Posted the 23rd day of July in 2009 by Riley.
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Singaporean sneaker customizer SBTG has designed a custom G-Shock to be given away by Royalefam. It's basically a DW-5600E-1 with gold printing on the bezel and bands. It's marked as being a 25th Anniversary G-Shock, which is odd since it seems a little late. There's no word on exactly how many will be produced, but it's probably not very many.
Update: It looks like only 8 of these G-Shocks are out there. So the odds aren't very good of getting one of these. For such a small number they might have gone more this route rather than a full production run.
Thanks reznor.
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Update 2:
It looks like these custom G-Shocks have been hanging around for a while now. GameBoy2Go posted a scan of an article from a newspaper in Singapore back in September of 2008.
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So this article says there was 10 of these produced all together. And this new giveaway says they are giving away one of only eight remaining.
Update 3:
It looks like you can also buy one of these here. For One Thousand Dollars!
the website states that only 8 pieces were ever made and each is valued at 1000 dollars, in what currency i'm not sure.
Thanks reznor. I updated the post. The $1000 claim seems to be a little much.
actually, i think they are giving away only one.
this is the actual text on the sbtg site:
"Win yourself a very limited SBTG X G-Shock, 1 of on of 8 in the world, worth $1000.
All you have to do is create a Royalefam account, remembering to include all essential info. No purchase necessary.
The winner will be picked and announced on www.royalefam.com on August 2.
You snooze, you lose."
there was a giveaway contest for the same watch in a singapore magazine last year as well.
Oh, I think you're right reznor. I originally read it as being that you could win one of the eight they were giving away. So your odds are really even lower of winning. I wonder where the other ones are?
the rest are available for sale on their website. at a thousand bucks a piece….
check it out here
Nice find reznor. $1000 USD seems just plain crazy though. I guess they're rare, but anyone can order a small amount of custom G-Shocks. Is this designer really adding that much value to these?