I purchased my Casio DBC W150 Wave Ceptor about two years ago. It replaced an older Casio DBC 150 (non-wave ceptor model).

I prefer a watch with a digital display (as this watch has) to an analog display.

My travel (and telephone calls) take me across the U.S. as well as to Asia. Thus the multiple time zone feature is very useful to me.

When traveling across the continental U.S. by air, it only requires depressing one button to change from Pacific Time to Eastern Time (or Central Time or Mountain time).

I also like the automatic recognition of daylight savings time. Although this only works in the Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern time zones. I would note you can readily turn this feature off (which will be helpful if Congress decides to change daylight savings time).

The watch only seems to attempt to calibrate from the international time signal when in the Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern time zones.

I have found that the watch is sensitive to antenna location and direction for calibration.

One nice feature of the wave ceptor is that it will display the date and time of last successful calibration from the international time signal (which helps me determine where and and how to position the watch at night).

In all fairness, I have owned several clocks by the Sharper Image that had more difficulty calibrating from the international time signal - and - would not display the date and time of the last successful calibration.

In case anyone from Casio reads this, let me add my wish list.

First, I would like to be able to download data from my P.C. to my watch. In that the watch already receives the international time signal, it seems to me that Casio could design a PCMCIA card that would broadcast a very low power signal to allow downloading data from the P.C. to the watch. With a download feature, many of the buttons could be eliminated (and water resistance enhanced).

Second, I wish the watch were capable of being a relatively accurate compass (such as some of the Casio Pathfinder models are).

Third, I wish the watch also handled the Alaska and Hawaiian time zones (for automatic calibration and automatic detection of daylight savings time).

Fourth, although I have never had a water related problem with the watch, I wish it was a little more water resistant.

Let me say I would feel comfortable spending an additional $250 for an enhanced watch that incorporated the above wish list.


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