Yellow faced Wave Ceptor

[Webber3]

I'm looking at buying one of these in yellow ( WVQ-570LE-1AVER - http://www.creativewatch.co.uk/pimages/wvq-550le-9... ) for a swimming/beach watch. I'm wondering how tough/waterproof they are. Has anyone had any experience with these watches?

[CmdrBond]

Liking that very much, not got one of these so can't comment on their toughness or anything.

Everyone should have some yellow or orange in their collection IHMO

[clonmult]

It does look quite nice, but I wonder how accurate these wave ceptors are? Was looking at a bunch of them in the window of one of the high street stores, and all of them were showing a different time ....

[tvrtim]

I recently bought the blue faced model.Very impressed with it.Tough,looks good and keeps time to the split second.I found the instructions a bit confusing but I am getting on a bit.They set the time automatically but some areas (like inside a shopping complex etc)do not respond very well.Once set you can forget it.It adjusts the date automatically even for the 30 day months.Great value watch,would be hard to beat it at any price.Mine has a metal bracelet which is top quality.

[Webber3]

tvrtim said:

I recently bought the blue faced model.Very impressed with it.Tough,looks good and keeps time to the split second.I found the instructions a bit confusing but I am getting on a bit.They set the time automatically but some areas (like inside a shopping complex etc)do not respond very well.Once set you can forget it.It adjusts the date automatically even for the 30 day months.Great value watch,would be hard to beat it at any price.Mine has a metal bracelet which is top quality.

Do you know if your model updates itself in North America? They seem to have 3 different levels of multi-region and I can't see which level this one has. It is a nice looking watch though, so I'm probably going to buy it anyway.

Dual-region: Picks up signals from transmitters in the UK and most of mainland Europe*.

Multi-region 1: Picks up signals from transmitters in the UK, USA and most of mainland Europe*.

Multi region 2: Picks up signals from transmitters in the UK, USA, Japan and most of mainland Europe*.

• Parts of Europe outside the dual-region and multi-region include Southern Spain, Portugal and Greece

http://www.casio.co.uk/Products/Watches/watch%20te...

Edited by Webber3 on Thursday 3rd July 10:21

[tvrtim]

My model (WVQ-550 Module 4723)picks up signals from UK and Europe.
Not sure about the one you are looking at.

[dark_helmet]

I have the same yellow one and wore it on a recent trip to Iceland. It survived the hotel pool and the silica pool/hot spring at blue lagoon.

It seems very accurate and certainly maintains time against my PC's which are synced with NTP

Nice watch for the money, and unusual too a lot of people dont believe it is a casio.

Only wish my Breitling and Omega were as accurate

[Webber3]

dark_helmet said:

Nice watch for the money, and unusual too a lot of people dont believe it is a casio.

I know what you mean, I had to look twice myself when I first saw it in a shop window in Spain.