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| Brand: Casio
Category: Watch
Department: Mens
List Price: $200.00
Buy New: $109.95
You Save: $90.05 (45%)
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 136
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Band Material: Resin
Bezel Material: stainless-steel
Case Diameter: 51
Case Material: Resin
Case Thickness: 17
Clasp: Buckle
Dial Color: grey
Dial Window Material Type: Mineral
Watch Movement Type: digital-quartz
Water Resistance Depth: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 4.3 x 3.5
MPN: SPF40-1V
Model: SPF40-1V
UPC: 079767726652
EAN: 0079767726652
ASIN: B000FPZ474
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent watch with room for improvement July 15, 2008
I bought this watch for yacht racing and kayaking. The most important features for me are the timer and the tide chart. Compass is very handy as a backup device.
Downsides:
a. The tide indicator is mighty approximate. It would be very nice if you could manually enter the time of high tide for one or more favorite harbors and then have the watch compute the tides from then on and display the high and low tides digitally. Currently, the best you can do is "about an hour from high tide" or "the tide should be going out".
b. The button for reading the barometer is situated so that it can be pressed accidentally by flexing the wrist. 50% of the time when I glance at the watch, I get a barometric pressure instead of the time. Not convenient when counting down the seconds before a start. This issue could easily be solved by making the barometer a "press twice within one second" switch.
c. Given that they've got a barometer in the watch, would it have hurt to make it an altimeter as well? Some of us sailors go on the occasional hike or skiing expedition too.
The watch is big and I occasionally get the "that's the largest watch I've ever seen" comment, but so what? Lots of info is immediately available and it's in sufficiently large type that I don't have to squint.
Manly man's watch June 23, 2008
A great big, chunky, manly man watch. Just what my husband wanted. And the numbers are big enough so he can see them easily. I love that it tells the temperature and has a compass, but on different screens so I don't have to distinguish between a half-dozen little dials on the face.
Sea Pathfinder SPF40-1V June 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent watch--except for the size and setting the Luni-Tidal Interval. The instructions in the manual are not at all intuitive and I spent a couple of hours two days in a row talking to Casio Customer Service to help set the watch up for local tides. No one in the tech shop seemed to know which variables to plug in the formula listed in the owner's manual. I finally figured out a better, simpler way of calculating the LT Interval on my own. The tides are accurate but not precise, due to the 6-hour time increments on the tide graph. It it still excellent as a handy general tide reference. There is also no capability of predicting tide more than about 6 or 12 hours ahead of time.
The temperature function is only accurate when the watch is removed from the wrist.
The barometer is a cool function and it graphs over a 24 hour period to show trends.
I've not yet had to replace any of the four batteries, but I imagine this will be a royal pain when the time comes.
All in all it is a great package of information available on your wrist. The watch is durable and functional.
Casio Pathfinder Tide Watch SPF40-1V March 27, 2008
I have had the same watch for over 5 years now, when my old one broke I bought a new one, and it is everything I want in a watch. I do wish the temperature would work accurately but I guess I can't have everything. Very good Price and very good seller
 A Nice Watch Till You Have To Replace The Batteries November 15, 2007
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have owned this watch for several years and have enjoyed it. I agree with the other comments. I want to add that now it is time to replace the batteries. You will need FOUR batteries at five dollars a piece. So the cost is $20 every five years.
Then you take off the back and replace the batteries. A simple job unless the entire mechanism pops out. Trying to get it back in and working is impossible and I am handy with tools. A micro spring appeared on my work area. I have no idea where it goes or where it came from. When I finally did get it back together some of the buttons did not work. After many attempts I gave up. Also, once you break the seal by opening the back of the watch it is never quite as waterproof as it originally was.
I have been a Casio fan since Casio started making digital watches. I have thrown this one out and plan to buy the solar model so I never have to deal with the problems and costs again.
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