Round 41 years after Casio unveiled the primary G-Shock digital watch, the corporate launched the G-Shock DW-500oR, a brand new digital watch that resembles the four-decade-old DW-5000C from 1983.
Casio’s first digital watch, engineered by Kikuo Ibe, got here into existence after he by chance ran into one other pedestrian on the road, inflicting his mechanical watch to fall and crack on the pavement.
In a press release to Vice, Ibe mentioned that when designing the primary G-Shock, he aimed to attain “triple ten” resistance – which implies it might have a battery lifetime of ten years, water resistance as much as 10 bar (100 meters) and drop resistance as much as 10 meters. Unsurprisingly, G-Shock went on to grow to be of probably the most iconic digital watches of all time.
Coming again to the DW-5000R, Casio says in a press launch that the brand new digital watch is a “increased stage of copy” than earlier fashions that mimicked the primary G-Shock mannequin. The brand new Casio DW-5000R does appear to be the unique G-Shock, however there are some variations. Whereas the unique watch has a case dimension of 41.6mm, the brand new one has a barely bigger 42.3mm case. The buttons on the brand new watch are a bit smaller.
Another modifications embody a brand new LED backlight with the case produced from bio-resign. The brand new watch additionally provides options like a stopwatch, countdown timer, alarm clock and an computerized calendar. The Casio DW-5000R shall be accessible in Japan from December 13 and will be bought for 33,000 yen, which roughly interprets to Rs 18,400. It will likely be coming to different nations as nicely, however the firm has but to share particulars about the identical.
