Let’s also address the usability concern by saying something that 22 years ago wouldn’t have even been a thought in anyones mind: the fact that I can’t thumb-swipe my way through the Databank, like I can single-handedly on my phone, drives me bonkers. I totally understand that the Databank just isn’t and couldn’t have been designed that way, but that doesn’t change the fact that I am.

Thanks to the proliferation of touch screen devices, using a tactile interface is slow, clunky, and totally inefficient. I have been programmed to understand finger swipes and double taps.

But, there’s still a big novelty to it. I can trash-talk how dumb it is to use until I’m blue in the face, but the bottom line is that this watch was designed like, I don’t know, thirty years ago and is still in mass production today. For kids, or people that like the idea of a calculator on their wrist, the Databank fills a certain niche that newer calculator watches try – and fail – to do.

Lots of calculator watches have been designed over the years, and some of them are a hell of a lot more fancy than this one, but yet when you think of a calculator watch you always come back to Casio’s legendary calculator watch, the Databank CA-53W. It’s synonymous with calculator watches and is the modern de-facto choice when you need or want one.

Adult me doesn’t see the point to it; eight year old me can’t get enough of it.