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The Slim Casio Edifice EQB-1000 Watch - Review
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Jun 22, 2024
Anyone who collects watches already knows that the Casio Edifice line offers great design, tough features and smart connectivity options. The Casio Edifice EQB-1000 Watch improves on that with its distinctive front screws and super-slim (under 9mm thick!) case. Tech expert and watch afficionado Dave Taylor checks out the Casio Edifice EQB-1000 [well, the EQB-1000D-1A to be accurate] and finds that the combination of sync'ed bluetooth smart features, gorgeous design and slim fit make it a great addition to anyone's wrist. Check it out at https://www.casio.com/
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You won't believe how thin this Bluetooth watch is. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at another Casio Edifice watch. I love their
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watches. I got a bunch of them, but I don't have anything as thin as this new
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one. This is pretty impressive. This is the EQB 1000. More technically, this is
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the EQB 1000 D1A. Now, it is literally super thin. It is 8.9 millimeters thick
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which means when you put it on your wrist, it's like you don't even..
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certainly you won't know that it's a Bluetooth enabled smarter watch. That's
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not gonna call it a smart watch because that's like an Apple watch, which is
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they're really thick, right? Weighs 130 grams, comes with a very nice standard
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stainless steel buckle, has three little faces on it. Here's a close-up. You can
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see the dual world time is on the left. I have it set to London, England. And then
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on the top, you have a 24-hour hand. And then the lower one actually shows you
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the day of the week. And you'll notice in a tiny little window, like a classic old
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school watch, it shows you the day of the month. Now, also has a stopwatch feature
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which is very nice, and has a phone finder feature once you have it paired
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with your Bluetooth device. But I'll be honest with you, I couldn't get that to
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work. I don't know. Maybe it's something about how I'm pushing the button, but in
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any case, it's supposed to work. Now, back to the watch. It's a sapphire crystal
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non-reflective, flat bezel, very distinctive little screws on the side of it. It's obviously a design element, but it's very attractive. It's a crazy
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attractive watch. And what I really like about it, like I said, is oh, that
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glorious thinness. So nice. It's also solar-powered, so assuming you don't live
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in a cave, you will get enough sunlight on a daily basis on the watch that
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you'll never ever have to put in a new battery or worry about it. That's pretty
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sweet. Now, it also comes with what they call their Bluetooth smartphone link. And
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this is through their app called Edifice Connected. And it's not the world's
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greatest app from a design perspective, but it does give you access to all the
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key functionality. There's a couple of screenshots. One of world time. Super
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easy in the app to set from any of 300 different cities around the world. So
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odds are really good if you want to track a different time. There's a city in
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that area that you can use. And then here's another one that shows you it has
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a built-in guide for the basic functionality of the watch. And here's
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all the buttons and access for stopwatch usage. Stopwatch, also that data you can get onto your phone so you can log that data. If you're using this
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watch for, I don't know, over time tracking performance of a professional
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bicyclist or something, then you can actually have a nice log of data. So
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that's pretty sweet. But really, ultimately, the app to me is mostly
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beneficial because it makes sure my watch is always on time and it's always
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on the right time and exactly the right time. So that really is all that matters
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to me is I want to have a watch that's attractive and is thin, which I really
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appreciate because I got so many of these sort of watches that are pretty substantial, like twice the thickness. And it's light and comfortable and
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handsome looking. And it's always the right time, always the right time. And
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it's really cool because it has automatic time zone settings. So if you fly somewhere, when you land and your phone resets to the time zone that
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you're now in, the watch will also automatically do that. That is pretty
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magic. You just look at your watch and the hands are just spinning around to
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get you there. That's a really nice feature. I don't like manually adjusting
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a watch and I bet you don't either. Okay, now the only thing let's talk about is
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the price. But before we get to the price, I'm gonna ask if you can subscribe to my
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channel. I really appreciate when you do that. Cool. Now let's go back to this. This
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beauty is the Casio Edifice EQB 1000D 1A. And it is $300 at Casio.com. And you
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might be able to find it at a lower price somewhere else online. I haven't
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really done a heavy amount of research, but I really like this watch. This is
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probably my favorite of their current lineup right now. And a lot of that has
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to do with the fact that it's just so thin that it really becomes just a sort
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of regular men's dress watch. And no one else will know that it's paired with
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your phone and doing all these useful things. So with that, I'm gonna put it
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back on and that means that I will catch you in my next video
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