wave ceptorCasio Japan WVA-M630D-7AJF - Watch for Men, Bracelet, Bracelet

Excelente producto, físicamente está igual como se muestra en las imagenes, está súper cool

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.

This fantastic watch is still going strong on the original solar-powered battery 10 years after I got it. It keeps absolutely perfect time and needs no maintenance whatsoever. A very useful - and very rare - feature is the strap design that doesn't require a visit to a jeweller or the purchase of an adjuster tool to make it fit any wrist size. Need I say more?

I love solar powered watches. Never a problem. This watch is solar but automatically sets time from a radio signal. I never was able to get the watch to set to my local time. Followed directions but they never worked. Sent it back. Otherwise a nice watch.

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.