CasioAE-1300WH Series | Watches for Men | Digital Watch | Black | 1/100 SEC Stopwatch | 9 Interval Timers | LED Light | 100M WR | Multi Alarm | Calendar | World Time | 12/24 Hour Format | 10 Yr Batt

casio is the best love the classic look

I love this watch. It belongs in every Casio collection.

Loved it

Simple! Looks great on my wrist! I just wanted a watch to tell time that's it! Delivery came earlier than expected which is always wonderful! I just wish the band comes a little wider. Affordable price! It says 10-year battery life, let's see if this holds up.

This is a very unique watch with some useful features that are hard to find. I bought it specifically for the auto-repeating multi-step interval timer. Most digital watches don’t have an interval timer at all, let alone multiple intervals with the option to repeat. The AE 1300 can hold up to 9 intervals but I only used 2. This watch is an ideal timer for the pomodoro technique: 25 minutes of work followed by 5 minutes of rest, then repeat. You can set both timers to auto repeat so it will keep cycling through pomodoros until you turn it off - VERY helpful in keeping on task if you struggle with ADHD like I do. The alarm is decently loud without being pushy.The stopwatch function is… quirky. When you stop the timer, the large main clock keeps running while the time you stopped it at is displayed in the smaller digits above. I don’t use the stopwatch a lot so it wasn’t a big deal, but it isn’t an intuitive function for most people. It’s actually quite a robust chronometer and has a number of extra functions you can read about in the manual, but I never bothered to figure them out because I had no use for them.The other feature this watch has that you’ll have a hard time finding elsewhere is the preset timers. Sometimes I used the 10, 12, and 15 minute timers for baking things in the oven. It was easier and quicker than having to set a timer manually.I rarely used the alarms or world time, but they functioned well and I could see them being useful. I actually found the watch had too many functions for me, and cycling through them all to get back to regular time could be annoying. Fortunately, when you have the button beep turned on, the watch emits a higher-pitched tone when it returns to regular timekeeping mode, so you don’t have to be looking at it to know you’re back “home.”I think it looks great, and even my wife who doesn't care about watches noticed it and said it looked nice. The three circles with their steadily animated segments don't serve any useful purpose, but they add an indescribable element of cool to the design. It took me a couple months to figure out why they looked so familiar, then it hit me: they look like the TIE fighter cockpit glass from Star Wars! Not exactly the same since they have 5- and 10-segment dials and the TIEs use 8, but it's pretty darn close and it looks awesome. The backlight is a very pleasant orange glow that lights up the whole face of the watch. It’s brief, but the battery life is claimed to be 10 years so it's an understandable sacrifice for efficiency's sake. The acrylic lens does scratch fairly easily, but I was able to buff mine to like-new condition with some toothpaste and a cloth.For the three months I had it, it kept very reliable time and I enjoyed looking at the watch daily. It really did bring me a little bit of joy every time I looked at it, which is more than I can say for most $15 purchases I’ve made. The interval timer got near-daily use and it became my go-to digital watch over my G-shock DW9052 and F91W pretty quickly. Maybe if I wasn’t working from home in a pandemic I would have changed it up a bit more, but the AE 1300 was my watch of choice for much of the quarantine.But one night recently I was taking it off in the dark as I was going to bed and I just missed setting it on my dresser. It fell about 4 feet onto the hardwood floor straight onto the face with a loud clack. The next morning when I went to put it on, I noticed the screen was blank and it was unresponsive, although there wasn’t a scratch or crack anywhere. I opened it up and poked around for a while, removed and replaced the battery, but the LCD just displayed some random marks and never returned to life.I don’t fault Casio for this necessarily, since it’s not advertised as a shock-resistant watch. There’s a reason I have a G-shock, because not every watch can handle a drop on the floor. I just hoped this one would be a little tougher. I’ll miss this watch and I might even buy it again someday, but I decided to give another watch a try first to see if it’s tougher. I bought a Timex Command 47 mm in white for its two-step auto-repeat interval timer and its good looks. So far it’s been a good experience, but the Timex cost 4 times what I paid for the AE 1300, so time will tell if it’s worth it. A 10-year battery isn’t worth much if a single drop from waist level is enough to kill the watch. Overall, I’d recommend this watch even given my experience, because it looks great, has awesome features, and the ultra cheap price makes up for it being so potentially fragile.

Quality item, looks, feels, like something much more expensive.Strap is comfortable.Great value!

Excelent Watch

Casio is the only watch I have used for the last 30 years. The only thing I did was switch out the plastic band with the stainless steel one from my previous Casio. 10 year battery life, you can't beat it.