The selected home city can also be swapped for 4 preselected time zones by the user in the main timekeeping mode by pressing and holding the search button.

The construction of the strap depends upon the variant of the watch but varies between synthetic rubber (called resin by Casio) and stainless steel.

The feature is added to display the current home city time regardless of the mode selected in the watch.

Another small portion of the display located above the world map on the top left corner is used to denote the activation of mute (a function to mute the beep sound made by the press of a button), alarm and hourly chime (denoted by SIG) functions.

[3] The face of the watch reads World Time and the top and Illuminator on the bottom of the outer case.

The secondary functions along with the logo of the company, water resistance range, 5 Alarms, and a 10-year battery emblem is present on the inner casing of the watch located under the plastic lens.

The watch is operated by four buttons (also made from textured plastic) and each button performs the following actions:[1] The AE-1000W is briefly featured in the 2016 American psychological thriller film Mine with the lead actor Armie Hammer (taking the role of sniper Mark Stevens in the movie) wearing the watch.

The watch is shown in the scene when Mike is setting the countdown timer to 52 hours, which is the time his Supervisor estimates for his rescue.