Casio Men's PAW1300T-7V "Pathfinder" Resin Watch

I really like the watch, and the layout of the time, the choice of how the date is displayed (Day of Week and Date, or YY M-DD), the look and feal, and some of the other great features.However, there are some features that are notoriously bad for accuracy. For one, I have yet to get a watch anywhere that can accurately read temperature. The problem is that your own body heat affects the reading, so you actually have to take the watch off, and wait an astounding 5-10 minutes for the gauge to normalize to ambient. It makes me wonder about other readings, such as the barometer and altimeter, since I have no other instruments to normalize these against.The compass is also hit and miss. I have gone west and had the compass say north-east, which is almost as wrong as you can possibly get. Of course, this was inside a car, so I wonder if there are magnetic fields affecting the reading. Is this another thing in the fine print that I missed? It does seem to work some of the time, such as right now as I type this review. You do have to try your best to keep the watch level as you are taking that reading.There are other complex features, too, and the watch does a great job of keeping atomic time, right down to the second. It's been sunny here, and the watch has yet to leave the High battery level. My last Casio watch took hours in direct sunlight just to reach the High level for a couple of days. I would presume that the battery has been improved, but I won't know the extent until years down the line. It took about 5 years for my last Casio solar watch to start losing its charging ability.Overall, I am satisfied with the watch itself, but I rate it 4 stars because I think I overpaid for the special features. If they don't work accurately, they are useless. Casio could do much better if they improve the accuracy of the compass, and the rate at which the temperature guage can normalize. If I have to remove the watch from my arm, then fine, but I shouldn't have to wait 5-10 minutes for the reading to normalize. There are instant read thermometers out there that give you an accurate reading in seconds.

The watch is great. Titanium band is crap. I paid extra for the durability of the titanium because my husband does a lot of hard work outside. Two weeks after I gave him the watch we were in the Bahamas on vacation. We were driving around the motorscooters he flexed his wrist to grip the break in the watch popped off. I wouldn't recommend the titanium version to anybody. A rugged watch should actually stay on the wrist. It was not the clasp that became loose, But rather one of the pins in the links simply broke. My primary regret is that I didn't address the problem right away when we returned home from vacation. I would have returned the watch, but I was so disappointed in the result I just didn't want to deal with it. Now several years later I am finally looking for a replacement band. In my research I came across the replacement pathfinder titanium band and became angry all over again. The titanium band is being sold for over $100. It is certainly not a $100 product, save your money and go with the resin band for the Pathfinder watch. Newer reviews on other sites state the resin band is more durable than the titanium. Replacing the resin band is under 30 bucks so if it does break it won't break the bank.

Had this watch for more than a year now and it is in pretty good shape and has never given me troubles.The solar power and radio signal means no batteries ever and no worries about daylight savings time.The titanium band is really light. The only difficulty one may encounter is when you have to adjust the wrist bandinitially.You can go to a jeweler to do it for you, or in my case I got a real thin paperclip and a needle nose pliers.You put the straightened paperclip into the tiny hole on the side of the band and push so that the pin pops out.Once you can see the pin coming out, use the pliers to gently pull the pin out. Be careful that you don'tlose the cylinder that goes around the pin, as it is tiny and will fall out as you pull the pin out. You are going toneed the cylinder as that is the part that holds the pin in place when you reinsert it later. Remove as manylinks as you need. And then reassemble by placing the cylinder into the hole, realign the links and pushthe pin in the same direction as it moved when you took it out.The temperature sensor is useless in that it measures the ambient temperature around your body.Compass is ok. The altimeter works but you need to calibrate it first. You can calibrate based on height or air pressure.But I don't think it is linked and I wished they were since an airplane altimeter these are linked. The increments are a bitcoarse.Overall a decent trouble free watch that I anticipate will last a long time.

Awesome watch! Excellent accuracy and it never needs a battery-change or time setting. Looks extremely good for a triple-sensor-type watch, so it never fails to impress, even before people know what it can do.