Reviewed by: dazzaa
Date: 11 December 2010
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“I bought this watch as I liked the look of it, but was also attracted to the feature of the auto light where you move your wrist to look at the watch and it automatically lights up the face. What it does not tell you on this site or anywhere else for that matter is that this feature only works for 6 hours. You then have to depress a button for 3 seconds to enable the feature again - for another 6 hours. In the booklet, it claims this is so to prolong battery life. This feature is virtually useless because when you actually want to look at the watch at night, the auto light feature needs to be manually turned on. You may as well just press the light button to find the time. This is more the case when you awake in the middle of the night. I expected the light to illuminate when I moved my wrist, but due to the 6 hour limit, you have to turn the feature back on again or press the button. By the time you have faffed about, you are wide awake. The light also only illuminates for 1.5 seconds. This is way too short, especially when you are trying to see it in the middle of the night. There is no option to extend the time of the light illumination. Casio seem hell bent on preserving battery life so limit these features. However, I would have preferred to have the option of keeping the auto illumination feature activated indefinitely and to be able to increase the time the light is on. The display itself is barely readable at the best of times so the light is essential to be able to see the display, but again, that 1.5 second limit is the problem here. I am not happy with this watch due to the above issues so will be returning it for something else.”