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Casio Edifice ECB-2300HR-1AER Honda 60th Anniversary Watch - Special Edition - W17602
Ref. ECB-2300HR-1AER
Sits in Casio’s upper tier here — more premium than three quarters of the Casio watches we list, which start at £25.
Price range £25 to £919 across 131 Casio watches in stock.On 24 October 1965, Honda's RA272 crossed the line at Mexico City to give the marque its first Formula 1 victory. This watch marks sixty years from that day, built in direct collaboration with Honda Racing and rooted in the visual language of the car itself: the Championship White that runs through the bezel and leather strap, the red dial ring drawn from the Hinomaru painted on the RA272's bodywork, and a gold "60" engraved at the sixty-minute mark. The strap carries engine specifications and technical drawings from the original car along one side, and the words Veni, Vidi, Vici — attributed to team leader Yoshio Nakamura — stamped into the band loop. The caseback bears the official commemorative logo. The carbon fibre-reinforced resin case is shaped to echo a double-wishbone suspension arm, which gives the architecture its octagonal form and keeps the whole watch to 67 grams despite the 45.8mm diameter — a footprint that sounds imposing but wears considerably closer to the wrist than the numbers suggest, partly because 11.8mm is restrained for a solar chronograph carrying this much function. Tough Solar charges under any light source and Bluetooth sync via the Casio app keeps the time exact without manual correction, which is quietly useful for the world time complication on a watch built around the idea of being somewhere else entirely.
- Reference
- ECB-2300HR-1AER
- Brand
- Casio
- Collection
- Edifice
- Case size
- 45.8mm
- Case thickness
- 11.8mm
- Case material
- Resin
- Case shape
- Octagonal
- Dial
- Black
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Movement
- Solar
- Functions
- Chronograph, Countdown timer, Alarm, Backlight, World time, Solar powered, Bluetooth, Dual display
- Water resistance
- 100m
- Bracelet / strap
- Leather strap
- Strap colour
- White
- Clasp
- Buckle
- Lume
- Luminous
- Retailer
- F.Hinds
Additional specifications
- Lug-to-lug
- 50.2mm
Learn more about Casio
Tadao Kashio founded Kashio Seisakujo in Tokyo in 1946 as a machine shop. The company's first success was a finger ring that held a cigarette, and its second was the 14-A of 1957 — the world's first all-electric compact calculator, which used solenoids rather than gears.
Casio entered watchmaking in 1974 with the Casiotron, a digital watch with an automatic calendar that knew the varying lengths of months. The company approached watches as an electronics manufacturer rather than a horological one, and that difference produced the G-Shock.
The G-Shock came from a single engineer, Kikuo Ibe, who broke a watch his father had given him and set out to build one that could not break. The specification was three tens: survive a ten-metre drop, ten bars of water pressure, and ten years of battery life. It took over two hundred prototypes, and the solution was suspending the module inside the case on a cushioned internal structure rather than mounting it rigidly. The DW-5000C shipped in 1983.
It became one of the most durable product designs in any category, adopted by militaries, emergency services, and skateboarders alike, and Casio has since added solar charging, radio and GPS timekeeping, Bluetooth, and full-metal and carbon variants.
Casio also produces the Edifice, Pro Trek, and Oceanus lines, and remains an independent Japanese public company.
- 1946
- Tadao Kashio founds the company in Tokyo.
- 1974
- The Casiotron is Casio's first digital watch.
- 1983
- The G-Shock DW-5000C survives Kikuo Ibe's three-tens brief.
- 1994
- The Frogman extends G-Shock to ISO dive certification.
Also in 7 collections
This watch appears in the Casio Edifice range (21), Back in Stock (4,361), Chronograph Watches (1,144), Leather Strap Watches (959), Watches 44mm and Over (785), Solar & Kinetic Watches (212) and Limited Edition Watches (180).
Manufacturer’s guarantee
What the specifications mean
Strengths
- 100m water resistance covers swimming and watersports
- 50.2mm lug-to-lug keeps the 45.8mm case wearable
- Sapphire crystal, which resists scratching
- Luminous hands and markers for low light
- Second time zone for travelling
Worth knowing
- 45.8mm is a large watch with real presence
- Leather does not suit regular contact with water
Casio Edifice ECB-2300HR-1AER Honda 60th alternatives
Watches from other brands at a similar price, style and size, so you can see what else your budget can buy.
| Specification | ECB-2300HR-1AER | 010-02934-50 | BL5632-57E |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £389 | £399 | £369 |
| Case size | 45.8mm | 45mm | 44mm |
| Water resistance | 100m | 100m | 100m |
| Movement | Solar | Solar | Solar |
| Strap | Leather strap | Silicone strap | Stainless steel bracelet |
| This watch | Closely matched |
|
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Frequently asked questions, and things you should know about this watch
Can I swim with it?
Yes. At 100m it is rated for swimming and snorkelling, though not for diving.
Water resistance explainedWill the glass scratch?
Unlikely. Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness and shrugs off everyday marking.
Sapphire, mineral and acrylic comparedDoes it need a battery?
No. It charges from light, and the cell behind that is designed to last a decade or more.
Quartz, automatic and solar comparedWill it fit my wrist?
Lug-to-lug is 50.2mm, which suits wrists from roughly 17.5cm (7 inches) upward.
Lug-to-lug decides fit more than case diameter does.
How to size a watch to your wristCheapest place to buy
F.Hinds is the only UK retailer we track stocking this reference, so there is nothing to compare it against today.
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