Baby-G Reef Series BGR-270 Tough Solar

Today, I'm back on the mini Casio G-Shock range, better known as the Baby-G.
This model is part of the Reef Series of Baby-Gs which covered a lot of different designs over quite a few years. This particular one is a BGR-270 which came out in June 2004, and is the colour combination called BGR-270-4C.

You can tell by looking at the watch that it is a Baby-G with the tough appearance and seep set LCD display. It is a tough solar model, and is designed to last for up to 12 months on its CTL1616 without exposure to light (or 26 months in power save mode). To gauge the amount of power left there is an indicator in the top right corner showing a L/M/H battery level. As a Baby-G, the watch has 10 bar water resistance, and is also low temperature resistant to - 10C.

This model uses a feature packed 2616 module. This means it has a stopwatch, timer, alarm (x5), data bank (30 slot for name and telephone), and world time (29 time zones), as well as an electro-luminescent backlight.

All of this is displayed on a 3 line LCD display with the curved digits of the time being the most prominent along the middle. The top line covers the date, with day and seconds at the bottom. The day is shown in a small dot matrix array (17x5), and this display also shows a small animation of a surfer or a dolphin when it hits the 30 second mark.