A New Casio Royale? WS-1600 Review ( WS-1600H-8AV )
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One thing I've never explored is the world of budget Casios, so I've decided to change that. So to start that journey I wanted to take a look at a watch many are calling the next "IT" caso, a new $30 budget king. The WS-1600, which just so happens to also be a new member of the Royale Family.
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00:00 Affordable Casios
00:36 Where Does it Fit?
02:17 Specs
03:17 Features
05:45 A Few Negatives
07:13 What's Great
08:52 Moding Compatability
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
A couple Comments: If you like the Desk Diving Shirt I'm wearing, it's from a viewer. Check it out here: www.third-watch.com/merch/p/desk-diver-t-organic With regard to size. The 39mm is straight across the middle. It's more 42mm if you take the bumps on the side the buttons come out of into account. And if you want to see the original Royale Mod video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr-pZsp7l7Gsl4U.html New one should be out next later next month.
@unitedstatesirie7431 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for making me want to buy another CASIO watch. The time, date & day is the largest on the CASIO model W96H-1BV watch. It is my favorite every day wearing watch ✅
@JusttheWatch 10 ай бұрын
Really like that large two line display. The problem I always have with the Royal is that I often hit the mode button on accident, and when I look at the watch it can take me a long time to figure out which screen I'm looking at, especially if it's just switched over to a different time zone. I really like that the dual time screen on this one shows both your local time and your second time on the display. I know the Royal always shows your local time in the analog circle, but I always have a hard time reading that one. Overall this looks really legible and pretty cool too.
@unitedstatesirie7431 9 ай бұрын
the largest display size of all the CASIO digital watches is the CASIO model W96H-1BV. It also shows the Time, Year, Day, Month, Date all on the main display without having to push any buttons. It is waterproof to 50 meters.
@danieljones3683 9 ай бұрын
I have an AE 1200. I really like the display better on the 1600. I don't need all the timer features but the legibility is much better on the time and day/date. I am going to pick one of these up.
@gopherproxy 10 ай бұрын
Still amazing how much CASIO-fun you can get on the wrist for only a few bucks. This green version goes so well together with the reddish leather strap 👌! Easy to cut a 24mm strap yourself (maybe cauterize it with a soldering iron) and to remove superfluous text from the case with rubbing alcohol - no need for expensive imports. Part of the fun, yo! For this model, if compatible to the Royale, you could even metalprint a steel or bronze case at home - there are a lot of 3D models available for free, as are Nato-adapters!
@adk7962 10 ай бұрын
Always appreciate the thorough explanations. Looking forward to the cool mods!
@geethsan1567 5 ай бұрын
I just got one for my work (car workshop) . It's doing phenomenally well. So easy to read time, very easy to wash off any oil ot dust, very easy to forget that it's there, and I'm liking it a lot. I really love the speedometer-esque looking seconds tracker.
@Z-S-H 10 ай бұрын
Awesome watch to cover, really enjoyed this one, affordable, yet cool and useful
@9tophat 10 ай бұрын
I really like this 1600 very much. I just ordered one and look forward to wearing it. I like the better legibility of the 1600 and the action bits as well. I'm really wanting to see your modding vids coming up for the 1600. I really want to mod it with metal case, bracelet and sapphire crystal. Cheers!👍🙂
@dunderhay9169 10 ай бұрын
Great review, nice to see the usual quality photography applied to an inexpensive watch. Wow, that pile of SKX mods parts looks like fun 😁
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
Yeah... most of those are faceplates, but should still be fun.
@fahd3228 4 ай бұрын
I still prefer the 1200. The face of the watch is more balanced, and the digits font is bold, and the display is clear and crisp. The new one has thinner digits, and the display looks faint , so legibility on the 1200 is much better
@danieldemayo6209 7 ай бұрын
So nice they came out with something else with two countdown timers. I use them all the time at work.
@cartoonpete407 10 ай бұрын
Got me one of these a couple of weeks ago :) I also bought explosion-proof screen protectors which are available at Aliexpress. No more worries of a scratched-up crystal! 😁 You're right about the strap, the reason I bought adaptors to swop it out for a 20 or 22mm after-market strap.
@amgittins 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for this review. I will stay with only one Casio Royale, the original, in my collection. However, I am looking forward to your upcoming mod video for this watch and your previous mod video for SKXMod Casio Royale Style Mod Kits. Metal and sapphire surrounding the dial probably elevates the Royale to something more daily wearable.
@talanjohn 10 ай бұрын
WS1600 is superior to AE1200. And like you said, aesthetics may be the deciding factor. For me, I have more opportunities to use multiple timers than multiple time zones. Never understood having multiple time zones. If I’m cooking or working out or have multiple appointments…yea that I can digest and for those reasons, the WS1600 is superior to the AE1200.
@OmarZ77 10 ай бұрын
Probably the opposite to me. I rarely use countdown timers. Even for working out, I prefer a stop watch. But I live in a foreign country, and my brother is in another, and my sister is in the home country. It’s nice to quickly check the time with them. Same if you had international clients.
@Bob_Smith19 10 ай бұрын
Multiple time zones aren’t needed if everyone you know is w/ in one. I currently have crews in five time zones in the US and three others spread across the world. The US ones are easy. The international ones are harder. It’s a useful feature for a situation like this.
@steven3379 9 ай бұрын
I have a ae1200 with a solid bronze Kraniodesign case with a Sapphire crystal, I will be getting one of these also, probably 2, just to keep one stock! Great photography btw!
@idletime 10 ай бұрын
G'afternoon Shane ☕☕ 🤠 . Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it and I just added one to my eBay shopping cart. I'm actually double wristing today with my AE1300 & a Casio racing chronograph I just picked up that I think you'll really like. I'm not a fan of busy cluttered or skeleton dials but the Casio MCW-100H I just got is really nice. The flavor that I got is the black dial with white indices, white sword hour and minute hands, white railroad tracks around the sub dials with red pointers and an orange second hand and the matching Orange rubber strap to round it out. Thanks Shane & before I forget I picked it up for $42
@larrydalton2205 10 ай бұрын
I will be modding the turquoise version that is in your video with the silver matte SKXMOD kit that is all silver rather than black rim around the dial. It is nice that most of the new versions of those kits have a bracelet with quick release so i can eadily change to the Vario strap. But i was tempted to keep a Royale or this one light weight with the stock case and Vario strap.
@monologic4806 10 ай бұрын
Great functionality and they are the best beater watches IMO. If you actually beak one easily replaced. Looking forward to your videos Shane 👍
@vitmat7779 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for review, I do believe that even such small time LCD pieces deserve attention in the world of watches ✅
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
Totally agree
@allovered10 10 ай бұрын
love casio bro!
@dado380 4 ай бұрын
You do know that Royale is just blatant copy of iconic g757, in the 80’s Casio was basically ali express brand, they just copied manny digital Seiko’s, even fw 91 was straight copy of A 150.
@zenflight2450 10 ай бұрын
Great review. Interval timer is great if you train 1min set with 15 sec break, so i guess for fit ppl it is an upgrade.
@howard2501 10 ай бұрын
Yep, or for a sequence of stretches. lots of creative uses for that feature.
@rogertrout7694 10 ай бұрын
I got the WS1600H-8AV version or as I call it, the green version. Bought off Amazon for just under $24 and I am loving it. I still haven't quite figured out how to use all of its different timing functions or why I'd ever need them but come on, they're cool! I agree about the band. I want to put on like a 24mm NATO strap but can't find a good 18mm lugs to 24mm adapter. Any suggestions? Can't wait to see your mod video!!!
@skipinkoreaable 10 ай бұрын
I went looking in the past and did find at least two kinds of 18mm to 22mm converters for Nato straps for Casio watches. They looked decent. I saved the info somewhere, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. I've never seen 18mm to 24mm converters. Vario does of course make 16mm to 24mm converters for Nato straps but I wouldn't expect them to work for what you want. They are for G Shocks.
@d3xmeister 10 ай бұрын
Welcome to Casio !
@asensibleyoungman2978 5 ай бұрын
I like all 3 but my favourite is the WS-1600 because I love the bar second counter more than I like the dials.
@howard2501 10 ай бұрын
Nice. Looks like a little poorer contrast than the Royale though? Will look forward to the mod video.
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
I'd say they are pretty close. LCD screens are sometimes hard to capture on camera. Like some of the footage I noticed the sceen is flickering because of the cameras frame rate, othertimes it's fine.
@chriscole4559 4 күн бұрын
Great, succinct review! Quick question: Is it possible to set a COUNTDOWN TIMER, which continues to be graphically displayed, whilst still just displaying the CURRENT TIME on the main numeric display?
@RelativeTime 4 күн бұрын
I don't have the watch anymore, so I can't double check. but I don't think it can.
@mattconnor651 10 ай бұрын
Hi Shane, I'd have to agree, I love my 1200 which I modded with SKXmod also. I recently started travelling for work again and find it's my goto. So much so I have been eyeing off the bronze case from SKX 😂. I can see two 1200s in my collection. This new version doest have the same feel to it for me.
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
The bronze case is pretty interesting. I just got one from them. They sent me a bunch of faceplates too, so I'm not entirely sure which one goes best with it.
@Greg-ck9dx 2 ай бұрын
Which one do you prefer,800H or 1600? Thank you. Excellent video again.
@RelativeTime 2 ай бұрын
I think I like the 800 better. Bigger display and I Don't necessarily need the extra timer/ stopwatch features.
@unwokeneuropean3590 10 ай бұрын
What is your opinion about amazfit Neo ? It has the casio digital vibes with sport smartband gadgets like Xiaomi band.
@f00fightrs 4 ай бұрын
Just FYI, Skymod no longer prints the word “illuminator” just below the bezel. It’s been replaced with “illumination”. Guessing it’s a copyright issue? Kind of sucks.
@dado380 4 ай бұрын
Copy right issue😢😢,as always Casio loves to steal other ideas. Iluminator is just the replica of Timex indiglo,”tough Solar” is just fancy word for Citizen eco drive and G shock is stolen from Certina double security system.
@realwarriorscholar 7 ай бұрын
I’m going to add one of these to my collection and mod it..
@penelopeoates511 5 ай бұрын
I've just been in the lounge. I hitched up my frock and pulled down my granny pants. I then bent at the waste thus exposing my pasty buttocks and I discharged a fart that a rhinoceros would have been proud of. It sounded like someone firing up a chainsaw in a puddle of mud. The pong was horrendous and it's lingering. Would you like to come over for dinner? We're having pickled mussels.
@hrs.ai2018 10 ай бұрын
Putting leather strap on retro casio kind of game over style
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
makes it a lot more comfortable. Although looks even better once it's in a metal case.
@williammoskovitz7772 10 ай бұрын
Great review !!!! I noticed on one of the watches pictured in the video has a metal bracelet. Can you tell me where you obtained this from ?
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
SKXMod. Here is my original video on the case and bracelet mod. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr-pZsp7l7Gsl4U.html I'll be doing an updated version soon with this WS-1600
@williammoskovitz7772 10 ай бұрын
@@RelativeTime Thanks !!
@J.T.Stillwell3 3 ай бұрын
I think it’s THE perfect digital watch.
@peterrprincemph 4 ай бұрын
World time showing different times then i search on google is there a way to set world time?
@Plexcom60 10 ай бұрын
Any thoughts on why it's got a WS prefix instead of the AE? Given that the Royale and the Sports timer are both prefixed AE? Nice video, as usual, thanks.
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
I'm not sure, I was curious about that too. I assume there is some logic to Casio's naming system, but no idea what it is.
@Bob_Smith19 10 ай бұрын
@@RelativeTimetheir naming system is throw a bunch of magnetic letters and numbers at a refrigerator. Whatever sticks is the model.
@Plexcom60 10 ай бұрын
Yes, I think you'd have to be a paid up member of the Stygian Witches to work out what they're doing. @@RelativeTime
@user-on5nc3us1i 7 ай бұрын
Does it have an alarm feature at the beginning of every hour?
@zzzzxxxx341 5 күн бұрын
Gonna buy that gorgeous watch, let's go! Casio!
@JobyGeorge-rg2fu 9 ай бұрын
More like AE 1300❤❤❤
@stavros_katsopr 10 ай бұрын
What can i say, i'm a spoiled Royale... and that's that! 😏 PS I hate anything that has to do with kingdoms, but that watch, oh my!
@casioholik 9 ай бұрын
👍
@GabrielGGabGattringer 10 ай бұрын
What bugs me is that the timer once again is not 24hours. Which makes it useless for me. :-(
@TechTokOffical 7 ай бұрын
I just paid $250 for a rare,uber cool vintage g shock that will be the pride of my collection which made me start wondering. With the 80's and 90's being the pinnacle or digital watch design,would there ever be a watch that came out today that would be the pride of some zoomers collection
@Bob_Smith19 10 ай бұрын
Bought the gray version of this a few weeks back. Underwhelming all around. I should have known better because I don’t like the size and shape of the Casio Royale. I will take a F-91W over this one, and most others to be frank.
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
What do you like better about the F-91W? The size?
@Bob_Smith19 10 ай бұрын
@@RelativeTimeYes, that’s part of it. The only function it doesn’t have that I could use is a countdown timer. I realize lots of people like the Casio Royale case size/shape but I’m not one of them. I will just pay more for a G-shock and not have to ever worry about the watch.
@lamas92 10 ай бұрын
Casio AE1200 has more functions paying less... AE1200 is beautiful piece! The others... not for me.
@Human_2.0 10 ай бұрын
I'm so pissed this watch isn't solar!
@robo62 10 ай бұрын
Why ?it has an 10 year battery
@CaloricDeficit 10 ай бұрын
@@robo62 it's 10 years if you never use the illuminator, which is impossible!
@zillsburyy1 10 ай бұрын
casio over seiko anyday
@praveennair9501 10 ай бұрын
at this price range yes
@RelativeTime 10 ай бұрын
Does Seiko even have anything this cheap these days? Seems like there prices are all up.
@zillsburyy1 10 ай бұрын
@@RelativeTime yeah rising prices for stamped clasps and mineral glass🤢🤮
@zillsburyy1 10 ай бұрын
@@RelativeTime yeah rising prices for stamped clasps and mineral glass🤢🤮
@heinstein26 10 ай бұрын
@@zillsburyy1Seiko uses something they call 'Hardlex' which they claim is better than Mineral Glass. But yeah, Jumping from 90-100$ to 200$ on their Seiko 5 series is straight up robbery. I've stopped recommending Seikos to anyone. Aso, they are asking more money for their SKX lookalike Sports Diver watches. Shame on Seiko.
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