Hit the throttle with the new Casio Edifice ECB10HR-1A

When it comes to Casio Edifice designs, it’s starting to remind of the old gem regarding Midwestern weather. To paraphrase a bit, if you don’t like the design of today’s Edifice, just wait a bit, because it’ll change soon enough. So, if you didn’t like that last roundup we gave you, there’s a new Honda collaboration waiting for you in the form of the Casio Edifice ECB10HR-1A.

The Casio Edifice ECB10HR-1A is actually an anniversary piece for the brand, as it’s been 20 years since the first Edifice was made available to the public. So, it’s sort of fitting that they’d team up with another Japanese powerhouse brand in Honda.

To that end, you’ve got that signature Honda red showing up in the strap and dial, and you’ve got some other motorsports influences showing up. The dial has a carbon fiber weave pattern to it, you’ve got the tachymeter scale engraved into the bezel, and the retrograde dial of course calls to mind any number of gauges showing up in an instrument cluster.

Past that, you’ve got a lot of the same functionality that we’ve seen in other Casio Edifice models (and fully listed out below), including a Bluetooth connection that greatly simplifies setting and adjusting things on the watch (as well as reminding you how to use the various functions of the watch).

The Casio Edifice ECB10HR-1A is not available just yet. As it stands now, it’s intended to be available in May for the price of $180 – just about the time that (hopefully) we can think about getting back out on the road. edifice.casio.com

Tech Specs from Casio

• Double LED light
  • LED light for the face (Auto LED light, Super illuminator, selectable illumination duration (1.5 seconds or 3 seconds), afterglow)
  • LED backlight for the digital display (Auto LED light, Super illuminator, selectable illumination duration (1.5 seconds or 3 seconds), afterglow)
• Mobile link (Wireless linking using Bluetooth?)
• Flight mode
• World time
  • 38 time zones
  • (38 cities + coordinated universal time), daylight saving on/off, auto summer time (DST) switching, Home city/World time city swapping
• 1/1000-second stopwatch
  • Measuring capacity:
    • 00?00??000~59?59??999 (for the first 60 minutes)
    • 1:00?00??0~23:59?59??9 (after 60 minutes)
  • Measuring unit:
    • 1/1000 second (for the first 60 minutes)
    • 1/10 second (after 60 minutes)
  • Measuring modes: Elapsed time, lap time
• Countdown timer
  • Measuring unit: 1 second
  • Countdown range: 24 hours
  • Countdown start time setting range: 1 second to 24 hours (1-second increments, 1-minute increments and 1-hour increments)
• 5 daily alarms
• Hourly time signal
• Hand shift feature (Hands move out of the way to provide an unobstructed view of digital display contents)
• Full auto-calendar (to year 2099)
• 12/24-hour format
• Schedule beeper on/off
• Button operation tone on/off
• Date/month display swapping
• Day display (days of the week selectable in six languages)
• Regular timekeeping
  • Analog: 2 hands (hour, minute (hand moves every 20 seconds)), 1 dial (linked to each mode)
  • Digital: Hour, minute, second, pm, month, date, day
• Accuracy: ?15 seconds per month (with no mobile link function)
• Module No. 5618
• Approx. battery life: 2 years on CR2016
• Size of case / total weight: 51.0 x 48.5 x 12.5 mm / 167 g