Casio · Duro · MDV-106B · Blue dial
The same watch,
in the colour of the water.
Everything that makes the black Duro the easiest recommendation in watches is here unchanged: the 44mm steel case, the screw-down crown and caseback, the 200-metre rating, the Module 2784 quartz. What changes is the dial, a deep blue with a matching bezel insert, and with it the whole mood of the thing.
Add to Cart on Amazon$50–$100 band · resin strap version
200m
660 feet, screw-down crown and back
44mm
Same case as the black MDV106
Blue
Dial and bezel insert
3 years
Module 2784 quartz
The case for the colour
Black is the tool. Blue is the watch you reach for.
The black MDV106 reads as equipment: high contrast, no colour, the dial of a watch that expects to be ignored. The blue does the opposite. The blue dial and the matching bezel insert keep the whole face one colour rather than framing it in black, and the steel case reads brighter against it.
On the wrist that makes it the Duro that goes with a shirt as easily as a wetsuit. Nothing about the watch got dressier, but a blue dial on a steel case is the one combination that reads casual and considered at the same time.
What you are buying is the black Duro's spec sheet.
Casio documents the MDV-106B on one sheet for every colour: 44mm stainless case, mineral glass, screw-down crown and caseback, 200 metres, Module 2784 quartz, a battery Casio rates at three years. The black dossier on this site cites that same sheet, which is why the two pages agree to the millimetre.
The bezel is the same anti-reverse ring: line the triangle up with the minute hand and it counts elapsed time, and it will not turn the wrong way if it catches on a sleeve. Nothing else on the sheet changes.
The rest of the family.
Every one of these is the same case and movement. If the blue is not your blue, the black has its own page, and the others are one tap away.
If you were going to buy the Duro anyway, buy the one you will wear.
The blue costs a little more than the black on Amazon and gives up nothing on the spec sheet. Whether that is worth it is a question about your wrist, not the watch.
Add to Cart on Amazon$50–$100 · adding to cart keeps it linked to us for about 90 days
Complete the look
A fresh strap changes the whole watch.
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