Casio Ae-1200whl-5av

Casio did not arrive at watchmaking from watchmaking. The company began as Kashio Seisakujo in 1946 and made its name on calculating machines, the 14-A in June 1957 and the Casio Mini in 1972, before it entered wristwatches in November 1974 with the Casiotron, a digital watch that adjusted its own calendar. That sequence explains the AE-1200WHL-5AV. It is a computing product with a strap: the display leads and the case follows it. The founding move Casio repeated in every category it touched was to take an expensive professional instrument and build a reliable cheap version of it, and the AE-1200 family is that logic pointed at time-keeping, a dense multifunction digital face sold at a number low enough to remove deliberation from the purchase.