This watch is based on a fishing concept known as "SoLunar Theory". I am not speaking to the efficacy of this concept beyond how it is implemented on this watch, if you want to know more, search the afore words in quotes.
It functions very similar to Casio's other 4-button digital watches, very similar to their G-Shock models. One of the "mode" screens is the Fish/Moon screen and that is the central point of this watch, I will return to this later. In the standard timekeeping mode two aspects of the display communicate unique elements beyond Time/date/day-of-week. One is a moon-phase indicator that mimics the visible face of the moon from earth with new moon|waxing crescent|first quarter|waxing gibbous|full moon|waning gibbous|third quarter|waning crescent as the possible display states. Above this is a funny radar-like display that displays at any time 1 of 5 different levels of fish activity that is derived from the SoLunar Theory. This tells you at what time of day, per day, fish activity is suspected to be locally maximal as per this theory. The radar display is full of fish when all the "stars-align" so to speak, indicates no fish when nothing is "aligned", and 3 intermediate levels within this range of SoLunar alignment.
Some anglers swear by this method; my wife swears by her horoscopes. The reason I bought this watch is because it does exactly what it says it will do, and, behind the scenes (if you care to examine SoLunar literature), it is simply communicating the phase of the moon (cool) and also whether the tide is low or high (moon rising/setting or at zenith/nadir) (cool). I thought these features were fun. In principle, using only information from this watch, you can point at roughly where the moon is in the sky and report its illumination at any given time even if you were in an underground bunker, provided you had an idea which way north was (and your longitude, it will ask for your longitude when you set it in order to calculate your local apparent moon position, or tidal force... or fish activity or whatever).
The Fish/Moon screen focuses the watch's display on it core features, the Adjust button toggling between the Fish (tide) and Moon (phase) modes.
Moon-mode allows one to step through the days one by one starting from the current date and it reports the age of the moon phase in days with the accompanying graphic. You can not cycle in reverse (this can be frustrating) so not only can you not see the phase for previous days, you can not look at days you've already searched past. If today was 10/13 and I wanted to see what the moon phase is on Halloween (10/31) I step through until I reach it and see that it is a Full Moon (spooky). Then I remember my friend's birthday is on 10/26 so I want to see that moon phase too, as I skipped past it. I need to cycle through all the screens again to get back to the Fish/Moon screen to reset the starting point to today's date and then step back through to 10/26, annoying but doable. However I can not (as far as I know) see the moon phase for, say, 10/5 of this year.
Fish-mode instead searches through the current day hour by hour (this is the minimum resolution) and in the "radar" part of the display, indicates fish activity. Similarly, you can not step backwards, but whereas the moon calendar goes on seemingly forever, the Fish indicator only shows hours of the day as selected in the Moon-mode (the current day if you have just switched to the screen) so it's only a matter of looping back to the hour you want in the 24-hr range. As noted before this screen is equivalent information as to the current tide/moon position, the moon phase also is equivalent to tidal strength (spring/neap).
In short, this watch indicates all the information about the timing of the tides, convoluted by a theory regarding fish activity. It gets 4-stars because of a little clumsiness in the relevant menus and I don't like the strap and how it feels; it could just be my wrist though.
看过此商品后顾客买的其它商品？
第 1 页, 共 1 页第一页第 1 页, 共 1 页
无顾客评论
此商品在美国亚马逊上最有用的商品评论
美国亚马逊：
201 条评论
Jack Farrell
Indicates Tides
2020年10月13日 -
已在美国亚马逊上发表颜色: 绿色已确认购买
Kevin Davis
Gone Fishin’!
2020年6月11日 -
已在美国亚马逊上发表颜色: 绿色已确认购买
Jesse
Good fishing watch
2020年4月7日 -
已在美国亚马逊上发表颜色: 绿色已确认购买
Good fishing watch
2020年4月7日 在美国审核
Came in brand new condition. Its a gift. Easy to adjust time and time zone. Time and date are easy to read. Backlighting works great. The fish display changes quite often so im told. Moon phase is accurate. Its a bit bulkier than F-91w but not as bulky as a G-Shock. So it will be comfortable to wear. The color on this watch looks more like an outdoor tactical watch. I inserted a compass for aesthetics. Get one before they run out!!!
2020年4月7日 在美国审核
该评价的图片
Skip. Johnson
Casio Men's Pro Trek Quartz Sport Watch Solunar Table on your wrist
2022年1月4日 -
已在美国亚马逊上发表颜色: BLUE已确认购买
Tony O
Much more than I expected...
2021年5月29日 -
已在美国亚马逊上发表颜色: 黑色//白色已确认购买
浏览此商品的顾客也同时浏览
第 1 页, 共 1 页第一页第 1 页, 共 1 页
