About this item
- Imported
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With its high-tech functions, shock resistance, and comfortable resin
strap, this Casio watch is a
reliable go-to timepiece.
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Quartz digital movement with the accuracy of +/- 15 seconds per month
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Functions include multi-function alarm, 1/100-second stopwatch, countdown
timer, hourly time signal, auto calendar, and 12- and 24-hour formats
- Protective mineral dial window
- Water-resistant to 200 m (660 feet)
Product description
A slapshot by a professional hockey player was all it took to send this
G-Shock into history and into a goalie’s mitt, literally. If it can handle a
slapshot, it can handle your life. We like to refer to it as the
quintessential G-Shock.
The simply designed Casio G-Shock Classic
digital watch for men offers shock resistance that's great for your most
vigorous sporting activities. The durable rectangular black watch case
measures 45mm wide (1.77 inches), and it's matched to a comfortable black
resin sports strap. It includes a stopwatch function that can measure events
down to 1/100 of a second for the first 60 minutes (and down to 1 second from
60 minutes to 24 hours), and it offers elapsed and split time modes and
1st-2nd place times. It also has a countdown timer with a 24-hour range. Other
timekeeping features include a multi-function alarm, hourly time signal (which
can be turned off), and 12/24-hour formats. This timepiece also features an
Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2039), ±15-second accuracy per
month, Afterglow backlighting, and water resistance to 200 meters (660
feet)--which will stand up to the rigors of recreational scuba diving.
With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the
wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered
digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology
developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it
could develop timepieces that would lead the market.
Today, Casio
is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the
built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, atomic
timekeeping means the users never have to reset the time. Recently, Casio
launched a series of Bluetooth watches that sync to the user's cell phone to
automatically update the time. Casio is always moving time forward.
Each image takes you to the corresponding watch on Amazon
G-Shock is a line of watches manufactured by the Japanese electronics company
Casio, designed to resist mechanical shock and vibration. G-Shock is an
abbreviation for Gravitational Shock. The watches in the G-Shock line are
designed primarily for sports, military, and outdoors-oriented activities;
nearly all G-shocks are digital or a combination of analog and digital and have
a stopwatch feature, countdown timer, electroluminescent backlight and
200-meters of water resistance.
The G-Shock was conceptualized in
1981 by Casio engineer Kikuo Ibe when he accidentally dropped a pocket watch
given to him by his father thus breaking it. The G-Shock was conceived as a
watch that would have triple 10 resistance, meaning it would have a battery life
of 10 years, have a water resistance of 10 bar, and could survive a fall of 10
meters.
A team of three individuals was selected by Ibe which was
known as "team tough". The team had assembled and tested nearly 200 prototypes
but were still not able to achieve the conception criteria. During a visit to a
playground, Ibe discovered that in a rubber ball, the center of the ball doesn't
suffer the effects of the shock during a bounce on a rough surface which gave
him the idea to implement that concept into the watch. With that in mind, the
team set out to develop a watch using such a concept, and in 1983, the first
G-Shock: the DW-5000C was launched.
The shock-resistant design on the
original G-Shock has 10 layers protecting the quartz timekeeping module,
including a urethane rubber bumper, the stainless steel case, the hardened
mineral glass watch crystal, the stainless steel screwed-down case back, and the
"floating module" where the quartz mechanism floats free in a urethane foam
cradle, with the outer buttons and LCD module attached with flexible cables. The
strap of the watch is also designed to protect the module during a fall.
Casio
released the G-Shock in April 1983, to fill the demand for durable watches.
Sales were sluggish in Japan as people preferred dress watches. In order to
promote the G-Shock worldwide, the American division of Casio released a
commercial in which an ice hockey player used the DW-5000C as a hockey puck to
demonstrate the toughness of the watch. The commercial gained negative publicity
and Casio was accused of false advertising. A TV news channel then set out to
conduct live tests on the DW-5000C to check whether it was as tough and durable
as advertised. This involved repeating the action shown in the commercial. The
DW-5000C survived the impact of the hockey stick, and the G-Shock gained
popularity among the general public. The popularity of G-Shocks increased
throughout the 1990s. By 1998, Casio had released more than 200 different
G-Shock models, with worldwide sales at 19 million units.
