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The casio watch¶
Christmas 2017 has passed. Though my wish-list was quite short, roughly about zero, there were some gifts that hit the spot.
One especially. A Casio DB-360N-1AEF. This was triggered by my post in august, I guess.
Oh boy, what did I know. Casio is in the business of making watches for just about 40 years now. You still get the watches that have been launched in the 1980’s. Compared to the watches you can get nowadays, the functionality level is not impressive. Not at all. When trying to match current features, all products from the past fail.
But Casio has used the time to get their watches to a level, that peaks compared to current products.
The experience of a good manual and a well balanced user experience, is quite rare. This Casio watch has it.
Considering that we are talking about a wrist-watch, it excels in that area, while leaving GPS, Bluetooth and other functionalities behind:
The watch is about 58 gram and quite small.
The Battery time is about 10 years. Yes, 10 fucking years on one battery.
The manual covers all questions you might have, like “What happens when the timer reaches 23:59?”, “Which characters are available on the watch?”, “What happens if I press button x while it’s full moon?”
It is stuff like that, which makes me happy. There was so far no question that has not been answered by this two pages manual from Casio.
You can not use the watch right out of the box without reading the manual. Not at all. The menues and functions behind the six buttons are quite compressed. They make sense within their own logic and its logic is consistent. But if you are looking for a watch that is as simple to use as possible - do not go this way. Buy a child’s watch like one of apples or a toy-watch.
Looking behind the watch and trying to figure out why I am so happy with it, I think my wife - who gave me the watch - accidentally managed to do some things rights, which played in her favour:
The watch fits into my life, can be used by me right away, solves some problems and does not bother me at all. This is covered by Why feasibility matters more to gift receivers than to givers. and Money can’t buy love: Asymmetric believes about gift price and feelings of appreciation.
This kind of watch as a gift showed me she is reading here, taking things into account, remembering and valuing my opinion and puts - at the end - thought into it. This was an easy one with this gift, but still hitting the sweet point. This is researched in Exaggerated, miss predicted, and misplaced. When “it’s the thought that counts” in gift exchanges.
The watch was wrapped into paper that contained a typical Casio box. The whole package screamed “WATCH” to me when i had it in my hand. I had no idea why. The point is, that this impression then was backed up by the content. This can be a tricky thing to get right, but she did it. And used Gift wrapping Effects on Product Attitudes: A mood-biasing explanation to her advantage.
Thank you.