When it comes to watch collections there are some watches you just need to make a part of your collection. You need to have include a high quality, expensive, luxury watch which you only wear once a year. You must include a smartwatch, whether it’s a mini smartphone on your wrist, like the Apple Watch, or a high-quality Swiss smartwatch, like the Mondaine Helvetica No 1 – due for release in Autumn this year.
You also need to have a Casio watch somewhere in your collection.
Casio are one of the most well known watch manufacturers worldwide and they have an eclectic range of watches. You can buy an entry range Casio watch for less than £50 or a top of the range Casio for nearer £1,000 – whatever you want, there’s a Casio for you!
So, what sort of Casio watch are you looking for? Let’s have a look through the Casio collection to find out what sort of Casio watch would suit you.
The Entry Level Casio Watches
If you’re looking to get a quality watch on the cheap, then looking for a Casio watch is a great place to start. For less than £100 you can pick up digital watches, Chronograph’s and simple quartz watches. The watches in this price range are good quality watches, durable and sport a great brand name which you can trust.
On occasion, you can find watches in this price range which fall into one of Casio’s different collections. Two of the collections which have watches in this price range are the G-Shock and Baby-G (which have regularly been worn by celebrities like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga), which are sturdy, durable, reliable watches – with Baby-G adding that extra bit of style for the fashion conscious.
So, just because the price is low doesn’t mean that the quality is, too. If you’re budgets low then you have a great excuse to add an entry-level Casio watch to your collection for day-to-day use.
The Casio G-Shock & Baby-G
Speaking of the G-Shock and Baby-G… the G-Shock range is a very wide range of Casio watches. In terms of prices – G-Shocks range from as low as £55 to a whopping £850. No matter what sort of budget you have in mind, you’ll definitely find something you want at the price you need within this range.
The G-Shock range is designed to be the ultimate range of tough wrist wear. Those who’ve worn watches from this range have often commented on the kind of punishment that G-Shocks can withstand. The Baby-G range is a more compact, sporty and feminine sister to the popular G-Shock range – if fashion matters to you and you want gorgeous light colours and attractive displays… you want to add Baby-G to your watch collection.
The Premium G-Shock watches are a must-have for anyone who loves top quality wristwatches. The Casio Premium RAF Hybrid GPS Radio Controlled Watch is a great example of the top of the range G-Shocks. It stands as a perfect example of the extreme durability of the G-Shock range, but is so much more than just another G-Shock. The watch features a new Hybrid GPS/Radio Wave Ceptor function, it picks up time signals from atomic transmitters or GPS satellites in order to deliver the most accurate time possible. As a watch created in partnership with the Royal Air Force, it contains the cutting edge technology required for service men and women, like the Zulu time function which was developed in conjunction with RAF pilots.
The G-Shock & Baby-G range is a perfect example of Casio’s eclectic range of watches. The range is full of watches with different colours, features and prices. Whatever you are looking for from a watch you will find it here in this heavily durable range of quality watches.
Casio Edifice
If you’ve never heard of the Casio Edifice then a good place to start learning about the watches in is my review of the Casio Edifice Bluetooth Smartwatch, which is one of the best smartwatches on the market today. Stylish, built with quality and packed full of features – it is a great example of what you can expect from this brilliant brand of chronograph watches.
The smartwatches in the Casio Edifice range link up with iPhones and selected Android models using the Casio Watch+ app. This lets you set the time on your watch to update automatically wherever you are in the world, it also offers a special feature called watch finder – great for those of us who have a habit of forgetting where we left things.
The Casio Edifice range has a lot of different watches throughout the range, including some special Red Bull Racing editions of the watch. You can also buy a number of different colour schemes on the Analague Quartz editions of the Edifice range.
The Casio Edifice range does not feature any entry level priced watches, but there are a wide range of quality watches available for people who want style as well as features.
Casio Pro-Trek
If you love the outdoors and you need a watch which is capable of being used anywhere and everywhere in the world, then Casio Pro-Trek is the range for you. This range of watches are made to meet the requirements of the toughest travellers and to be durable enough to stand the test of time.
The Casio Pro-Trek watches sport a lot of different features, perfect for the traveler. They include a digital compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer and many, many other functions. So, no matter where you are in the world – your watch will have the functions you need, even in the most difficult of situations.
Casio Pro-Trek watches run on Tough Solar Power which uses sunlight and artificial light from fluorescent lamps to charge your battery and power your watch. They are also water resistant to varying degrees – some watches are water resistant to 100 meters, while others are water resistant to 200 meters. Bear in mind, this doesn’t mean the depth of the water that you can submerge the watch to, but the pressure to which it has been tested. A watch which is water resistant to 100 meters should be fine for accidental wetting in the rain or near a sink or while bathing, swimming or snorkelling. A watch which is water resistant to 200 meters should be fine for all of the above and recreational scuba diving (although professional deep water diving is not recommended).
The range of Casio Pro-Trek watches cover a lot of prices, including some great watches for under £100, all the way up to £450. All of the Casio Pro-Trek range are made for surviving tough conditions and include the kind of features you will need, even in the toughest of conditions.
Casio Wave Ceptor
If unbelievable accuracy is what you need from a watch, then look no further than the Casio Wave Ceptor line of watches. These watches are made to receive time signals from ultra-accurate atomic clocks around the world, these means that Casio Wave Ceptor watches have nearly the same accuracy as these atomic clocks they synchronise with.
The Casio Wave Ceptor line of watches include watches from other Casio lines, so you don’t need to choose between Wave Ceptor and G-Shock – you can simply buy a Casio G-Shock Wave Ceptor. This means that you can have the ruggedness of your G-Shock (or Pro-Trek) as well as the accuracy of the Wave Ceptor.
The price of the watches in the Casio Wave Ceptor line vary, too – sure there are some high priced premium offerings. But you don’t need to buy a watch from the very top of the range to enjoy the accuracy that Wave Ceptor brings, there are some quality affordable watches at the entry level price range.
Casio Premium
If the best of the best is what you crave, then Casio Premium is where you need to be. These watches feature the very best of Casio’s watch-making expertise. Whether you want a Premium variant of the Casio G-Shock, which sports premium materials, features and ultra-accuracy, or a Premium variant of the Casio Edifice with an ultra-stylish design and incredible features – the Casio Premium line will have what you are looking for.
The best part of the Casio Premium range are the Casio G-Shock MT-G (Metal Twisted G-Shock) watches. By combining the highest standards of engineering and rigorous testing, the MT-G watches are stylish, sophisticated and prestigious watches. These watches are designed to withstand even more than the original G-Shock range, by taking home a Casio G-Shock MT-G you are guaranteed a stylish watch which will stand the test of time.
If you are after the crème de la crème of the Casio watches, then Casio Premium is where it’s at. You’ll have to stump up a little more cash than you would for the standard Casio watches, but when you have that top quality timepiece on your wrist – then you know it’s worth it! Whether it’s a top quality MT-G G-Shock or a Premium Edifice watch which you are after, you’ll find it in this range – and you won’t regret your purchase!
Conclusion
The entire Casio range is full of great watches, at all price ranges and across all lines. Whatever it is you are looking for, you’ll find it somewhere throughout this great range of watches – which is why you need a Casio in your collection.
Whether you want an affordable watch, without giving up on the quality and sporting a brand name you can trust. Or if you just want to add a top-of-the-range, high quality watch with all of the features that you need. Either way – you will not regret adding it to your collection.
So, which is it for you? Let us know what kind of Casio watch you have in your collection by replying below!
Images: Adam Sundana
