>>2308116> I don't careIgnorance is bliss
> I'm 20It shows
> A backlight is a backlight,A backlight was a huge deal back then
> ILLUMINATOR or INDIGLOAgain this was leap in backlight tech
> I don't need to see LIGHT, MODE, STOP, or STARTYes you do, its function, it makes anyone who picked up the watch know how to operate it. You might not like it aesthetically but Its good design and you are arguing exactly for deprivation of function and independence in favor of form.
Complaining about labels like this is like complaining about car console or gear pattern on a stick.
You will also complain about pic related having retarded 24 hour markers simply because you know not of history.
> No non-diver is just going to happen to find themselves 300+ ft deep in waterAgain, water resistance was huge back then.
> I already know it's a quartz movement, that's why I bought it.> By the 1980s, quartz technology had taken over applications such as kitchen timers, alarm clocks, bank vault time locks, and time fuzes on munitions, from earlier mechanical balance wheel movements, an upheaval known in watchmaking as the quartz crisis. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_crisisFor the nth time this was all peak tech at the time. The design aesthetics matched the period. Casio preserved the iconic design. People buy it because of nostalgia for pure function from that era. The same reason people buy Nokia's or any other iconic tech design.
I don't even own a Casio and had the same opinions about their looks. After researching the history it all clicked. Casio shook the industry back then when it came to price and function. The ugly design also gave birth to concept of a watch being an utility item and not jewelry. If you value the function the design will grow on you. You will understand all of this in a decade.
