After the apocalypse, how many of life's nessecities will you be SURE to have on your person? Will your wristwatch just tell you the time, or will it tell you the time, date, tempurature, direction to the north pole, the time til sunrise/sunset, moonphase, worldtime, plus let you use it as a stopwatch, alarm, and timer? If you have the Casio Men's 2BV it will.  However, even if it's NOT the apocalypse, a lot of those features could come in handy, if you're out hiking, driving, or living a normal life.  The design is sporty, all black rubber like wristband, with a black bizel, and blue highlights. Plus, the watch delivers the time in both analog (hour, minute and second hand), and digital (back lit LED display) mode. The one thing the wristwatch WONT do, is allow you to program the setup for, these features without the help of the manual.

TEMPURATURE--The wristwatch tempurature readings operate thru a small themometer, imbedded somewhere on the watch. Just push the button where it says "Themometer", and it displays the current tempurature where ever you are. However, you'll need to place the watch away from contact to your body, or breath. (Or else you'll get tempurature readings around 23 degrees celsius.) Also, you'll need the one inch by two inch manual, to switch the setting from Centigrade to farenheit. DON'T LOSE THE MANUAL!

COMPASS--This feature is so cool. Press the "Compass" button, and watch the second hand point to NORTH, while the LED display will tell you which direction you're facing (SW 220 degrees.) If you're lost in the woods, a feature like this will save your life.

SUNRISE/SUNSET--If you're stranded in your car, or lost in the woods, and want to know how long til the sun rises or sets, the CASIO men's watch will tell you. However, for this feature to work, you'll need to program the watch for the longitude and latitude of your posistion. For most people, that just means looking up that information for your hometown, on the internet. Programing that information into the watch, however, requires you to keep the manual handly, so DONT LOSE IT.

MOONAGE--Another cool feature, if its cloudy and you want to know what phase the moon is in. If the moon is 14 days old, its the FULL MOON. (The new moon is 0 days, first quarter 7 days, etc.)

WORLDTIME---the LED display lists a multitude of cities, with the local time. Handly if you want to call somebody far away, and need to know if they're home from work, awake, etc.

DATE--The watch gives you month, day and year. Nice to know for conversation.

ALARM SETTING--You can set the watch to sound an alarm, with up to five different times. This feature works well for people who take medication thruout the day, like diabetics, or for appointment reminders.

STOP WATCH/COUNTDOWN TIMER--You can use the watch to either time an event, or to sound an alarm, after some predetermined lapse of time.

As for the time, the watch comes set for TOKYO. After you tell the watch where you live, the hands of the clock AUTOMATICALLY spin around, to the correct time. Apparently the correct time is programmed at the factory, with only location being your local variable. The watch also gives you the option of a 12 hour or 24 hour LED time readout, daylight savings time or standard time, or if you want your date set up day-month year, or month-day-year. (In many areas of the world, they don't use AM/PM, but rather the 24 hour setting. Its also common to use the day- month-year configuration, instead of the American system.) Programming the watch to read the tempurature in farenheit, 12 hour clock, DST/ST, local longitude and latitude, is the first order of business before wearing the watch. After programming in your settings, using the manual, retreiving the information is VERY easy to do. One button controls Tempurature, one button for Compass, and one button that togles between all the otber features. I keep the manuel inside the watch display, that comes with this model.  Altho its a sporty model, I don't wear it for all occassions. I'm afraid of scratching the crystal, or tearing the watch band, when doing yardwork, for example. When not on my wrist, I keep it on the display stand, with the manual.

Overall, I'd say this is a good watch for the money.  It's lightweight, waterproof, attractively styled, and has just about all the bells and whistles you might ever need in a wristwatch.