How Casio Pathfinder Became A Part Of Casio's Family

The Casio Pathfinder collection of action wristwatches are tough and durable for operations in the field with a rich feature-set of practical instruments built in, such as altimeters, barometers, compasses, and thermometers to help gauge oncoming weather, fix your position, or plan your route. Quartz and atomic movements are both built in, as are rechargeable battery power and long-lasting solar power. As Casio produced stronger quality wristbands they have also updated their older equipment and have evolved them using new technology and components.

A Casio Pathfinder is also water resistant, has a depth gauge, tide and moon-phase readings, or sunrise and sunset data. This is similar to that of the G Shock and Solar family but with slight difference concerning the amount of damage or punishment it can handle. Titanium casing, stainless steel housing, and resin wristbands are among the other traits in this line of practical utilitarian timepieces. A Casio Pathfinder wristwatch boasts powerful triple-sensor technology, duplex LCD screens, and automatic electroluminescence. It's designed for outdoor adventures and sports but is equally suitable for the types of tactical situations commonly faced by uniformed personnel such as rescue workers and police and military forces.

Rugged and dependable, Pathfinders are heirs to a legacy of technological excellence, for Casio has long been a global leader in the consumer electronics industry. From humble beginnings as a successful manufacturer of cigarette lighter rings (that's right, rings that produce a little flame for lighting cigarettes - this is Japan, after all, a land of smokers and gizmos), Casio went on to invent the first-ever compact all-electric calculator in 1957. Not long thereafter they created the world's first graphing calculator, and have been busy making a line of innovative products ever since, like the market's first digital cameras to use an LCD screen.

A Casio Pathfinder is the epitome of action wristwatches because it belongs to a tradition of well-built timepieces stretching back to the company's very first one in 1974, the bestselling Casiotron. It was only just then that watchmakers were beginning to work digital technologies into their designs, with Casio being one of the first, and ever since then the company has been helping to redefine what a wristwatch can do - and what Japanese wristwatches in particular are capable of. They helped reshape the conventional wisdom then on Japanese goods, especially wristwatches, which had been widely believed to be cheap throwaway novelties.

Moreover, wristwatches in general were often felt to be just fashion accessories and not practical tools, a notion that the Pathfinder series helped to dispel. And now alongside its bestselling and equally innovative Databank and G Shock series, Casio is well-established as a quality watchmaker for the 21st Century. More or less some company will grasp their invention, chop it up and replace everything. Who knows, maybe they'll create something that can teleport us with watches.