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Featuring tough solar power, multi-band atomic timekeeping, and a digital compass, they don't call this watch the Pathfinder for nothing. This slim men's watch design from Casio features resin construction, including a 47.4-millimeter case and forest green band. The light green-gray dial has a digital time display and a day and date calendar. Powered by digital quartz, the Pathfinder is also water resistant to 330 feet.
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The PAW1300-3V is everything a gadgeteer hope for. The atomic green color and the slim design has kept this watch from being too flashy, keeping you from looking like a nerd, yet it delivers everything that it promises.
You probably have already read that the thermometer is not accurate because it picks up your body heat. This is true, but I have found the barometer to be amazing in tracking weather. The barometer chart (which can be used to predict weather conditions) can be set so that it can be displayed on the main screen. The world-time is also a function that not many people have talked about, but I found it to be a very neat feature.
I live in Markham, Ontario in Canada (slightly North of Toronto), which means that I am near the border regions of the atomic tower coverage over in the US. During the first few nights, the watch did had trouble picking up a signal (the watch automatically tries to pick up a signal at night to update the time). If this happens to you, try leaving the watch at different places within your home before you go to bed. Once the watch picks up a signal, it should be able to pick up that signal again next time without much trouble (my watch has synced every night since it managed to pick up the first signal). Even if the watch doesn't pick up any signals during the first few days, I found the time to be accurate within the second.
Some people have complaint about not getting a full charge on their tough solar. It seems this was only true for older generations and the PAW1300 don't seem to have this issue anymore. When the watch arrived during the first few days, the charger indicator was in medium, and I had to leave the watch in the sun, behind a tinted window for maybe 15-20 hours before it goes up to high. Since then the watch had managed to stay on full charge without me putting my watch in the sun too deliberately. I have heard that the "high" level can only be achieved when the watch is at 80-90% charge, so for the first week, be prepared to see your watch on "medium" no matter how much you put it out in the sun.
The watch does have a few slight flaws: the user manual claims that when you are in the dark, you can trigger the back-light by tilting the watch towards you; but this never worked for me. Also, the compass can get a little bit tricky to use. It can give you a good approximate, but if you are to walk 1 mile in the forest according to what the watch say N is, you might end up in NNE or NNW. If your life is on the line, you are better off with a magnetic compass.
Hope this helps.
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Disappointed, but it's still a keeper. - W. M. McLaughlin - Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA.
My biases first. I'm an old geezer, have to wear glasses to read/drive/see. I love tech gadgets, but am not an early adopter ... I wait for a technology to mature before I adopt it. I'm retired Navy, accustomed to navigation, and the vital importance of precise, accurate, time. I've had cell phones since the 1990s, GPS for several generations of that technology. There are 4 or 5 "atomic" table or desk clocks in my home. When I intend to use my digital camera, I take a photo of my physically largest atomic clock, so that I can synch camera time with "real" time for any purpose that comes up (also take another "time" shot after the camera work) Had a nice Luminox watch, kept good non-atomic time ... until I used a reciprocating saw on a batch of trees that need trimming or removal. The second hand fell off, jammed the other hands. Decided to replace rather than repair it.
Researched the field, decided to get the "Casio Men's PAW1300-3V Pathfinder Multi-Band Solar Atomic Green Watch." Ordered it from Amazon, arrived beautifully packed, several days before it was due. It does what ads say it does ... but not easily. The manual is an absolute necessity. The little multi-language version provided needs to come with a magnifying glass. Get on the web, search for "Casio Operation Guide 3070 (B)" and you will get a nice 15 page manual. Still small print, but usable at home or office. Do NOT use search term "manual"! You get a bunch of manually set and wound watches, not the "Operation Guide" you need.
The problem is, the watch is TOO powerful, TOO versatile. The physical switches on the watch are tiny, and complex. The many procedures require too many setup routines that require too many pushes of too many too small buttons. The procedures are printed in too small type on too small pages of the pocket "Operating Guide" (the manual will probably fit in a real watch pocket, if you cut off the languages you are not interested in, and have pants that have a real watch pocket.)
What it needs is a remote with large buttons, and a large manual to match. A remote that can also be a charger, and hopefully, a "travel clock" that you take with you on nights away from home.
Anyway, I'm keeping it. If I can learn one procedure a week, it will keep me happy for a year, if I should live so long.
Excellent watch...very reliable - Ashish Agrawal - Hartford, CT
It depends for what purpose you want the watch...
1: Style: It have a good sporty look but not very suitable for daily office wearing...So it cannot be said as multipurpose watch..but then no watch is exactly multipurpose...so i will rate 4 out of 5.
2: Comfort: very comfortable. So light that you dont even know that you are wearing anything on your hand. 5 on 5.
3: Built Quality: I will built quality is pretty decent. Strongly built. I have been wearing this watch from last 3 yrs and apart from some blemishes here and there (which comes during daily wear) there is no problem as such. It is not at all delicate watch. I will give here also 5 on 5.
4: Reliability: The most important feature of any watch. You dont want to get late to any meeting because your watch screwed up. So this watch is just EXCELLENT. I am not sure if I stretched my point properly but it never loses even a second. Also its Atomic sensor adjusts the time every night so this watch can never go wrong. I just rely on this watch blindly. I wish I could have given 10 out of 5 here.
5: Features: This watch have everything. From solar powered to atomic sensor, from temp,compass, altitude, pressure everything just perfect. In power save mode, watch blanks off the screen when there is darkness and as you press any button or as you go near any light source it starts. So it saves power..which is again very good. here again i would like to give 5 on 5.
By now I believe you must have made your mind. Again as i said in the begining, it depends on for what you want the watch....
Very, very tough - Daniel Grubb - Leesburg, Virginia
I can't wear-out this watch. I was hopng it would get me through one year on the ground in Afghanistan. That was in 2008. I'm still using it in 2010 and still inflicting punishment on it from Africa to Asia to North America. This watch won't quit on me. I have roughed it up so much that you can't read all the lettering on the buttons anymore, but it still keeps flawless time with absolutely no maintenance. All the component functions appear to work, although I don't use much but the time and compass. The compass function has always been a little squirley. It's hard to lock onto a direction. I wouldn't use it for precision navigation. I don't know how you could build a tougher wrist watch.
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