Casio Watches

Casio is a brand which initially started with manufacturing calculators but soon brought in a revolution in the watch market by introducing sophisticated electronic watches. The knowledge and advancement in the field of electronics made the company's foray into the watch market a huge success.

The Casio wristwatches for girls like the G-Shock and Baby-G (G-Shock for women) models are popular for their sporty and trendy looks that are a huge success among the target group.

About Casio Watches - origin and company profile

Casio was founded by Tadao Kashio and his family and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company developed its first calculator in the year 1957 while it took another 17 years before its first watch (which was Casiotron) was released. The watch displayed dates with automatic updates for 30 and 31 day-months as well as leap years.

Despite this late entry into the market, Casio watches became a craze in no time with some of the most technologically advanced and extremely fashionable wrist-gears. In 1989, Casio stunned the world with the release of its BM-100WJ digital watch, which had a sensor for forecasting weather trends.

Types of Casio Watches

The main collections offered by Casio include:

• Baby-G - shock-proof watches designed in a feminine style and with G-Shock Technology
• Classic - stylish watches meant for casual living
• Databank -high performance watches with calculator, remote, recorder, multi-function alarms, databank, multi-language support, and a whole lot of other features
• Dress - the series mainly features 3-hand analogs that go well with formal as well as casual clothes
• G-Shock - one of the most celebrated digital/analog time-wears of Casio, enabled with a wide range of functions like stopwatch, timer, auto LED light, 200 meter water resistance, shock resistance, world time, calendar, etc.
• Pathfinder - another digital gizmo from the house of Casio that may be enabled with digital compass with altimeter, barometer, and thermometer, and can function in solar power.
• Sports - the collection is mainly designed for athletes having a sporty look, analog and digital combination, stopwatch, alarm and other features.
• Waveceptor - these are atomic watches that feature a calendar and receive the official time provided by the government of USA through a time calibration signal from the atomic transmitter in Fort Collins in Colorado, hence eliminating the need to adjust time for month to month inconsistencies and leap year.

Other products from Casio

Other than wristwatches, the other hi-tech equipments manufactured by Casio include calculators, cameras, handheld computes, terminal screens, printers, PDAs, audio equipments, and musical instruments. In fact in 1957, the company gave the world its first fully electric compact calculator.



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