Casio Men's PAG80-1V Pathfinder Altimeter/Barometer/ Digital Compass Solar Digital Watch

Absolute Great Watch - Recommend to anyone

With this watch you can't go wrong. First even though one variation will sync with the Atomic clock for about $40-50$ more don't waste your money. This watch stays within just a second or two per month accuracy. In addition to keeping time the capabiity to select a world zone by a city and then use that dual clock is as simple as it gets.



As usual Casio makes a watch that does not take a genuis to learn to use - even without reading the manual. Determining how to use the Altimeter Barometer and electronic compass is virtually self-explanatory. You do need to know that you have to manually synchronize the altimeter in order to ensure your readings are correct during a given time period. The only way to prevent this is to have a watch that could triangulate its altitude from satelites and to my knowledge that dog hasn't been born. However that being said the importance lies in the fact that you have a tracking graph that indicates a 24 hour history of changes in both the barometer and altitude. That's what's really important so that even if the altitude settings are off or the barometric pressure setting is temporarily incorrect you can look at the graph and know the relative change. For instance if the graph indicates dropping pressure over the past few hours you can pretty much assume the weather is probably going to move from good to bad (low pressure usually indicates a weather front is coming through or rain developing).



One nice surprise is that when using the watch at night a simple tilt of the wrist toward your face will cause the back light to temporarily come on. I.e. you don't have to push the button. I never saw this function in the ads or in the manual.



Finally it is well built and although reasonably large by watch standards it is comfortable for a man. I'm not sure most women would want to wear it though. You can't go wrong with this watch. Just make sure it is this model because some of the others close to the same price do not have all of these functions.More detail ...