Latest 3 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the Casio G-Shock G-Aviator Chronograph Atomic Watch #GW2500B-1A
"GW2500B-1A Watch review"
2009-10-06
- Reviewed By User: A35UE1Y2KTND4F
I researched this watch extensively. I ordered it through Amazon as they provided the best price, including the whole deal! Shipping and all. shopemco was the vendor and they provided excellent service - all the way. I am very pleased with the watch. The 5 alarms are plenty and there is a countdown timer as well. I wanted a countdown timer that you could program in intervals of seconds, starting at zero. but this watch starts at one minute and goes in increments of minutes. So, you can count down one , or two, or three, etc minutes. This is fine and this feature works well. The alarm is loud and clear and there is even a snooze feature. The watch is primarily an analog watch with digial features in the background, which can be hidden by the moving hands. This can be difficult until it gets used to. I brought this watch as it is solar powered and it is atomic powered. Being solar, I will never have to buy another battery, like I did for my Timex, that I said, no battery- no more Timex - so I threw it away and replaced it with this watch. This watch has performed flawlessly for 31 days. It has not come off and is comfortable to wear. The styling is exactly what I was looking for - tough, rugged, sophisticated adventure, and just downright cool. Thank you to Amazon and shopemco - I will be a repeat customer!
"Many Features - Great Value"
2009-09-09
- Reviewed By User: A2W7BT6XL28Y0O
After a battery powered watch stopped working I decided to find an alternative and this solar powered watch caught my attention. I also have a kinetic self-charging watch which is nice but is heavy. This G-Shock watch is light and has several useful features. At first I noticed was there's no crown, but rather 4 buttons for set-up and adjust the watch. With that said there's a little bit of a learning curve to get the full use out of the watch. Also, the watch is bulky & thicker than I anticipated - fortunately it's fairly light. I've had the watch for almost a month and have been happy with it.
Suggestion: Rather than struggling with the tiny owners manual, visit the Casio web site and check out the online owners manual [.pdf file], which is much easier to read.
Pros: Light attractive design. Multiple features including solar recharging and auto-calibration. Great value for the price.
Cons: Poor night illumination, the time can be seen, but the LCD displays are hard to view, [should be back-lit].
The upper LCD has both large and very small acronyms - they shouldn't expect the user to have a magnifying glass handy to view the small acronyms.
Would I recommend this watch: Yes
"good, but"
2009-09-05
- Reviewed By User: A1KMAB19FHL6CA
As a Pilot and watch enthusiast I can tell you this is a very good aviation watch, with many features that are very useful, all in a very attractive design, but it needs some improvements
1-the back light should incorporate an LCD indiglo, my suggestion a cool blue for the LCD's so that we can see whatever we select on those displays, as the light illuminates right now on the 6 o'clock position it actually blinds those LCD's, the current light should also remain but make it softer and may be of a cool red color, to contrast with a future LCD indiglo without blinding it as it does now
( the back light that it has now is my biggest complaint )
2-the countdown timer should be 24 hrs and not just limited to 60 min, I'm disappointed about the 60 min countdown timer limitation on the current model
3-add more cities, my suggestion at least 100 cities just like you have on one of the data bank models
4-make the numbers displayed on the left lower LCD as big as the ones displayed on the lower right LCD which displays seconds
5-the alarm sound should be of higher decibels (louder) since this watch is supposed to be used in high noise environments like airplanes, and noisy airports
6-all of these alarms should be interchangeable between local and UTC or any other city selected on world time without having to change the home town time or T1 as it is right now
7-they should incorporate a data bank even if it''s just a 30 page, it would be fantastic, but I''m not sure if this is wishful thinking on my part, and if it''s too much technology to pack in a little watch
8-the right analog dial should only move in whole numbers since you can always see the seconds on the bigger hands of the watch, sometimes it's confusing when it's in between times, ( I.E 8:45 ) and I would opt for a more classical lay out of the times on that dial with 12,3,6,9 instead of 12,4,8 as it is right now, I think it would be more intuitive and easier to read but that just may be my personal preference
Over all it''s a great watch for the money, but I''d like to see some of those improvements in the near future and I think with those this model would sale even more than what it probably does right now.
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"GW2500B-1A Watch review"
"Many Features - Great Value"