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Casio celebrates 20th anniversary in collaboration with Honda Racing

Casio celebrates its 20th anniversary in collaboration with Honda Racing

The ECB10HR-1A from Casio America offers bold designs in the colors of the Honda Racing Team and full-time smartphone link technology

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Edifice watch collection, Casio America, Inc. is pleased to introduce the ECB10HR-1A, a new high-performance metal chronograph. The new limited edition ECB10HR-1A is a collaboration model with Honda Racing.

Hondathat the aggregate of Scuderia AlphaTauri The Formula 1 team and Edifice are Japanese brands that face the challenges of motorsport on a global scale. This watch is the third variant of a collaboration between Edifice and Honda Racing, which started in 2018 and emerged from the shared pursuit of high-tech skills.

"Our latest Edifice watch was inspired by the dynamism and dynamism of the Honda Racing team," said David Johnson, vice president of the Casio Timepiece Division. "Casio has been an official partner of Honda Racing since 2018 and we look forward to working on additional timepieces in the future that embody both the speed and energy of motorsport."

The ECB10HR-1A is dressed in the typical team colors of Honda Racing and has a red real leather strap with matching seams and a matt, anthracite gray stainless steel bezel with chronograph markings. The carbon fiber dial improves the overall design and has the Honda Racing logo. The golden lettering celebrates the 20th anniversary of Edifice and is finished with a sapphire crystal. The metal ribbon holder and back plate are also engraved with the Honda and Edifice 20th Anniversary logo, and the number 20 on the bezel is engraved in red to mark Edifice's 20th Anniversary.

With Casio's new full-time smartphone link technology, the ECB10HR-1A enables users to stay up-to-date and on-time regardless of their location. The timepieces can be paired with a smartphone at the push of a button. By downloading the Casio Watch + app and connecting to a compatible smartphone using Bluetooth technology, the watches access the correct time based on the current location for up to 300 cities worldwide and even update them with the latest time zone and daylight saving time information .

Users can also access their calendars when they connect their smartphones so the watch can notify them when their next event / task is approaching. Other features include 100 meters water resistance, super-illuminator double LED light for night display, five alarms, telephone finder and a 1 / 1000th of a second stopwatch with 200-lap memory, countdown timer and fully automatic calendar.