I'm trying to find enough room in my meager budget for a T200, as it seems they may be discontinuing the model with the light blue dial. Slightly more expensive than the most basic Apple watch.
Assuming you're in the US, have you had to deal with Casio USA for service at all? Since the Oceanus models are Japan-only, I am wondering if they would even bother offering any repairs.
No, thankfully. Only one of the watches was purchased in the US.
I did try to get the Junghans watch fixed, and that did not end particularly well (it did get fixed, but I didn't make any friends). I brought it in the US, but there are a lot of places that sell them, but don't fix them.
I have a OCW-10DA-7A (Wife's watch)[0], OCW-S100-7AJF[2], and a OCW-T410TD-3A[2]. The last two, I got in Tokyo.
G-Shocks are a big deal over there. They have G-Shocks that are a lot more expensive than these were.
There's definitely a dearth of English-language info on Casio's premium offerings, especially the older Oceanus stuff. I gather you must have purchased your wife's watch during the brief period they tried to make a go of the Oceanus sub-brand in the US?
There's all sorts of bizarre sub-variations, too. I saw a similar women's Oceanus on eBay last fall, with English-language Discovery Channel Shark Week branding, and the seller in New York was dumping it for cheap because they couldn't get the radio sync to work. Turns out it was a model that was only set up to sync with the UK and German time signals. Older Casio models also only say Multi-Band 5 as well, because, I guess, the Chinese atomic-clock broadcast hadn't been set up yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXFG27NNhI
and the entry-level OCW-T200:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELn3ubqjVWU
There's a few good sites offering export of Japan-only models from the various Japanese manufacturers: https://www.shoppinginjapan.net/ https://www.sakurawatches.com/
I'm trying to find enough room in my meager budget for a T200, as it seems they may be discontinuing the model with the light blue dial. Slightly more expensive than the most basic Apple watch.
Assuming you're in the US, have you had to deal with Casio USA for service at all? Since the Oceanus models are Japan-only, I am wondering if they would even bother offering any repairs.