Excellent presentation. I got tired of dropping and bumping expensive mechanical watches and sending them off for repairs. I once set a watch down on a table and the minute hand fell off. It inspired me to start repairing watches myself. Through this endeavor I was repetitively put off by their fragile nature. No mechanical watch was ever truly engineered for durability. I started looking elsewhere. I've always known about G-Shock but they've never appealed to me functionally or aesthetically. Finally into my 50's, the only watch im interested in are the G-Shock's. I have a deep connection with, and I respect their chief engineer immensely.
This was really well done. I've just gotten into G-Shock again recently after not having one since I was a kid, probably 25 years ago, and I have to say I appreciate them way more now. It's easy to dismiss their place in watch history...we absolutely should not. I do wonder though how Casio will handle the next decade and the rise of the smartwatch. Will G-Shock have its own version of the quartz crisis? I hope not. Smartwatches have forced obsolescence after a few years, while G-shocks go on for seemingly decades. But it's still something to think about regardless.
