The Casio G-Shock Rangeman Retrospective 

I bought a 9400 with the yellow accents (not the special edition) earlier this year. What I love about the first gen is the simplicity of its design. I've always preferred the simple, tough solar+multiband 6 models that don't require any bluetooth connection. I'm sure the later generations are nice, but they all seem a bit overdone. Simple, self-contained and elegant will always be my choice. I love the look and the features even though I'll never use most of them. After the 5610U, probably my favourite G-Shock out of the 8 I own. Great video. Cheers!

Excellent take on this brand. 1st generation Rangeman is what Gshock should always be, a rugged hardass watch, not packed with superfluous features to try and please everyone. This could alienate the original fanbase. Subscribed 👍

I have taken 9400 all over the world diving, hunting and fishing. It’s been exposed to freezing temperatures, as well as, over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s been as deep as 165 ft. It’s been exposed to mud, dust, sand, salt, blood and various chemicals. It’s still going, with all features still functioning as new. It’s has a few deep case ‘dings’, but all and all it still looks fine. The band eventually started to wear and I switched it to a nylon/velcro brand. My most used features are, world timer, temperature, altitude, alarm, countdown timer and sunrise/sunset. My favorite automatic features are the atomic time setting and solar charging. If it eventually wears out, I will purchase another one.

Thank you for this excellent coverage of the Rangeman. I own the GW 9400 and wore it in my final year as a firefighter before I retired. Still one of my favorite G Shocks. In my humble opinion the 9400 is the only true Rangeman. If I want to use a smart watch I’ll use my first generation Garmin Instinct solar.

To me GW9400 is the best and balanced among the different generations. If it’s not it won’t be offered by Casio with so many versions until today, people are still buying them new or used. Still retaining a reasonable resale value at used maker. Well balanced in terms of size, functions, easy to use, aesthetic, price. This is the ‘survivor’ rugged-do-all G-Shock watch I love that I keep two that exposed to sunlight charged daily and ready to go at any time. It will be almost perfect if they update it with moon/tide function, sapphire crystal glass, titanium metal, option to link with phone for setting using Bluetooth, slimmer case, larger MIP fonts. Subscribing to your channel. Love to see more quality content from you. Thank you.

Great presentation on the Rangeman! The Rangeman & Mudmaster make up the bulk of my collection, and are the G-Shocks that I wear most often. I agree with you that it’d be great if Casio focussed more on the “Old School” approach, sticking more to the search & rescue style; I have all but the French Fire Dept. versions of those Rangeman models and absolutely love them! You really should grab the “Sendai City/Kobe City” & “Hong Kong Fire Bureau” models, …you won’t be disappointed!

Love these watches. Wish getting the collabs and special editions wouldn’t be so hard to get.

Stumbled on this after work, good video. I love my blackout, oddly I got back into watches because of a smart watch, I bought that to see who was calling me while I was riding motorcycles, and was looking after my mother. Nothing more stressful then pulling in somewhere sketchy to answer a scam call. It was great untill an update fucked all its functions that I liked. And older gshocks are perfect, the old rangeman does everything that comes in surprisingly useful that smart watches can, without updates or nonsense, it's powered by light, and its hard as hell. The new rangeman just feels wrong somehow. Part of me likes it, but it still seems off.

The GPR-H1000 is black (not green) or yellow. Thanks for the video. I own the black one BTW. I really like it but I would have liked it more if they had retained the navigation.

I have the GW-9400-1 and its a great watch the only issue is that you need to keep setting the features when your outside it tends to loose its information so having your phone on you with an offline barometer helps me alot when im out to set the fuctions to be more accurate i would like to try the new rangeman with gps to see if that gets more accurate readings.

Their app is hot garbage and I much prefer solar and mb6……great video! Appreciate the in depth look.

No point in purchase new Rangeman, when Garmin Instinct 2x is better in almost every aspect for better price.

Bad watch , after 6 months of normal use water was inside my rangeman