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How to fix the fourth dimension and date on a Casio CA-53 (with video and review)

Casio CA-53

I said I was going to purchase this as i of my nerdy purchases for 2022, and I did.

The Casio CA-53 is the de facto calculator watch. In fact, whenever you hear "calculator watch", Casio is the brand that immediately comes to mind. While Casio wasn't the first company to bring a calculator watch to market, they did practice it all-time.

Earlier I get into the review of the watch, I made a video on this watch explaining how to set the time, set the warning, change from 12-hour to 24-hour a.k.a. military machine time, and so on. That video is below.

Hither are the primary points of what's in the video in written course since this is what well-nigh people desire to know well-nigh this particular model. If you lot don't empathize any of these, watch the video below to see a visual example explained in plainer English.

Enabling or disabling the alarm

Go to alert screen. Printing 4.

Choosing AM or PM when setting the alarm

While setting the alarm time, press the period key (as in the one with a tiny petty "PM" next to it).

Enabling or disabling the hourly chime

Go to alert screen. Press multiplication central (the one with the × next to it on the right side).

Enabling or disabling 24-60 minutes a.k.a. military time

From main time screen, press adjust push (the recessed bottom silverish button on the right side of the case). Press fashion push (the silver push button just to a higher place the recessed push button) once to switch to adjusting the hour. Press the plus push (the bottom right central).

Starting or stopping the stopwatch and resetting

Get to stopwatch screen. Printing plus key to starting time. Press again to cease. To reset, printing 0 (the bottom left key).

Viewing the year, month and twenty-four hours

From the main time screen, press and hold the division fundamental ÷ (the top right cardinal).

Review of the CA-53

At offset...

My initial impression of the lookout one time I put it on the wrist was, "Wow, this affair isn't nearly as nerdy as I idea information technology would be."

The funny affair about the CA-53 is that in pictures on a computer screen, it looks similar this unwieldy, oddly-shaped thing. In person, that's not the case at all. The scout actually has quite the sophisticated look to it. Aye, seriously.

Compared to other Casio watches, the CA-53 is an practice in restrained pattern. The but affair even remotely "loud" on it is the "WR" (H2o Resist) gold lettering at meridian right of the case. Everything else about information technology is subtle and purposely understated.

In a earth full of digital wristwatches that look really, really tacky, the CA-53 is such a nice thing to run across.

Readability

While the digits are actually smaller than on the F-91W, the display is piece of cake to read. It can even be read hands while wearing polarized sunglasses.

The picket does non take a backlight/nightlight, but that doesn't bother me at all since I'm more interested in daytime and not dark reading. I take returned a few watches considering of legibility problems in directly sunlight. And that fifty-fifty includes a few analog timepieces. The CA-53 can be read easily even under the brightest Florida sun.

Functionality

Good, but not equally easy every bit other Casio timepieces, for the reason things are not put in "Casio standard" locations. And because some features are outright subconscious unless yous read the manual get-go. Nigh of the subconscious features non evidently marked on the watch are noted above and shown in the video below.

There are 3 more hidden features I didn't mention in a higher place or in the video beneath.

First is how to get a sit-in of the warning tone. When on the alarm screen, printing 0 and + (bottom left and bottom right keypad keys) at the aforementioned time and an alert tone demo will audio.

2nd is a feature that's not hidden but ambiguously marked. The stopwatch does in fact prove hours equally information technology will go upwards to 23:59.99, simply hours are not displayed on the stopwatch screen. The division primal ÷ (top right), besides labeled "Engagement/ST-60 minutes", volition testify how many hours accept passed on the stopwatch screen if pressed and held. ST-Hour literally means "Stopwatch Hr".

Third is another stopwatch feature. The watch will beep once for every 10 minutes of stopwatch time elapsed, but simply when the stopwatch screen is selected. If yous run the stopwatch, go out information technology running and go dorsum to the time screen, the beep will not sound every 10 minutes. This means if you want to hear that x-minute interval beep, stay on the stopwatch screen when the stopwatch is running.

Style

I really like the plainer, understated '80s way of the CA-53 and I absolutely have no trouble wearing it in public.

For some reason there'south this belief that when you wear a CA-53, everyone gawks and stares at you. That's non true at all. The only fourth dimension people gawk and stare at a sentry you're wearing is if it'southward something oversized and/or loud and/or tacky, and the CA-53 is the furthest matter from that.

Here are the actual measurements of the CA-53, and I took these myself:

Instance size side-to-side: 34mm
Case size side-to-side with button included: 35mm
Case size diagonally measured: 43.5mm
Lug-to-lug: 42mm
Thickness: 8mm

The most misreported measurement is the thickness. Everywhere I've looked, the thickness is reported as 7mm. Not true. Information technology's 8mm. If the "hump" on the back plate is omitted, and so the measurement is 7mm. But that hump is what direct rests on the wrist, which when included adds up to 8mm.

Aside from that, the never-mentioned diagonal measurement is what takes people by surprise. The CA-53 is definitely rectangle shaped so it is taller than information technology is wide. On the wrist, that makes for a good await. Smaller side-to-side compared to an F-91W, but also taller compared to an F-91W.

On my half dozen.75-inch size wrist, the CA-53 looks great. And I'd presume information technology would await good on a wrist size range of 6.5" to 7.25".

Audio

The beep tones of the CA-53 are what I believe to exist unique to the watch. I'm going to exist using the F-91W as the comparison tone since that's the one people know all-time.

Volume of the beep is not equally loud every bit an F-91W, but nevertheless fairly aural.

Length of the beep is shorter than the F-91W.

Speed of the beep is a quicker stutter for alarm and hourly chime. The F-91W is a "BEEP BEEP" while the CA-53 is a "BEE-BEEP".

The total time an alarm will beep for is merely like the F-91W, 20 seconds. The alarm can of course be interrupted with a key printing.

Overall, the beep is a footling quieter and definitely not as shrill as the F-91W's beep.

Lastly I'll say this about Casio beep tones: The F-91W and steel version A158 have the loudest beeps. I own other newer Casio digital timepieces, and none of them have the book of the F-91W/A158. If y'all want a cheap Casio with a loud beep tone, you want an F-91W...

...and if you tin't hear the tone of an F-91W, then I'd advise the Casio W735H, a "Vibration Alert" model. If your ears tin can't hear the beep tones, switch to something that vibrates the wrist instead. And before you ask, no, it will not vibrate then much to wake you from sleep. Only it does vibrate plenty to alert you when you're awake.

Comfort

The CA-53 is very comfortable. Very thin, lays apartment on the wrist, very low-cal in weight. Mine weighed in at 25g on my kitchen scale.

I tin definitely say that y'all will have absolutely no trouble pulling a shirt sleeve over the watch, and then you can wearable information technology with pretty much annihilation.

Durability

I just got mine so I can't actually say annihilation too much here. But I can say that this is a lookout I don't program on getting wet. Aye, the spotter is technically water resistant, only all buttons added up full to 18, meaning there's eighteen different places h2o can enter.

What this basically means is other than an accidental calorie-free splash, this sentinel shouldn't go anywhere near h2o.

Yeah, I know there are plenty of people who claim they've taken the CA-53 in the shower, gone pond with it and so on, and the watch survived just fine. I personally would non do that.

Other than the h2o resistance or lack thereof, a known outcome with the CA-53 is the strap. It's soft, but thin. Try non to pull on it also much when taking the picket on and off the wrist.

Happy?

I am happy to own the CA-53. There was a small learning bend but I figured everything out in a few minutes.

Volition I ever utilize the computer feature? Aye. In fact, I surprised myself by using the estimator the first day I had information technology. I went to the grocery store to pick upward a few items, and when I got back to the parking lot I wanted to cheque the receipt to make sure all my items were added up properly. Usually I would take hold of my phone to practise this math, simply I remembered I was wearing the CA-53 and thought I should effort using that, so I did.

Certain, the keypad buttons are small, only I was able to do my calculations. It worked!

Check out the video below for more info

I go over most of the watch features and do a quick comparison to some other Casio models.