This $17 Watch Changed Horology As We Know It!
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When I was in Elementary School, our Swim Teacher always told us to take off our watches before dipping in the pool.
Boy did I feel like a bad-ass rebel every time I flex on them swimming with this one still on my wrist.
youre brave.
I hear ya, many may not experience the times when water resistance is somewhat of a luxury item especially for boys of the school age. Ability to run through rain and swim while wearing a watch is something to be brag about among the 10 years old kids.
Same! Also swam with my 50m Pulsars all the time as a kid, makes me laugh when people think you need 200m to go swimming in the pool nowadays
Oh boy. What a joy
#likeaboss
I have one from 1994, and its still working, and in the last 26 year I only needed to change the battery two times, in 2006, and a month ago in 2020. Its pretty impressive I think.
And all this reliability for around 10 bucks! Thats really impressive.
Can’t wait until mine finally ships :D
@@MinefighterLP i just got mine and its amazing, i prefer mechanical but this little thing has something special 😄
And I am impressed that you remember the years you replaced the batteries!
I think battery life was 7 years
Has the band actually held up all this time???
I wear a standard F-91w to work everyday and I love the little guy. Great watch for construction. Cheap, durable, accurate, light, retro styling. Total win
Crazy thing is that after a busy day, I come home to find an amazon package at my door step knowing very well what it is. I rush to open it and literally as I pull out my brand new F-91W, I get the notification for this video. It’s fate!
These Casios are basically Swiss army knifes in watch form.
Simple, Easy, Cheap and get the job done well.
Knives*
@@stephenmoore3035 Stephen if you're looking for expert grammar, you are in the wrong place.
It’s not expert grammar……just correct grammar…….
@@BLUESBOYBENFIELD ?
An excellent ice-breaker as well to start a conversation. April 2019 I was trekking in Nepal and in the common dining room I spotted this watch worn by another trekker. I asked him straight up "Hello is that an f91". At first he was taken a back and looked at his watch to confirm the number and he gladly nodded in agreement "yeah but this is written f minus 91w". We spoke non stop for over an hour after that
Looks like the Casio f91W can make you some friends. I just got on on Amazon for $10. Hard to believe the price has not changed much. Sometimes, it is $17 and it can switch back and forth with price on the same day.
I get more complements from people my age group about my f-91w than i do from any of my watches. As a younger watch collector (24 years old) the f-91w was my first watch i bought for work at 18. 6 years later it has been through so much I don't want to part with it. I even climbed Machu Picchu with it!
i can feel this comment. my workmates never comment on my other automatic watches, but they go crazy about my F-91w
Same dude I’m 21 and when ever I wear an omega nobody bats an eye but I wear my Casio and girls will compliment it and I’m just like sitting there in confusion haha
24 is young for a watch collector?
Im 14 and collect affordable watches
(Casio, seiko, timex etc.)
@@wheepylive9040 Good for you, welcome to the hobby! I would say 24 is on the young side as it's the age when people are finally out of university and become young professionals. It's around this age when they can start making big purchases. If you look at most watch collectors they tend to be much older especially when it comes to luxury watches. Especially since young adults who just entered the professional world most likely have not made enough money to purchase a Rolex.
@@Antoto96 yeah..
You can' really call me a watch collector as i can only think about purchasing entry level watches
But yeah thanks :D
Im going to save up for one good watch in the future depending on how my life goes
Michael Schumacher, had one glued to his steering wheel. He timed his own laps using this model
it was mad. such a legend that is still among us. R.I.P Sir Stirling Moss. You will be missed.
That's a very interesting piece of trivia. Thx
But what if the battery runs out?
@@8zzzzzd79 buy a new one. Doesn't hurt the wallet to change it way ahead of when it might run out either.
It was actually a Casio F-30, I believe.
For those who want to change the strap, the lugwidth is 18mm. I've got a silver one on a two piece bond 18mm nato.
Great to know, thanks! I just picked up some 18mm NATOs for another watch, this info was the tipping point for me to pick one of these up. I had a black one years ago, time to replace it!
Notice, that there's very small gap between the bar an the watch body,, and it's pretty difficult to place nato strap
Never been a watch guy. Never saw the need to wear one and i dont like they way they look on me but as a trash truck driver i bought one almost a year ago. Its perfect to time our air break tests i have to do every morning. And besides that ive really grown to like this watch. I used to wear it just at work but i find myself wearing it more and more outside of work as well.
Oh hell yes. Still rocking the grey one on a NATO.
How many brands will deliver you a reliable watch with a day-date function, 12/24h, alarm and stopwatch, at least some splash resistance if nothing else at $10 that will last you at least a few years? Probably just the one.
ive tried to push the pin to change the strap, but man I'm afraid I'd break the plastic case 😂
I have a B640 and its losing a second every week and its pissing me off 😂
I know its like only 50 seconds a year but my other casios like the royale only off like 0.1 second a month so comparatively its much worse.
@@chantakzee haha, my f91 loses a couple of seconds a month I guess. It bugs me too so I go and sync it to atomic time once a month. Suuuper extra, lol
@@cakraparindra4659 Case will be fine tbh, but getting a NATO in takes a good bit of effort because the distance between case and lug is really small.
Well you get 💯 for a service of a quality watch.
My f91 is beat, yet still gets noticed when worn more than most of my watches. Its covered in scratches and paint splatters and I love it even more for it, a watch you can truly bash around doing work and not care.
The casio F-91w both apocalypse & Covid-19 certified. Just add a dose of dunkaroos for invincibility & nostalgia. Cheers to all here for Jory's great T3 vids. 🍻🥂🍺🍺🍷🍷
I wore a F-91W daily all through the 90's. It never let me down, kept perfect time, I wore it to work under a dress shirt and I wore it while playing sports. Fantastic watch. I had totally forgotten about it when I saw it online a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea Casio was still selling the same exact watch since 1989. How cool, it is retro and new all at the same time. I immediately ordered one and have been wearing it daily since I got it. Wow, it is 1990 all over again :) A nice bit of nostalgia for $12. I collect watches but this is all the watch anyone needs if you just want the correct time. Everyone should have one in their collection.
I'm mowed a lot of lawns to be able to get the money to buy my first one it seemed like it was a whole bunch of money back then
😝krazy !
Back in the day I got my 1st Casio, I went crazy and bought the w726 for £2 extra cos I wanted 100m wr, it also has dual time, alarm, countdown timer, stopwatch, day, date, month and a decent backlight, 10 year+ battery. Oh and it still works perfectly 30 years later!
Wore this as a dentist for decades. Easy to clean off and never had to dispose of it. Checked it incessantly while treating patients. Only the band needed replacement. Classic, functional watch for everyday use. I still have one from the 1980's without the band in one of my drawers as a momento to its history.
My first watch as a schoolkid in the 90's! Never gave them much thought after that until a joined the army and seen them being sported on many soldiers wrists. Cheap cheerful and reliable.
I remeber my grandfather giving me an F-91W when I was like 5 yeaes old. Wish I still had it.
I use to play with the stop watch function and tried to get the milliseconds to 00. So much fun and once I did I told my friends they couldn’t and then it became a competition
I did the same game with my friends and got it to 01 with my secret special technique. That was a little trick by using the split button so you can start it with one button and stop it with the other. That looks pretty cool. 00;00 01
Every day!
I thought I was the only one that did that. It never happened for me
I got the A158, which is the exact same but with steel look, man that is a true masterpiece
Around 1993 I was doing asbestos abatement (removal) I had one of those on my wrist and a spare in my locker for when (not if) it got destroyed. Between the water, the shock of hammering, or something heavy ripping it off your wrist and it falling down somewhere it could never be retrieved, I went through a few of them. Still have a metal cased Casio in my watch cabinet for fishing.
I've still got my Casio Marlin W-24a that I received as a birthday gift in 1983. Its a little beat up, but still in very good condition for its age and everything works, including the light. The original strap has long since disintegrated, but an F-91w strap has taken its place, since it's the closest to the original design that's available.Wore the hell out of it all through the 80s and early 90s, and I'll never get rid of it.
How to spot a fake F91w: Press the button on the right for 3 seconds. The display will show "CASIo" if it's genuine. Or press all three buttons together and you'll see every caractere activated on the display
Sadly, the fakers have now picked up on this, and many current fakes pass this test. I got burned by this last year: that's £3.99 I'll never see again. 😉
Lol I never knew about that
@@considermycat How did you know your watch was fake?
Just jumped back in time still love this watch, oh, and Goldeneye.
This watch gives me the fizz. Like the paid off mortgage beats the BMW as the new status symbol. I don’t want to go overboard but “Self actualized” comes to mind. Thanks for the trip back to our roots.
My 5 year old son wears it now. It's the same watch I wore when he was born. Same battery.
It was my go to watch for my global backpacking trips in the 80s and 90s I was never worried about it getting stolen or me getting mugged for a expensive watch
Jori, I hope to God that it's not until now that you own a Casio F-91W. This model is the quintessential Casio every watch enthusiast has to own. No one can be a serious watch collector, connoisseur nor expert without owning one. It is the perfect watch for those places and times you may not want to wear an expensive piece.
The databank, the royale, the f-91, the duro and any gshock. Can't go wrong and there will always be one in my collection.
"Even Casio's building looks Casio " ♥ this is why i subscribed
The F91W IS my everyday work watch. I will not take a nice watch to work, just to have it destroyed at some job! Problem is, the F91W is so reliable, rugged, and accurate, I do not miss my other watches. IF I was a sane human being, this would be my only watch. Unfortunately, I'm a very shallow and vain person...
Agree with you
You and me both!
I happened to own the F91, F94, W217, and AE1200..and surely more to come. Casio is simply great.
I taught myself how to solder properly in order to replace the dim LED on this watch several times now, I love it as a beater and practice watch.
So funny I just ordered this exact model last night as my new work beater! Need something small, functional and affordable and this checked all the boxes. Can't wait to get it! Great vid!
My dad's f91 is still a-ok after 17 years, no battery replacement. One of the toughest watch ever made, methinks.
I got a F91W for Christmas this past year and I love it even more now that that it has a lot of history. I got it because I needed a watch for work and I love wearing it. Great video!
I miss my old Casio watches (1980s), wore them back in grade school. I never owned an F91 because it was the 90s when it came out, and I had graduated to a G-Shock by then.
How can you say the G-shock would not exist without the f91-w, the G-shock predates it by 8 years
Six years. 😉
I own a F91-W for a while and never wear them since i thought it is part of my casio collection. And i have 7½ inch wrist as well so i think it's a little smaller and look like a toy watch.
But during this kind of pandemic which force me work from home and spend most of my time doing stuff at home so it become my daily watch. Somehow i'm becoming to appreciate and love this watch more every single day. Amazing.
I used to be the type of guy who hated battery quartz watches, but now I've come to appreciate them. So much so that I've decided to purchase the silver variant of these lovely Casio F91's. Can't wait to receive it! Got it for $20 with shipping and tax, but I did purchase it from the official Casio store on Ebay. Based on everything I've seen about these watches, I am pretty much entirely certain it will be worth it! Love the simplistic retro styling of these things.
These watches are amazing. Not even marketed as water resistant, yet people snorkel with them (I swim with mine all the time). Also great is the model that’s about $2 more (model number F105w) and has an Illuminator display.
My very first digital that I owned back in the 1960's here in the UK was a Casio. They had a stainless steel case and caseback in those days and were quite expensive. I have several Casio watches in my collection but not the F91. I own two Casio 5610 G-Shocks though which are awesome, two MTD1053D dive watches and other square watches by Casio which includes the Royale on the stainless steel bracelet. Casio offer an awesome range of watches and they are great value for money. I am currently wearing my Casio W-96H watch which I really enjoy wearing which is a bit larger than the F91 on the wrist and is quite a stylish watch and might be worth a review. It's great for someone with a small wrist size. Thank for uploading this video and greetings from here in the UK.
Great video.
So my mother had this watch back in the mid 90's the first time I saw her after she had abandoned me 3yrs prior.
We sat at my Nan's kitchen table and her red F-91 caught my eye as she asked me (Do you forgive me?) To which I replied (Only if I can have that watch!)
I was clearly hardened by this point!!
Anyway I didn't get that watch as she was a nurse and needed it for work but soon afterwards my Dad let us begin monthly weekend visits and sure enough I arrived at her place one Friday night and voila! I had my own one just the same! Great bribe Mum, in hindsight it kinda worked on me!
Needless to say as a rough kid I broke / lost it within months but recently after beginning a watch collection properly for the first time I pulled the trigger on a black and blue one for a colossal £6.70 in GBP delivered free via Amazon prime and I'm wearing it right now as I type during my long quiet night shift.
Great to read everybody's stories and memories surrounding this horological icon!!
I actually just ordered one to throw in my watch box as a beater. I had an F91-W I bought when I was in boot camp 13 years ago. We weren't allowed to wear fancy watches but they took us to the base store to get some supplies and they had F91-W's there and me being a watch guy I had to have a watch on my wrist and I found this little Casio did the trick. Also it has an alarm which is good when you need to get up for fire watch.
I had the same Casio 91-w since I join the army and I have used it for 3 years now every single day, also the same color one as the video
I have three color variants including the stainless steel one and they are some that I will never get rid of. They just hit the spot for value, price, fun, nostalgia and amazing fit, they just blend into the wrist and disappear.
Absolutely with you!!! Bit of a shady past but what an Icon! I’ll put the Casio Ca53W calculator watch up in that icon tear to!!!! Just got an A168WA! A little chunkier that the F91W, but looking forward to reviewing it!!!! GREAT BACK LIGHT THIS ONE!;)
What shady past are you talking about?
@@gohan12991 look up Casio and bombs
I have a few watches but the F-91W is hand down the one that gets the most wrist time. It’s just a fantastic watch and I love wearing it. I bought a bunch of them and gave to my daughter, my girlfriend and some of my friends and they all loved it.
In December 2020 I looked at this watch as a gift for my spouse, but wound up going with the G-Shock DW5600E-1V. Love what Casio did with the industry and love that these watches are their own design. Few other watch makers stand on their own design language the way Casio does. She loves the watch, btw.
Coincidentally watching this with my green F-91W on. 👍🏼
Likewise
My Casio F91-W is my daily work watch. It's great apart from the awful backlight.
This was my second watch! I took it everywhere, but sadly killed it by trying to turn the light on under water.
Fatal mistake! PSA for those who don't know. If you're underwater with one of these on, do not push the buttons!
@@timclancy871 How about in the shower?
G Shocks and whatnot were huge in the 90's because we needed that alarm since a lot of us didn't have cellphones then.
@@donnyboon2896 thanks for the service brother
i wear my F-84W every time i go out so that I don't worry about it and can scrub it clean in the sink when I get home.
When it comes to nostalgic things like this, an improved highly visible backlight would actually take away from the watch. Just like taking your favorite N64 game and keeping it exactly the same but with up-to-date graphics.
Cool review bro 😎. Just arrived from Walmart and got myself my first black f-91W... now comfortably wearing while enjoying this video 😊...
My current watch “collection”:
•Seiko SKX13
•Seiko SKX007
•Tissot Visodate
•Hamilton Khaki Field Manual
•Citizen Eco-Drive
•Casio F-91W
I love the F91W!!!
Im saving up money to buy this one someday😊
IV one you can have for noting
Me too.
I have a couple of these somewhere in the house. The straps lasted about a couple years or so. One thing though, the batteries in them lasts a long time. Nice review. Love your videos!
F-91W, the 10 bucks watch even watch snobs with a rolex loves!
I usually spend this money on a watch strap, not a whole watch.
Jory, thanks to you i just orderd one.
Really cool retro piece.
I think you're the only watch channel that actually CHECKS the time. Love it!
Another iconic timepiece. I've met few people who haven't owned one at some point. My collection wouldn't feel complete without it Nice to see Ultraman get the cameo as well! 😁
A true watch fan like you gets excited by the watch not the price tag. I´ve been getting into quartz Seikos from the 70´s- they go for pretty cheap but they do represent a hugely important turning point in the history of watches. That is cool to me. Back in 1975 say, quartz watches were still pretty new and at people were like, wow, you mean I don´t have to wind this....for years!!!
I have one right now. Great watch. Awesome for working out in. Can barely feel it on the wrist
My mother gave me this watch way back 90's but somehow I lost it & I don't remember how.. But now I realized how valuable it is to treasure something with sentimental value I ordered the same f91w & will keep it for the rest of my life together with all my watch collections.. Now currently owning 6 classic retro casio digital watches including the back to the future calculator watch & casio royale in resin black.. & still eyeing for more casios in the future..
F91W came out in 1991, first G-Shock (DW-5000C) was released in 1983
Recognizing what "enough" is all about,re evaluating what one really needs.taking care of our needs as opposed to our greeds'
I actually have the gold variant and it's the only "gold" watch that I don't hate the looks of. I'm thinking maybe because it's not trying to look like gold, it's sort a just more humble and it's own thing. Like you said trying to be futuristic but so nostalgic as well. It's just a nice everyday wear and plesent enough to look at.
The one thing that I can't get over is the lack of a 4th button. You have to go through the setting mode to get back to time mode. That kind of sucks, because an inadvertent button press could change the time. I like having a special setting button that you have to hold for a couple of seconds.
14:52 Thanks. I was hoping and happy to see 11 hours 11 minutes and 11 seconds
Your young Time Teller. The F-w91 Came out in 1991 and Casio made there first watch in 1974. That is a 15 years apart. G-shock came out in 1984 a decade before the G-shock. Casio disconnected its older Digital, well not all, not the first G-shocks, it released the F-w91 in 1991. I group up as a little kid in the 1980's and the Casio Digital watches I had were not G-shocks but they had stainless steel buckles. Also Timex had a Digital divers watch that came out in 1980. When the 1990's came I was in high school and wore a Timex digital watch. Then in 1996 I revived a bigger Casio watch that wasn't a g-shock.
Casio started making Digital watches in 1974 and didn't even make the fist digital watch. That was Hamilton. On its American web site it is selling a reissue of that watch.
American Classic PSR Digital Quartz
Quartz | 40,8mm x 34,7mm | H52414130
In stock
In 1970, Hamilton changed the way the world told time with the debut of the Hamilton Pulsar. Fifty years later, the Hamilton PSR celebrates the launch of that revolutionary first digital watch. Today, a hybrid display and a stainless steel case bring this game-changing invention back to the future.
$745.00 www.hamiltonwatch.com/en-us/?msclkid=88bf46f70c1d1e43063318215235384b&(B)%20HamiltonWatch%20-%20Exact_new&Brand%20Exact&gclid=CJ-oyfSn4-kCFc6Bfgod2MgHOw&gclsrc=ds
Time Teller, Please got to the Hamilton web site and check it out. Also please check out the real history of digital watches.
None of this is to knock Casio. I love the watches and grew up with them and I own plenty of them now but in no way did they make digital watches what they are today. That was Seiko. They were a big player in the Digital watch. If you watch the James Bond movies you will see what I mean.
Any way love the videos. Keep them coming.
What a comment and yet you are wrong. F-91w was released in 1989
Just got one today since I need a watch that can survive my foolishness. Really happy with my purchase and I can't wait to bash it up soon (and really, its just to make sure my Seiko 5 stay safe when I'm doing intensive tasks)
This is the watch I had for the most amount of time in my life. I really love it. Very nostalgic.
We all have owned or own a Casio, whether we collect watches or not, very happy when someone reviews this watch. Hell yeah for all those retro toy, specifically on Chrono Trigger one of the best games ever with the best music on a video game.
Great video, my friend. I noticed you were wearing your watch on your right wrist as most left handers do. I wear mine on the right wrist although not a true left hander. I eat and do fine motor skills with my left hand. The watch just feels better for me on the right wrist.
Like the color, but on my 7.25" wrist the F91W and 158W are little chicklet-things. I guess my wrist was a bit smaller back in the water park/video arcade days.
Went with the 168W variant. Just right.... and that Indiglo-esque backlight is a massive improvement.
The First watch Casio my dad bought for me as gift in 90's. Fell in love with Casio watch since then.
My F-94W bought in 1998 still works great.
I bought it this year. Hope it works for more than a decade😁
Beep allegedly comes from the back cover being used as a piezo. Thought that was really cool, even if it's something that was normal back in the day
I worked in a jewelry store for a few years, I was the store "watch guy", so when someone asked about a watch they referred them to me, I did the batteries and adjusted the watch bands. When you talk about water resistance, watches that carry no water resistance labeling at all, they aren't even rated for splash. Many of those watches were wide open for water to enter, you could take the back off and see daylight out the opening for the stem, so there was absolutely nothing to prevent water from entering. No marking means no water resistance at all, it is recommended you remove the watch even when washing hands. Water resistant means splash water only, not even rated for swimming. Water resistant 50 or 100 will be good for surface swimming, usually no diving at all. One person brought in a watch, not marked water resistant at all, he went swimming in the ocean and when the watch was opened the movement was a solid lump of rust from the salt water.
I totally get what you mean about Casios looking like Casios. They have always had a consistent design language and consistent user interface. In the mid-80s, my big brother would take me to San Francisco Chinatown and into the camera and electronics shops and we would haggle with the shop owners over rare Casios that were not available in department stores. I probably owe my love of watches more to this than seeing my dad's wear his gold Rolex and that is saying a lot.
I love Casio digital watches. I hate Rolex.
@@SHARPGFX-dc9gj I love both but I’m curious to hear why you hate rolex?
Dude your even cooler than I thought now that I saw you with that chrono trigger cartridge
Watching this wearing my casio A158W
I wear mine when I ride my my motorcycle. It fits nicely underneath my leather gloves.
The only popular watch in the hot tropical weather in Gambela East Africa Ethiopia . Built like a Tank ..
I miss mine. Had it buried in my room and it's alarm would wake me up at like 3 am bc I couldn't find it. Eventually found it, used it my senior year of hs, wore it all through out the pandemic, and now after I started working at a water park for summer the poor thing gave out on the first day of being submerged in chlorinated water. I don't know how old it really is or who even owned it before me but all I know is that I really like it alot. I think I'll get another.
Finally, the video review that was missing!
Love this watch! It's utility and simplicity at its best.
After trying all kind of watches, I am coming back to basic casio watch
had the their calculator watch then that one and then I fell in love with the Timex Ironman for digitals. If you are going to stay in that digital nostaligic mood for a bit going down the history of the Ironman would be fun.
I dive with the F-91W and have been for the last two years. It's my daily wearer watch that I dive with, almost everyday.
This watch is a must have especially if you like g shocks . It's a classic
Bought my F-91W in 2014 and still running on the original battery. Got through two straps and have just fitted a black NATO strap.
My most often worn watch from my entire collection. It's actual introduction date was 1989 not 1991.
The F91W is a nice little watch. I do however prefer the F105. Exact same specs as the F91 but with a much better backlight.
I never thought that I would see an ode to the humble F-91w on a watch appreciation channel.
This thing has been a staple of my timekeeping life because for the longest time I couldn't afford anything fancier.
My last one had a broken band, I threw it out, and then I end up with a band for one from a yard sale. >.<
I might just get one because, why not...
These are great little watches. I have this and the A158W metallic version but I don't really wear then because they are so small. Both my boys first digital watches are F91W in the traditional colours.
Gotta have a F91W. Simplistically is sometimes all one needs.
Great review - you should review the Casio the John Candy's character Dell Griffith wore in the iconic movie Planes Trains and Automobiles...one of the great nostalgic movies, and an awesome watch..."No, I have 2.00 and a Casio" The closest iteration to the actual one worn by Candy I believe is the A 159W -N1df. Just a stunning watch with the stainless steel band and glossy resin watch case...true icon to the 80s/90's.