Casio Series G-Shock Quartz Watch

Another Home run by the G-Shock team at Casio. Very comfortable, very lightweight, easy to set up with the help of a good YouTube video. I chose the color foam white and it looks amazing. Love the look of it on my wrist. The reason why I purchased this watch was to replace my Invicta, which felt like a brick on my wrist because it was 7 ounces, but this is very lightweight, durable, & reliable. It’s gonna keep time very well. I love it on my wrist and this is what I will use as my field watch in the real estate world when I’m out in the field so I don’t have to worry about it getting banged up.

I’ve always liked the gshock watch but this model is above and beyond for the price.

This watch is excellent and typical of the rock-solid G-Shock toughness that we have come to expect. I love the design and, aesthetically, the watch is amazing. The look, with the red camo with the dark camo watch face and black watch hands, is simply badass, especially with the negative digital display. This watch is larger than the standard G-Shock, which is a good thing.

However, one design decision has me scratching my head and limits the overall usefulness of the watch. Instead of the standard digital watch lighting method, where pressing the button lights up the digital display, this watch uses a single amber LED at the base of the face (the 6 o’clock position). When activated, the LED shines upward, lighting up the hands of the watch so you can see their position and tell the time. This is a great way to let you see the watch hands at night, and the LED is bright enough that, in a pitch black room, it can serve as a mini-flashlight if necessary (say, to find your glasses on the dresser). However, in anything but the darkest environments, the LED does a very poor job of lighting up the digital portions of the watch (which contains the date, day and seconds). This is problematic if you are trying to, say, use the stopwatch to run at night or work at night and need to refer to the date. I found that, in a very dark environment, and with a little manipulation, you can make out the information, but is a lot of effort just to make out the information. It would have been much better if the digital display had some light of its own.

Otherwise, I love this watch. The look is fantastic and I have received numerous positive comments about it. It is comfortable to wear all day and has all the durability and functions of a G-Shock. I am very happy with this purchase.

Great watch. But after 4 or 5 years, the strap becomes brittle. It’s falling apart.

Very cool！Love the blue color. Came with casio box and there is a cloth bag with watch inside. There is a user guide in different language and warranty card. There is a price label attach to the watch but can be easily removed. Perfect as gift！

To start off, I ordered this on a saturday evening, and received it via UPS on Tuesday around 7:00PM, and that was one-day shipping.
Anyways, the watch has some really cool functions, and looks amazing. I’ve owned $20 watches at Walmart/Meijer stores, Rolex, Omega, and I’ve recently been using an iPod Nano 6 with a white Nanotch(tm) watchband. The G-Shock has a white matte finish, and if you’re a student, or someone working at a cubicle and writes a lot, then it is a possibility that you could smear graphite (from the pencil or ink from pen) onto the watch, but you could wash it off with soap and water.

This watch is based off timezones to calculate the time, and it comes with a manual (timezones are at the last pages). The manual is in English, Spanish, and French I think b:
The hands move around based on what the digital display reads; you can turn on and off daylight saving time too. (Watch arrives in EST, NYC.) We all know that the watch is waterproof, shock-proof, anti-magnetic, so I don’t really need to say anything an those topics. You can change the backlight duration from 1.5sec – 3 sec, and it is pretty cool. There’s military time (24HR digital display) and the normal time (12HR) with a little PM that is in the top left corner of the left display, when it’s the afternoon. It has a really accurate stopwatch, with laps and a split. (Great for running and you don’t have to be worried when it rains, unless you have your phone) There’s a timer, which for some reason, only goes up to 24 minutes… you can adjust the duration. (You can set it to one time run/alarm, or a constant loop until you turn it off).
There are 26 world times; I have mine to London, and it works GREAT. (Takes like 2 seconds to calculate but I’m fine with that) It has 4 alarms; you press reverse or forward to stop them, a snooze (Like a wake-up alarm) and you press either reverse or forward to snooze it. Will come back on in like 3 mins, but you have to turn it off and on again to stop it.)
There’s an option to turn on hourly chime which beeps twice at every hour. You press reverse to turn on the backlight, and hold it down for 3 seconds to enable the auto-light when you tilt the watch 45°. The left circle on the upper half of the watch displays whether snooze, alarm, auto-light, or hourly chime is on. The middle has something to do with the stopwatch, you can see some accuracy in the timing (I guess xD) and the right circle… This I’m clueless on, but I think it also has to do with the stopwatch and stuff :).
The hour nobs are “glow-in-the-dark”, and, unfortunately, the hands don’t have an illuminating tab on them. The lower left display shows the time in digital form, press forward and it shows the date. The bottom right screen shows the day (eg: Mon as in Monday) and below it is the seconds. (Btw the hands are SUPER precise when they point at the little lines like for example, it is 1:00 or 13:00. The hands point exactly where they should be, and when the seconds reach around 30 seconds, the minute hand moves a tiny notch! Then, when it’s 1:01 or 13:01, it points normally.) The contrast on this watch is really nice; I’ve gotten tons of compliments… some of my friends are even jealous! This is my first G-Shock and I’m not disappointed! I LOVE the double-clasp band, doesn’t seem like it will come loose, the buttons have a nice texture, and I learned how to operate this watch in about 5 minutes (I was CLUELESS when I first got it, lol) The manual helps, and I HOPE my review helped you too! Relatively fast shipping, great watch, beast looks, best $100 I spent! This watch is part of the Japan Movement, and is housed/cased in China (I don’t care where it was manufactured :D) and I’m simply just impressed… the dial is pretty big, and it it looks beautiful. If you have any questions please ask! I will hopefully respond quickly 🙂

UPDATE NOVEMBER 2013: After using this watch for more than a year (Sept 29, 2012) I can say it’s still working fine! Battery life is (supposedly) 2 years… I don’t have any battery problems with mine! However, the paint is starting a chip slightly. I’ve gone snorkeling/scuba diving, dropped it many times off high places, FROZE MY WATCH, and many more rigorous tests… this thing is a tank! Some dirt and grime is starting to build up around the strap; it has a slight brown tint from my use. I don’t use auto-light at all really, and the snooze is somewhat quiet… so don’t use this as a primary alarm clock!

I love the stopwatch. It’s so freaking usefull and goes to the thousandths of a second! (ex: 12.345 seconds) Hopefully I will post a picture on this page to show what it looks like after all this time!

I was thinking of purchasing this watch from many days, finally managed to do it.
Looks very stylish, durable and versatile.
But the display brightness seems to be little on the lower side.
Size of the watch is also great for me. Its big in the wrist.