Casio PRW-3500 review for 2023. 👍
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The functions of the Casio PRW-3500 module make it a great value to buy in 2023. I compare it to the new GBD-H2000.
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I bought this watch as my shtf watch. i owned an earlier version and I fell in love with the barometric pressure reading, and I'm all about the solr. Most of my other watches are eco-drive, which I love, but they don't offer the barometric pressure readings. It'd be my survival watch, if it came down to it. but I wouldn't part with my eco-drive watches. It's all about the solar, baby
Solar charging… no adapter needed. 👍
@@JimKinkade and it's free! lol Take it when u can get it
I've had my 3500 about 3 years now...solar, 6 band, ABC, sensible menus, wears about the same as my Duro...Love It!
Just bought one black and red with green strap lovely watch
ive taken my protreks hunting, hicking, fishing and swimming for over 10 years and NEVER had a problem with their 100m WR . if I was scubba diving or boogy boarding off the back f a jetboat I probably wouldn't wear one then but I don't do those activities so its just fine.
Yea, that’s true. But this one to me seems tougher than other protreks so I think the 200m water resistance is just an indirect indication of that toughness.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS WATCH, especially the Orange colorway. The build quality, design and functions are amazing IMO.
It's an all time great Casio watch!
I have been looking at this watch for some time now. I may need to find one. My rangeman has all the same features, but something about this watch just draws me in. I have a protrek prw-6600 I got as a present, which is an awesome watch, but this one always catches my eye. I might need to add one to my collection.
One word of caution. Your screen name is cave man. Are you hairy? The wings on this one pinch arm hair.
@@JimKinkade Definitely hairy big bushy beard got the nickname in the army.
I have VERY large wrists so ive almost always never had a protrek or even gshock fit out of the box. which is why I tend to buy braceleted watches and get extra links or buy the new prw 11 series watches these days. i put my prw-61 on an extra long canvas strap almost right out of the box cause I knew the synthetic strap would be on the last to second last hole. it sucks but I love Japanese solar watches.☹☹
Sunrise and sunset is accurate if you insert your coordinates.
That's what I thought. I'll use the coordinates from the GBD-H2000 to set the PRW-3500.
@@JimKinkade finde them easily on google maps. I have the PRW-30 which is very precise.
Otherwise the default coordinates are these from the main city. For example if you are on the east coast, and you have set it to new York city, then it will take the coordinates of new York city. Hope I helped you
@@TriantafyllosThessaloniki It does! Thank you, Mr. Thessaloniki!
MAYBE case hardened steel isn't the best choice for a pointer around your crystal.
By the way, you have to enter your latitude and longitude into the PWR3500 to get accurate sunrise/sunset data. Just selecting the time zone doesn't cut it.
Stopwatch and timer both go to 99 hours and 59 seconds. Did you actually prepare for this video?
Did you prepare for this comment?
At 8:30 I explain that the GBD-H2000 has a GPS and I’d have to manually set the latitude and longitude on the PRW-3500 for an accurate sunrise/sunset time.
Man i love protreck
18:00 one watch indicates altitude 3015 ft, but the other watch indicates 3130 ft
One problem with altimeters such as these is that they must be calibrated. None of them were calibrated in this video.
What’s your thoughts on long term durability?
Thanks Jim for the info!
No problem. I hope you enjoyed the vid!
They made smaller snd lighter prw 30 and then improved with even lighter prw 35 at around 50 grams. Im having an eye on them. But the bezel on that doesn't move.
There's also the lighter 3510 with biomass plastic which is an upgrade over the 3500.
I'd like to see a comparison between them.
I would love to get my hands on a 35 but I don’t think they released them in America.
I need bezel, but i dont find it 😢😢😢
Exelent product, but no have repositions 😢
you can set a bearing in nemory on anidig protreks so is there a reason you think they should have a rotating bezel?
That’s a good point! The bezel gives you the degrees so it’s still far more useful than the ProTrek bezels that have the cities for the time zones.
I wonder if you could swap the bands with one of your watches with longer bands if you haven't sold the watch yet...
Maybe. I’m going to experiment with that.
I have the opposite problem with the band length - it's way too long I had to cut it. I have a 5.5 inch wrist.
Do you think it’s comfortable?
@@JimKinkade I'm not so sure yet, just got it the other day. But I do seem to keep readjusting it regularly.
2:45 huh? why they don't use yard is the stupid thing about the metric system?
10 bar is 100m according to metric (nice round number btw), just because it is 330 feet has nothing to do with metric "being stupid". fyi, if they used yard 10 bar will be 109 yard
Yea. That’s why the metric system is stupid. They just ripped off the yard and called it a meter.
@@JimKinkade you obviously don't know how metric system is derived. lol... it has nothing to do with reaping off yard. btw, much of the US is run on metric, you are just insulated from the fact
Because Casio is a Japanese company and Japan use the metric system like most of the world.
The US military uses the metric system exclusively for it's easy calculations: 10, 100, 1000, factor 10 for everything.
@@JimKinkadetell me one thing, would you want a million to be 3,300,000 or something instead of 1,000,000? When things are multiples of 10, 100, 1000 things are pretty simple since we use the decimal system which has 10 unique digits because you have 10 fingers.
Gshocks suck and that isn't even the best screen for protreks they left a lot out and it's better than a gshock