Casio e-Data Bank EDB-100

Today is my second Casio Data Bank of the week, and they couldn't be more different. The last model was very cute and plastic, while today's has a lot of curved metal surfaces, and looks more like something that Iron Man would wear!

The styling is the first thing you notice about this model, as the head and strap are integrated in a mixture of steel and plastic, looking a bit like a metal armadillo. The back follows in the style with a curved metal plate and large screws. It has even been nominated on one forum as one of the best looking digital watches!

It is part of Casio's e-Data Bank line which are relatively high tech and sci-fi styled memo watches. This one seems to be the EDB-100CJ as it has the metal strap, with the 100J models having only a plastic strap.

The front of the watch is dominated by the large squarish LCD screen. The 6 digit time display takes up at least half of the area with two other lines above and below. The top line covers the normal day and date, and the bottom line is an array of dots (5x30?) showing the city chosen in the World Time options. When the other modes are chosen, unusually it is the bottom line that they show on, except for the data bank input.

The 2417 module is an illuminator model, and has a 30 slot data memory, world time, alarm, and stopwatch. The illumination can be set to activate on wrist movement alone, so you don't need to press any buttons.

Guessing from the fact that the date adjustment starts at 1994, I guess that this is a 90s model, and references online seem to suggest that it had a sub-$100 sale price.