Casio Men’s W800H-1AV Classic Sport Watch with Black Band

I’ve been wearing eyeglasses for a few years now and i find increasingly difficult to read the numbers of my other watches without them. After doing an in-depth research on YouTube, I bumped into this model and decided to give it a try. Reviews are overwhelmingly good, and I was lucky to catch it with a 40% off the regular price. I ordered it without thinking twice and got it delivered the next day.

If you are in the market for a compact digital watch and you like the classic style of the 91W and A158W, but you have trouble reading such small numbers, the 800W is a model you should consider. It would also make a great first watch for kids, students on a budget and as a daily wear watch for young professionals and even for public servants/law enforcement/first responders.

The digits are big enough to read with the naked eye, specially when it’s dark. The back light illuminates the whole screen reasonably well, and it comes in a light green color which is brighter than the traditional yellow incandescent back light. The display shows the information in a very clean , easy to read layout: time, year-month-date, and day of the week.

Very simple, easy to use, compact, comfortable to wear, and also the strap is extra long, so if you have a thicker wrist, this one is going to fit you much better than the 91W.

IMO this watch is the epitome of simplicity, functionality, comfort , precision and great price. Few things offer such a great value for money than this Casio 800W.

Owned it now for four years and still going strong. This watch is cheap, tough and does everything you need a watch to do. The strap will last about 6 months before it breaks, when it does, cruise Amazon for a cheap nylon strap and you have a virtually bulletproof combination on your wrist. One of my best watch purchases ever. Get one. You won’t regret it!

Received in quick time,,, very nice looking watch

Bought this 2 years and 8 months ago and it’s still great. In that time, it’s drifted 27 seconds (e.g. at 8:00:00 it now reads 8:00:27). **EDIT** This drift is inaccurate. Updated at bottom of review **END EDIT**. For me, that’s not a big deal, but figured I’d mention it. I wear the watch face-side down on my wrist, but it only accrued one mild scratch in all that time. Nothing terrible. I bought this watch because it had 3 things; the 24-hour time, the day of the week, and the date on a single screen. It’s the only watch I’ve found that had all 3 of those. To find all 3 in a highly rated and CHEAP watch? I bought it in a second and haven’t regretted it since. I actually returned a better and more expensive watch (Casio DW5600E-1V) before eventually finding and loving this. I especially love that it orders the date in Year-Month-Day format. I live in the US where Month-Day-Year is the norm, but I also work with thousands of computer files where the best way to organize files by date is with a Year-Month-Day system (e.g. 221102 for November 2, 2022). It’s just a little nothing thing, but I love this watch for it.

I should note that the watch band snapped off back in August, 2 years and 5 months after getting the watch. That’s happened with other watches with resin bands that I’ve owned, always around the 2-3 year mark. I heard it’s from sweat or showers hardening the resin or something. That could make sense as I never take mine off except when I’m rock climbing. Regardless, I just grabbed a cheap 18mm silicone watch strap for 12.99 and it’s been fine ever since (bought silicone because I heard they don’t snap. I’ll update this if it ever does).

I plan to use this watch forever. If it breaks, I’ll buy a new one for the price of a burger + onion rings. I’ve gone through a dozen watches over the past 25 years or so, but this is the first one that I loved. It has everything I want without a bunch of other useless expensive crap that I’ll never use (looking at you, altimeter; and that’s coming from a hiker). It’s cheap, reliable (anecdotally), has a fast band replacement process, no feature-bloat, has large text, and is DECENTLY water resistant. The only downside is that the watch isn’t 200m water resistant. If it was, it’d be perfect for me. Anyway, I don’t go surfing/swimming with it, but it hasn’t fogged up after 2+ years of showers, rain, sweat, etc. If you want a cheap watch, I recommend this one (unless you’re an avid surfer). Or if you’re like me and willing to fork over $100 for a watch, maybe buy this anyway. It’s certainly much better than the $21 price-tag would have you believe.

**EDIT** 12/12/23
I made the above review over a year ago, but I realized that I couldn’t verify that the 27 seconds of drift was accurate. Well, I decided to run a little experiment over the past year and record the drift every few months (basically whenever I remembered I was even doing this) and it turns out that the drift WASN’T accurate. After a year, my watch drifted 58 seconds. To get that 27 second value, I might have reset my watch whenever we had daylight saving time or something, hence the inaccurate drift. Anyway, I included the recorded values below (MM/DD/YY format) in case someone is interested. Also, I used time.gov for the baseline comparison.

12/11/22 9:55PM – 0 seconds fast
01/19/23 6:18PM – 5 seconds fast
02/22/23 12:48PM – 10.5 seconds fast
04/15/23 9:00PM – 18.5 seconds fast
05/08/23 8:22PM – 22 seconds fast
06/27/23 12:52PM – 30 seconds fast
09/06/23 8:15PM – 41 seconds fast
11/05/23 7:18PM – 51 seconds fast
12/11/23 9:55PM – 58 seconds fast

This basically means my watch drifts by a little more than 1 second every week (1sec/~6.29days). For my needs, that’s fine. I’m not doing anything in my daily life that requires long-term precision to the second, and I have to reset it every so often anyway for the aforementioned daylight saving time, so I don’t mind at all. Other than that, the watch still works great (nearing 4 years now) and the “new” silicone watchband is still great too (although it hasn’t hit that 2-3 year breakdown point yet). So, all in all, still happy with it.

One of my favourite watches, so many features for so little cost.

I recently lost my Nike Triax Speed wrist watch which i got when i was 10 years old, which prompted me look for a replacement.
At first, i thought of getting a newer version of the same model, but it was quite pricey and i wasnt too keen on using a watch with side buttons that are annoying and hard to press.

This watch is comfortable around the wrist, has the basic functions; Time, Dual Time, Alarm, Stop watch. Basically all you need from a watch.
I really like how with one glance of the main time screen, you can attain the DATE, DAY OF THE WEEK and the TIME.

Another thing that i really like are how the side buttons are smooth and easy to press. However on occasion when i extend my wrist, the back of the hand will push against a button which can be annoying, especially when you’re using the stopwatch. this is why im rating it a 4.5

The price is amazing considering the quality of this watch! great for a student, like me!