I have yet to understand the obligatory g-shock in everyones' collection
I fall more into the view of Douglas Adams when he wrote, "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
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A G-Shock is like having a towel in the book. The most useful watch in the Universe.
Listen, if I was hitchhiking around the universe to the restaurant at the end of it and maybe trying to find Thor, I'd want to be wearing a solar powered g-shock
The G-Shock does everything better than the most advanced mechanical watch, and it does it at a fraction of the cost. Owning a G-Shock is a nod to the normies that we KNOW that our obsession with the archaic technology of mechanical watches is in fact, absurd.
I don't get the G-Shock obsession either. I bought one... It's not that great.
A normal Armitron, Casio or Timex digital will do all the same stuff 99% of G-Shocks do, but they don't look as "tacticool" doing it. Most G-Shocks are the watch equivalent of a jacked up trucks... just for show.
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When they were growing up I never talked to my two daughters about my fascination with mechanical timepieces, I guess they became watch enthusiasts by osmosis: a few years before my younger daughter accepted a marriage proposal from the sincere, decent fella that suddenly appeared in her life one evening she warned me that he was a good guy, cares deeply for her, doesn’t exactly get our family obsession with watches rotates, collects a stack of G Shocks. She hoped that I could be enough of a dad to ignore his odd collecting habit.
@KristianG has a good point my timex ironman does all the things most of my g shocks do, arguably better, but I don't like it how I like my g shocks. It's just not g shocks enough. I think my collection of g shocks leans more toward cyberpunk than taticool, but yeah they look cool.
I mean if you're thinking about G-Shocks so much maybe it's the subconscious saying you need one in your collection 🙃
I didn’t get it until I got one, then I got it. You’re welcome for being clear as mud lol.
It’s brilliantly functional
It looks cool
What more could one want?
I don't get it either. Their design does nothing for me and everytime I see one in picture I can't help but think it's a gigantic piece of plastic that looks oversized and immature on 99% of wrists.
I can get behind the retro look of a small Casio even if it's not for me. But the bulky G-shocks just look like a kid in adults clothes...
Same here, I get they're useful tools, but they look awful! Nasty plastic huge things. I can understand folks having one in their collection, but more than one 🤯
One decent EMP from the sun & they're all useless bits of plastic anyway 😂
Had 'em when I was young, but once id discovered automatis they didn't get a look in.
Not for me, but to each their own 😉
They're not my style but I'd probably wear one of the cool shiny metal ones, if the watch collecting police insisted.
Adams wears a Daniel Wellington.
Listen, if I was hitchhiking around the universe to the restaurant at the end of it and maybe trying to find Thor, I'd want to be wearing a solar powered g-shock
Thor, big deal. He wears a Daniel Wellington.
I don't have a G-Shock, but I have its cousin, a Tough Solar. I bought it for $10 out of the Walmart clearance case. It looks like a miniature round G-Shock. It's supposed to be a woman's model and it's slightly smaller than my 36mm Alba field watch. Has every timekeeping function and has had falls and impacts and still looks brand new. I really like it, but then, I'm an Android Cyborg.
Thor, big deal. He wears a Daniel Wellington.
Thor would 🙄
If your a banker, lawyer or someone that hardly get dirt under your fingernails...they are probably lost on you. If you're like me who hunts, shoots, boats, wrenches, sells automation in shipyards with guys that eat steel dust, two half sleeves of tattoos...they tend to fit right in.
Keep your loafers polished and wear your mechanicals if it makes you happy.
I just read this back and sounds too aggressive lol. Not really the tone I was going for. All I mean to say is that a lot of us can't/or don't want to wear something fragile. I have put my Gshocks thru the mill and never let me down...will a Timex survive? Sure probably. A basic Casio? Yep probably.
I have a master's degree in composite materials and specialized in polymers. The GShocks are made with durable, light weight, high performance materials that take abuse.
You might not live a lifestyle that needs this, but I certainly do.
All love.
I just read this back and sounds too aggressive lol. Not really the tone I was going for. All I mean to say is that a lot of us can't/or don't want to wear something fragile. I have put my Gshocks thru the mill and never let me down...will a Timex survive? Sure probably. A basic Casio? Yep probably.
I have a master's degree in composite materials and specialized in polymers. The GShocks are made with durable, light weight, high performance materials that take abuse.
You might not live a lifestyle that needs this, but I certainly do.
All love.
My Timex stood up to multiple deployments, and didn't need to look like a hockey puck... 😉
I just read this back and sounds too aggressive lol. Not really the tone I was going for. All I mean to say is that a lot of us can't/or don't want to wear something fragile. I have put my Gshocks thru the mill and never let me down...will a Timex survive? Sure probably. A basic Casio? Yep probably.
I have a master's degree in composite materials and specialized in polymers. The GShocks are made with durable, light weight, high performance materials that take abuse.
You might not live a lifestyle that needs this, but I certainly do.
All love.
I do both. As likely to be in a boardroom as underneath my 22 year old truck. But I get what you are saying.
I don't understand the allure of Crocs either, but hey, they're functional shoes for some.
I can't get past the style. There's no reason that a digital watch has to be that ugly. I guess that's part of the charm though, right? "Let's cram as many functions as we can into it, and make it tough"
I'd love to have one of the original Casio calculator watches just for nostalgia purposes. I know I'd never wear it though.