The (Often) Cheapest Watch on Amazon Has a Story to Tell
It’s a Casio. And an unexpected little gem of modernist design.
Source: Hodinkee
Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee.
On any given day, the answer to the question, “What’s the cheapest watch in the world” depends on where you look and what you look at, but a good candidate is often a humble little piece from Casio that doesn’t have any name other than EAW-MQ-24-7B2. It’s a small (35mm) round, plastic quartz watch that comes in a blue and white cardboard box, inside of which is a plastic bag (you can call it a pouch if you want) that contains the actual watch, along with a six-language instruction manual. I’m looking at mine as I write – it cost 14 dollars and 79 cents on Amazon – and while there’s no mistaking it for anything other than exactly what it is, what it is is not without charms of its own.