I solemnly swear I wore this all week...

A little less than a week ago this pinnacle...nay zenith of Japanese engineering arrived at my house. I told you that I would wear it all week...I did not.

Now in my defence and without spoiling my 'review' in any way this is because after wearing it for a few days I'm about as keen on this watch as my wife's cats are about eating salads. It's clear that I have a problem though, I do keep buying these bargain-basement Casio watches and therefore should expect to pick up a brown log every now and again.

On a side-note I've started saving the tags for these Casio watches and popping them under their little pillow in my watch boxes for no reason at all. I'm sure that would make a great Tik Tok if I was 17 (titled: My hoarding obsession is out of control...see my gofundme in description). Also I may beat up on this watch today at times but she gets the same care in storage as my Seiko.

Anyway, my god...as per usual absolute tripe to start off, on with my week...

Day 1: Amazon, bringer of so much cardboard to my house and currently holding the environmental gold medal for being the single biggest contributor to my carbon footprint, slid this watch into my porch. Side-note: the delivery driver parked on the kerb across my neighbours drive again. This means said neighbour will collar me yet again when I'm putting out my recycling to berate me. It's as if he thinks I own the courier company and issued an edict that all delivery drivers must park across his drive. I tolerate his rants though as his CCTV camera also covers my porch thus protecting future Casio deliveries for the foreseeable. Perhaps I should also mention something about the watch...I briefly enjoyed setting the analogue time, holding down the right hand button and seeing the hands whizz round. Didn't keep it on wrist though...

Day 2: They are resurfacing the road outside my house this week and a man in a yellow jacket was putting out cones early doors. Sadly this means we cannot park outside the house for a week or so (being British we cannot accurately predict how long or when exactly roadworks will start, they will appear and disappear like magic, the only certain is there will be tonnes of mess, 1 person working and 412 people watching them). I am also starting to wonder if I've bought a watch only to solely use the world's smallest digital display though as my eyes and brain don't seem to be using the analogue portion of the watch. Cheated and wore my Duro that evening.

Day 3: I do like the bracelet on this one as there's no 'nipping', it might just be all of the hairs in a particular portion of my wrist have already been shaved off by my other Casio's though...

I also noticed that at the 12 o'clock position there is a solitary 'applied' hour marker, the rest all being printed. I'm not being funny here but this is weird. It's like the design team was working to the strictest budget ever and really wanted applied indices all round but ran out of cash so just left one in there. Looks unfinished if you ask me though.

The roadworks are creating so much noise I seriously considered re-joining the daily commute and popping into the office tomorrow.

Day 4: I went to the the office, only one person commented on the watch...'my grandad had a gold watch that looked just like that'. He works in marketing and looked about 9 years old so I won't hold it against him. However, I will change my sign off in emails to him in future from 'Kind Regards' to 'Regards'. That will show him.

Left early to beat the traffic, pretty sure I got caught by a camera driving briefly in a bus lane. I blamed the watch.

Day 5 (today): Not even bothering to put it on wrist today after it made me drive in a bus lane. It's fine as watches go but as I mentioned I just don't use the analogue portion for some reason. It's going to give me those 'crows-feet' around my eyes if I keep scrunching up my eyes to read the tiny digital display. Strap is fine, it's very slim and compact so slips under a cuff when at a desk.

So to end this review and your suffering I can confirm that I am not keen. It is the first Casio where I genuinely don't see a real reason or time I'd choose it over one of my others. Perhaps I might ask marketing guy if his grandad wants it. 5/10.