Casio and Domasco officials at the launch of the new watches yesterday. PICTURE: Jayan Orma

Doha Marketing Services Company (Domasco) yesterday launched in Qatar the new additions to Casio’s flagship G-Shock MT-G and MR-G Series and the Edifice Mobile Link Analog line of watches.
“Casio watches are gaining acclaim as advanced time keeping systems that deliver accurate time anywhere in the world,” said Colin Cordery, regional managing director at Al-Futtaim.
“Over the years, Domasco’s watches division has consistently won industry acclaim for being customer-focused and introducing models that have been bang on trend,” he observed.
Faisal Sharif, managing director, Domasco, described Casio’s premium collection as highly sophisticated with a new age design.
The new EQB-510 and ECB-500 watches feature simple watch faces that enable the wearer to read the time at a glance. They also link with smartphones, making it easy to check the time of more than 300 cities worldwide in 40 time zones through the sub dial.
The new watches expand the line-up of watches based on the “Global Time Sync” concept and are based on the Smartphone Link EQB-500. This capability means that both the analogue-style EQB-510 and digital-analogue style ECB-500 make it even easier to set the world time. Designed for business users, they feature multidimensional, high-contrast watch faces. The simple layouts clearly present both the local time and one world time at a glance.
Users can also easily switch the time displayed on the inset dial to the main dial and vice versa, either from the watch or a smartphone, to view the local time on the main hour and minute hands while traveling and the home time on the inset dial.
The MT-G series of watches feature both comfortable-to-wear resin and metal with a refined finish. The MTG-G1000D line-up comes with the GPS Hybrid Wave Ceptor time-keeping system for receiving both GPS satellite signals and radio wave time-calibration signals.
Casio has also equipped the watches with its Dual Coil Motor, which enables the watch hands in the inset dial at the 6 o’clock position to move at high speed both clockwise and counter-clockwise, allowing the time shown in the dial to change quickly and easily when world time functions are used. The user’s home time and world time can also be instantly switched between the main dial and inset dial just by pressing the upper right button of the watch.
Casio refined its Core Guard Structure especially for these MT-G watches. It improved the watch’s resistance to shocks from the surface by shaping parts to protect the module and by adopting a new spring-like fine resin sheet as a cushioning material.
The MRG-G1000 features the ground-breaking hybrid solar-powered timekeeping system employed in other G-Shock and Oceanus watches, keeping time by receiving both GPS signals and radio wave time-calibration signals.