Casio CFX-200 - Francis WEB

In 1983, Casio was coming up with products every day. This was true also for watches, and we already talked about the TC-500, a touch screen watch, described in this page.
The CFX-200 was also a marvel at intregration, having all the regular watch functions, and a complete list of Scientific functions in one watch:


As you can see, the front display is really busy, with buttons everywhere. However Casio was able to combine all functions in 2 buttons, and you simply have to press the top buttons sequentially to access all the scientific functions.
Here is an extract of the user manual, describing these functions:


In 1983, the watch was on sale at the same time as the TC-500, and for the same price: $79. You could decide if you wanted to impress your friends with a touch screen watch, or with an entire scientific calculator in your watch.
Note that the Ad below shows the CFX-20, but in reading the details, you can see that the CFX-200 was $79.


These watches are still popular in the collector world, adn of course the price follows:
I recorded over 220 transactions with an average price of $177. Be ready to pay a nice amount for a working model.

Below is a short video to demonstrate how to use the watch and the special functions on the top