Comments on: Casio Men’s Pathfinder Multi-Band Solar Atomic Green Watch #PAW1300-3V

By: Ronald J. Herisko

Ronald J. Herisko — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:33:14 +0000

Unfortunately, I had to return this item for defectivve quality. It dropped infor settings after two days. It was extremely hard to press the setting buttons, tjhe manual was inferior for intstructoipnal purposes. For example, it said you can use 12 hour or 24 mode for the digital watch but did not expalin how to set it from one to the other. It arrived blank and could not get it to respond until I removed and reinstalled the battery. Later, 2 days later the battery showeed low again and blanked out all teh settings. Could not get it back. REturned it for credit.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Grant Hoover

Grant Hoover — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:36:53 +0000

I'm a gadget man and was very excited about this watch. But I quickly discovered that the Casio Men's Pathfinder Waveceptor Multi Band Atomic Watch would take a lot of time to figure out. The matchbox size instructions are near 200 pages and are cumbersome to use.

So here I am with this expensive, incredible, multi-function watch, but the alarm won't wake me up. And while I am grilling steaks, I can't figure out the stop watch.

I soon realized that what I want in a watch are the fundamental functions that are simple to use - BUT the extra accessories sure would be neat! However, this watch ended up - for me - being a complicated and frustrating high-tech gadget. So I sold it to a guy who is big into the outdoors and hiking.

My advice: Make sure this is the watch you want.

Footnote: it is inexcusable that Casio made this expensive watch have such a weak sounding alarm. And why can't Casio put the instructions - on their website - with easy to read full-page PDF files?
Rating: 3 / 5

By: Keith A. Small

Keith A. Small — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:56:43 +0000

Was really concerned about the size, looks cool as hell, only wish It had a different band. working on finding a suitable replacement. Buy it you wont regret it.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: B Gates

B Gates — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:58:10 +0000

This watch had all the functions but is HUGE!!! And if it does not get enough light it will go dead at night. But since it’s atomic when it come around it has the correct time. But it was too BIG for me. Maybe Paul Bunyon would like it.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Bill Parkyn

Bill Parkyn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:22:39 +0000

I like the built-in solar charger and atomic-clock calibration, BUT…

1. I don’t like the seconds readout to be on a separate line from the hours and minutes — it wastes time because it requires two looks.

2. Given this silly isolation of the seconds readout, why not also show tenths of seconds? They’re such fun to scrutinize.

3. I’m HIGHLY disappointed that I can’t have the temperature readout always on (THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS BUYING!!!!)

Having to fiddle with a button for a temporary readout (delayed too!) is so infuriating I hardly ever use it

(i.e., i’ts NOT REALLY a temperature watch).

Why couldn’t Casio have put the Temp in the uselessly blank space just to the left of that stupidly isolated seconds readout?

I hate thoughlessness, and this watch has too much of it.

(Not-withstanding the cool way the night-light comes on when the watch is suddenly lifted upwards.)

I would have sent it back to Amazon if I wasn’t so lazy.

I’m even more disappointed that Casio has learned nothing since their temperature watches I tried out 20 years ago, which read out the same incompetant elevation above actual air temperature.

Casio, hire a thermal engineer (I know you have NONE!),

who will tell you to:

1. Insulate the watch-rear from body heat. (When I go running I keep the watch on my running belt, away from me.)

2. Get rid of those black surfaces around the ‘Triple Sensor’ (they absorb sunlight).

3. Put a tiny air mover to blow ambient air onto the sensor, which should be installed in an insulated U-shaped tunnel with a fast enough air current to actually register air temp. You’d want a dust filter on the tunnel, so maybe that was your excuse for botching it, in the unlikely case anybody at Casio actually considered how to make an accurate thermometer, something the rest of the world figured out centuries ago.

If I’d known Casio still produced this stupid design, I’d never have bought it. I assumed 20 years was long enough to get their act together. Apparently I should have waited a century.

Customers looking at this or any Casio so-called temperature watch,

with-hold your order and e-mail Casio that your’e waiting for the real thing.
Rating: 1 / 5