Casio WV-59J Multi Band 5 Waveceptor

I've been through a lot of Waveceptor watches on the blog, and a lot have been Japan frequency only. Today's model is one that is a multi band version, so will work in Europe and the US too.

The watch is a Casio Waveceptor model WV-59J, and is a Japanese model. The full model number is WV-59-1AJF, and it is still for sale for around ¥4000.

The WV59 is a rectangular model with a black and shiny silver design, and a curved glass (which is a little strange for an otherwise squared watch). The display is dominated by the time across the centre, with a small display for date (8 digits) above, and a small dot matrix for the day below. In the bottom right is the receiver icon to show when it is searching for a time update (which normally happens 6 times per day).

Inside is a 3053 module, and this has dual time, timer, stopwatch and alarm modes. It works with 5 locations of radio reception from the atomic clock transmitter stations - using 40, 60, and 77.5 kHz. On top of this, it has world time with 48 cities covering 29 time zones.