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Review by Robert Mah : Excellent everyday watch!

I really enjoy this watch and I agree with all of the pro’s of the other reviewers. It’s well built, solid, and wears well everyday. I’m usually pretty abusive with my watches (drops, scrapes, salt water, sweat, and the gym) and I have intentionally punished this watch to see if it lives up to all the hype. So far, no scratches on the band or mineral face. With some soap and water, this thing cleans up quickly and looks new again.

Although, I don’t know about the negative review about the LCD being dim. I haven’t had a problem thus far and if using the backlight, the LCD is visible in all lighting conditions (pitch black or blindingly bright).

And an additional plus, my girlfriend loves the fact that it has a very smooth surface and well rounded edges. She used to complain about how my watch band would scratch her when we held hands and such, so this is something to consider if you have the same problem. Not a complaint yet!

Love this watch, love the styling, and would buy it again if I needed to.

Review by Todd Carter : G-shock streetrider

Nice watch. I’m a big fan of the G-shock series, they’re very durable watches. This watch replaced a G-shock I had for 15 years that the original battery lasted 14 of those years. The watch can take alot of punishment.

Review by TX_Iron : Style and Hi-Tech all in one

This is a terrific watch for someone looking for a super combination of tuxedo black class, with modern machine gun technology. It is solid without appearing bulky, it is feature filled without looking weird or overdone, it is masculine without being way overbearing and 4″ across….

You might be put off by the plastic wristband, but remember not all plastic is “plastic”… Think Yugo car plastic vs. Toyota car plastic… Casio uses the Toyota-style stuff… The watch is great to run with and time yourself as the large “corner” buttons are easy to find and depress… I don’t doubt its durability for a second, and if you find yourself in another country (business, travel, 3rd tour of Iraq), this watch has a function which informs you of the time in your Hometown — that way you don’t call home when everyone is sleeping.

This watch is a fine combination of traditional style elements and cutting edge tech. I am happy with it.

Review by Jeff : Light, rugged and inexpensive

I have another GShock watch at home – all digital – and it’s held up very well (even the band) throughout its past 5 years of wear. I wish I could say the same about my Timex Ironman watch (see my other reviews to read about it). The Ironman’s band split at the buckle hole I use daily. Timex bands tend to specifically fit only certain Timex watches – they’re not interchangeable and they’re difficult to find replacements for. This GShock represents my new “durable watch” choice after a lot of online browsing and research.

The Pros:

This new one is from Casio GShock’s “Street Rider” series. To drive home the point (no pun intended), the band has a way-cool tire tread appearance to it. Overall, I’m happy with the watch. It’s light-weight and doesn’t look bad on my smallish wrist. I can’t tell you how well it actually keeps time but my experience with Casio watches has been very good with that respect. There’s no stem to pull out and turn to adjust the analog hands – you do that with the buttons via a special LCD menu mode. The really neat part of this is the minute hand only “ticks” every 20 seconds and does so in perfect unison with the LCD’s seconds display. So, when the LCD time says it’s 1:00:00 exactly, you can be certain the minute hand will always be directly on the analog minute marker. The LCD does have a backlight which causes all 3 LCD areas of the face to glow a bright turquoise. The hands have a luminous glow of their own but this fades like all glow-in-the-dark materials, requiring exposure to an external light source to charge up the glow again. The face is a very dark green which makes the hands stand out nicely. The crystal is a genuine mineral crystal (not cheap plastic or even mere glass) which is very durable and typically will not scratch even under rigorous treatment.

The Cons:

This watch has a negative LCD display (white numbers on a black background). I deliberately picked this one over an almost identical model sporting the typical black-on-white LCD display because the negative display was more visually striking. Unfortunately, a negative LCD tends to reduce the legibility of the digits unless you’re almost pointing the watch directly at your face with the right amount of light bouncing off it. Of course, you could use the backlight in especially dark circumstances. The analog hands will sometimes cover the digits, again reducing legibility of the LCD. The band is very long – good for a large wrist but not for mine. On the plus side though, it was very easy to snip off the tail end of the band so adjustments were a non-issue.

Summary:

For under $80 this watch offers a slew of features (a lot of them, audible). It’s a GShock so you know it’ll take a lot of punishment and outlast anything else strapped to your wrist. I wouldn’t consider it a dress watch but I feel comfortable wearing it daily, on the job. It’s light on the wrist and not exceptionally bulky (despite its appearance). The two-toned brushed-steel-and-black case looks great with the tire tread band. The instruction manual’s “Care of the watch” section actually mentions how it’s okay to use this watch while scuba-diving or using a chainsaw. In fact, their whole “care” section seems to be a description of what you wouldn’t want to do wearing a normal watch.

EDIT:
I’ve since sold this watch and purchased another G-Shock by Casio because I simply found the hands obscured the underlying digital components too often and, more importantly, the negative LCD display appeared too dark most of the time. My new G-Shock is all-digital, charges with sunlight and gets daily time updates from an atomic clock in Colorado. Funny thing is, lately, I’ve been leaving it on a windowsill in the bathroom (where it gets charged daily and receives that daily time update as well) and have been relying on my cell phone for checking the time.

Review by David H. Park : Worked for me in Baghdad, Kalsu, Babil, and Hillah!

bought it form Amazon through USPS in February of 2006 from Baghdad, Iraq. Wore it the whole year in Baghdad as well as in compbat operations in Babil Province. Excellent performance. Only problem was that my Iraqi counterparts always wanted to trade their watch for mine….