Last year, completely out of nowhere, Casio shocked the watch world by dropping its first-ever mechanical watch. The quintessential affordable quartz watch brand has been producing digital watches since the 1970s, but this marked the first time a hairspring and mainspring had ever made their way inside a Casio watch.
After getting over the initial shock of Casio making a mechanical watch at all, there was another shock we all collectively had to absorb: the watch was actually pretty good. A sharply finished and well-sized everyday watch with agreeable styling and a workhorse automatic movement from Seiko, the Casio Edifice EFK-100D had a lot to like … especially at its sub-$300 price point.
But Casio isn’t treating the EFK-100D as a one-off. Quite the contrary, in fact, as less than a year after the release of its first mechanical watch, Casio has launched a sequel to the EFK-100D called the EFK-110D. But unlike most sequels, it’s actually better than the original.
Thin is in
At first glance, the Casio Edifice EFK-110D is nearly indistinguishable from the EFK-110D. Both watches have the same design characterized by a mix of mirror polish and hairline brushing, with a thin polished bezel and an integrated H-link bracelet. The hands and indices are unchanged, as is the sparse dial text that reads “Edifice Casio” at 12:00 and “Automatic” above 6:00.
But despite their nearly identical looks, the watches are actually different. Starting with the dial, it still sits underneath a sapphire crystal and features the same forged carbon-inspired electroformed texture as before, but the date window has been moved from 6:00 to 3:00.
