My dad had a Casio that fascinated me as a child. It had a little man on it that would run and beep to set pace. I was hooked. As opposed to my swiss watch collection, which is slow to grow, casio makes it fairly easy to build a collection fast. Not to mention that they are all still working, minus one that had a bad seal. I love the solar, atomic and auto DST features and gravitate to watches that have these at very least. I'm a native Texan, but I've been around the world. I look forward to getting to know the forum.