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Kikuo Ibe and the G-Shock Origin

Filed under: Casio G-Shock
 

Clove two has posted an article on the origin of G-Shock 25 years ago. Kikuo Ibe was the Casio designer that came up with the idea and made the first G-Shock. His innovative "floating technique" continues on in today's G-Shocks. You might have seen the origin story in comic form in […]

LRG x G-Shock Pops Up For Sale

Filed under: Buying, Limited Editions
 

The LRG x G-Shock collaboration DW-6900 has been sold out for some time. But it looks like one retailer has a batch for sale for the original retail price of $250 USD. Lifted Research Group, an urban fashion line, put a lot of custom design elements into this one. There's lots of […]

Crazy Colors G-Shocks Galore

 

This post is a G-Shockers Collaboration post that goes along withSjors' DW-6900CS-4 post on 50Gs.
The Crazy Colors series was just released about a month ago and it seems to be a big hit so far. These five new G-Shocks all feature brightly colored accents and brand new LCDs with mirrored digits. It's really hard […]

Pink DW-6900CS-4 On 50Gs

 

Sjors has posted his bright pink DW-6900CS-4 over on the 50Gs blog. This G-Shock is part of the newly released Crazy Colors series. There's five models total in this series. Sjors picked this one as his favorite of the bunch.
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Crazy Colors DW-6900CS-4

New Fall & Winter G-Shock Models

 

Yamazaru-San has posted some photos of a new G-Shock catalog. It includes several new models, including the new Men In Ice White series. It's nice to get another look at these, but we're all waiting for some hands on photos of these.
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GW-9200PJ-7JF Riseman

Men In Ice White Gulfman & Riseman

Protrek PRW-1300J-1JF

MTG-1000BR-1AJF, GS-1100BR-1AJF, GW-1800BRJ-1AJF, […]

Latest G-Shock Mods

 

Here's a roundup of some of the custom G-Shock modifications that have been posted online in the last week or so.
DougFNJ did a nice job stealthing his MIB Frogman.

Stealthed MIB Frogman

Mint G proved it's possible to dye the glossy resin parts of the G-8000.

Silver G-8000 Dyed Black

Airfrancisco stealthed a DW-5600E and reversed the […]

Men In Ice White Make Appearance

 

The new Men In Ice White (MIIW) series made an appearance at a conference in Japan. Both models will be released in November. The GW-9100P-7JF Gulfman will retail for around $280 USD. The GW-9200PJ-7JF Riseman looks great with the blue eye, and will retail for about $290 USD. Both have a […]