Review by John E. Pombrio for Casio Men’s PAG40-7 Pathfinder Triple Sensor Multi-Functional Digital Watch
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I was totally shocked by the size of this monster watch. 5/8 inch thick (.66 inch) and 2 1/8 in diameter (2.07 inches) by my calipers. That is why I am giving the watch one star off, good luck wearing it with a shirt that has a buttoned cuff.

The watch band is really thick and heavy duty, 7/8 inches wide with the usual metal buckle/slots. The watch band is SCREWED into place. Need 2 flat bladed screwdrivers to remove. Good luck finding a replacement band with Velcro or something.

The plastic face is recessed a bit by the movable compass ring. Looks like it is durable enough, no idea how easily it scratches. Will find out soon I am sure.

As for the watch functions. Wow. Amazing watch. It has a huge screen 1 1/4 inches wide and contains two layers of LCDs along with different colors, green for functions and blue for the compass. The time shows up in 1/4 inch numbers readable across the room (literally). Modes besides compass, barometer/temperature, altitude are Min/Max altitude and stop watch. Can have some amazingly small numbers and symbols for a watch this size. The P for PM is about the limit that my eyes can read. Lots of alarms. Easy to adjust pretty much anything on the watch, time, date, compass, temperature, etc. Luckily everything is changeable to degrees F and mm of mercury for us non-metric folks. Compass is a little jerky (1-2 second delay) and have not yet time to see how well the altitude setting works. Temperature seems to be sluggish in updating.

The background light is quite bright and everything can be read easily enough. Of course, with that much square footage of screen size, I can use it to find keyholes and such. Heh. There is a tip to light feature.

THERE ARE 4 BATTERIES SR927W. The back come off with just 8 phillips screws, no prying necessary. 4 screws on the back, 2 screws with half threaded on the buttons side, and 2 screws fully threaded on the sensor side. There are two bottoms, a rubbery plastic (which goes against your wrist) and a metal one with the serial number on it. No mention of battery types unfortunately. The metal back has the very thin water seal gasket that looks like a pain but is not really. Just put the seal in place,hold the bottom flat with the seal up, and place the watch on top, bending out the wrist band tabs so it will go on.

So, if you like BIG watches that look like it will go through hell and back (bring extra batteries) while telling you what the temperature is and how deep you are, this is your watch.

UPDATE! 12-10-09 Well, I returned the watch, one of the few things I have ever returned. A few very good reasons. One is the watch was just too big. I had to roll up my sleeve or unbutton the cuff just to wear the thing. The second is the very poor performance of the altimeter. I could set the altimeter to zero in my living room and have it read -20 or even -40 feet when I went UP the stairs. When driving over the Berkshires and using the GPS for accurate altitude readings, I never got within 60-100 feet of the true altitude even after multiple attempts and zeroing the damn thing out. For MT Everest, this is no deal breaker. For the NE US? Unacceptable. Third is the compass and temperature. The temperature gauge was totally useless as it took a good 45 MINUTES to settle on the temperature and then, like the altimeter, would be off by 5 to 10 degrees even when I tried compensating the setting multiple times. Finally the compass would work but it was jerky and them would just shut down in 15-20 seconds locked into the last reading. What good is that?

Well, it seemed to keep good time though!

Review by Just a guy for Casio Men’s PAG40-7 Pathfinder Triple Sensor Multi-Functional Digital Watch
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I bought this watch as a spare while my everyday dress watch was sent back for repair. I dont particullarly care for plastic watches, but I like this one. I will wear it swimming and while coaching baseball and any other time I would be afraid to damage my nice watch. I thought that the light colored trim along the right side was silver, it is white (wish it was silver). The temperature guage is affected by your body temperature and on me is consistently 10 degrees hotter than the teperature reading in my car. Has a few cool bells and whistles. Wanted the model with solar power, but didnt want the bright orange light button. I like big watches and for a plastic (resin) watch this is pretty big.

Review by john Woodhead for Casio Men’s PAG40-7 Pathfinder Triple Sensor Multi-Functional Digital Watch
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I have been looking for a watch with the Altimeter function, at the right price.

It is interesting, to see, when you are travelling, especially by plane, all the different heights and locally, in hilly country, all the different levels one achieves.

The other functions give a weather prediction for when out walking in the Lake District; alarm for reminders, to perform social functions etc. all in all a damn good tool!