I have owned three Casio Waveceptor watches. The first was an analog model, the others are digital (and the latest this model). The analog watch worked well for quite awhile but its software ultimately went south and even Casio couldn't figure out why. The digital versions like this one are a far better choice since the value of a precision, time-standard-based watch is lost when the display is analog. Now that the price of their solar models has come down, they are essentially the perfect watches if you value their digitally-delivered functions and like a digital time display. Now if they can reduce the thickness of the watch (no small feat as they combine multi-band receivers and watch functions), and make them a little less gawky looking - perfection. Timex, LaCrosse, and others gave up on this market, the former because the company obviously had no clue how to combine a radio with a watch. Casio is the only reasonable choice.