Casio Men's Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WVA430J-1

This is a neat watch. It synchronizes perfectly every evening, even when I'm wearing the watch in bed. It is a good looking watch, too. The weak point is the crystal (piece of clear glass/plastic) that covers the dial. On most watches, this crystal is made of super-hardened glass. On this watch it is made of plastic, and it scratches easily. Plastic crystals are frequently used on lower-quality watches, but if Casio wants to bill the WaveCeptor as a truly unique "techie" watch, they need to upgrade the crystal to glass pronto. Be aware if you get this watch, you'll scratch the crystal - it's only a matter of time.


My last casio watch was stolen. It was the digital solar casio, with the time setting function from Fort Collins. I miss that watch! This one is much lighter and slimmer. It took 7 of my friends, to finally get the day and date set properly. Now everything is just fine. Maybe I'll review this watch in a few months again, who knows...


Ordered a Waveceptor WVA-430J from Amazon last Sunday night, it arrived via UPS yesterday (Wednesday) as advertised. Couldn't wait to open it. Glad my wife was there to see it too, or else she wouldn't have believed me. We took it out of the box, and as soon as it saw light, it woke up. The hour and minute hand spun to what it thought was the correct time, and then the second hand swept to the correct second. What a gas to see.

A lot of thought has been put into the design of this watch, in terms of functionality, workmanship, and looks. I've never seen a watch with sweep second, minute, and hour hands that hit ALL the minute marks so dead center. When it's 12:02, the minute hand stays on :02 until the second hand hits 12:00. Then at that instant, the minute hand moves dead onto the next minute mark. What a great piece of work. When the watch arrived, I couldn't get it to settle into the right time zone. Unbeknown to me, it was set to Tokyo time. The manual did not state how to recognize this or what to do about it, but instead said to scroll through the digital display until it said "US 60." It never did. I had to call Casio support. The tech, after several unsuccessful tries, figured out what was going on, found the right combination of buttons to fix it, and then proceeded to sail through the rest of the setup. This tech clearly had done the setup routine many times, for what that's worth.

The contrast between the numbers and the dark gray background is high, it's very easy to tell the time. The hour & minute hands are luminous, as are the numbers; they were still readable in the morning after sitting in the dark all night. There is also a teeny, tiny speck of luminous material on the second hand but it's so small it's almost invisible.

The Waveceptor and PV cell functions are superlative. The battery was in a high state of charge right out of the box. I live just outside of Philadelphia, PA, and the radio signal from Colorado, inside the house, away from windows, was full strength. Amazing.

The comments about the manual are correct; font size is about 1 pt and the booklet is 2"h x 3-1/2"w, about the size of two small matchbooks side-by-side. You will need good eyes to read it. It's not the best-written manual either, but once you get used to its leaving out small but important bits of information it's all down hill <not>.

Can't wait to see how this watch and the mineral wrist strap hold up. If first impressions are a guide, this watch is for keeps.


This is a great watch! It's handsome, full-featured, durable and accurate. I highly recommend it as a great value.


This watch is perfect. It has everything anyone would need in a basic watch. I've charged it once since I got it and it's still running on that same charge for months since then without any drop in battery power at all. Easy to figure out once you read the manual. Most people complain of the watch's settings being too difficult to configure, but it is all clearly laid out in the manual if you can read it. It's comfortable, and light. It has many neat settings: you can display two time zones simultaneously, as well as many display options and functions. This is the last watch I'll ever need...


This is a superb product, much improved over the former version. (Since I became familiar with features of the earlier version, learning curve for this one was less formidable.) As is true for many products (computer, automobile, GPS), this watch has more features than I use--but may be of interest to others--and comes at a very reasonable price.


It's fascinating to open the container in which this watch has hibernated in darkness for untold months, and observe as the sunlight awakens the solar cell and the hands swing into motion, updating themselves to reflect the current time. This watch performs exactly as advertised: the solar cell apparently keeps the internal battery fully charged in normal use, and the receiver catches a signal to keep the time accurate just about every day.

I originally stumbled on this watch because I wanted a timepiece with an analog display, a day/date, and an internal light for reading it at night. It's surprising how few watches have this collection of features and aren't hideous, multi-dialed monstrosities.

An added pleasure of this watch is that the luminescent markings on the watch hands work extremely well, holding a "charge" for hours and making the watch readable at night without activating the internal light.

I did not find the instructions for setting the watch particularly obtuse. While it could be a little more intuitive, the instructions are complete and I've had no problem using them. I ended up setting the watch to show the Japanese days of the week, which makes this the first watch I've owned that has actually taught me something I never knew. English days of the week are also available if you don't like learning new things.

The only issue I've experienced with the watch is that like many watches in its price range, the crystal display did eventually get a little scratched up. Since this watch recharges itself through the solar cell and could theoretically last forever, I would have liked to see a more scratch-resistant face.


The watch is what I expected. I agree with the other reviewers in that it keeps accurate time and is easy to use with the exception of the ridiculous instruction manual.This manual is about 3/8" thick and the size of a business card with type for people who can read the Lord's Prayer engraved on a needle head. It is also confusing to change from Japanese setting to English.
I do recommend this watch for friends.


Good Performer - After set up the watch works great. The only drawbacks are very poor directions as to initial set up and the band cant be changed to another kind. This is a large watch and if you have a small wrist you may want to consider another watch. The band is a one size fits all and leaves a lot of excess band hanging. Yes it has a catch to gather up the extra but it quickly becomes loose and the top of the band will catch on everything. You cant cut it off because the strap has a wider place on the end to keep the catch from sliding off the band. Other than that I like the watch and its functions a lot.


It is a good product with good price overall but the windows got a scratche after several days.

About Casio Men's Waveceptor Solar Atomic Ana-Digi Sport Watch #WVA430J-1 detail

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19 in Watches
• Brand: Casio
• Model: WVA430J-1
• Band material: Resin
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: Resin
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: charcoal
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: Solar
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Multi-band 2 (US-Japan) - Receives the signal from the Atomic clocks in Ft. Collins, Colorado and from both Atomic clocks in Japan
• 1/100 Sec Stopwatch, 3 Daily Alarms
• World Time 30 Cities, Bi-Lingual Display (Eng, Jpn)
• LED Light W/ Afterglow
• Water resistant up to 330 feet (100 M)

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