Casio F-B100W Bluetooth: First hands-on video showcases step tracker, metal buttons

Casio's F-B100W sold out on the company's own store within hours of going on sale on August 7. Fresh hands-on footage has now appeared from Japanese watch channel ザ!適当!趣味は腕時計!. We get our first look at the watch outside Casio's product photography.

The clearest (and the most important) detail is the step readout. A segmented bar runs across the top of the display above the day and date — it is marked 0 at one end and 100 at the other, filling as the count rises. We've seen this before in other watches, like the new Vintage ABL-100WE, but never on this new model, and especially on the one with a negative display.

The buttons are metal and not resin — four of them, in polished steel. That's a big differentiator between this one and the F-91W (curr. $25 on Amazon) it borrows its shape from. The case is resin in the familiar stepped rectangle. Also, the band is slitted resin in the same pattern Casio has used for decades.

The reference specifically shown in the video is the F-B100W-1BJF, the all-black version with a negative LCD. Digits look good against the dark background — the reviewer describes it as easy to read despite the inverted panel.

Packaging-wise, the watch comes in a textured dark presentation box with a gold embossed Casio logo, and not a plastic tub that usually accompanies watches at this level. Also, bezel printing is much more heavy than the F-91W's. We see the text "Step Tracker" across the top, Bluetooth sits in script above the water resistance marking, and the four buttons are labelled Adjust, Mode, Light, and Search.

The F-B100W launched at ¥8,800, around $55, in three colorways. It's also available to buy in the UK now — read more about that here.