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Archive for April, 2008

Club G-SHOCK News

Filed under: New Releases, News
 

Casio Japan has published on their site all the new G-Shock models to be released in the next five moths.
G-SHOCK this month, the powerful new product line-up!
"MT-G" and "GIEZ" refers to the color from gold to pink to black metal band
Model. Surf sport-line fashion element to capture authentic "G-LIDE" is
TAIDOGURAFU with the three colors of […]

Colorful New Baby-G Models

Filed under: Baby-G, New Releases
 

Casio has announced today the release of three new models in the tough but cute line of Baby-G watches. The colorful BG-2000/2001 series gives today’s young women a fun new fashion statement to make.

New BG-2000 models

The new watches offer an auto zoom function that automatically enlarges the digits on the display when the watch is […]

New Rastafarian G-Shocks Have Arrived

 

The three new 2008 Rastafarian models have started shipping, and Sjors has put together some new pages for them on G-Peopleland. There's the glossy black DW-5600R-3DR, the glossy white DW-6900R-7DR, and the flat black G-5500R-1DR. Each comes with the three colored nylon band holders. They're green, yellow, and black for the Jamaican […]

Fixing a Mis-aligned DW-5600C LCD

Filed under: 1990's, DIY Project
 

The classic G-Shock models are built tough, but occasionally the LCD can become mis-aligned after opening one up, leaving a crooked display. This issue seems to occur mostly on the 901 and 240 modules. G-Artistic has posted a simple guide to fix the problem. The usual cause for the LCD to be […]

Examining the DW-9100K-7JR Gulfman

Filed under: Limited Editions
 

The 50Gs blog has a new post today by Sjors on the DW-9100K-7JR Gulfman. This limited edition white and gold I.C.E.R.C. model gets a well-deserved going over with lots of nice photos. It's not a G-Shock that you will see every day, and this one is especially nice. If you like this […]

Clocks for G-Shockers

Filed under: Misc
 

Casio makes a whole range of clocks, but only a couple are of much interest to G-Shock fans. The most notable models are the classic GQ-200 and the new GQ-1000. These aren't too common in the US, but you can find them in Japan quite easily.

GQ-200
GQ-1000J-8JF
GQ-1000SJ-7JF

Worst G-Shock Review Ever?

Filed under: Video
 

In contrast to the very nicely done video review in the previous post; this video really blows. It made me laugh though, so I hope it will be amusing to someone else out there. I'm not going to support the site that made this video with a link, as I feel bad enough […]