Casio Unveils Its First G
Just so you know, their watches with an altimeter can read altitude ranging between 700m to 10,000m (Mt. Everest is 8,848m). The Casio G-Squad Pro GSW-H1000 comes in red, black and blue colors and will cost $700 in the US and £600 in the UK. It’s set to arrive in mid-May, though it’s yet to appear on the US G-Shock website. However, you can find it on the UK site and request to be notified when it arrives. Other than these, the watch has a Step Tracker that monitors your steps, smartly uses the Bluetooth feature to sync the time, and also doesn’t cost much. In fact, it’s the introductory G-Shock watch of the collection with Bluetooth.
Push buttons on the case give easy access to settings and the stopwatch. The time is displayed with luminous analog hands and geometric indices along with an LCD digital display. With a unisex style, the G-Shock BD 800UC-5 is Bluetooth connectable for fitness features.
Or, if you’re more into the 1990s, there’s a rave-inspired model with teal and purple, that decade’s favorite colorway. Thankfully, Casio seems to provide a steady supply of these less expensive models, so you can readily snag one. Let’s contemplate the following two G-Shocks, just to get a sense of the breadth available. The first is the $750 Mudmaster from the Master of G series, g shock protection an enormous battle-ready analog/digital hybrid badass with more capability than your smartphone. The second is the $150 Hotei Limited Edition from the 7 Lucky Gods Collection, which appears fey and airy but is, like all G-Shocks, tough as nails. Also, the Hotei sold out in pre-sale, and will likely be up for sale on the nerd-forums for multiples of the original price.
Made mainly for athletes and outdoors enthusiasts and for armed forces, G-Shock watches has extended its market to trend-setters and fashionistas. Usually featuring a digital display, orr a combination of analog and digital, the line of timepiece is also normally equipped with stopwatch function, water resistant of 200-meters, timer and backlight. In late 2018, Casio introduced the newest addition baby g shock to the G-Shock Rangeman series of models. The GPR-B1000 is a GPS Hybrid Wave Ceptor model which relies on GPS and atomic time keeping in order to keep perfect time. The battery is either charged by solar cells present on the face of the watch or via a wireless charger supplied with the watch, a first for a Casio watch. Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 powered by Google’s Wear OS was launched on Thursday.
Go to the Casio G-Shock website and you’ll find over 300 individual watches. Filter out women’s models, and you’ve got roughly 292 models grouped into ten collections. We can filter by price, but we still don’t know what any of these watches do.