Casio Sports AQ-190W 1/1000 Chronograph

In my early teens, I had always wanted a watch like the one I'm wearing today. The combination of dials and lots of LCD bits made me feel that this was the type of super high tech device I wanted on my wrist.

This watch is a Casio watch from their sports line, and one which they describe as Multi-Task Gear.

The model is the AW190W, and this variant is the AQ-190W-1AVEF. It is an ana-digi model with a main electronic dial, and several LCD panels. The dial is a 2 hand dial, which is fully electronic controlled (the minute hand moving 3 times per minute). There are 4 LCD parts (with another 3 indicator windows), two of which are showing segments which fill with the seconds or in as part of the velocity measurement in stopwatch mode. The other two are the main LCD displays, one being a dot matrix for day or mode description, and the other being a 2 line LCD display with digits (although the bottom line also shows some text (lap mode or alarm status). There is a small dial at the bottom of the display to show velocity depending on the stopwatch duration (giving a reading in unit/hr, and using the left circular LCD to add hundreds to the dial reading).

It uses a 5082 module, which has the 1/1000 sec chronograph (going up to 100 hrs), 5 alarms, timer, and world time. There is an orange LED light which shines in from the side of the dial, and the time markers and hands glow in the dark. It has a 10 bar /100m pressure classification, but the website reminds you that this is not a diving depth, but the air pressure used during a water resistance test (to ISO 22810).

The watch still seems to be on sale for around $65 direct from Casio.