They’re very good inexpensive watches

One of the best with affordability and quality ratio. I’d say them and Timex are fairly close with that particular market. Nearly every “watch collector” I know has one of each.

Casio and Timex are the perfect brands if you’re not a watch guy. They’re objectively more accurate watches than most Rolexes, they look good, they’re affordable, and people who ARE watch guys won’t look at a Casio and say “lol noob,” they’ll look at a Casio and say “ah, this guy knows his watches, he’s just wearing his beater watch today.”

Watch guys who spend a bazillion dollars on watches basically fixate on two things–one of them is the brand name (though we don’t have many of those in the subreddit), and the other is the movement. Most Casio watches use a quartz movement, which is the least expensive movement and also keeps the best time, and it has the fewest moving parts.

High end watches frequently have automatic or hand-winding movements, which don’t run on batteries and keep time using an intricate network of gears and springs, all working together in perfect harmony. There is absolutely a certain fascinating joy that comes from wearing one of these tiny intricate clockwork mechanisms on your wrist.

That said, these watches aren’t cheap, good ones even less so–and automatic and hand-winding movements are usually the biggest difference maker that sets a “cheap” watch apart from a “fancy” watch. Your Casio is a “cheap” watch in part because it uses a quartz movement–but like I said, a quartz movement actually keeps better time, so no watch guy is going to shame you for wearing one.