Hidden in the thick brush of the Amazon website is Casio ProTrek’s newest release, the PRW-B1000. With no fanfare, no warning, not even an introductory email, this outdoors focused watch appeared for pre-order with a stated release date of July 1. So how did I find out about it?
Casio brought a lot of innovation to the outdoors watch world with the bungie cord band on the ProTrek PRJ-B001-B2, but it might leave some watch wearers confused. After all, it’s a one of a kind watch with a versatile strap. But it’s so different you might forget how to even put it back on! So I made a tutorial video and demonstrated how to don the watch. My wife Denise helped try it on too.
Here’s an interesting hack for this watch:
Despite me wearing the ProTrek PRJB001B-2 for several days and finding many good things about it, there are some guys who insist it’s not a ProTrek. Why?!
This new ProTrek PRJ-B001-B2 straps to your wrist with an innovative bungie cord that will throttle your imagination and test your intelligence.
There are two other versions with regular low IQ bands available to the international market. Casio thinks Americans are too smart for those. So @thissmallwrist was asking it would fit a small wrist. I think so. I wore it in my finger in this video but that was an exaggeration. Notice how I doubled up the bungie to achieve that. I’m pretty sure about 4” is the smallest wrist size it can practically fit. Stay tuned because we’ll test this watch on a variety of wrist sizes.
Here’s a showdown between two watches that not only have the big numbers, but have the same functionality! The G-Shock Mudman GW-9500 squares off against the ProTrek PRW-3500.
I took advantage of a devistating west Texas thunderstorm to compare the barometers on three Casio watches: The G-Shock GBD-H2000, the Mudman GW-9500, and the ProTrek PRW-3500. My dog helped me.
It is the Year of our Lord 2023. Is the ProTrek PRW-3500 still a valid watch? Uhh, yes. Time has not changed much so this watch is still useful for keeping track of it. And since it’s built to exceptionally high levels of durability, it may last until past [current year] until it’s calendar runs out in the year 2199.