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In April 1983, Casio released their first ever Casio G-Shock watch. The Casio G-Shock DW-5000C was designed to be dropped from the top of a building without breaking. This new G-Shock watch was unique in its design. Whilst many manufacturers were designing thinner, lighter watches, Casio had developed a bulky, shock-resistant watch. Casio had defined a new watch category without a competitor in this niche product type. Over the next ten years, these larger watches became more fashionable and sought after worldwide. The solid nature of Casio’s G-Shock brand coupled with increasing functionality appealed to sports enthusiasts, manual workers and those with an adventurous streak.

The G-Shock range was becoming a Casio phenomenon. Subsequently, in 1994, a range of G-Shock watches aimed at women was launched. Dubbed the Baby-G, these ladies watches came in a range of feminine colours and displayed digital motifs in line with current trends. The other features mirrored those of the preceding men’s lines; shock-resistant and water resistant with a variety of digital functions.

Modern Casio G-Shock watches and Casio Baby-G watches come in either digital or analogue formats or even a combination of the two. They have a feature set that typically includes:

- Water resistant to varying degrees

- Shock resistant

- Stopwatch

- Countdown Timer

- Alarms (hourly and up to 5 daily alarms)

- Automatic day/date changing

- World Time

- EL backlight

Besides these relatively standard features, the Casio G-Shock range has watches aimed at specific activities that include features directly aimed at that pastime. These additional specialist features can include:

- Tough Solar (solar powered watch charging)

- Wave Ceptor (automatic time correction via atomic clock)

- Barometer

- Altimeter

- Digital compass

- Thermometer

- Moon age display

- Yacht timer

- Tide graph display

- Mud resistant

- Electronic data (e-Data) memory

- Extreme temperature resistancy

Constant innovation at Casio means that new advanced features are regularly added in new lines.

Casio G-Shock watches are more famous for their robust nature. Casio achieve this by ingenious use of modern watch-making materials such as titanium, rubber, resin and stainless steel. G-SHOCK watches typically consist of layers of these materials to ensure strength and resistance to shocks. Stainless steel and titanium bracelets use strong push-button deployment clasps for security and water resistant rubber or Velcro straps are used on other models for comfort. A toughened mineral watch glass is recessed as are the watch pushers thus reducing the possibility of them being knocked and damaged or broken. Inside the case small springs and rubber pads are located around the watch module to absorb knocks and protect the movement. On top of this, Casio watch movements are guaranteed for 2 years from the purchase date.

Despite the high construction quality and intelligent design Casio G-Shock watches are very affordable. These watches are highly suited to those with an active lifestyle and the style of a G-Shock or a Casio Baby-G watch gives that impression strongly.

Accelerating forward from it’s rich heritage, the Casio Watch company’s Casio Wave Ceptor watches are the next generation of Casio watches. Announced after Casio’s G-Shock line, the Casio Wave Ceptor promises to deliver more. The Casio Wave Ceptor as the name suggests are the radio watches engineered to receive time wave signals to calibrate the correct time from different time services around the globe. These highly accurate time services are based on atomic clocks and are typically operated by local governments. The time signal broadcast from these services are received by Casio Wave Ceptor watches to correct their time.

All Casio Wave Ceptor watch models are equipped with Atomic Timekeeping Technology. That means the Casio wave captor watches require no settings or adjusting the time (including daylight saving time), date or even year. The watches are engineered to synchronize with time services at regular intervals. The Atomic Time Keeping Technology is engineered to calibrate the time signals automatically up to six times a day. When any automatic time synchronization is successful, the remaining automatic synchronizations operations are not performed for that particular day. The time synchronization procedure is normally better at night times as compared to day times. The Casio Wave Ceptor watches are engineered to be accurate always and deliver excellent long-term and short-term accuracy.

Some of the Casio Wave Ceptor watches also feature solar powered technology. That means you don’t have to change the battery of your watch, the battery is automatically charged by light. Although you have to expose your watch either to sun light or any other light source inside your home or office to charge the solar cell within the watch. Once it is fully charged, the timekeeping within Casio Wave captor watches remains enabled for approximately four months. However, the solar powered technology is not available on all the models of Casio Wave Ceptor watches.

Conversely, typical light conditions such as light in the office or home is not sufficient enough to obtain a full charge for the batteries in these Casio Wave Ceptor watches. Only natural outdoor light source can lead to achieve the full charge. Once the battery inside these watches obtains full charge the usual indoor light conditions are well enough to keep these watches continually charged.

Just like other solar watches, the Casio Wave Ceptor watches also have the negative point of loosing the battery charge when stored in dark area. The battery within the watch runs down, if the watch is stored in an area where there is no light. Casio Wave Ceptor watches are no exception here. However, the Casio Wave captor watches enters into power saving “sleep mode” to save the battery power, if kept in dark, thus conserving the power.

The Casio wave captor watches also features cool chronograph functionalities. The stopwatch functionality allows you to measure time intervals to a level of 1/20 of a second. The stop watch also has a awesome display range of 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59.95 seconds.

It’s really a cool buy for individuals looking for a sportive, adventurous and fashionable style statement.

Historically, ladies’ watches have posed the greater challenge to watch makers, partly in finding a design that appeals to women, and partly in manufacturing a watch that would not overwhelm a woman’s wrist. For women who prefer a chunky, functional sports watch, this is not such a problem, but when designing watches to be worn as fashion items as well as timekeepers, many complications had to be surrendered to reduce the space that the movement took up.

This could be why, for the most part, ladies’ watches over the years have developed into clean, simple designs that focus on the elegance that a watch can possess as it sits on a wrist. While men’s watches developed variations and additions to chronograph functions, the features of a ladies watch remained much the same. Changes were instead made to the shape of the dial and case, and to colours for the wrist strap and dial itself.

Ladies’ fashion watches come in two types. There are the delicate watches produced by fashion houses themselves, which often have quartz mechanisms to allow for the small dials that they usually have. Expensive case materials and luxurious straps accent diamonds placed in the dial and the case itself. Fashion houses such as Gucci and Christian Dior sell watches like this to accompany bags, clothing, and even perfume.

The other type of ladies’ fashion watch is that made by a watch house, which contains a mechanical movement. These watches are usually slightly smaller than the men’s ranges to account for women’s more delicate wrist. Size is dictated to a certain degree by the movement placed inside the watch, and so the biggest difference between a men’s watch and a ladies watch will often be the materials and dial.

For example, Rolex’s ladies’ watches often have diamonds embedded in the case surrounding the dial, which can turn an ordinary-looking watch into something fit to be worn at the most prestigious of occasions. Cartier watches have a fine balance between simplicity and extravagance. Although diamonds are often seen as the symbol of luxury, many Cartier watches have few or no diamonds at all. Instead, the square dial in a gold or white gold case shows tasteful refinement, and is instantly recognisable as the brand it is.

Jewellery watches, as may be gathered from the name, are like a bracelet that