AE-1300WH Series | Watches for Men | Digital Watch | Black | 1/100 SEC Stopwatch | 9 Interval Timers | LED Light | 100M WR | Multi Alarm | Calendar | World Time | 12/24 Hour Format | 10 Yr Batt

Bought the simpler casio A series for work and it worked great, but the little strap that holds the extra band down broke and a replacement band was more than I paid for the watch in the first place. This nicer model was only ~2$ more and the strap looked better so I went with this model and it is well worth the couple bucks extra. It's more comfortable, feels much higher quality, has more functions and that are easier to use, and the display is much nicer to look at and easier to see. Would strongly recommend this as a general utility or work watch, the cheaper model held up very well for over a year of abuse and this model feels even more sturdy and is more useful and comfortable, and the value for money is unbelievable. Spend the extra couple bucks for this model if you want a rock solid work watch. If it does get broken though, it's only 20$ to get a new one.

Really like the style, the size, the readability. Doesn't look like a toy watch or a kid's watch. I wear it for work in construction, so I don't need to pull out my phone just for the time, or timekeeping.

This is such a cool watch, If you have any of the other square model Casio watches it will fit and the comfort will be the same, quality is as expected with these watches they are great for the price. It's not a large watch but not a small watch so if you have smaller wrists it may seem large.

This is a very unique watch with some useful features that are hard to find. I bought it specifically for the auto-repeating multi-step interval timer. Most digital watches don’t have an interval timer at all, let alone multiple intervals with the option to repeat. The AE 1300 can hold up to 9 intervals but I only used 2. This watch is an ideal timer for the pomodoro technique: 25 minutes of work followed by 5 minutes of rest, then repeat. You can set both timers to auto repeat so it will keep cycling through pomodoros until you turn it off - VERY helpful in keeping on task if you struggle with ADHD like I do. The alarm is decently loud without being pushy. The stopwatch function is… quirky. When you stop the timer, the large main clock keeps running while the time you stopped it at is displayed in the smaller digits above. I don’t use the stopwatch a lot so it wasn’t a big deal, but it isn’t an intuitive function for most people. It’s actually quite a robust chronometer and has a number of extra functions you can read about in the manual, but I never bothered to figure them out because I had no use for them. The other feature this watch has that you’ll have a hard time finding elsewhere is the preset timers. Sometimes I used the 10, 12, and 15 minute timers for baking things in the oven. It was easier and quicker than having to set a timer manually. I rarely used the alarms or world time, but they functioned well and I could see them being useful. I actually found the watch had too many functions for me, and cycling through them all to get back to regular time could be annoying. Fortunately, when you have the button beep turned on, the watch emits a higher-pitched tone when it returns to regular timekeeping mode, so you don’t have to be looking at it to know you’re back “home.” I think it looks great, and even my wife who doesn't care about watches noticed it and said it looked nice. The three circles with their steadily animated segments don't serve any useful purpose, but they add an indescribable element of cool to the design. It took me a couple months to figure out why they looked so familiar, then it hit me: they look like the TIE fighter cockpit glass from Star Wars! Not exactly the same since they have 5- and 10-segment dials and the TIEs use 8, but it's pretty darn close and it looks awesome. The backlight is a very pleasant orange glow that lights up the whole face of the watch. It’s brief, but the battery life is claimed to be 10 years so it's an understandable sacrifice for efficiency's sake. The acrylic lens does scratch fairly easily, but I was able to buff mine to like-new condition with some toothpaste and a cloth. For the three months I had it, it kept very reliable time and I enjoyed looking at the watch daily. It really did bring me a little bit of joy every time I looked at it, which is more than I can say for most $15 purchases I’ve made. The interval timer got near-daily use and it became my go-to digital watch over my G-shock DW9052 and F91W pretty quickly. Maybe if I wasn’t working from home in a pandemic I would have changed it up a bit more, but the AE 1300 was my watch of choice for much of the quarantine. But one night recently I was taking it off in the dark as I was going to bed and I just missed setting it on my dresser. It fell about 4 feet onto the hardwood floor straight onto the face with a loud clack. The next morning when I went to put it on, I noticed the screen was blank and it was unresponsive, although there wasn’t a scratch or crack anywhere. I opened it up and poked around for a while, removed and replaced the battery, but the LCD just displayed some random marks and never returned to life. I don’t fault Casio for this necessarily, since it’s not advertised as a shock-resistant watch. There’s a reason I have a G-shock, because not every watch can handle a drop on the floor. I just hoped this one would be a little tougher. I’ll miss this watch and I might even buy it again someday, but I decided to give another watch a try first to see if it’s tougher. I bought a Timex Command 47 mm in white for its two-step auto-repeat interval timer and its good looks. So far it’s been a good experience, but the Timex cost 4 times what I paid for the AE 1300, so time will tell if it’s worth it. A 10-year battery isn’t worth much if a single drop from waist level is enough to kill the watch. Overall, I’d recommend this watch even given my experience, because it looks great, has awesome features, and the ultra cheap price makes up for it being so potentially fragile.

Initial reaction, great watch, easy to read and good instructions. This is the watch I have been looking for as a referee. It has preset time functions from 10 minutes to 45 minutes. It also has a function to program your own time setting including additional seconds. For the preset time limits, once the alarm sounds, it begins to count up so you can keep track of added time. 10 year battery included! Only concern is the band has a plastic clasp. I also have purchased a screen protector. Tough to beat though for the price. I recommend getting the insurance as after 11 months, there was a crack in the case that made the band fall off and was not replaceable. I'm buying the watch again, only this time with the insurance!

Watch does watch things. Tells me the time.

Vintage, classy, contable, durable and nifty. A true Casio.

I always get compliments on retro looking Casio watches and they always seem to last a very long time, this one I absolutely love the face of it seems to be very well made and the layout is fantastic. The light seems to illuminate enough to see very well in the dark. It is very comfortable although the band is plastic and has a fairly cheap plastic feeling buckle but at this price point it is an absolutely amazing deal. If I ever break this band I will either buy a new watch or put a new band on this one. I love this