Casio MDV106 Series Analog Watch

Viene con su muestrario con información, bien etiquetado y detallado.
Me gustó mucho, se ve bien y se ve la calidad. Me llego antes de lo esperado 🙂

I’ve only had the watch now for a few days, so this review will stand as an initial impressions statement. I will, however, return and expand upon my review as time goes on. You can see this on my Casio W-735H review. I bought this watch so that I’d have a real diver style watch for our vacation to St. Lucia. I wanted something that looked and felt the part and could actually take some abuse in the water, but not make me cry if it breaks or I lose it.

Initial impressions: Really beautiful color, I got the blue dial and bezel and it’s an extremely deep, gorgeous azure. The size and heft are perfect for me, I have a 7.25″ wrist and this fits perfectly. Any larger and it would look a little ridiculous. I’m not normally into polished cases like this one has, but I’m ok with it. The bezel is hard to turn, but that’s actually a design feature. Dive watches are meant to be uni-directional and you really don’t want them just freely spinning, it’s meant to track usable oxygen in a tank, after all. I put mine on a NATO band and it fits the style very well, but I was not prepared for how good the stock bands are, they feel like very decent quality for mass produced plastic. The operation is silent, I’m sure that’s from the density of the case and crystal, but it’s totally silent, even when I held it up to my ear, I couldn’t hear anything. I also have no idea how deep I’m going to take this watch, but the 200 meter depth rating instills confidence. I’ll go nowhere near that, but it’s still a nice feature.

Gripes: Almost everything I have an issue with is subject to personal bias based on a design (artistic) choice and will not be applicable to most other people. First, I don’t care for how small the Casio name and the Marlin logo at the bottom is on the dial, not a good use of negative space. Next, I also wish the lumed indices were slightly larger to help eat into the dial center a little more as well as the date window and number, I feel it’s a little small. Again, a negative space design choice. I feel if the dial were balanced out just a little better, this would become my favorite daily wear watch. Very personal, small dings that really only matter to me. Some things that aren’t design gripes? This thing really does attract fingerprints and it shows them off in all their detail, so I find myself constantly wiping them away. Also, you can get a pretty bad glare off the crystal unless it’s pointed straight at your face. Lastly, the lume doesn’t last very long, maybe 15 minutes before it’s pretty well dead. In perfectly dark environments I’m sure you might still be able to see it, but not in partially lit, but still very dark areas.

Overall impression after just a week: I really enjoy wearing and looking at this watch, the deep blue color catches my eye and I tilt and turn in the light so that I can see the ultra deep color through the crystal. And, for what it’s worth, it’s plenty accurate from what I can tell (quartz watches usually are). The value for money is just off the charts, even Bill Gates wears one and he can afford like…any watch…company, he can afford a whole watch company, he could afford a bunch of watch companies, multiple factories, the people to make them, stores…and yet, he wears one of these….so yeah….The value is there. Anyone who wants to get into diver watches should really look at these, give them a try and see if you like the style. There are also plenty of colors to choose from and lots of NATO straps out there to help complete the look, if that’s your thing. Somehow, this piece manages to have it’s cake and eat it to, and then go back for seconds. It looks amazing, works very well and yet, is so cheap that you wish you bought another one, just for fun. Other than my design dings, there isn’t much to dislike about this watch. Right about now I wish I’d bought a solar model, but that’s only so that I’d never have to change a battery. I’m also very surprised by the following that Casio has on Reddit. The Casio subreddit is loaded with people who love their cheap, yet incredibly accurate, amazingly tough and truly capable watches, and now, I’m one of them.

200m under the sea you could be with this delightful timepiece. Stylish, effective and versatile, this watch can be dressed up or dressed down depending on the function. Classic style and simple refined elegance are words that can be easily used to define this piece. More than worth the money! Oh and it tells time!

Definitivamente una excelente compra. Se ve excelente, en verdad todo mundo se admira y menciona lo bonito que se ve. te hace reflexionar sobre el verdadero valor de las cosas, da la hora, funciona de maravilla, no se atrasa, no se adelanta, tiene un gran precio, su calidad es muy buena, se siente bien, si somos honestos si tuviera el logo de una corona, la gente pensaría que es un reloj de 18 mil dólares. Es una gran compra, no lo pienses mucho. No permitas que el mundo dicte tus finanzas, diciéndote que debes gastar mucho por un articulo cuyo valor recae en el estatus, y no la funcionalidad. Tú vales por lo que eres, no por un reloj en la mano. (por cierto, he visto comentarios donde se quejan que no gira el bisel, solo tienen que quitar la etiqueta de enfrente y problema resuelto). Solo cómpralo, no lo pienses tanto, total, si no te gusta se lo puedes regalar a alguien.