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>>18676297
I have no idea what could you possibly do to destroy a watch, unless you start smashing it against all objects around you like a retard kid. Which would be still fine for the most of Casios.
My AW80-1AV works well after years of rain and close encounters with rocks and metal handrails, my AQ230 survived a lot of brawls.
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>>18677003
>lower middle class
I had to look up what range this was because it's not anything I ever have to think about. I don't expect you to believe me, but I personally make over four times the max for "lower middle class," and my household income is even more than that.
What does a lower-strata guy like you think is the way to make money? Putting masturbating videos on Only Fans?
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>>18676287
I'm merely pretending to like G-Shocks.
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>>18677064
The greatest chance at not being poor comes from being born to rich parents.
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>>18676287
The G-Shock is one of the best timepieces and mass-produced products ever created.
>>18676972
This. Rolex is in a bad place because of this and it's about to get worse with the secondary market flood.
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>>18676287
For people who need something "that just works" and they are hikers or campers or some shit yeah they will never stop glazing these.
They are not supposed to be pretty or classy at all, just functional and durable with no nonsense. Basically the pickup truck of watches. If they were trendy at some point that is just because it is trendy. At some point recently IIRC striped polos were in. And barrel pants. I didn't and won't give a shit if something is in style or not if it makes you look like a ten year old wearing it and striped polos etc are that. Are G-shocks that? No but they do look like a shitty watch for kids, even though they absolutely are not.
As for me I don't have any unusual tastes, I like Seikos and Tags etc like any rando. I don't dislike Rolexes but the prices running away on them make me just roll my eyes. A watch shouldn't cost more than a car unless it was platinum and studded with diamonds etc which I mean does happen too, it's just more of a jewelry piece at that point to me however.
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>>18676972
>I don't like things I liked because people I look down on now like those things
It's sad to see this. I see it on /tv/ all the time. Such and such is "a reddit movie" so I don't like it if THOSE PEOPLE like it too.
This makes no fucking sense. It's not "based" to be that way. It's insecure and immature.
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>>18677924
Fucking schizo. This whole microplastics fear thing is silly enough when it comes to food and water. Now you think plastic just disintegrates at all times and clogs your fucking pores?
LOL, you need to go outside or learn something or meet people. These are not valid concerns you have.
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>>18677638
Mine just got delivered today, bought the green one.
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>>18685100
I like it, here a size comparison to my other g shock.
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>>18685679
Dumbfuck gshocks are the only watches that aren't fragile
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>>18685997
DW-6900
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>>18686868
It's the name of their dive watches. Of course dive watches rarely if ever get used for diving but at least the GWF-D1000 has a working depth meter and thermometer (works best for water since on air you have to take it off or it will just measure your body temperature.)
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>>18686868
Frogman is an unofficial name for navy seals and other combat divers. Navy seals like to announce to everyone that they're navy seals, but I would assume wearing a watch that says frogman on it would be kind of cringe.
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I have a few. I think they're fun. There's a lot of different styles. I'm not in to designer watches and heavily prefer a digital watch to an analogue. Also need something durable and easy to read for work.
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>>18687912
Edit your photo first. Crop it a tiny bit or alter the brightness or any number of things. Or put it on your computer and then upload it.
Do anything but just continue to post sideways photos directly from your phone like a retard. You're only cheating yourself. People ignore sideways image posts. I'm nice enough to teach you how it works. The least you can do is change.
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>>18686747
Soldiers don't call themselves "operators", dingus. lol
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>>18682762
Its not good for movies since you watch those by yourself but its completely reasonable for fashion since its in the public eye.
If you see undesirables dress a certain way, you'll be brought down by association if you wear the same thing.
That said, you can fee the undesireables tryharding with fashion the most and it does nothing for them since they're short and ugly.
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>>18688708
Made of resin instead of plastic which is more durable and long lasting. Is waterproof to 200 meters of depth. You can use it as a hammer and it probably wouldn't break. Has a large aftermarket so you can mod/replace parts as they break or fall apart. Has a cool and iconic design reminiscent of Y2K futurism. The cheapest one is 60 dollars which I think is more than worth it. The more expensive ones come with bluetooth/radio sync so you never need to reset the time.
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>>18689155
They have an alarm (which I admit is kinda shit), and a timer/stopwatch which I frequently use at the gym. I know they make some models that can sync to your phone for more features that you'd get from a smart watch like a step counter but that kinda defeats the point for me
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>>18688720
This one that I've got was like $15
>Black resin case with blue top ring; case diameter 1.5 inches (40mm)
>Water resistant to 330 feet (100M)
Lasted about 5 years before the battery died and I get another one
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>>18689952
It is my gwb5600. Assume you have a resin gshock, you can find the metal case for your corresponding model on aliexpress. Depeding on your skill level, you can try the screwdown caseback mod too, but you will have to remove the glass from the original inner case which could be destructive. For straps, search for the lug adapter for your model.
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>>18676287
G-shocks enter that weird territory for me where unless you are doing some sort of extreme sports/activity, the question is always why? Even if the watch breaks on you, is not knowing the time going to fuck you? Unless you are doing a week/month long foreign trip or scuba diving, etc. Not knowing the time for a day trip is a nothingburger.
If you are like >>18676508 and claim they are “cheap”, then why not go for a f-91w? They are sturdy watches that can take a beating, and if you are so active/adventurous that you bust through 5-10 of them in one lifetime…then sure, the g-shock was probably right for you. And congrats for surviving all of your wicked adventures. Its when I see guys own multiple g-shocks and wear them to their office job where I just sort of roll my eyes at the larp. At least with something like a Garmin, it is clearly a fashion statement/money flex as well as a larp.
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>>18690271
Your collective seething makes me know that I’m right.
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>>18690261
I wear my Casioak to the office. Also in a trip to the mountains, the river, the sea. Above all, I wear it because I like it, it's comfortable and useful to me.
>Garmin or any smartwatch
That's not a watch, that's a watch shaped computer. I'll stay with my G-shock.
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>>18690261
You buy one if you want a high quality everyday watch with some rugged aesthetics. Analog digitals from the 2100 series and digitals from 5600 don't look out of place in an office.
It's not different than those all paper pushers wearing expensive automatic diving watches.
The real "weird territory" is for sport G-Shocks like the pic rel.
>f91-w
It would take a lot of effort to damage one. The resin case is resistant against all the accidental scratches and the water resistance is surprising. It's an outstanding utility watch. But do you really want to be that cheap?
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this is a personal grail for me
>>18690261
gshocks are uniquely chunky and they come in lots of bright colors. many outfits work best with a gshock or similar watch. I heard reggaetoneros are known for wearing them
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>>18676287
Casio, in general, makes garbage for bix noods and ledditors made out of the worst chinesium steel. Only stainless steel I have ever gotten contact dermatitis from in my life. I pity the poorfags who have to settle for that garbage.
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>>18690261
>why not go for a f-91w?
I did but the strap broke and it cost almost as much as the watch to replace. I have never had an issue with a G-Shock strap, I enjoy the functions (I actually use them) and it's easier to navigate.
>guys own multiple g-shocks and wear them to their office job
G-Shocks were designed to be a regular watch that didn't break. Whatever use you imagined or fantasized about is unrelated to the watch.
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G-Shocks are literally the Glock pistols of the watch world. They are a no nonsense practical tool that is for actual workers such as myself (warehousing). They just work. Plain and simple. No need for updates or having to charge the battery like in smartwatches. There are people out there who still have the 1980s version of the DW-5600 square watch and they still work as the day they bought it (battery swap of course).
Wearing a watch for status and shine is for pure fucking losers who are the true larpers of society.
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>>18691919
My poorfagometer is off the charts
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>>18690261
Plenty of people own sports cars yet never take them to the track. Plenty of people own pick up trucks and never haul anything. It's okay to own something just because you think it's cool, even if you've never going to fully utilize it's ability or use case.
As someone with both a G-shock and actual mechanical watch I personally think it's really nice to have a watch that I can mow the yard in, or go to the gym with, or go on a hike and sweat on it and not have to worry about if it's going to be okay through that stuff. Sometimes it's nice to have overbuilt things you can use everyday and not have to stress over every door jam or desk edge you accidently banged your watch into. Will a $20 FW91 also survive those things? Probably, but it's nice to know that it's not even a question with the G-shock.
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>>18691919
>G-Shocks are literally the Glock pistols of the watch world
This. That's a perfect analogy. They're both respected by casuals and serious enthusiasts. They're both used by people who own expensive guns/watches and those who own really cheap/guns watches. There are those who will dismiss them for being cheap, "plastic" blocky and ugly, but what they cannot ignore or cast aspersion on is their durability and utility.
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>>18676290
There are two things happening.
1) G-shocks are genuinely good watches and provide great value for money.
2) "Watch guys" have to glaze a budget brand because if they only talked about expensive luxury brands, they'd alienate most of their viewers. They're pretending to be men of the people. It's like how politicians and richfags eat at McDonald's to look friendly and down to earth.
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>>18695474
>) "Watch guys" have to glaze a budget brand because if they only talked about expensive luxury brands, they'd alienate most of their viewers. They're pretending to be men of the people. It's like how politicians and richfags eat at McDonald's to look friendly and down to earth
Thanks that makes sense
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>>18695474
I can't afford McDonald's. Haven't been able to since I moved out of my parents decades ago.
It'd be cool to take my kids but I can't afford it at all. Don't know how people do it every day like it's nbd.
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>>18696740
Cybercross is the coolest of the specialized module G-shocks. Infrabeamer gets close.
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Gshocks are peak. I have this one with black screen that looks cool and it has the advantage over mechanical watch that it's always accurate and sets itself and isn't gay like apple watch.
This shit with mechanical watches is that they are inaccurate, you have to manually set them and you also have to use them every day so they don't stop ticking making it pretty much too much effort over lets say a phone
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>>18692085
Only armies are soldiers
Only navies are sailors
Only air forces are airmen
Naturally, there's regional variations like the US Marines (will shit themselves if not specifically called "marine"), or the US Coast Guard (technically sailors, referred to as "guardsmen"). There's probably other spergs like that, one would imagine that the French Foreign Legion insists on "legionnaire"
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>>18701419
Shit so cash, costs little more than I'm willing to pay for, probably will get the A168w first
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>>18676287
I like my G-Shock and I’m not pretending.
But I’m not wearing it right now.
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The people who really like them over more sophisticated watches either see them as a better tool than a mechanical, or they enjoy a chunky and rugged looking watch, They are also a low hanging fruit, you get no disrespect while wearing one and are inexpensive. If you wear a $100 mall submariner homage someone will eventually clown on you.
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>>18703363
So you actually admit you're a white person with an inexplicable obsession with Japanese culture??
Why is that? What happened in your life to make you even aware of, let alone get into all of it? Did you not have two parents who raised you? We're you set free on the internet from a young age?
Why would you deliberately put a picture of some mountain on a G-Shock? What is the significance of that for you, a white American male??
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>>18703420
The art is very enthralling to me. I truly do love traditional japanese art and architecture. I don't really consume much other japanese culture. No music or video, some video games though. The love of my life is also Japanese and she loves it and is very supportive of it.
Also to answer one of your questions, I haven't had a mom or dad since I was 10. One died and the other couldn't take care of me and gave me up. And the Gshock is made that way.
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>>18703796
yes now stfu
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>>18699202
im somewhere between 7.1" and 7.25". im pretty sure this is pretty average, theres just a lot of tiny wristed nerd type guys into watches so people say g shocks are enormous when they fit an average guy just fine. im 5'11 ~170
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>>18699210
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GM-5600M-1/
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>>18676289
this
in the early 2000s i tried to break my g-shock by playing hacky sack with it with a classmate because i bought a more stylish watch
the watch itself never broke but in 2020 i had to replace the wristband because the old plastic one finally gave out
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I bought this Baby G around 2001, having no idea about watches. It is cumbersome to set the time and date due to the built-in crown guard. The 80's-90's themed integrated bullbars (original color was light grey but oxidized to yellow) keep the removable bezel in place but also visually block the hour markers. This has been sitting for 2 decades inside my drawer. At least the battery is very easy to replace. Quirky G
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Tastelets ITT that shit on gshocks, hopping on the bandwagon of "it's popular thus it's bad", are the same faggots who would shit on, say, Acqua di Gio because of how ubiquitous it is.
Been wearing pic rel for 5 years nearly every single day. Work, innawoods, out in the ocean. This shit is incredible, it looks good, it works well and it's rugged. Yeah, so maybe it isn't formal or fancy, if I want to wear something classy, I've got options for that. But if i want something to wear every day that's actually comfortable and doesn't fucking fall apart in 5 seconds, then it's this no contest.
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>>18690261
>hurr you should be a good consoomer and buy 50 different items of stuff to use in every single specific situation in your life
>taking a fat shit? you should ONLY wear your shitting watch
>make sure to only wear your homosex watch when you're getting railed from behind, otherwise you're larping
>is it 10.5 Celsius outside and there's exactly 56% humidity? You would be utterly silly unless you wore your 56% humidity acclimated leather strap watch
You are such a fuckwit it's unreal, mate.
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>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-two 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.
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the tough solar is a good watch and if you work outside or you're active and need something durable then it's a great option. I have beat the shit out of mine and its still going. I will happily hate on round G shocks all day tho I personally hate them its square or nothing,
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>>18695474
exactly, there is another angle too though, some richfags genuinley meme themseves into thinking they like cheap watches because it makes them feel cool and hip, so they always have one gay $400 seikoooo with all thier rollies
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>>18676287
I have no clue what you're talking about. No one has ever mentioned anything about my gshock. I wake up knowing I need a watch that's going to survive all the bs I'm gonna encounter at work and so I put it on. That's about it.
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i got my bx5600 finally. i'm american so had to order off ebay, first one got lost (stolen) by DHL then after like 2 weeks of customer service back and forth, ordered the same watch again and got it this time
it's really nice, the MIP display is much better than i expected. normally just wear a 5000u but i think this one might be my new go to watch
it's too bad there's not a 5000u but with MIP display because that'd be the perfect watch i think
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>>18703420
>So you actually admit you're a white person with an inexplicable obsession with Japanese culture??
Despite what some terminally online retard may have told you, there is absolutely no shame in that.
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>>18676293
>of normal use
they fill a niche no other watch really does. that's the thing. if i tried to wear some vintage style field watch bouldering or my meat packer friend tried to wear a rolex to work we'd fuck those thing up.
even rich guys have a use for g shocks. there's a pretty large demographic of rich guys who are into outdoors recreation. a lot of them own boats. they do things where other watches would get fucked up. ive never met a rich guy whos into watches but doesn't have a few casios and g shocks.
>>18695474
ya exactly. they're doing the politician kissing babies and shaking hands thing but they also probably actually own a casio/g shock and wear it.
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g shock niche is obviously the durability.
casio niche, for me, is its one of the only watches that you can actually get full wrist mobility in that doesn't look like a women's watch. and they're so cheap they're disposable so you don't have to care what happens to it.
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>>18717092
its not okay to appreciate another culture?
the japanese have quite a reverence for mid century americana, a lot of their fashion and a lot of their media's heavily based on it. they also love mid century american processed food like spam and stuff. are you a japanese person? i've never met one who cares all that much about gaijin.
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>>18690261
>is not knowing the time going to fuck you
ya kinda. i do stuff where i need to know the time and i don't like fumbling around with a phone in urban areas (never relax..)
when you get used to it sometimes it just feels weird not to have something on your wrist. jeans and t shirt type fits look weird without a watch to me. but im not a watch faggot or consoomer.
>They are sturdy watches that can take a beating, and if you are so active/adventurous that you bust through 5-10 of them in one lifetime…
its actually easy to crack the crystal on f91ws and you can find the basic square g shocks on sale for like 30 bucks all the time.