Edifice Chronograph EFRS565D-1A
I viewed a deal on the front page and found this Watch for a decent amount less with Sapphire Glass, here is the other article https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/556872
I have placed an order myself and if it gets here in time before the deal is over I will note about the quality and I fully intend on testing if it is real sapphire with a basic scratch test.
I will give it a look
Just drop a bit of water on it. Glass is hydrophilic and will wet, while sapphire is hydrophobic and water beads off it. It's a pretty reliable way to check given they don't usually stick hydrophobic coatings on glass watches.
The other watch has an Automatic Movement and the case is Titanium.
True, but I trust the quality of quartz movements by casio and at this price I think its a pretty good deal, Titanium isn't really necessary for a watch in my opinion, the only thing I would say is a genuine advertising feature for life of the watch is if it has a mineral glass face or sapphire glass face
I think most enthusiasts would note the watches arent directly comparable… thats a 40mm auto dress watch, this is a 44mm quartz chrono. They both arent for me but I do appreciate people bringing these deals up anyway.
I think OP just stumbled on the Casio and thought it would be interesting.
I used to be a casio watch guy, now I'm just a fitness watch.
I have been daily driving the F-91W for like 2 years, so I thought a bit of a fancier would be a good upgrade.
It might be cheap but I have a model forget which that looks like the A159W. Simple, metal and has a 10yr battery. I have 2 I liked them that much.
I have like 5 watches in that cheap under $100 price range and I love each of them for different reasons
There are almost no metal Casios - it'll just be a painted resin case, the bands can be aluminum or steel on the more expensive ones though.
The A1000 is the only true metal body digital Casio nowadays - other than some high end GShocks.
"I have placed an order myself and if it gets here in time before the deal is over I will note about the quality and I fully intend on testing if it is real sapphire with a basic scratch test."
According to the official website it is, so.. it is.
https://www.casio-intl.com/in/en/wat/watch_detail/EFR-S565D-…
Yeah but it could just be marking crap, its like when apple put a sapphire glass screen on the first apple watch, which was chemically a sapphire glass screened watch but it didn't actually have the hardness of real sapphire glass so they could slap it as an advertising feature without the manufacturing effort
Casio and Starbuy are both reputable. Of course it is sapphire. Some watches have a mineral crystal with a sapphire coating, but this is normally stated.
Seconded, and they wouldn't be at pains to highlight that it's anti-reflective if it wasn't true Sapphire either.
Seems a decent value Chronograph albeit battery only, so somewhat a trade-off there, thanks for sharing OP
Looks like a nice watch.
I found a quick review for this model on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=AlbCEAKa6-U
I checked it out and I have a sneaking supposition that the guy who made that video saw this post or it was just really suspicious timing
Yeah. Looks like he gets watches from Starbuy for review on his channel. Timing is a bit funny but at least we got to see this watch a bit more before deciding to pull the trigger.
diamond selector 2 is probably the most popular device to use to test for sapphire… i think they are under $20