ILLUMINATOR
Analog Digital Chronograph
one of the first Illuminators, that explain the
"scribbling" on the bezel

I am being a bit sarcastic, I know ...
but did it really have to be ILLUMINATOR
and CHRONOGRAPH on the very
interesting bezel? Japanese marketing seems to always wanting to overdo it and
worst of all, they are successfully doing it.
The is nicely covered by the metal top sheet and I like the looks of it. Thus
this was my motorbike watch, when I still had my little Honda Jade (a very nice
sparkling dark green) 250 ccm. After getting bored of being overtaken on the
highways by all those Beamers, I upgraded the bike to a Honda FireBlade 900 ccm,
which I sold in September 1997. Of course a "plastic watch" would not
do on a 900 ccm with Yoshimura front suspension, race carburetor and Kevlar
exhaust pipe (145 horsepower...265 km/h ;-). That is why I preferably used the
Seiko MACCHINA SPORTIVA by
Giugiaro on that bike. The wind could have lifted the metal shot covering the
bezel - just kidding. The real reason was the better readability of the traveled
time, all those Casio Analog Digital Chronometers feature really tiny LCDs. That
allows no safe reading on a fast bike. Today I know, it should have been any
chronograph with a Lemania 5100 movement!