Casio Wave Ceptor Men's Watch WV-58DU

As I type this, the hour beep has just gone off on my watch and I know that it is 10.00am TO THE SECOND. I am thrilled with this watch, which I bought precisely because I needed to know that the time I was looking at was actually the exact time that the rest of the world is working to. My line of work requires me to be at certain places and start & finish important meetings ON TIME so now I can have confidence that my watch is correct when I'm checking whether I am on schedule.As for updating, I did wonder whether this little watch would be able to pick up the radio signal from Cumbria each night because I live in a fairly built up area with houses all around. But I needn't have worried. I would say it has picked up the signal nightly 97% of the time since I've had it and it checks on the hour from 1am to (I think) 5am. It's even updated whilst on my wrist but it is best for it to be sat on the bedside table or on the windowsill to be certain. And if on the rare occasion it doesn't get the signal, you can press the button during the day, leave it for a minute or so and then the satellite icon comes back on to let you know it's back up to atomic levels!Some of the other aspects of this watch are as follows. It doesn't look like a typical digital watch in that the resin strap version I have has a pleasing 'metal' look around the face. Also the display is slightly magnified & that looks good. A pleasant watch to wear. Some reviewers have commented on the timer being a maximum of only 60 minutes but if you need to time your Sunday Roast for an hour and a half, you could just reset it for half an hour after the first beep goes off. I think there is a newer version of this watch from Casio now but it's a tad more expensive. But the price for this model is just AMAZING from Amazon for the key feature this watch gives you, which is a watch that is as accurate as the time the Stock Exchange, the BBC, the Emergency Services, National Rail & bus companies, solicitors etc use to stay up to date themselves.A word of warning though. Ever since I've had it, I've been compelled to find out which clocks are pip accurate and which aren't. You may be surprised to know that digital BBC 24hr News Channel is 2-5 seconds late on Cable & Freeview. Digital radio is anything from 2 to 8 seconds late. My local branch of Barclays was 20 seconds slow and so on & so on! Analogue BBC Radio 4's pips are perfect, even more pleasingly when the Casio's seconds trip along happily to Big Ben at Westminster. On the Internet there is one site I found which gives atomic accuracy for time and that is time.is ("time.is" is the web address or you can Google it).So in summary I don't think you can go wrong picking up this timepiece at this price even if it's a second watch to wear when you need to know you have correct time. In fact, the only time I've worn my lovely Rotary watch since (at an important business meeting), I had this one in my pocket all the time! Enough said!Want to know more? Comment and I'll reply. Thanks to all Amazon reviewers for your comments on this site. I listen carefully to you all when buying stuff!UPDATE: 17 FEB 2012After about a year of very satisfying use, my watch stopped picking up the signal and reverted back to a date in 2005. It didn't appear to do a forced update either. I had the battery checked at the local jewellers. It was nearly full. I happily discovered there was a two-year warranty on the product, rang up Casio in London and then as I had business just two streets down I popped it in to them.About a week later it arrived back in the post having been 'reassembled' and appeared to have exactly the same fault. I was a little peeved and rang them back up to ask for a replacement but the engineer on the phone took me through a process where you set the country you are in. For some reason the watch had been set to Tokyo and therefore wasn't picking up the Anthorn transmission in Cumbria. Once it was reset to LON and ENG, the watch picked up perfectly and is now back on my wrist.It is SO good to know that you have perfectly accurate time displaying on your watch. I really missed it when I didn't have it. So I don't know whether the module failed or for some reason the watch got set to the wrong setting. I just know I'm happy it's working again!

I've just ordered my third of these in about 5 years. The radio-controlled time is brilliant and I would never go back to a watch that doesn't show perfect time automatically as this does. They are so cheap that I've ordered a new watch just because the old one is a couple of years old, a bit battered and needs a new strap.The case and face are cheap plastic which gets scratched and the silver colour rubs off. This is not a watch for people who care what their watch looks like or what anyone else might think. On my first one, the case broke where the strap attaches after a couple of years - new watch needed. The strap tends to last only about a year too (replacements £11 on Amazon). The batteries however last for years and years.I've had both the plastic and metal strap versions, and much prefer the plastic strap ones. The metal bracelet can be adjusted by taking links out, but this is fiddly and I could never get a good fit for my wrist.The internals are very good - the only problem I've had is an intermittent backlight on one of my WV-58Us. It displays the whole date and day all the time (and can do UK DD-MM-YYYY format), and has alarm, countdown timer and stopwatch. For me, the World Time feature is annoying because I don't go abroad, I'd like to disable it, but it might be ideal for some people. Most importantly, the radio control works very well.At this price it has to be 5 stars. Any other decent radio controlled watch costs far more.

PROS -Accurate time every day. I listen to the BBC World Service and hear their beeps on the hour. I had to correct my previous Casio by as much as 30 seconds every so often, so it's quite a delight to hear the BBC's final beep indicating the hour and to see that this wave ceptor is exactly on time every day.It's nice and big and very easy to see the time without having to squint. The price is very reasonable.CONS -The reset on the stopwatch has been assigned to the the top left button. On my previous watch (DB150) It used to be top right which is so much more accessible. One just had to press the stop button with index finger. Move that same finger quarter of an inch and press the top right button to instantly reset. On the wave ceptor, it's so much more awkward as the the thumb has to be used to press the top left button and it's really just a bad piece of design.The hourly beep and alarm beeps are ridiculously quiet. My DB 150 must have been at least twice as loud as this. Would think that in today's technological age, the volume could be adjusted on such a thing and I have seen many others complain of this same problem. The countdown timer counts down from only an hour. There are many times I have the need of counting down for more than an hour and since previous watches all had this capability, I can't understand why Casio chose to reduce this to only an hour. The same is true of the stopwatch. I take many long walks and, with my trusty DB 150 would start the stopwatch at the beginning and it would give me an accurate idea of how long I had walked - up to 24 hours I believe. With the wave ceptor, I'm afraid it's almost useless for any walks more than an hour and to be expected to note each hour passing defeats the whole purpose of having a stopwatch. It's really quite incomprehensible that Casio would make its watches LESS functional each year. Doesn't make any sense at all.Despite these cons, I would still have no hesitation in recommending this watch but wish that Casio would consider increasing the volume of the alarms and have the stopwatch and countdown both go beyond their limited 60 mins.UPDATEAnother small complaint. If I was using say, the alarm, or countdown timer and had finished with them, my previous DB 150 would, after a few minutes revert back to the current time. Unfortunately, this one stays in the mode you have selected until you choose to press the button and move back to the time mode. Which, in some cases, might be better but, in general terms, it's not.

I would be pleased with this as just a quartz watch - an excellent clear, uncluttered display showing time, day of week, day/month/year all on the display at once. Add in the reception of signals from the NPL (and other time signals elsewhere in the world) and it become unbeatable value. Other radio reception watches cost twice as much or more.Generous strap length, for those with bigger wrists, but not too chunky. Single alarm, stopwatch, count-down timer (easy to set).I also really like the quick check on when the time signal was last received. Although I find that it's getting it regularly every night without fail, so far.[EDIT: July 2014]Well, it's been a couple of months with the watch now, and I need to update this review a bit.My watch started to reset to factory settings when the lower right button was pressed. But only sometimes. You'll see this complaint in some of the other reviews. It's a really bad intermittant fault, but even though it's intermittant, it makes the watch unreliable, as at any moment when using it, it might reset.Note that this is a fault. Amazon should (& did for me) replace the watch without fuss.And I'm glad to say that my replacement has kept time perfectly with not a single problem. I'm leaving the review as a five star review, because I'm so pleased with the watch. But if you get one that resets, get a replacement ASAP.[EDIT: August 2014]My replacement watch continues to work perfectly, with no resetting problems.[Edit: October 2014]Still fine. I use the countdown and stopwatch, and no resetting problems with this one.[Edit: January 2015]Still working well, and used every day. It's so nice knowing that I have the correct time +/- 1 second.

The strap on my last casio broke so seeing as it was about 12 years old i thought i would treat myself to a new one. I wanted a digital watch with a stopwatch as i do a lot of running and cycling. This watch is flawless, flawless absolutely flawless. I paid £20 for it and it's excellent. Not too big on my wrist but still with a big clear visible face. It's easy to use and tells the exact time. Setting it up was a doddle and i had no problems getting a signal at night to set it. All the functions are excellent as you'd expect from Casio. The watch looks good, the chrome is a nice touch around the face. All in all, if you're looking for a good casio with perfect timing for little money, you can't go wrong with this. Buy it, you'll never miss the bus.

I have only had this Casio WV-58U-1AVEF wave cepter watch resin strap digital watch for a couple of weeks now but already I am very pleased with it, it was not very expensive (so if I where to loose it, which I hope I don't it wont break the bank) it had all the things I wanted in a watch plus a few more (that I probable wont use but there if I do) it was easy to set up you can see the time clearly even at night with the light button and it is doing what I bought it for it updates at just after 2.am every day I don't place it by or near the window but it still updates fine with spot on time that I have checked with my radio clocks, I would recommend this watch to anybody and if I were to say anything bad about this watch it would be the strap witch I'm not keen on I have a wide wrist and it's on the last notch so I will probable change it for one of the expanding types that you can get but other people would find it fine I'm sure. Thanks Amazon once again for a good buy Chris R

UPDATE after 3 years: the bracelet needed replacing after about eighteen months. That's not the real problem though. After about a year, I found it had reset itself to 00:00 on 01/01/05. I rest the watch and there were no further problems. A few months later, it did it again. Then it would happen randomly every few months. However, since the beginning of this year, it has been happening every few days. The reason I bought this watch was so that I didn't have to waste time checking its accuracy and resetting it. What I have to do now is even worse: I have to not only adjust the time but the date, location, DST on or off, etc. It really is a pain in the @r$e; and you never know when it's about to do it.Once I allowed it to reset itself overnight, and on the morning it once again showed the correct time. Then the next time it did it, It didn't reset at all.So although I was initially happy with my purchase, I no longer am. Apparently, it's a known problem with these watch; unfortunately, mine is now out of warranty. I'm not sure if it's the watch itself, or its receiving erroneous time signals.================================================================================================I needed a watch that would enable me to switch between UK and continental time at the push of a button, and be extremely accurate. This is that watch. It took a few minutes to set up but now updates itself once or twice a day, so it's always accurate to the second. One push on a button switches from UK to your chosen world time (scroll through a list of world cities), and pushing the same button a few more times gets you back to Blighty. Well worth the small sum spent on the watch.

I have an apocalyptically bad memory when it comes to dates and times, I always have and always will, but when I wake up each morning that's no longer a problem, I look at my watch and it tells me everything I need to know; it's Saturday morning, it's 10:05am on the 25th of May 2013.The incredible thing is that while I was sleeping it remotely connected to a satellite to update itself and find all of this out for me. Furthermore, it's also an alarm, a stopwatch and a timer, plus it can tell me what time it is in the US to see when my parents-in-law are awake, or what time it is in Australia when my Dad is away on business... all at the press of a button. This is especially useful on holidays, you just switch countries and you're away, no faffing about trying to get the exact time when you land because the watch has already figured it out. Again, when daylight savings changes the watch shines, it just connects to it's satellite and fixes the time while I sleep, so I don't have to worry. It is the best watch I could ever want or need. It's also waterproof.My one criticism is this: when it can't find it's satellite you can face some issues... such as the watch resetting to it's creation time some time in 2005, which can be somewhat alarming.

A diferencia de lo expuesto por algunos usuarios respecto a problemas con los ajustes, yo no he tenido ningún problema por ahora. El reloj se sincroniza todas las noches.El único pero que puedo decir es que cada ajuste que hace el reloj he de reajustar la segunda hora que tengo la de Londres y pone automáticamente la función DTZ y yo quiero la hora UTC. Pero se soluciona pulsando el botón superior izquierdo.

Ich war auf der Suche nach 1 guten, aber preiswerten Funk-Armbanduhr mit Alarm und nicht metallischem Armband! Mit dieser Uhr hab ich alle Wünsche erfüllt bekommen, die für mich wichtig waren...Samstagabend bestellt - Dienstagnachmittag schon geliefert! So kennt man Amazon!Die Uhr kam in 1 kleinen, aber feinen Karton sicher verpackt an. 1 mehrsprachige Bedienungsanleitung war auch dabei. Da sie in den kleinen Uhrenkarton passt, ist sie entsprechend klein, weshalb auch die Schrift leider extrem klein ist. Dafür ist die Anleitung aber sehr gut und leicht verständlich... Und nachdem ich einmal hinter das Menüprinzip der Uhr gestiegen bin, brauchte ich auch die Anleitung nicht mehr, um beispielsweise die Alarmzeit zu ändern...Meine Uhr war auf die USA eingestellt, als sie ankam, weshalb ich sie erstmal auf Deutschland einstellen musste. Als das erledigt war, löste ich die manuelle Uhrzeitsuche aus und innerhalb von 3 Minuten hatte sie die richtige Uhrzeit samt Datum und Wochentag empfangen! Nachts erfolgte dann auch die automatische Synchronisation per Funksignal und seitdem war auch unten rechts immer das Funksymbol zu sehen.Die Uhrzeit kann von 12 auf die 24 Stundenanzeige umgestellt werden und das Datum auf das "deutsch-typische" Datumsformat Tag-Monat-Jahr... Und die Menüsprache lässt sich selbstverständlich auch auf Deutsch einstellen...Laut Anleitung sollte man die Uhr nachts abnehmen und ans Fenster legen - entfernt von metallischen Gegenständen, damit sie 1 guten Funkempfang hat...Ich habe die Uhr ständig um - auch nachts, und schlafe zudem in 1 Metallbett! Bisher hat meine Uhr immer nachts pünktlich um 2:03 Uhr das Funksignal empfangen und das Funksymbol wird immer komplett angezeigtl, was auf 1 sehr guten Funkempfang hindeutet - trotz nächtlichem Tragen im Metallbett! ;-)))Die Uhr sitzt Dank dem Kunststoff-Armband einfach perfekt an meinem Arm, ohne mir ständig ins Handgelenk zu rutschen! Das Armband fühlt sich so recht steif an, beim Tragen jedoch empfinde ich es aber als sehr angenehm am Arm.Auch finde ich die Größe der Uhr super! Sie ist nicht zu groß, aber auch nicht zu klein, so dass sie von Männlein und Weiblein gleich gut getragen werden kann. Zudem scheint sie sehr robust zu sein und auch das Glas scheint Einiges abzukönnen... Bisher ist das Glas jedenfalls frei von Kratzern.Für den Timer oder die Stoppuhr habe ich bisher keine Verwendung gehabt. Mir kam es auf den Alarm an. Der Alarmton ist wirklich sehr leise - wenn ich schliefe, würde ich davon nie und nimmer wach werden. Umso besser ist er bei der Arbeit geeignet... Ich arbeite im Büro und vergesse bei der Arbeit oftmals den Feierabend... Jetzt werde ich immer 5 Minuten vorher daran erinnert, dass es langsam Zeit wird zum Ende zu kommen. Somit ist für mich der recht leise Alarmton einfach perfekt, weil so praktisch nur ich ihn höre. ;-))) Und auch den leisen einstellbaren Stunden-Signalton finde ich super und bei mir immer aktiviert!Für mich ist die Uhr einfach perfekt, genauso wie sie ist und sie erfüllt alle meine Wünsche und Erwartungen. Das Preis/Leistungsverhältnis ist einfach spitzenmäßig und die Uhr macht 1 qualitativen und hochwertigen Eindruck!Von mir gibt es 1 ganz klare Kaufempfehlung und ich würde die Uhr auch jederzeit wieder kaufen!UPDATE: 15.03.2024Ich hatte die Uhr damals im Februar 2019 gekauft, aber leider war das Armband nach nur etwa 1 3/4 Jahren am Federsteg (wo das Armband an der Uhr verbunden ist) ausgerissen! War erst am Überlegen, ob ich mir einfach ein neues Armband für die Uhr kaufe, da die Uhr bis dahin einwandfrei funktionierte! Aber wenn ich alle 2 Jahre ein neues Armband für ca. 10€ kaufen soll, weil die aus Kunststoff nicht länger halten, dann ist das auch nicht das Gelbe vom Ei!So kaufte ich mir im November 2020 die gleiche Casio Wave Ceptor Funk-Armbanduhr erneut - aber diesmal mit einem Edelstahl-Armband! Und dies war eine gute Entscheidgung!Das Edelstahl-Armband hält bis heute - genauso wie die tolle Uhr selbst! Sie sieht nach fast 3 1/2 Jahren noch immer aus wie neu (obwohl ich sie nach wie vor Tag und Nacht trage) und auch das Uhrenglas hat bis heute keinen Kratzer abbekommen! Selbst die Batterie habe ich bis heute noch nicht einmal wechseln müssen - und dies obwohl der tägliche Alarm und der stündliche Signalton immer aktiviert sind!Somit bin ich nach wie vor absolut mega-angetan und total zufrieden mit der Casio Wave Ceptor! Ich würde sie mir jederzeit erneut kaufen! Die Qualität, Langlebigkeit und super-lange Laufzeit der Batterie sprechen für sich, was das Preis-Leistungsverhältnis einfach unschlagbar macht!Somit gibts selbstverständlich auch weiterhin die vollen 5 Sterne und eine klare Kaufempfehlung!

Ottimo orologio digitale!!! Funziona davvero bene, e' radiocontrollato quindi riceve il segnale dell'orologio atomico di Francoforte e di conseguenza e' precisissimo!!! E' dotato di retroilluminazione "Illuminator" brevettata da Casio. Esteticamente e' molto gradevole, molto piu' bello che in foto!!! In conclusione lo consiglio assolutamente a chiunque cerchi un orologio digitale di ottima qualita' e fattura.

Ich habe in der Vergangenheit bereits viele Uhren besessen. Zuletzt waren es aber immer Funkuhren, die leider schon nach zwei bis drei Jahren den Geist aufgaben. Da ich auch schon einmal eine Casio-Uhr besaß, die sehr lange hielt, sollte es diesmal eine Funkuhr von Casio sein.Ich habe diese Wahl bislang nicht bereut. Zu einem supergünstigen Preis besitzt diese Casio alles, was ich von einer modernen Funkuhr erwarte. Es ist eine Timer- und eine Stoppuhrfunktion vorhanden, die Bedienung lässt sich sehr leicht über die 4 Tasten erledigen und das Display ist jederzeit ganz hervorragend abzulesen.Ein ganz besonderes Highlight ist die Hintergrundbeleuchtung des Display bei Nacht. Selbst bei absoluter Dunkelheit ist die Uhr noch hervorragend abzulesen ! Das hätte ich in dieser Preisklasse nicht unbedingt erwartet. Ebensowenig hätte ich das zuschaltbare Stundensignal erwartet. Nicht unbedingt notwendig, aber trotzdem eine nette Dreingabe.Da das Gehäuse nicht so stark am Handgelenk aufträgt und auch in Zusammenhang mit dem ausreichend langen Armband empfinde ich diese Casio-Funkuhr als sehr angenehm beim Tragen.Das einzige Manko ist die Lautstärke des Weckers. Für mich jedenfalls ist die Lautstärke definitiv zu gering, um davon aus dem Schlaf geholt zu werden. In Anbetracht des sehr geringen Preis von rund 35 Euro kann ich das ohne weiteres verschmerzen. Man kann halt nicht alles haben, die "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" darf man eben bei diesem Preis nicht erwarten. Aber es zeigt sich eben auch: Geiz kann doch ganz schön geil sein ! :-)

Tout est bien, c'est l'article que je voulais:- tout est reglable en français (JJ/MM/AAAA), heure au format 12 ou 24h, compte a rebours precis et programmable à la minute, alarme, chronometre, et bracelet plastique "resine" OKDe plus, son design est réussi. Il est plus agréable et classe que le modèle précédent, qui avait les mêmes fonctions (mais pas le reglage automatique de l'heure par le satellite de Frankfort), et que j'ai détenu pendant de nombreuses années - il fonctionne encore !!!!Par contre, je recherche toujours une Casio qui avait le compte-à-rebours "auto" ou pas. (réarmement automatique dès le temps écoulé: cela permet de faire sonner à intervalles réguliers, sans aucune intervention!)Pouvez-vous vérifier votre montre sur "compte-à-rebours", et voir si vous avez la position "auto" ? Si OUI, je suis preneur du nom ou numéro du modèle !!