I remember when I was a youngish kid, I always wanted one of these calculator watches, but I thought I was too cool to wear one.(Funnily enough, I opted for the Casio Melody watch, which my folks got for me when I was six, which was as geeky as any calculator watch.)
Now that retro-geek seems to be chic, I decided to get one and try to revisit those old fantasies of cheating in an elementary math quiz. I got this Casio CA-53W for about 18 bucks and it's faithful to the old Casio form.
It has your standard black resin rubber build (including the straps) with a stainless steel back. I always thought these Casio calculator watches are weighty and thick... yeah, like having a real calculator strapped to your wrist, but this one is surprisingly light.
Two of my other Casio "Functional" watches... the aforementioned Melody Watch and a late nineties Camera Watch had stainless steel casings so that's probably why I always think Casios are heavy.
The watch shipped with an non-updated date and time and the date was initially set to the year
1980 which I found rather funny and cool.
This is just your run-of-the-mill calculator watch with the basic math functions like addition and subtraction. It's not a scientific calculator like the later models. But hey, I bought this just for the retro
style and looks, nothing else.
Other functions include your standard alarm clock, stop watch and that's pretty much it.
So the Casio CA-53W is worth getting if you want to get a piece of tech history. There's not too much utility for it nowadays but for sheer retro geek fashion cred it's worth revisiting.
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