A History of CASIO and CASIO Watches
In 1956, after 7 years in production the four Kashio brothers Toshio, Kuzuo, Tadao, Yukio produced the first ever digital calculator. A contract was signed with Uchida Yoko as the exclusive dealer, and in June 1957, CASIO Computer Co., Ltd., was established as the development and production company for the relay calculators.
Continually improving and miniaturizing CASIO produced the CASIO mini and CASIO was secure in its position at the top of the electronic calculator industry. In order to strengthen its earnings base, the company decided to diversify its business by producing timepieces. This was a product that would allow CASIO to maximize the LSI technology it had developed for electronic calculators. Considering this, it was only natural for CASIO to branch out into the business of timepieces. CASIO made intensive efforts to overcome the barriers, and in October 1974 it released a computerized watch, the CASIOTRON. This watch not only showed the hours, minutes, and seconds, but also had a unique function that could automatically determine the number of days in a month and whether or not the current year was a leap year.
Since then CASIO has been the first and most innovative in producing more and more complex watches and electrical products. The CASIO Calculator watch in 1978, the CASIO TV watch in 1982, credit card sized cameras and now the current range of CASIO g-shock watches. |
