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New Releases · 2025-10-14

Great Scott! Casio turns the calculator watch into a DeLorean

The 40th-anniversary Back to the Future CA-500WEBF-1A hides a flux capacitor on its back and borrows its button colours from the time circuits.

By Chronolume digest · Original English summary · Based on Casio official product page and European press release, 14 October 2025

Casio CA-500WEBF-1A Back to the Future silver calculator watch front
The CA-500 keypad and OUTATIME header imitate the DeLorean's time circuits. Casio ↗

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What to know

Casio has always understood that an inexpensive digital watch can become a cultural icon. For the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, the CA-500WEBF-1A turns that idea into an unusually coherent prop-inspired edition. The calculator-style front becomes a miniature DeLorean dashboard, with an OUTATIME detail above the screen and coloured keypad legends that echo the film's destination-time circuits.

The tribute becomes more playful when the watch comes off the wrist. Casio engraves the fictional flux capacitor on the steel caseback and the movie's logo on the bracelet clasp. Even the box is designed to evoke a VHS cassette. These are small industrial-design gestures, but they do much more than a giant movie logo would: they make the object feel discovered inside the fictional universe.

Engraved flux-capacitor graphic on Casio Back to the Future watch caseback
The caseback reveals the watch’s best cinematic Easter egg. FASHIONSNAP / Casio ↗

The watch keeps its everyday functionality. It has an eight-digit calculator, dual time, stopwatch, alarm and auto-calendar in a slim 43.2 × 34.4 × 8.2mm resin case with an adjustable stainless-steel bracelet. First announced in October 2025, the collaboration celebrates the look of retro-futurism rather than trying to disguise its modest quartz electronics.

Collector packaging for Casio Back to the Future calculator watch
A presentation box continues the film's VHS-era graphic language. SneakCenter / Casio ↗

At a glance

Specifications reported by Casio official product page and European press release, 14 October 2025
ReferenceCA-500WEBF-1A
Original announcement14 October 2025
CollaborationBack to the Future / 40th anniversary
MovementBattery-powered digital quartz
Case43.2 × 34.4 × 8.2 mm resin, steel back
Weight53 g
StrapAdjustable stainless-steel bracelet
Water resistanceWater resistant; no depth rating claimed
Functions8-digit calculator, dual time, stopwatch, daily alarm, auto-calendar
BatteryApproximately 5 years, CR2016
Special detailsFlux-capacitor engraved back, OUTATIME dial, VHS-inspired packaging

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Casio official product page and European press release, 14 October 2025 · Published 2025-10-14 ↗