50 Gs: G-Shock #20: Crazy White, green and bloo.

50 Gs: G-Shock #20: Crazy White, green and bloo.: August 2008 marks a special date for Casio G-Shock. That month Casio decided to bring out series of unusual colors and color schemes under...

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Another excellent G-Shock post from Sjors on his blog 50 Gs.

G-Shock # 20 for 2015.

 

50 Gs: G-Shock #19: Iron Man

50 Gs: G-Shock #19: Iron Man: I might probably not have mentioned in my 50 Gs weblog before, but I pretty much like comics. Though, I think there is quite a difference ...





Yet another G-Shock expertly covered by Sjors... with super photography as per usual... and even better this time.

50 Gs: G-Shock #18: Beams Shock II

50 Gs: G-Shock #18: Beams Shock II: Today's G-Shock is quite a different G-Shock. It's the orange Beams Collaboration model of 2007, at the release called the Beams S...



Another special G-Shock covered by Sjors! 

50 Gs: G-Shock #13: Defying Gravity

50 Gs: G-Shock #13: Defying Gravity: What if you are a pilot and you want the ideal Pilot Watch (Flieger). Probably your answer is that the watch needs to be large and extr...

50 Gs: G-Shock #11: In the Bluetooth mix…

50 Gs: G-Shock #11: In the Bluetooth mix…: After a long abscence, Casio released 4 new G’Mix models in August 2014. Like thPublish Poste X-Treme series, the G’Mix series were not released outsi...

Casio Taps the 1980s for Its Retro Line of Smart (Looking) Watches - Gizmodo

Casio Taps the 1980s for Its Retro Line of Smart (Looking) Watches (link to Gizmodo article)

Apparently Casio is about to offer a line of retro Casio watches... which is a good thing. 

I have a couple retro Casios myself... and you can find them in my collection listing on the right hand panel on this blog or use "Casio" in the categories.

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Casio AL-180

A Casio AL-180 668 module watch from my collection.

First introduced in 1987 (according to some online sources), it remains a true, of cheap, classic. Not sure if the model is still produced. But it is popular with collectors - so much so that there are apparently many fakes sold off ebay.

I am sure that mine is original. It was bought in the now distant year of 1998.

It has no batteries, is powered by the sun (or light in general) and is a previous reincarnation of the solar technology, it has a simple capacitor or something.

Problems? Sometimes it doesn't get enough sun (or light) especially if used in the northern hemisphere and especially in winter or if worn in the premises rather than outside -- then it starts losing time.

Original adjustable stainless steel Casio bracelet.

Casio AL-180 668 Module... stainless steel back (only).

 Bracelet clasps.

Nick Knows: Nick Reviews: Casio CA-53W Calculator Watch

Nick Knows: Nick Reviews: Casio CA-53W Calculator Watch: I like a good bargain. If it's good value, I really can't resist. That's why this was something I really couldn't turn down...

Someone called Nick reviews a Casio CA-53W Calculator watch... which I have too and wrote about in this post.

TechHive: How Casio Torture-Tests its Watches

How Casio Torture-Tests its G-Shocks

TechHive on Casio's testing methods.

G-Shocks Website

A large website on G-Shocks -- g-shock.jp -- looks like an official Casio website.

Lots of data, pictures, links, functions, models, series, everything  

Home page of g-shock.jp (link).

You can select your region in the lower right corner, including, say, Europe in English, but you can also stay on the Japanese website which has a lot more information while all models and navigation buttons are still in English so no problem navigating the site. 

Products page, including new models, model search, etc. (link)

G-Shock catalogs - downloadable G-Shock catalogs (link)

G-Shock Perfect Search - a power search engine for all models in all series.

And also other information for G-Shock lovers.

Choosing a G-Shock

An excellent and very useful WUS forum thread on choosing G-Shocks, especially for first-time buyers or collectors wishing to expand into Casio G-Shock collecting -- START HERE -- Choosing your G-Shock (link).

Lots of useful information:

Explanation of lettered prefixes - the most important, such as: DW, GW, G, as well as all the others. 

Classification by series: 2300, 5000 (5600), 6900, 7000, 8900 and

Master of G

And the discontinued Masters of G.

Very handy... for me too as I am thinking of buying my first G-Shock, I need to have at least one. at the moment leaning to something out of the 30th anniversary edition.

Trevor Phillips Wears Calculator Watch

I have this post about my 10+ year-old Casio calculator watch -- Casio CA53w-1z. 

But now it appears that Trevor Phillips of the GTAV fame (the less said about him the better wink wink) wears the exact same watch as you can see in pictures posted on the internet.

Well, what's good for Marty McFly is good for Trevor Phillips, no? Not that I think they have much in common. Or maybe all that travel back to future, forward to the past and present didn't do him much good, he grew up... and became Trevor?

Ten Years After: Casio CA53W-1Z

Here is a Casio watch from my collection -- Casio CA53w-1z. This one is one of the earlier pieces in my collection and is basically an electronic calculator watch. Casio was famous for such watches in the 1980s -- the heyday of calculator watches. You can read up a bit on calculator watches in this Wikipedia entry although it makes no mention of this particular model.

I personally bought the watch on May 5, 2003, as you can see from the picture above where the date of sale is marked clearly on a battery replacement coupon (or something) which I actually haven't had to use yet but more about it a little later on in this entry. Bought on May 5, 2003 makes it two months (minus 15 days) after the start of the Second Iraq War -- just to put a time reference on it. And I even have an original receipt for it which states that it cost me the whole of RUB 680 which is about US$20+. 

I wore the watch for a couple of years (but not too often) and then it has spent another 8 years in my writing desk. I have had no occasion for the use of the calculator either. I doubt using it would have been very convenient. But on the whole I liked and still like the look of this calculator watch. This particular model is a true, if cheap, classic. Apparently it was in production since the early 1980 until very recently. And even now there are plenty NOS specimens on the Internet which you can easily find if you google its name. Interestingly the price has stayed about the same as in 2003 which suggests that plenty of them were made in their time (still being made?). 

A remarkable thing about this watch is that it is still running on the same battery I bought it with -- and that is more than 10 years already! And I assume it must have spent some time in the store before I even bought it. And, for all this time, the watch has been running with a daily alarm which I forgot how to switch off and too lazy to look up in the instructions, and was running with an hourly chime until a year or so ago when I finally turned it off. It has to be said though that this model has no backlight -- but it's a good thing as far as battery life is concerned though not so much if you want to use the watch at night.

I haven't touched this watch for the past 9 years or so and it's now running about 16 minutes fast which makes it a 1.7 minute gain per year (assuming it was set correctly at the start or didn't go a full 24 hour circle). Not a bad result anyway, I think.

However as I was getting it out of my desk, a sizable chunk of the original plastic Casio bracelet broke and came off. So it cannot be worn on wrist any more and that's that. Replacement bracelets can be found though -- but who wants to bother?

In addition to being mine, this watch is also famous for having been worn by Marty McFly in Back to Future. 

Celebrity Watch: President Assad and his G-Shock

President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and his Casio G-Shock

Is he getting ready for something? ... like, preparing an offensive?

Well, that's enough of that. My blog is strictly non-political.

I can't tell which particular model that is. 

Source [in Russian]

Slide Rule Watches

Interesting website on slide rule wristwatches — history, origin, survey, modern slide rule watches, including lots of pictures (if a bit slow to load but there are a lot of them).

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