![]() Hit the menu button again and you find an 8-digit calculator, options screen for enabling Japanese characters and adjusting the contrast and some hidden features where you can see all segments of the dot-matrix at full contrast to see that they are all working. Then the added features come in - there’s a telephone book for important numbers, a passcode protected area for hiding your secrets, a memo section for recording to-do lists, a scheduler for those important appointments, month-by-month calendar of course, a world time feature that includes a scrolling world map, and that’s just menu one. Add a stopwatch and you’ve pretty much covered all the features of most watches in 1991. ![]() There’s five separate alarms, and an hourly time signal. So it tells the time – in 12/24 mode, and has a calendar that extends well into the 2000’s. Not content with just making a touch screen, Casio engineers decided to test the capacity of the module as well, by adding a ton of features to make it more of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) than a watch. There’s a certain amount of reverence for this watch among collectors – there’s even a shrine to it here. The VDB-100, and silver case and bracelet VDB-1000, use the module and date from 1991. ![]() ![]() This is a watch that never fails to get attention – Casio’s first buttonless touchscreen watch, the VDB-100.
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