Casio EFA131BK-1AV Black Stainless Steel Edifice Black Label EFA Chronograph Analog Digital Casio EFA131BK-1AV Black Stainless Steel Edifice Black Label EFA Chronograph Analog Digital

Pros: Good Design
Good Aesthetics
Functional
Looks Great
Casual or Business Friendly

Cons: Light is weak
Digital Readout impossible to see in low light
Luminous hands not really luminous

Other Thoughts: My wife got this as a birthday present for me. This is a nice watch; weight is just right for me, it looks awesome (especially the carbon-fiber-looking back plate), and it tells time reasonably well....as long as you're in a well-lit room or broad daylight. The digital readout is green digits on a black field...which looks good in sunlight but is impossible to read at night. The light is sad, just one little orange bulb...very old-fashioned, especially from the people who made G-Shock watches so easy-to-read in the dark. Finally the supposedly luminous hands only KINDA work...if you shine an LED flashlight on them for several minutes, you can expect them to be readable for about an hour....then they go dark again. I get the feeling Casio kinda cheaped out on this watch. It has a lot of potential and, for a minimal investment, they could have corrected a few very minor design flaws. For me, though, those flaws pile up to result in a mediocre sum. That's why it lost two eggs...seems like it was rushed or pushed out as a stop-gap. Still; if you need a decent-looking time piece that you won't need to see in low light, go for it. One more point on the aesthetics: I work in a place where the dress code fluctuates between jeans & polos to full-on Armani requirements, and the Edifice easily fills either role as a quality accessory.

Pros: Simple, cool looking, solid, easy to use.

Cons: none really. just wish digital face was bigger.

Other Thoughts: Just set the digital time and when you press "adjust" the mechanical hands automatically set to what the digital time is. No Knobs on this watch!

As usual with edifice, band runs large. be prepared to get links removed!