I don't usually wear a watch but if i did it defunitely wouldn't be one of those, something more along the lines of Bulova and similar.
I had a nice G-Shock when I lived in Alaska but stopped wearing watches when I moved to Hawaii. Too hot here to wear it plus it messed up my tan. :bigsmile:
Well thats as good of a reason as any not to wear one :)
I never understood the replacement of a watch with a cell phone for telling time. Its a pain if you are sitting down and the phone is in your front pocket...much easier to just glance at your wrist.
Aside from having always worn a watch, in my line of work times are important and need to be documented accurately and rarely would be convenient to dig my phone out each time and turn the display on. We have wall clocks at work but the times rarely match and frequently when the battery goes dead in them it takes a while for anyone to replace them.
G-Shocks work well for me...I like automatics as well but my eyes are not what they used to be and these are much easier for me to read at a glance.
I wear my Mudman, Gulfman or the DW6900 on a daily basis. The rest of the collection stay in the safe. I also have some cheap beaters on wide leather bands. I sometimes wear the Edifice for dress. These watches are sometimes expensive but worth it.
My wife has an old G-Shock ..kinda cute ..
Now she likes Patek Philippe
http://www.chrono24.com/en/patekphilippe/index-5.htm
The upside is she likes a mans watch
I have exactly the same as yours. Bought from Ebay brand new at $96.00. I own 5 g shocks now!
As an ignorant idiot to wristwatches, I have seen a lot of talk on various forums about G-Shocks. Why do you think they are so popular? Good price/quality, cool looks, size, reliability?
When I wear a watch, which I'd say is about 25% of the time, it's a Suunto vector. About ten years old, if memory serves. The other 75% of the time I have no idea what time it is as I don't have a cell phone. Ya, I'm an outlier.
That said, there are some really cool looking G-shocks that I'd like to own, but for some reason, and despite my multiple collections of other types of EDC gear, the watch collection just never seems to materialize. I am thinking of getting the all red and all blue versions for my sons who have their own growing color coordinated EDC collections.
I would enjoy seeing more of your collection though. Or anyone else's, for that matter.
I suppose quality and durability are near the top as well as all the variations of them. The Mudman pictured above by a member is a very popular model known for extreme durability.
Way back when on WUS (watchuseek) a G-Shock collector did an interesting video. He had access to the roof of a 30 floor hotel, he tossed a G-Shock off of it onto concrete...couple of scuff to the bezel was the only damage. People have made all sorts of videos beating the snot out of them with bats, hockey sticks, running over them with cars and so on and they tend to survive it. I have no need for something that will handle that much abuse but I like the idea that it can.
Others have frozen them in blocks of ice, boiled them and all sorts of crazy stuff.
They can get expensive though...try searching Amazon for various models of the "Frogman"...some of the older ones can go upwards of 600 to 800 dollars.
You can also find very well priced ones, a good place to start is a current production DW-5600, very similar to the original. Poke around and you can find them for 40 to 50 bucks and wear it for a month. Its a watch that if you dont like it you can sell it on the various watch forums and make most of your money back.
Kind of like flashlights I guess, those who are not "into them" just dont understand. Nothing wrong with that.
Kind of a neat video here.
Nice, thanks watchcollector1968 I will check them out!
My wife is an OU Sooner fan:
The digital displays on this one are a little too small for me.
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casios. press the light button. light turns on. press any other button e.g. to change mode. light turns off
WTF??? can’t operate them in the dark!
casio’s got all kinds of tech: compasses, altimeters, atomic receiver, solar, etc, etc. but they still can’t get that little thing right.
now try the compass. then press light button. compass pointer doesn’t update anymore. bummer…
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The two I own. Left: DW-6600 Right: DW-5600E
Overclocker, most watch lights only stay on for 3 seconds or so that I’ve had. That’s to preserve the battery. Are there any that stay on?
To everyone with G-Shocks…has anyone changed the band out for a nylon/Velcro one or a canvass one? Is it possible?
I’ve had the plastic straps before but I now much prefer one of the ones mentioned above.
yeah 3 seconds or until you press a button which makes them practically unusable in the dark except for telling the time
I like the G-Shocks to a degee but even though they have many models they never quite have what I want.
The resin bands aren’t for me. They have adapters for other bands but I don’t care for the adapters. The models with the “circle” on the screen are distracting to me as well.
In general they don’t make good use of a large display screen. The time display usually only takes up a third of the screen. I don’t need for the day display to be as large as the time nor do I need to constantly know what the tides are doing 
The “specialty” info should be on a separate screen IMO (everything currently displayed in the middle third of the screen).
A large face with the time taking up most of the screen and displayed in negative form with a nylon band would be attractive and functional I think.
Has anyone seen a G-Shock like that?
Some of the g-shock features are pretty cool, but I’m sorry, I think the g-shock has the aesthetics of a watch that came out of a 25 cent vending machine. They just look like the cheapest/crappiest watch to me, and I would never wear one no matter what features it may have… My daily wear is an Omega Seamaster. Classy without being rolex-gaudy. It tells me the time and the date… Anything else I’d like to know, I have an internet connected android on my belt.
But that’s just me…
PPtk
Haha…I have a $30 Timex analogue in black with black face that does the same