EDIFICE – Coming Fall 2014

Casio has been implementing the Bluetooth Smart protocol which is a subset of Bluetooth SIG specification version 4.0 in all their smartphone compatible watches: and again, now, in their newest Edifice watches: EWB-500D-1AJF and the EWB-500DC-1AJF. What’s important about this Bluetooth implementation is Casio’s complete commitment to a specific local wireless spec that mandates by definition, compatibility with iOS, Android, Blackberry and even Windows 8. To this blogger, it is welcome news that a continuing affirmation of specific direction is re-declared and that continuity in the open standard is embraced. Instead of the former tangle of issues, both hardware and software-wise, app writers simply have to write the app! For now, an app called “CASIO WATCH+ Version 2.0.1” which was just released this week (September 3, 2014) will set up your iPhone to use all the watch’s features.

GPS + Atomic Sky Cockpit G-Shock

The first hurdle
..that a GPS watch must leap is the power problem. Having to dock your watch almost every time you use it just plain sucks.

Edifice X Red Bull Collaborations – 2014

 
Casio is a reputable multinational manufacturing company which was founded in the month of April 1946 by an engineer named Tadao Kashio. Today, the $4.616 billion company has its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan and produces a wide variety of products which include mobile phones, musical instruments, cameras, calculators and, of course, watches.

Hot Racing Action, Cool Watch

. Sebastian Vettel’s first place wins in the Formula One circuit have put him at the top – he is the current champion and Casio has commemorated that lofty title with a new flagship Red Bull branded Edifice watch that is certainly a champion in its own right.

Casio Prayer Compass – CPW-500H

As-salamu alaykum
This blog is always thrilled to announce new and/or clever re-jiggering of existing technologies that facilitate improvements to peoples lives. In the case of this new product from Casio, one could hardly think of a more practical re-application of existing watch features for the millions of Islamic people who can benefit from it.

Rose Gold Edifice – EQWM1100CG-1, EQS500CG-1A, and EFR516PG-1AV

In what is sort of a reverse announcement, the new Edifice “Black Label Collection” Rose Gold series watches unexpectedly appeared among the USA press releases without previously being announced in Japan. We who follow the watchmaker’s news and try to make sense of it all are again tossed into the mystery meandering vortex of Casio’s vigorous marketing, are again shaking our heads and saying, “go figure.”

New Red Bull X Edifice EQW-A1100RB & EQS-A500RB

EQW-A1100RB-1AJR

Being anticipated as a highly desired collectible, this new special edition Casio Edifice watch is already begun (pre-order) sales at about $400 over it’s $800 MSRP in Japan.

30th Anniversary Special Editions – Rising Red

All the watches in this group are a distinctive rich red (looks like blood) with gold (and black) highlights and all have engraved 30th Anniversary designation (logo design by Eric Haze) on the casebacks. jump –>

The Color of Mud

Sporting distinctive new colorways, the new Men in Military Colors watches are a welcome and practical addition to the mondo-tough mix in the Master of G catalog. The new MUDMAN, in particular, is especially suited to not only the harsh conditions of the military environment, but, color wise, blends perfectly with the ubiquitous mud and sand in the training camps and battlegrounds that the troops often occupy.

G-Shocks – New January 2012

Casio has slipped a couple of watches into their January press release – new versions of their AWG-100 line. Logically following their success in the analog – digital products,

Stocking Stuffers – Under $60

They demand a G-Shock for Christmas and you can’t bear to spend so much for a gift so small. Well, here are six of those rough, tough, plastic fantastic wrist pucks that cost a lot less than you thought you’d have to shell out.

Protrek PRX-2500T-7 & PRW-5100YT-1B

Manaslu, the eighth largest mountain in the world is located in the Nepalese Himalaya range. Since it was first climbed in 1956 by Toshio Imanishi (and Sherpa, Gyalxen Norbu), members of a Japanese expedition, Manaslu has always been considered, iconically, with national pride, to be “their mountain.”

PRX-2500T-7JF – November, 2011 release
Casio’s latest Protrek watch, the PRX-2500T-7JF, nick-named “Manaslu,” is the new “top-of-the-line” model in the Prestige Line and offers more internal technology than the previous Manaslu special edition (PRX-2000).

New to USA – G-Shock G8900A & GR8900A Series

“G-Shock is thrilled to introduce this new large case design of shock resistance and technically advanced, functional timepieces,” said Shigenori Itoh, CEO of Casio America. Pictures and specifications after the jump..

Casio STW-1000-1, STW-1000-2, STW-1000-7

While there don’t seem to be any reliable statistics about how many people are running these days, we do know from ancillary sources (such as sneaker sales and marathon registrations) that the number is exponentially increasing and the participants are taking their running ever more seriously.

New Oceanus Manta OCW-S2000 – Top of the Line

September 6, 2011
Casio announced today that there is a new top-of-the-line Oceanus Manta coming at the end of October, 2011.