Casio has officially added two fresh colours to its connected ABL-100 Vintage line. The ABL-100WE-2A arrives with a dark-blue dial surround, while the ABL-100WE-7A takes the quieter route in grey. Casio’s European pages label the pair as August 2026 releases, and both are already available through the brand’s Spanish online shop. The important point is that the colours are new; the watch and its technology are familiar.
New Colours, Familiar Hardware
The dark-blue ABL-100WE-2A brings a little more contrast around the positive LCD display, but it remains restrained rather than loud. The grey ABL-100WE-7A blends more closely with the silver-tone case and bracelet. Neither version is trying to reinvent Casio’s rectangular digital formula. They simply make the connected ABL-100 easier to match with different clothes, which is often all a good colour update needs to do.
The chrome-plated resin case measures 41.6 mm long, 37.9 mm wide and only 8.2 mm thick. Weight is 60 grams, including the stainless-steel multi-row bracelet and adjustable clasp. A resin crystal covers the display. Those compact proportions should sit easily on my 6.5-inch wrist, although I have not handled either watch. Casio describes the model simply as water resistant, without advertising a swimming depth, so this is one retro accessory I would not volunteer for pool duty.
A Step Counter Wearing Vintage Clothes
An accelerometer records up to 999,999 steps and can show progress towards a daily target between 1,000 and 50,000 steps. There is also a reminder when the wearer has been sitting too long and a six-level graph for the last seven hours. The watch links to the Casio Watches app over Bluetooth, which provides automatic time correction, easier settings, life-log data, roughly 300 world-time cities and a phone finder.
Without a phone connection, Casio quotes accuracy of plus or minus 15 seconds per month. The CR2016 battery should last about two years. Other functions include dual time, a stopwatch with memory for up to 200 records, a countdown timer, five daily alarms, an amber LED backlight and a full automatic calendar through 2099. It is a surprising amount of administration for something that looks ready to file invoices in 1983.
Price and Availability
Both new references are priced at €79.90 in Casio’s Spanish store and can be added to the basket now. At the time of writing, the UK and US Casio sites do not list these exact references, so official prices in pounds and dollars have not been announced.
This is not a reason for current ABL-100 owners to replace a perfectly good watch. It is, however, a welcome choice for anyone who wants step tracking and Bluetooth without putting a small glowing rectangle of notifications on the wrist. The ABL-100 still looks wonderfully old-fashioned; it just knows rather more about your daily walk than its face admits.
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