Expert Advice

We've had a few people email in and ask what this 10 Bar stuff all about.

Here's a quick explanation

Bar is a measurement of pressure. If you keep the watch below 10 bar pressure, it will be safe.

In open water, 1 bar is around 10 meters deep, 9 meters for salt water.

Hope that clear it up!

Welcome (or welcome back) to the next installment in this blog. Now, one question we’re often asked is “How do I change the battery when mine runs out?” Well the short answer would be go to a jeweler (But then this’d be one hell of a short article!)

Don’t want to spend $30? I don’t blame you! But before I get started with these instructions, I should let you know, a lot of people buy Casio watches, and then after about 3-6 months, the battery dies and they think there’s something wrong with the battery. That’s NOT the case! In most manuals it will tell you that the original battery isn’t meant to last the 2 years, because it’s already been on the shelves for a while (unused of course but months or even years sitting and draining energy = low battery).

Alright, first thing you need is a quiet, clean environment, and you gotta pay attention! These things are delicate!

Then you’ll need the watch, a fresh battery, some regular tweezers and either a towel or some tissues handy to keep from losing the screws.

Now, with some of Casio’s range, you may also need to remove the band to get at the battery, so keep that in mind.

Unscrew the back protector, using the correct size miniature screwdriver, and put all the screws in a pile on the small towel or tissues that you’ve hopefully brought with you. Careful though, these little screws are VERY easy to lose, so don’t drop them!

Once you’ve got the back protector removed, you have to do the same with the back plate. Underneath the back plate, visible in some but not all of these watches, there’s a spring. Make sure you don’t turn the watch upside down with the back plate open, or the spring will dislodge, and you’ll have a hell of a time trying to put it back in!

Now, believe it or not your job still isn’t done, because you also have to remove the rubber protector covering the battery, and then the tweezers to remove the clasp. You do this by inserting one end of the tweezers into the small hole to spring the cap loose.

Right, that’s done? Now you just need to remove the old battery with tweezers.

Hopefully, after all this you have the new battery! If so, make sure you pick it up with tweezers only, do not touch the battery with your fingers. Then put the new battery into place

Remember that clasp covering the battery? You need to put it back over the new battery to make sure it doesn’t fall out.

Next you’ll want to reset the watch. To do that you need to touch the AC Contact with one part of the tweezers, and the back of the battery with the other part. Hold that position for about 5-10 seconds, then carefully, without turning the watch over, lift it up and look at the front, to make sure it’s turned back on.

Done? Great, you’re almost at the home stretch! Just replace the rubber cover, replace the back place by screwing everything back into place, same with the back protector, and if you had to, reattach the watch band to the face!

Hard work, I know, but it might just save you $30 next time your battery needs replacing!

For more helpful hints, keep an eye on our blog, and if you have any suggestions, don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments section!

Until Next Time

Jimmy B

Guide To Casio G-Shocks: Real or Fake??

Welcome everybody to the latest edition of Guide To G-Shocks. Now, this is probably one of the most important articles I’ve written, so you might want to share this around. We’ve been getting lots of questions about how to tell if a watch you bought online is Genuine or Fake. So I’ll be covering that in two parts. Ready? Let’s get to it!

When you receive the watch, the first thing you should do is check the instruction manual. There it’ll have a module number. Make sure that it matches the module number on the back of the watch (eg. If the manual says Module No 3195 then that’s what should be engraved on the back of the watch (usually in a rectangle box).

All watches also have their model number engraved on the caseback (IE if you bought the BGA-100-1B that’s what should be written on the back). If the numbers don’t match the box, then you might be in trouble.

The most important thing to note is, again on the back of the box, the watch has to have the word CASIO on both the front and back. If it’s not on both sides, it’s most likely fake.

Now, one thing to note, which has a lot of people worried about if their watches are real, is the box it comes in. I know you might have bought a G-Shock before and it came in a black tin, so you’d expect all the G-Shocks to come with a tin right? Wrong! It’s weird and quite random but not all models come with a tin, some just come in a black box (or white if you’ve bought a Baby-G). Before I leave you, here’s a good site to go to https://www.casio-intl.com/in/en/ Find your watch there, and at the bottom of the page it’ll have a photo of what packaging it comes in.

Well that’s it for me today. I hope this was informative and that you’re now more armed with the knowledge of how to spot a fake.

Until Next Time! Jimmy B.