Casio Men's DW6900FS-8 G-Shock Tough Culture Watch

Casio Men’s DW6900FS-8

G-Shock Tough Culture Watch Detail

The Casio Men’s G-Shock Tough Culture Watch includes a durable G-shock design that makes it impervious to getting tackled and crushed. This tough timepiece is constructed with a stainless steel case, a durable white resin bezel, and a white resin wristband with an adjustable buckle clasp for the perfect fit. A durable mineral window shields the digital-gray dial face, which displays the time, along with the day, date, and month. Three subdials decorate the top of the face, while easy-to-use adjust, mode, start/stop, and split/reset buttons along the bezel make this watch great for athletics. Powered by analog-quartz-movement, this watch is water resistant to 660 feet.

Casio Men’s DW6900FS-8

G-Shock Tough Culture Watch Features

Quartz movement

Countdown timer, 1/100 Sec. Stopwatch, flash alert

Shock Resistant

EL backlight

Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Product Specifications

Casio Men’s DW6900FS-8

Information

Brand Name: Casio

Model number: DW6900FS-8

Part Number: DW-6900FS-8CR

Item Shape: tonneau

Dial window material type: Mineral

Display Type: digital

Clasp: Buckle

Case material: stainless-steel

Case diameter: 50 millimeters

Case Thickness: 16 millimeters

Band material: Resin

Band length: mens

Band width: 25 millimeters

Band Color: blue

Dial color: digital

Bezel material: Resin

Bezel Function: stationary

Calendar: day-date-and-month

Special Features: timer

Movement: Quartz

Water resistant depth: 660 Feet

Warranty Type: Contact seller of record

Casio Men's G300-3AV

Casio Men's G300-3AV G-Shock Ana-Digi Black Street Rider Watch

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Casio Men's G300-3AV

Casio Men's G300-3AV Ana-Digi Black Street Rider Watch (Watch)

I have another GShock watch at home - all digital - and it's held up very well (even the band) throughout its past 5 years of wear. I wish I could say the same about my Timex Ironman watch (see my other reviews to read about it). The Ironman's band split at the buckle hole I use daily. Timex bands tend to specifically fit only certain Timex watches - they're not interchangeable and they're difficult to find replacements for. This GShock represents my new "durable watch" choice after a lot of online browsing and research.

The Pros:

This new one is from Casio Men's G300-3AV GShock's "Street Rider" series. To drive home the point (no pun intended), the band has a way-cool tire tread appearance to it. Overall, I'm happy with the watch. Casio Men's G300-3AV light-weight and doesn't look bad on my smallish wrist. I can't tell you how well it actually keeps time but my experience with Casio Men's G300-3AV watches has been very good with that respect. There's no stem to pull out and turn to adjust the analog hands - you do that with the buttons via a special LCD menu mode. The really neat part of this is the minute hand only "ticks" every 20 seconds and does so in perfect unison with the LCD's seconds display. So, when the LCD time says it's 1:00:00 exactly, you can be certain the minute hand will always be directly on the analog minute marker. The LCD does have a backlight which causes all 3 LCD areas of the face to glow a bright turquoise. The hands have a luminous glow of their own but this fades like all glow-in-the-dark materials, requiring exposure to an external light source to charge up the glow again. The face is a very dark green which makes the hands stand out nicely. The crystal is a genuine mineral crystal (not cheap plastic or even mere glass) which is very durable and typically will not scratch even under rigorous treatment.

The Cons:

This watch has a negative LCD display (white numbers on a black background). I deliberately picked this one over an almost identical model sporting the typical black-on-white LCD display because the negative display was more visually striking. Unfortunately, a negative LCD tends to reduce the legibility of the digits unless you're almost pointing the watch directly at your face with the right amount of light bouncing off it. Of course, you could use the backlight in especially dark circumstances. The analog hands will sometimes cover the digits, again reducing legibility of the LCD. The band is very long - good for a large wrist but not for mine. On the plus side though,

Casio Men's G300-3AV

was very easy to snip off the tail end of the band so adjustments were a non-issue.

Summary:

For under $80 this watch offers a slew of features (a lot of them, audible). It's a Casio Men's G300-3AV so you know it'll take a lot of punishment and outlast anything else strapped to your wrist. I wouldn't consider it a dress watch but I feel comfortable wearing it daily, on the job. It's light on the wrist and not exceptionally bulky (despite its appearance). The two-toned brushed-steel-and-black case looks great with the tire tread band. The instruction manual's "Care of the watch" section actually mentions how Casio Men's G300-3AV okay to use this watch while scuba-diving or using a chainsaw. In fact, their whole "care" section seems to be a description of what you wouldn't want to do wearing a normal watch.

EDIT:

I've since sold this watch and purchased another G-Shock by Casio Men's G300-3AV because I simply found the hands obscured the underlying digital components too often and, more importantly, the negative LCD display appeared too dark most of the time. My new Casio Men's G300-3AV is all-digital, charges with sunlight and gets daily time updates from an atomic clock in Colorado. Funny thing is, lately, I've been leaving

Casio Men's G300-3AV

on a windowsill in the bathroom (where it gets charged daily and receives that daily time update as well) and have been relying on my cell phone for checking the time.

Casio Men's GW5600J-1

Casio Men's GW5600J-1 G-Shock Atomic Tough Solar Watch

Product Specifications

Casio Men's GW5600J-1

Information

Brand Name: Casio

Model number: GW5600J-1

Part Number: GW5600J-1

Dial window material type: Mineral

Display Type: digital

Clasp: Buckle

Case material: Resin

Case diameter: 43 millimeters

Case Thickness: 13 millimeters

Band material: Resin

Band length: mens

Band width: 25 millimeters

Band Color: black

Dial color: digital

Bezel material: Resin

Bezel Function: stationary

Calendar: date-and-month

Special Features: solar, water-resistant, world-time

item-weight: 7.04 Ounces

Movement: japanese-quartz

Water resistant depth: 660 Feet

Warranty Type: Contact seller of record

The Casio Men's GW5600J-1 Story

With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio Men's GW5600J-1 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 Men's GW5600J-1 entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.

In developing its own wristwatches Casio Men's GW5600J-1 began with the basic question, ""What is a wristwatch?"" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio Men's GW5600J-1 was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio Men's GW5600J-1

transformed the concept of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio Men's GW5600J-1 product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio Men's GW5600J-1 engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world’s toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-SHOCK offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was immediately recognized, and its unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend conventional thinking about the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become Casio Men's GW5600J-1’s flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio Men's GW5600J-1 is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping technology similar to the impact created when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy efficiency, Casio Men's GW5600J-1continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled models.