Casio Phys Walking & Calorie STR-400

I was out doing an annual walk to raise money for a local sports association today, and managed to find a walking watch.

The watch is another by Casio and is called the Walking & Calorie watch. It seems to be under a one called Phys which I've not come across before, but I'd guess it was a line of specialist sports watches. The watch has a model number of STR-400J and was a Japanese model for walkers.

The special feature is that it has a walking pace function. When you start the timer, the watch starts counting steps, not movement based, but based on the pace you set (which you can have silent or marked with beeps). Based on the steps, the watch calculates the total  distance and calories burned (-my walk was just over 10,000 steps, 6.5km and I burned 187.4 calories in case anyone is interested). The watch stores this data and gives you the information for the past week too. Other functions are the standard stopwatch, and 5 alarms which are vibrating alarms too (the Vib Alarm in Casio speak) .

It has a large easy to read LCD screen, with the time (in large digits) across the centre. There is another 4 digit display at the bottom which shows the date (or has other functions such as time display during other modes). At the top is a small dot matrix array showing the day and which mode you are in, or what is being shown (e.g kcal, km, min, etc.), and shows information in Japanese as well as English for some of the items.

The full model number is STR-400J-1JF, and originally sold some time in the 2000s for 10,000 yen. It is still available from the Casio site now (Aug 2013).