Edifice are a brand of

watch A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached b ...

es manufactured by the Japanese electronics company

Casio is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. I ...

. The Edifice watches are designed to attract buyers engaged in professional careers. The watches have multiple functions, ranging from multiple dials to world time and multiple alarms.

Technology

Edifice watches range from basic

chronograph A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has an independent sweep second hand and a minute sub-dial; it can be started, stopped, and returned to zero by successive ...

to more advanced models with more computerised movements. Many Edifice watches utilise Tough Solar, Casio's brand name for

solar power Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovolta ...

ed batteries. More advanced models are " Waveceptors" which can

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themselves with

atomic clock An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron states in an atom are associated with different energy levels, and in transitions betwe ...

s via

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...

waves. Some models have Bluetooth connectivity which enable them to be monitored via a smart phone and to share chronograph data. The display of the watches in the Edifice range are variable from a purely analogue display to a display combining analogue and digital displays (also called Ana-Digi).

Sponsorship

Motorsport

Edifice have been an official sponsor of

Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso (; literal translation of "Red Bull Racing Team"), commonly known as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, was an Italian Formula One racing team. It was one of two Formula One teams owned by Austrian beverage company Re ...

since 2016 and remained with the team as they renamed themselves to Scuderia AlphaTauri in 2020. Edifice also sponsor Honda's motorsport division Honda Racing, Nissan's motorsport division

Nismo , abbreviated as Nismo, is a division of Nissan Motorsports & Customizing focused in motorsport and performance-oriented car models for Nissan. Nismo was initially a company, , formed in 1984 as a result of a merger of two motorsport departmen ...

, TOM's Racing Team and the Japanese Inter Proto Series. The partnership with STR,

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and

Honda is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a producti ...

Racing has resulted in the release o
special edition
watches.

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Technology

Sponsorship

Motorsport

See also

References

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