty and fitting well. Highly recommended, highly likely to satisfy. Buy one while they're still available new, go on, you know you want to....... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nice looking watch and something of an icon in watch collector circles (this features quite a bit on YouTube). It looks more expensive than it is. The strap is OK, not the best but could easily be changed. I had to return it as at 44mm its just a bit to big for my 6.6 inch wrist. Shame Casio don't do a 40mm version, which would be perfect.

As someone who has several high end watches, after a rather expensive repair I wanted a watch I could wear doing any job without the worry of damaging it. The Casio Duro Marlin ticked all the boxes, and with many top reviews on-line it certainly has an excellent reputation. It is also my first quartz watch. Firstly, the photo shows how the watch arrived from Amazon in a torn and bashed box which was rather disappointing. However, saying that it arrived from the US in six days, six days earlier than advertised and for the cheap knock down price of £50, it wasn’t worth sending back for a new one as the watch was undamaged but it is also now more expensive. NOTE - the spec details say the watch has a 20mm band width, this is WRONG it has a 22mm width. I purchased the silver/black version and the watch has a really nice clear face, it feels robust and has a good weight to it and certainly looks more expensive than it is. The screw down Crown feels very good and is easy to use for a hack and the watch is also pretty much silent. The movement is certainly very accurate and in tests over a week it didn’t drop a second. The strap is okay and is also comfortable but not to my tastes, so I soon swapped it for an Archers Black 22mm NATO strap which I think looks much better. Reports of the lume being poor is not the case with mine, and after a charge on going to bed when I woke up at 5:30am and I could still read it well. For those with a small wrist you may find the Duro’s 44mm case a bit on the large size, and it is right on the very limit for my smallish size wrist, but it sits well and feels very comfortable. Otherwise no complaints at all and I am very pleased with my purchase, it’s a lot of watch for your money and a great budget buy for a quality made Divers wristwatch. Well done Casio. UPDATE - I have now also purchased the Pepsi bezel version for a bargain £55, and together with the black version these two Duro Marlin watches have become my everyday wear.

Likes: Amazing (watch) build quality & excellent value for the money - under £60 at time of purchase: late Oct' to Early Nov' 2023 - if it holds up to MY use over the lifetime of the battery AT LEAST TWO YEARS I hope. LOVE the Shiny Blue Dial, & style of thbeliev shed lumed hands. The Seconds hand DOES line up properly as far as I can see on ALL of the sec/min markers - except for 1 or 2 between 7pm & 10pm. Light weight - you barely know it is there (that is good for some, but maybe not others), which I LIKE in the case of THIS watch because I will NOT be using as a 'Dive' watch. It looks 'too nice' to ruin it doing that. DISLIKES: The BLACK rubber/plastic strap that it comes with - removed with minutes of trying on, even though it felt 'sort of ok', but no thanks. My comment HERE is about the look & fit of the original strap, not the 'quality' of its material. I will be keeping the original - just in case, like with ALL my 'originals'. ONLY 5 of my watch collection still wear the 'originals' (including a titanuim bracelet on one watch), since there are currently no good or better alternatives available. 16 watches have BETTER fitting for ME (& I hope long lasting) & certainly more comfortable alternatives fitted, including on THIS watch. While the seconds hand is quite nice as it is - a large arrow - it would be nice/better to have a RED version of it as that would stand out well or better against the dark shiny blue dial. For a 'dive' watch the lume is utter rubbish, so don't believe anyone who says it is ok for 'swimming'. It is so dim you would need 'Eagle Eyes' with its Ultra Violet & Infra Red Night Vision Goggles to use it successfully diving. But it is less than £60, so........whatever. Would be so much better with SAPPHIRE Glass instead of cheap mineral glass. To Casio I would say (they would not care though probably): Include Sapphire Glass & Lume that actually works. Do NOTHING else to the watch (return the Marlin Logo on CURRENT models that do NOT have it), except MAYBE inprove the stiffness of the bezel clicks - make it STIFFER so as not to move in use. KEEP the '200m' WR Double the price (to about £120) & it would still be good value. Also include a steel bracelet option - with a divers extension & more than three adjustment holes on a MILLED CLASP, plus four or five removable links at each side of the clasp - & do NOT use 'folded' links - for about £40- £50 MAX extra, when buying the watch NEW. DUMP the '50m WR' model, not worth bothering with - a 'divers' watch needs a BIG dial, with readable lume, & a good WR level. That model has NONE of it.

Amazing item. It’s 44mm but doesn’t wear that big at all. It’s more like a 41mm watch in size. It’s been faultless, looks great, survived 2 weeks submerged in a pool/sea in Turkey for 10 hrs/day. It look far more expensive than its real cost and I’m so impressed. The strap is a bit nasty and although I didn’t mind the look of it, it eventually caused a nasty rash so I had to bin it. The watch looks fab with a 22mm NATO strap and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I bought it as a cheap holiday watch to wear in the water but still wear it regularly. It’s not scratched in 8 months, has kept perfect time having a quartz movement and is clear and easy to read. The lume isn’t great but then for £44 what do you expect. It tells the time the same as a watch 200x its price and I’m not scared of losing it. Love it. Fantastic purchase. Don’t worry about it bei g too big. Get one with the Marlin as they look much nicer.